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2008: 40 Years of Sackville |
Music » Jazz » Mainstream |
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 Artist: Various Sackville Recording Artists Album: 40 Yeads of Sackville Label: Sackville Years: VA; 2008 Format, bitrate:MP3 320 Time: 65:11-65:54-65:49 Size: 149.3 MB-150.9 MB-150.7 MB Although involved in jazz for decades, John Norris never envisioned a jazz career. During a recent interview, he recalled, "I discovered jazz in 1951, it was just a hobby." While working in London, he started a jazz club within Shell Oil. He relocated to Montreal in 1956 and moved to Toronto in 1957. "Every Wednesday night, a traditional jazz trumpeter named Mike White led a band in a Toronto restaurant, playing mostly for expatriate Europeans. Mike and the guy who ran the club would come by the apartment I shared with George Hume, another Englishman who was already publishing a discographical magazine. We'd drink beer and listen to records and I said they needed a club newsletter to give more information. So they said, 'Why don't you do it?'" That launched Coda. "We started it because DownBeat and Metronome rarely had any information on music that interested us. >>> |
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1953-1962: LaVern Baker- Soul on Fire - The Best of Lavern Baker |
Music » Blues » Rhythm-n-Blues |
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 Artist: LaVern Baker Album: Soul on Fire - The Best of Lavern Baker Label: Rhino Atlantic Year: 1953-1962, release: 1991 Genre; Early R&B, Rock/Pop Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s Size: 120 MB One of R&B's earliest divas, LaVern Baker could grab hold of a song and belt it out with the best of them,whether she was singing bouncy, up-tempo rock & roll or bluesy torch ballads. Baker's contributions to the rockin' and rollin' wing of '50s R&B were in a class with Atlantic labelmates Ruth Brown and the Clyde McPhatter-era Drifters, as the stellar 20-track compilation Soul on Fire: The Best of LaVern Baker proves. Baker had a muscular delivery and a commanding personality on record, so much so that her ravishing visual appeal wasn't even necessary (though it certainly didn't hurt). Here she bellows and growls her way through rock & roll standards like "Tweedlee Dee" (her first big hit), the oft-covered "Jim Dandy" (her only R&B chart-topper), and "See See Rider," not to mention Leiber & Stoller's gospel pastiche "Saved." But Baker was equally powerful on her slow numbers, turning in positively smoldering performances on the classics "Soul on Fire," "Play It Fair," "I Cried a Tear" (her biggest pop hit), and "I Waited Too Long," among others. Baker isn't as much of a household name as she probably ought to be, but Soul on Fire is required listening for anyone interested in the first waves of R&B and rock & roll. ~ All Music Guide |
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1938-1939, 1951-1952: Duke Ellington - Blue Light |
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 Artist: Duke Ellington Album: Blue Light Label: Collectables Years: 1938-1939, 1951-1952; release: 2006 Format, bitrate: MP3, 192 kbps Time: 36:21 Size: 49.21 MB Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for long periods. Ellington also wrote film scores and stage musicals, and several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. In addition to touring year in and year out, he recorded extensively, resulting in a gigantic body of work that was still being assessed a quarter century after his death.
~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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1959-1960: Andre Previn, Jerry Mulligan and Carmen McRay - The Subterraneans - Original Soundtrack |
Cool, West Coast Jazz |
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 Artists: Andre Previn, Gerry Mulligan and Carmen McRae Album: The Subterraneans - Original Soundtrack Label: Signature/CBS Special Products Years: 1959-1960, release: 1991 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 87 mb Total time: 38:31 AMG Rating  MGM director Ronald McDougall didn't do much right in adapting Jack Kerouac's novel The Subterraneans for the big screen -- first, the lead character of Mardou Fox (played by Leslie Caron) was transformed from black to white, and future A-Team star George Peppard was miscast as Kerouac's alter ego, Leo Percepied. And don't even mention Robert Thom's clumsy, lightweight screenplay. But at least composer André Previn had the good sense to recruit cool jazz giants including Gerry Mulligan, Russ Freeman, and Dave Bailey to perform his Subterraneans score: jazz not only fueled Kerouac's work, but his prose sought to evoke the rhythms and energy of bebop. Indeed, this music comes far closer to accurately capturing Kerouac's writing than any of the film's dialogue. Previn also deserves credit for articulating the sadness of the original novel, deftly combining horns and strings to create a score that is dark and emotive. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide A very effective, moody jazz score by Andre Previn, featuring Gerry Mulligan and Carmen McRae, which holds up better than the movie for which it was written. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide |
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1984: Milton Banana - Linha de Passe |
Music » Jazz » Latin » Bossa Nova |
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 Artist: Milton Banana Album: Linha de Passe Label: RCA Camden Years: 1984 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 86.22 mb Total time: 77:46 I was saving this album for a future opportunity; there are several Milton Banana albums already available at Loronix. Moreover, I had nothing in particular to say about this record. I learned today that Linha de Passe is the last album recorded by Milton Banana, 1984, more than a decade before his passing in 1999. This fact made me feel particularly sad, but the sadness disappeared as soon as I put this album to spin, which is exactly like all the other albums recorded by this great musician, despretencious, happier, but sincere, a work of love. Wherever Milton Banana is right now, it is important he knows there is a community that loves its music and works a lot to preserve his memory.
This is Milton Banana Trio - Linha de Passe (1984), for RCA Candem, featuring Milton Banana on drums accompanied by not credited musicians, which is something very strange on the RCA release. If you are giving the first steps on Brazilian music, this album is highly recommended, it saved my night today and I hope it makes you feel great, such as I'm now.
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1998: Dave Holland Quintet - Points of View |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Post-bop |
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 Artist: Dave Holland Quintet Album: Points of View Label: ECM Records Year: 1998 Release: 2000 Format, bitrate: MP3, 320kb/s Time: 71:58 Size: 149MB AMG rating:  POINTS OF VIEW was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual Or Group. For Points of View, Holland expands his group into a quintet, shakes up the remaining personnel, and comes up with a marvelous example of thoughtful, dynamically shifting ECM chamber jazz. The new wrinkles in the sound are the return of Robin Eubanks on trombone, which gives the front line a richer, more balanced texture, and drummer Billy Kilson, who displays a wider, more animated range of rhythmic sympathies than did Gene Jackson on Dream of the Elders. Steve Nelson on vibes and marimba is the only returnee, and Steve Wilson contributes a dry tone on both alto and soprano saxes. The elegant textures so typical of ECM belie considerable stylistic variety here, including a gentle reversion to the progressively funky Holland band of the '80s on "Metamorphos"; a happy-go-lucky, easy-swinging tribute to Ray Brown, "Mr. B."; reflective, relaxed ballad work in "The Benevolent One," and Nelson's charming calypso/folk lullaby for marimba, "Serenade." Of course, Holland leaves himself a lot of solo space, which he fills with mobile eloquence.~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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1965: Albert Ayler - Spirits Rejoice |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Albert Ayler Album: Spirits Rejoice Label: ESP-Disk Year: Sep 23, 1965 Format, bitrate: Flac Size: 190.5 MB AMG Rating:  Recorded live at New York's Judson Hall in 1965, Spirits Rejoice is one of Albert Ayler's wildest, noisiest albums, partly because it's one of the very few that teams him with another saxophonist, altoist Charles Tyler. It's also one of the earliest recordings to feature Ayler's brother Don playing an amateurish but expressive trumpet, and the ensemble is further expanded by using bassists Henry Grimes and Gary Peacock together on three of the five tracks; plus, the rubato "Angels" finds Ayler interacting with Call Cobbs' harpsichord in an odd, twinkling evocation of the spiritual spheres. Aside from that more spacious reflection, most of the album is given over to furious ensemble interaction and hard-blowing solos that always place in-the-moment passion above standard jazz technique. Freed up by the presence of the trumpet and alto, Ayler's playing concentrates on the rich lower register of his horn and all the honks and growls that go with it; his already thick, huge tone has rarely seemed more monolithic. Spirits Rejoice also provides an opportunity to hear the sources of Ayler's simple, traditional melodies becoming more eclectic. The nearly 12-minute title track has a pronounced New Orleans marching band feel, switching between two themes reminiscent of a hymn and a hunting bugle call, and the brief "Holy Family" is downright R&B-flavored. "Prophet" touches on a different side of Ayler's old-time march influence, with machine-gun cracks and militaristic cadences from drummer Sunny Murray driving the raggedly energetic ensemble themes. For all its apparent chaos, Spirits Rejoice is often surprisingly pre-arranged -- witness all the careening harmony passages that accompany the theme statements, and the seamless transitions of the title track. Spirits Rejoice is proof that there was an underlying logic even to Ayler's most extreme moments, and that's why it remains a tremendously inspiring recording.~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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1974: Bill Watrous - Manhattan Wildlife Refuge |
Music » Jazz » Big Band » Modern Big Band |
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 Artist: Bill Watrous Album: Manhattan Wildlife Refuge Label: Columbia Year: 1974 Format, bitrate: MP3, 192 kbps (LP-rip) Time: 40:34 Size: 55.3 MB AMG Rating Manhattan Wildlife Refuge and its follow-up, The Tiger of San Pedro, are the only two recordings of trombonist Bill Watrous' impressive big band of the mid-'70s. Watrous, who takes an uncharacteristically crazy cadenza on "Fourth Floor Walk-Up," is in top form on such numbers as Chick Corea's "Spain," "Dichotomy," and "Zip City." Among his more notable sidemen are trumpeter Danny Stiles, guitarist Joe Beck, and pianist Dick Hyman. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1952-1954: Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond |
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 Artists: Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond Album: Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond Label: Fantasy Years: 1952-54, release: 1990 Quality: MP3@320kbps Size: 162 mb Total time: 75:52 REPOST by request This CD reissues two earlier Fantasy LPs titled Jazz at the Black Hawk and Jazz at Storyville. Pianist Dave Brubeck and altoist Paul Desmond are the two main constants while bassists Ron Crotty and Wyatt Ruther and drummers Lloyd Davis, Herb Barman and Joe Dodge are heard on some tracks. There are many high points to this interesting set including Brubeck-Desmond duets on "Over the Rainbow" and "You Go to My Head," an unaccompanied piano solo on "My Heart Stood Still" and quartet versions of "Jeepers Creepers," "Trolley Song" and "Crazy Chris." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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Count Basie And His Orchestra - 88 Basie Street |
Swing, Mainstream |
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 Artist: Count Basie And His Orchestra Album: 88 Basie Street Label: JVC/XRCD ~ JVCXR-0021 Japan 20-bit K2 Remaster 1987 Year: May 11, 1983-May 12, 1983 Format, bitrate: WAV pack Complete HQ Scans Time: 41:18 min Size: 290 Mb AMG rating: One of Basie's final albums, the very appealing title cut seems to sum up his career, a lightly swinging groove with a strong melody. Two small-group performances with guest Joe Pass on guitar and the tenor of Kenny Hing add variety to a particularly strong set.~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1978: Ray Barretto - Can You Feel It |
Soul-Jazz, Funk-Jazz |
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 Artist: Ray Barretto Album: Can You Feel It Label: Atlantic Year: 1978 Release: 2006 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s Size: 89MB One of Ray Barretto's more erratic albums of the 1970s, Can You Feel It? is a collection of pop-jazz/crossover, fusion, and pop-soul that ranges from the exciting to the forgettable. Parts of this vinyl LP find the conguero wasting his considerable talents on lesser material, but other parts find him letting loose and taking chances. "Whirlpool," "Daydreams," and the insistent "Confrontation" are solid fusion instrumentals that would have been worthy of Return to Forever, and "Sting Ray" has the type of catchy jazz-funk groove that would have worked on one of Joe Farrell's CTI dates of the 1970s. Meanwhile, R&B singer Prince Philip Mitchell has a likable spot on the pleasant, if unremarkable, pop-soul number "What Part of Heaven Do You Come From?" But tunes like "Summer Sun," "I Think About You," and the discoish "Can You Feel It (Let It Groove You)" are bland, lightweight and uninteresting -- essentially, they're examples of a musical heavyweight playing background music. And when your resumé includes "Cocinando" and "Guarare," the last thing in the world you should be doing is fading into the background. Out of print since the late 1970s, Can You Feel It? has yet to be reissued on CD.~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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2009: Taylor Ho Bynum - Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Taylor Ho Bynum Album: Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths Label: Hatology Year: Jan 12, 2009 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s Time: 44:15 Size: 93MB AMG rating: As Taylor Ho Bynum's career progresses, his actions get bolder and more focused at the same time. While his history as a sideman with Anthony Braxton always shades his music abstractly, you hear a playful component in his cornet that only serves to enhance the creative notions and difference making moods his music invariably tends toward. With a title like Asphalt Flowers Forking Paths, one can't help but sense a combination of modern industrial sounds mixed with natural and physical elements is in the offering. The two guitarists in this sextet -- Mary Halvorson and Evan O'Reilly -- cannot resist taking the music into new, enhanced, electronic realms not inspired by pure introspective means. Jessica Pavone on the viola takes the music up a stratospheric notch or two with the guitarists, while fellow Braxton alum Matt Bauder adds tenor sax and bass clarinet that ground the music, while also levitating it just above terra firma. Bynum -- who plays the cornet exclusively -- is himself not typical in that he's removed from being a Don Cherry, Herb Robertson, or Toshinori Kondo disciple, but does attempt to even out earlier period brass dialect with the extremities and possible throaty or singing sounds his horn can extract. The central focus of this CD is the 32-minute, three-part suite dedicated to Braxton "whYeXpliCitieS" that obviously goes through many phases, changes, and sonic nomenclature. ... |
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2003: Active Ingredients - Titration |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Active Ingredients Album: Titration Label: Delmark Records Year: 2002; release: 2003 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 Size: 144 mb AMG Rating: Active Ingredients is a group who walk the line. Led by drummer and composer Chad Taylor, Active Ingredients reflects his dual citizenship in the vanguard jazz worlds of New York and Chicago by using three players form each city, with himself as the anchor. From New York, saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc, bassist Tom Abbs, and trombonist Steve Swell are on one side, and from Chicago, cornettist Rob Mazurek, saxophonist David Boykin, and percussionist Avreeayl Ra balance out the equation. Taylor's drumming acts not so much as a link as a hinge, a linchpin on which the entire proceeding turns.The result is a wildly adventurous date that swings across continents in its musical approach, from North America to Southern Africa, and regards both freewheeling improvisation and elegant composition equally. If one only uses "Song for Dyanni," as evidence, one can hear the triple-timing syncopation Taylor provides as a basis for melodic invention. The interplay between Moondoc and Boykin is uncanny, and the way Swell and Mazurek fill the surrounding space with joyous bleats and cavernous legatos allows the rhythm section to punch through the middle and create the notion of song. The Afro-Cuban rhythmic setup of "Slate" stands in sharp contrast to Boykin's free blowing intensity in the opening solo, burrowing a way down into a tonal center from which everything else revolves. "Modern Mythology," offers a series of long, loping, front-line statements before giving way — via Abbs' bass and Taylor's cymbal work — into something altogether abstract and harmonious. The free improvs, such as "Velocity" and "Absence," offer textural studies that integrate the various tonalities of the front-line players into multivalent musical languages. In essence, Titration is a brilliant articulation of balance, not only between two approaches to the jazz avant-garde, but also of the new composition that relies so heavily on free improv. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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2009: Jazz Icons: Coleman Hawkins Live in '62 & '64 |
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 Artist: Coleman Hawkins Album: Jazz Icons: Coleman Hawkins Live in '62 & '64 Label: Jazz Icons Year: 1962-1965 Release: October 27, 2009 Format, bitrate: DVDrip, AVI, MPEG-4 Video, MP3 Audio Time: 140 minutes Size: 700MB Coleman Hawkins presents two incredible concerts from 1962 and 1964 featuring 140 minutes of music. Both concerts feature stellar European and American side-musicians including Harry ”Sweets” Edison on trumpet and drummer ”Papa” Jo Jones – both jazz legends in their own right. The 1962 show is a newly-discovered one-hour concert from the Adolphe Sax Festival in Belgium, which has never been seen. Coleman Hawkins, ”The Father of Jazz Saxophone,” demonstrates in these two concerts why he is still considered one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.~ Jazz Icons This installment in the Jazz Icons series of memorable jazz performances captures two concerts by legendary saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded in 1962 and 1964. Some of the songs featured in the performances include Autumn Leaves, Ow!, Stoned, and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide |
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1982: Charlie Haden & Carla Bley - The Ballad Of The Fallen |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Performers: Charlie Haden & Carla Bley Album: The Ballad of The Fallen Year: 1982 Label: ECM Number of Tracks: 10 File Format: FLAC (274 MB) & mp3 320 (129 MB) Repost with a new links from mr. gastritis The second recording by Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra utilizes a few alumni (the bassist/leader, trumpeters Don Cherry and Mike Mantler, tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, drummer Paul Motian and pianist Carla Bley), along with other musicians who rose to prominence since the 1969 debut album (Jim Pepper and Steve Slagle on reeds, trombonist Gary Valante, guitarist Mick Goodrick, Sharon Freeman on French horn, and Jack Jeffers on tuba). As with the first set, the music mixes together some melodic but avant-garde explorations with revolutionary themes including songs from the Spanish Civil War, El Salvador, Portugal and Chile. "Too Late," a duet by Bley and Haden, serves as a change of pace. The music is quite credible and emotional, and has dated well. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1963: Sahib Shihab - Conversations |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Post-bop |
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 Artist: Sahib Shihab Album: Conversations Label : Black Lion Year: 1963, release - 1992 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 156 mb Total time: 72:41 AMG Rating REPOST by request Because he spent so much of his career living in Europe, Sahib Shihab is primarily known for being a baritonist in the bop era. As this very interesting CD shows, he was also quite original on the alto, soprano and flute and by the early 1960's was open to the influence of the avant-garde without losing his own musical personality. Shihab, who is teamed on this live Copenhagen session with flugelhornist Allan Botchinsky, guitarist Ole Molin, drummer Alex Riel and the 17-year old bassist Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, performs "Someday My Prince Will Come," "Charade" and a lengthy version of "Billy Boy" along with five originals including the three-part "Conversations." This surprising music is well worth several listens and shows that Shihab was a much more diverse player than is usually thought. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1951-1953: The Complete Recordings of the Stan Getz Quintet with Jimmy Raney |
Cool, West Coast Jazz |
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 Artist: Stan Getz Quintet & Jimmy Raney Album: The Complete Recordings of the Stan Getz Quintet with Jimmy Raney (3 CD SET) Label: Mosaic Records Years: 1951-1953; release: 1990 Format, bitrate: Flac Time: 154:14 Size: 615 MB This limited-edition three-CD set will be hard to acquire but it is a gem. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist Jimmy Raney had very complementary cool-toned but hard-swinging styles. Their gig at Storyville in Boston resulted in some classic music that, along with five studio sessions, is included in this box. The supporting cast includes pianists Al Haig, Horace Silver, Duke Jordan, and Hall Overton; the music was originally recorded for Roost, Clef, Norgran, and Prestige. This essential set is filled with exciting performances from Stan Getz when he was first becoming a highly influential force in jazz. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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