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1965-1966: Eddie Harris - The In Sound/Mean Greens (2LP-1CD) |
Music » Jazz » Mainstream |
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 Artist: Eddie Harris Album: The In Sound/Mean Greens Label: Rhino/Atlantic Year: 1965-1966; released 1993 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 kbps Time: 65:18 Size: 178 MB AMG Rating:  Repost by request This CD from Rhino's valuable Atlantic reissue program combines two former LPs from the 1965-1967 period. The In Sound is among tenor-saxophonist Eddie Harris' most significant recordings, highlighted by the original version of his "Freedom Jazz Dance," and including a memorable rendition of "The Shadow of Your Smile," three standards and a blues. Harris is assisted by an all-star rhythm section (pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Billy Higgins) and, on three selections, trumpeter Ray Codrington. The lesser-known Mean Greens set (comprised entirely of originals except for Harris' high-note treatment of "It Was a Very Good Year") utilizes the same personnel on the first four numbers and is just as exciting with the calypso "Yeah Yeah Yeah" being a high point. The final three performances are more unusual, for Harris switches to electric piano and jams with a Latin rhythm section; included is the original (and somewhat obscure) recording of "Listen Here" which predates his hit version by over a year. Overall this CD is a well-rounded and highly recommended set. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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1953-1954: The Piano Collection Vol.2 George Wallington Trio; Al Haig Trio; Jimmy Jones Trio 3LP/1CD |
Music » Jazz » Mainstream |
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 Artists: George Wallington; Al Haig ; Jimmy Jones Album: The Piano Collection Vol.2 3LP/1CD Label: Vogue Years: 1953/1954, release - 1999 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 175 mb Total time: 76:41 REPOST with a new link Like Dodo Marmarosa a vital yet often overlooked pioneering architect of bop and early modern jazz, George Wallington is mainly known by his association with the Blue Note, Prestige, Savoy and Verve labels. Even most jazz heads are probably unaware that Wallington cut a ten inch album of eight songs for Vogue in Paris on September 24 1953 with bassist Pierre Michelot and drummer Jean-Louis Viale. These may be found on Vogue's 22-track "Piano Anthology, Vol. 1", released in 1999, along with eight selections from an Al Haig Trio session that took place on March 13 1954 with bassist Bill Crow and drummer Lee Abrams, and six tunes recorded for Vogue's sister label Swing records on October 28 1954 by pianist Jimmy Jones, bassist Joe Benjamin and percussionist supreme Roy Haynes. This all adds up to one really excellent compilation of expatriated bop piano trios from the middle 1950s. Americans in Paris, looking ahead. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide |
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2011: The Jeff Gauthier Goatette - Open Source |
Post-bop, Jazz-Rock, Modern Jazz, Avantgarde |
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 Artist: The Jeff Gauthier Goatette Album: Open Source Label: Cryptogramophone Year: 2011 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 Time: 58:48 Size: 134 mb Jazzreview Rating:  Donbeat Rating:  When two-thirds of a group has "effects" in their instrumental credits, it's a safe bet this ain't your granddaddy's jazz. When it's violinist Jeff Gauthier's Goatette, punctuating the quirky theme in the first moments of "40 Lashes (With Mascara)" with thundering drums and high-octane power chords, it's clear that Open Source is going to make plenty of demands—and not just on the musicians who play it.
Any group featuring the intrepid Cline twins—guitarist Nels Cline and drummer Alex Cline—is going to be, at the very least, an eclectic one, so it's also no surprise that Open Source travels effortlessly from rock-informed sophistication ("40 Lashes"), a combination of near-Oregonesque elegance and potent post-modality ("From a Rainy Night"), and acid-tinged circus nightmare ("Seashells and Balloons"), to unrelenting aggro ("Prelude to a Bite") and tone poem-turned-anthem ("Open Source")...even a bit of free-wheeling swing (Ornette Coleman's "Joy of a Toy").
Gauthier's 12 year-old quintet—Alex Cline, bassist Joel Hamilton and keyboardist David Witham actually predating the Goatette—is fleshed out, for the first time, to a sextet, with the inclusion of trumpeter John Fumo. It's not just the added voice that makes Open Source Gauthier's best and most far-reaching album yet—closing the gap since House of Return (Cryptogramophone, 2008)—but it sure doesn't hurt. Fumo's discography weighs heavily on work with artists including Neil Young, Brian Setzer, Chaka Khan and Debbie Gibson; but even if his work with G.E. Stinson, Vinny Golia and Steuart Leibig represent a far smaller footprint in a professional career that's successfully balanced the challenge of following your muse with paying the rent, Open Source leaves no doubt about this fearless improviser's street cred.
The Clines' relationship with Gauthier goes back to the 1980s and the all-acoustic Quartet Music, but it was when Nels joined the nascent Goatette for Mask (Cryptogramophone, 2001) that the violinist finally landed the perfect band to handle his far-reaching interests. A member of alt-country group Wilco since 2004, and whose decade-old Nels Cline Singers group last explored its particularly raucous nexus of form and freedom on Initiate (Cryptogramophone, 2010), the chameleon-like guitarist is, if not exactly restrained, certainly a little closer to center with Gauthier's inherent melodism. Alex—whose Continuation (Cryptogramophone, 2009) was the hardest-hitting album of his career—marries potent timekeeping with textural detail, across four Gauthier originals, one from Witham, the Coleman cover and a Goatette signature—an Eric von Essen tune (the gently lyrical "Things Past"), always included to remember the significance and influence of this too-soon-gone bassist.
Despite the seemingly inherent ceiling of the word "perfect," Gauthier's expanded Goatette manages to be even more perfect. As a writer, Gauthier works from a broad palette; as a violinist, from an equally unfettered stylistic purview combining improvisational abandon with the good taste to know when to go there—or not. Proving eclecticism needn't be synonymous with lack of stylistic focus, Open Source is, quite simply, one of the best of 2011, and certainly the high point of Gauthier's career to date.~ John Kelman, All About Jazz |
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1995: Paul Motian Trio - Sound of Love |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Post-bop |
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 Artist: The Paul Motian Trio Album: Sound of Love Label: Edel Year: 1995; release: 1998 Quality: lossless (eac-flac, cue, log) Size: 364 MB (full artwork) Total time: 59:27 AMG Rating:  REPOST with new links This live 1995 recording from New York's Village Vanguard club features drummer Paul Motian, guitarist Bill Frisell, and tenor saxophonist Joe Lovano turning in a stellar set of jazz covers and Motian originals (this is the same trio the drummer led in the late '80s and recorded high-profile tributes to Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, and Tin Pan Alley with). As the premium sound quality of the recording makes clear, this trio had an almost telepathic rapport on stage, inspiring each other in both ensemble playing and solo flights. This kind of hand-in-glove chemistry is certainly due in part to the group's many stints on the road, but also comes from the individual player's complimentary styles: Frisell and Lovano (albeit less subtly) both dig into the structure of the songs, producing clever and dynamic statements, while Motian contains the proceedings with his steady, yet elastic time keeping and provocative accents. The covers here include extended readings of Monk's "Misterioso" and Charles Mingus' beautiful ballad "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love," in addition to a loose and bittersweet rendition of the jazz standard "Good Morning Heartache." Motian balances out the set with originals like the thorny, Latin rhythms-based "Mumbo Jumbo," the lightly swinging waltz number "Once Around the Park," and the dark-hewn, yet beguiling closer "Play." This is a great recording of some of the best jazz combo playing from the '80s to 2000. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide |
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1977: Al Haig & Pierre Michelot - Al in Paris |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Hard-bop |
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 Artists: Al Haig & Pierre Michelot Album: Al in Paris Label: Musica Records Year: 1977; release: 1978 Quality: MP3@320 kbps (LP-rip) Size: 90,9 mb Total time: 41:21 One of the finest pianists of the bop era (and one who learned from Bud Powell's innovations quite early), Al Haig was quite busy during two periods of his career but unfortunately was pretty obscure in the years between. After serving in the Coast Guard (playing in bands during 1942-1944) and freelancing around Boston, Haig worked steadily with Dizzy Gillespie (1945-1946), Charlie Parker (1948-1950), and Stan Getz (1949-1951); and was on many recordings, mostly as a sideman (including some classic Diz and Bird sessions) but also as a leader for Spotlite, Dawn, and Prestige. However (other than little-known dates in 1954 for Esoteric, Swing, and Period), Haig did not lead any more albums until 1974. He played fairly often during the 1951-1973 period, but was generally overlooked. That changed during his last decade, when he was finally recognized as a bop giant and recorded for Spotlite, Choice, SeaBreeze, Interplay, and several Japanese and European labels. After being largely off records during 1955-73 (just one obscure set in 1977), pianist Al Haig was very active from 1974 up until his death in 1982. This LP showcasing Haig in a duet setting with bassist Pierre Michelot. Haig's style was largely unchanged from his earlier prime although he had grown as a player, as he shows on such numbers as T.Monk's "Round About Midnight," Miles Davis's "Milestones", Burke's and Van Heusen's "Polka Dots And Moonbeams." ~ by All Music Guide |
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2011: Courtney Pine - Europa |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz |
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 Artist: Courtney Pine Album: Europa Label: Destin-E Records Year: 2011 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s Size: 157 MB Saxophonist Courtney Pine has been making award-winning music for over 24 years and with his latest album ‘Europa’ he ventures further into the Roots of European music. This new work is the first recording to feature him playing the bass clarinet exclusively.
The album uses the medium of jazz to ask questions such as how, why and who created the continent that we call Europe, constructing a musical collage that takes you on a journey from Scandinavia across the region, touching bases with the British Isles, France, Spain, Italy and Russia, down to the Mediterranean Sea and more, to produce an inspirational and unique sound reflecting the continent's evolution. This new studio recording incorporates influences as far ranging as Gregorian chant, Scandinavian, Celtic, Spanish, Hungarian, Mediterranean melodies and rhythms and more, that show the scope, width and growth of the continent.
The recording features a powerful multi-cultural cast that reflect their own European stories. Internationally renowned bassist Alec Dankworth, drummer Mark Mondesir and pianist Zoe Rahman are joined by special guests clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings, mandolinist Cameron Pierre, electric violinist Omar Puente and drummer Robert Fordjour, amongst others.~ Liner Notes |
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2008: Jeroen van Vliet Trio - The Poet & Other Tales |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Jeroen van Vliet Album: The Poet & other Tales Label: Challenge Jazz Release: 2008 Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps Time: 0.59:39 Size: 140 MB + all covers (it even has an autograph!!) Repost with a new link! This album is brandnew...I've been to the concert of the cd-presentation in april and bought it there! Jeroen's new trio (Pascal Vermeer on drums and Frans van der Hoeven on bass) recorded this beautiful new cd last november at The Rainbow Studio in Oslo in Norway, with Jan Erik Komgshaug.
'The Poet & Other Tales' is melodic, rich, harmonic and atmospheric music with a very high standard in compositions. On the album the acoustic music is being supplemented with electronica and soundscapes.
Jeroen van Vliet, born April 1965 in Rosmalen, the Netherlands, studied piano with Willem Kühne and Bert van den Brink. In 1991 he graduated cumlaude at the Conservatory of Utrecht. At 19, he won both, the first and the soloist price, at the Middelsee Jazztreffen Leeuwarden and three years later he did the same at the prestigious Meervaart Jazzconcours in Amsterdam.
Van Vliet gained recognition by working in the groups of Paul van Kemenade and Eric van der Westen. During the years he worked with international artists as (a.o.) Bob Malach, Kenny Wheeler, John Zorn, Norma Winstone, Charly Mariano en Erkan Ogur. The last few years his cooperation with trumpeter Eric Vloeimans is very rewarding, both as a duo as well as in the group Gatecrash that won an Edison Award in 2007. Here he uses the Fender Rhodes and additional electronica. Dick de Graaf's quartet is another group that is doing well, the album Moving Target is one result of that. |
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