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1999: Stacey Kent - Let Yourself Go - Celebrating Fred Astaire |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Stacey Kent Album: Let Yourself Go - Celebrating Fred Astaire Label: Candid Records Year: 1999; release: 2000 Format: lossless: (eac-flac, cue, log) Size: 281 MB (with scans) Total time: 54:41 Let Yourself Go is an exceptional collection of 13 tunes written by the cream of popular song writers -- Berlin, Gershwin Brothers, and others -- honoring Fred Astaire's contributions to the vocal art. With his low key, narrow ranged voice, Astaire probably introduced and/or made popular more songs that were destined to become standard entries in the Great American Songbook than any other artist. Kent delivers this selective play list with one of three musical combinations, just piano, with piano plus rhythm, and with a larger aggregation which includes sax and guitar. Irrespective of the instrumental context, all of the tunes are delivered with Stacey's pleasant nasal twang to help her create the impression that the lyrics she's singing are part of an intimate one on one conversation with each listener. There's nothing over dramatic on this album. No gimmicks, just a voice as engaging as any on the scene conveying the meaning of a melody in the tradition of the person she is honoring, the inestimable Astaire.
Kent's pianist, David Newton, is one of the premiere accompanists in the U.K., having worked with such top flight singers as Tina May. He and Kent display their musical attraction to each other on a relaxed, suave rendition of "Isn't This a Lovely Day" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me," where Kent and Newton gently joust as they deliver an elegant rendition of this tune. "Relaxed" is as good a word as any to describe the atmosphere for this session. There's nothing frenetic here. "S'Wonderful," usually performed at a fast pace, gets a languid, medium tempo treatment with Newton's piano, an effortlessly lilting Colin Oxley guitar and Jim Tomlinson's tenor sharing the mike with Kent. "A Fine Romance" is about as upbeat as it gets, with Oxley's cleaned line guitar setting the pace. Newton engages in a bit of Erroll Garner-like humming during his solo on this tune. Tomlinson's romantic tenor is featured on "Let Yourself Go" and "They All Laughed." On "One for My Baby," he brings out his clarinet, using the middle register to help create the proper melancholy mood for this definitive "drowning my sorrows in booze" tune.
In addition to providing more than 50 minutes of musical entertainment, the liner notes set out the lyrics for each tune. This is another excellent album by American born, U.K.-based singer Stacey Kent, and is happily recommended. ~ Dave Nathan, All Music Guide |
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1976: Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Put It In Your Ear |
Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Chicago Blues |
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 Artist: Paul Butterfield Blues Band Album: Put It In Your Ear Label: JVC Compact Discs Year: 1976; release: 2005 Format, bitrate:mp3 320 kbps CBR Time: 35:37 min Size: 78.62 Mb The Butterfield Blues Band has been critically acclaimed as one the greatest electric blues bands ever! Lead by singer & harmonica player Paul Butterfield, their albums have stood the test of time as classics of the 60's & early 70's. Put It In Your Ear was originally issued in 1975 & features David Sanborn, Eric Gale, plus Garth Hudson & Levon Helm from The Band. ~ Wounded Bird Records. 2005. |
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1953: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen - Vintage Ken Colyer 1953 |
Jazz, Traditional Jazz |
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 Artist: Ken Colyer's Jazzmen Album: Vintage Ken Colyer 1953 Label:Lake Records LACD190 Year: 1953; release: 2004 Format, bitrate: mp3 320 kbps CBR Time: 01:14:34 min Size: 123.35 Ìb Once again Paul Adams and Lake Records have done fans of Vintage Ken Colyer and Chris Barber music a great service by compiling and re-mastering twenty-two recordings by Ken Colyer's Jazzmen made in Copenhagen in April and May, 1953, soon after Ken returned from New Orleans and the band was founded. Eighteen of the tracks are full or partial band recordings, while an additional four are from an early skiffle set with Lonnie Donegan on banjo and vocals, Chris Barber on bass, and Ken Colyer on vocals. The sound quality of these sometimes rudimentary and amateur recordings does vary considerably, but the re-mastering job is excellent, and of course the music itself is an indispensable collection for jazz historians and those Barber fans who simply want to know how the music they love originated. ~ chrisbarber.net |
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1973: Jimmy McGriff & Groove Holmes - Giants Of The Organ In Concert |
Music » Soul » Soul-Jazz |
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 Artists: Jimmy McGriff and Richard "Groove" Holmes Album: Giants Of The Organ In Concert Label: Groove Merchant Year: 1973, release 2007 Genre: Funk-jazz, Blues Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps Size: 134 MB The complete concert of two giants of the Hammod B-3. Recorded live at Paul's Mall, Boston, 1973 |
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1947-1950: Todd Rhodes And His Orchestra - Blues For The Red Boy: The Early Sensation Recordings |
Music » Blues » Rhythm-n-Blues |
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 Artist: Todd Rhodes And His Orchestra Album: Blues for the Red Boy: Early Sensation Recordings Label: Ace Year: 1947-1950 Release: 2002 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 Kbps Size: 181 Mb AMG Rating:   ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide |
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1976: Santana - Amigos |
Latin, Blues-Rock |
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 Artist: Santana Album: Amigos Label: Columbia Year: 1976 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 Kbps Time: 41:14 Size: 102 MB AMG rating:  Ýòî óæå áîëåå áëþçîâûé àëüáîì, êîòîðûé âåðíóë ãðóïïå áûëûå ïîçèöèè. Íî êàê ïî ìíå, òóò íå âåçäå ïðîÿâëÿåòñÿ äóõîâíûé ôåíîìåí Ñàíòàíû è ïåðåæèâàåìîì íàìè äèñêå, áîëåå ïðîÿâëÿþñÿ òå÷åíèÿ óæàñíîãî äåíåæíîãî ïîãëîòèòåëÿ. By the release of Amigos, the Santana band's seventh album, only Carlos Santana and David Brown remained from the band that conquered Woodstock, and only Carlos had been in the band continuously since. Meanwhile, the group had made some effort to arrest its commercial slide, hiring an outside producer, David Rubinson, and taking a tighter, more up-tempo, and more vocal approach to its music. The overt jazz influences were replaced by strains of R&B/funk and Mexican folk music. The result was an album more dynamic than any since Santana III in 1971. "Let It Shine" (number 77), an R&B-tinged tune, became the group's first chart single in four years, and the album returned Santana to Top Ten status. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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1999: Etta James - Heart Of A Woman |
Blues woman, Soul |
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 Artist: Etta James Album: Heart Of A Woman Label: Private Music/Windham Hill Year: 1999 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 Kbps CBR Time: 01:06:16 min Size: 148.30 Mb Heart of a Woman is a great idea for an album. Etta James chose 11 love songs from her favorite female singers -- Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, and Carmen McRae -- augmenting the album with a new version of her signature song, "At Last." She has recorded several of these songs before (including Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed," which inexplicably became a standard for both her and McRae), but the difference with Heart of a Woman is the context. Here, they're put in a smooth jazz setting, masterminded by James, who has producer credit. There's no denying that Etta James is a powerhouse, one of the finest blues singers of the 20th century, and she still possesses an exceptionally strong voice, robust and filled with passion. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All music Guide |
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