Mark Weinstein - Con Alma

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 61:08
Size: 140.0 MB
Styles: Flute jazz, Afro-Cuban jazz
Year: 2005
Art: Front

[6:57] 1. Santi's Africaleidoscope
[4:05] 2. Broadway Local
[5:14] 3. Con Alma
[6:28] 4. Crescent
[5:58] 5. Fee Fi Fo Fum
[3:10] 6. Evidence
[6:10] 7. La Coneja Loca
[2:48] 8. Gotcha
[8:50] 9. Soul-Leo
[5:50] 10. Monte Adentro
[5:33] 11. Stella By Starlight

Mark Weinstein and his San Francisco Bay area-based Latin jazz quintet perform bop-oriented Afro-Cuban jazz, music that is not all that much different than the Latin jazz of the '50s and '60s. Weinstein has an attractive sound and a fluent style on flute, pianist Mark Levine gets nearly as much solo space as the leader, and the rhythm section keeps the music swinging, grooving, and danceable. Weinstein, whether jamming on the chord changes of "Giant Steps" ("Broadway Local"), playing tunes by Wayne Shorter or Thelonious Monk, or Latinizing obscurities, is in top form throughout. Fans of Cal Tjader (despite the lack of vibes), 1960s Herbie Mann, and traditional Latin jazz will enjoy this likable set. ~Scott Yanow

Con Alma

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Peter Lehel - Chamber Jazz Quartets

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:15
Size: 109,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:51) 1. Gavotte
(4:10) 2. Libertango
(3:20) 3. Brahms Meets Santana
(4:17) 4. Vilia
(4:12) 5. Värmland
(3:20) 6. Pavane
(2:44) 7. Stride La Vampa
(4:49) 8. Adgaio In G Minor
(3:07) 9. Für Eine Nacht Voller Seligkeit
(4:28) 10. Reverie
(3:21) 11. Moldau
(5:36) 12. Adagio For Saxes

The saxophonist, bass clarinetist, composer and arranger Peter Lehel studied jazz and popular music at the music academies in Stuttgart and Budapest from 1988 to 1996 and passed his concert exam with distinction.

He has positioned himself internationally with very diverse and independent music in the field of tension between jazz and classical music. He is undoubtedly one of the most outstanding composers and arrangers for the saxophone and clarinet family. Numerous arrangements for saxophone quartets and ensembles, free of all stylistic barriers, have been published in the meantime.

He works as a musician and composer with renowned jazz musicians and internationally renowned ensembles such as the Oláh Kálmán Trio Budapest, Ulisses Rocha European Brazil Project, Kristjan Randalu from Estonia, Monika Herzig Acoustic Project (USA), Barbara Dennerlein (Germany) as well as with classical stars such as Sabine Meyer, Wolfgang Meyer, Henning Wiegräbe, Steven Mead and many others.

As an arranger, he has worked for the Cuban world star of Latin jazz, Paquito d'Rivera, and for the "Trio di Clarone" around the clarinettists Sabine and Wolfgang Meyer (Grammy nomination 2010). He has arranged the music of the Hammond organist Barbara Dennerlein for large symphony orchestra.His compositions for jazz soloists with chamber orchestra and with string quartet have received great attention.

As a soloist and composer Peter Lehel works with various orchestras including the Budapest Chamber Symphony, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Sinfonietta Tübingen, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Artisfact Chamber Orchestra.

Concert tours regularly take Peter Lehel to the USA, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, the Caribbean, Cuba, Jamaica, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Spain, Italy and France, the Netherlands and Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Austria, South Korea, Taiwan and China, Israel, Egypt, Oman, Jordan, United Arab Emirates.

He is a jazz prizewinner of the state of Baden-Württemberg (1997), twice received the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (2000, 2006), was among the winners of the International Contest for Jazz and Church Organ (Best Group 2001).

In 2004 he received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, on whose jury he was appointed in 2008. n 2007 he became visiting professor at the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in China.

Peter Lehel has a very rich discography with very diverse formations and CD productions that cross the boundaries of genres, including Peter Lehel Quartet, Finefones Saxophone Quartet, Pipes and Phones and SaltaCello. In 2011 he founded the Jazz Ensemble Baden-Württemberg, a formation that works on the development of special programmes in various constellations.

Since 2014 he has been artistic director of the Jazz Juniors of the Baden-Württemberg State Music Council, where he is responsible for the highly talented promotion of jazz. Peter Lehel teaches the subjects saxophone, jazz theory, big band and ensembles at the Karlsruhe University of Music.
https://www.hfm-karlsruhe.de/en/university/persons/peter-lehel

Chamber Jazz Quartets

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Christina Tourin - Geodepédie - Hidden Light

Styles: Harp Jazz
Year: 2023
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:47
Size: 137,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:51) 1. Geodepédie - Hidden Light
(2:11) 2. Music Is Love
(5:00) 3. Passacaglia - Handel's Healing Harp
(3:02) 4. Brigid's Green Mantle
(3:20) 5. Land O' The Leal
(2:01) 6. Early One Morning
(2:54) 7. Walk Through The Sunflowers
(3:57) 8. Reminisce
(1:37) 9. Sommarpsalm
(6:57) 10. Icelandic Northern Lights
(1:46) 11. Grieg’s Morning Mood
(3:38) 12. Largo - Vivaldi's Vision
(3:23) 13. Arigatou, I For You
(3:28) 14. Amethyst Of Avalon
(8:39) 15. As Above So Below
(2:56) 16. Colors Of The Season

For Christina Tourin, Geodepédie - Hidden Light, is more than simply the perfect title for the influential, world renowned harpist/composer’s sparkling, magically lyrical new age album – her first since 2010’s Iona Inspirations, which capped a prolific and prodigious 20 years of composing and recording.

“With a twist on Erik Satie's Gymnopedie,” Tourin says, “I present Geodepédie! May we open ourselves to let light shine forth as with a beautiful geode!” The new album is a journey of peace and wonder, reflecting the boundless immensity of the earth and sky.

With each track, Tourin strives for a sound that can transform lives, emotionally and spiritually. Listeners may imagine the shining inside of a newly-opened geode, while also picturing a crystalline night sky filled with glittering stars, planets and galaxies. The music, she says, creates a place to find the center of one’s being, allowing each listener to let go of tension and rise into the cumulus of their own imagination.

Musicians on the album include Christina Tourin (harp), Peter Sprague(guitar/synth), David Eastoe (synth), Suzanne Doucet (synth), Buvana Gerlach (vocals), Lies Joosten (Harp,Track 1). The album was produced by Christina Tourin for her Emerald Harp Productions, LLC, and recorded at SpragueLand Studios, Encinitas, CA, with sound engineer Peter Sprague. Cover design is by Jaime Tourin, with liner notes by Jonathan Widran.

Tourin truly lives a life “as above so below,” experiencing the magnificent and transcendent in small but significant ways. As one of the foremost leading educators of the harp, she founded the International Harp Therapy Program, which has training centers in multiple countries and languages with Therapeutic Harp Practitioners from 32 countries serving on five continents.

Tourin’s musical life has taken her around the world from Japan to Ireland, where she’s brought the National Instrument of the harp to blind children. She trained in performance both at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and at McGill University in Montreal, and has accompanied chorales, performed with symphonies and been part of ensembles in off Broadway theaters. A highlight of her career is performing for 17 years for the Von Trapp Family at their Austrian Chalet Lodge in Vermont.

Harp has been in Tourin's family for several generations. As she says, “Expressing through music is not what I do, it’s who I am.”
https://www.thebcompany.com/geodepedie-hidden-light-a-brilliant-new-harp-album-by-christina-tourin

Geodepédie - Hidden Light

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