Michel Portal - Minneapolis We Insist!

Styles: Fusion, Jazz-Rock

Year: 2002
Time: 78:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 179,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:53) 1. Good Bye Pork Pie Hat (Live)
(8:04) 2. Take The Portal (Live)
(6:14) 3. On Nicollet Avenue (Live)
(8:48) 4. Domimonk (Live)
(4:33) 5. Sky Tinted Water (Live)
(5:09) 6. Matourmatourmatourmalet (Live)
(4:38) 7. MP On The Run (Live)
(5:31) 8. Solitudes (Live)
(6:31) 9. Open Season (Instrumental)
(0:18) 10. Introduction To Judy Garland (Live)
(3:37) 11. Judy Garland (Live)
(4:07) 12. Shopping For Black Shirts (Live)
(4:28) 13. Unspoken Truth (Live)
(0:37) 14. Solitudes (Live / Instrumental)
(7:36) 15. Everything Must Change (Live)

We wrote it: Minneapolis, the French wind player's previous album, is a masterpiece, one of the great jazz albums of recent years. Even the protagonist noticed this, so much so that he "insists!" (like Max Roach with Sonny Rollins' Freedom Now Suite), offering us a summary of the tour that took those songs around France, a couple of his signature standards, and some of the band's reinterpretations. Portal's backing band is an excellent but "unique" one, excelling on soprano sax and bass clarinet, but not shying away from alto and tenor: "hard" guitarist Vernon Reid, formerly of Living Colour, and Prince's "superelectric" rhythm section, as well as white pianist Tony Hyams. The same guys from the Basque musician's previous American debut, often accused of being too "classical" due to his academic training, but who proves himself free and refined, vibrant and original, intelligent and lively live. Here is a magnificent manifesto of musical and human communion between one of the greats of European improvised music and the young American talents who have chosen to accompany him in his search for an ideal music, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic.

https://content.suono.it/en/music-review/michel-portal-minneapolis-we-insist/

Personnel:

Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Bandoneon – Michel Portal

Bass, Vocals – Sonny Thompson (2)

Design – Jérôme Witz

Drums – Michael Bland

Executive-Producer – Daniel Richard

Guitar – Jef Lee Johnson (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 11 to 13)

Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Ensoniq SD 1] – Tony Hymas

R.I.P

Born: 27 November 1935 Bayonne, France

Died: 12 February 2026 (aged 90) Paris, France

Minneapolis We Insist (mp3 320)
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Peter Fesperanto Fessler - Lovers, Fools And Dreams

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:25
Size: 111,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:25)  1. If You Never Come To Me
(5:02)  2. Strangers In The Night
(4:07)  3. Blue Moon
(4:56)  4. Memories of Moments
(5:21)  5. Hello
(4:15)  6. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
(4:13)  7. Agua De Beber
(4:51)  8. I Remember You
(4:10)  9. My Romance
(4:35) 10. Poinciana
(3:25) 11. I Wish You Love

Born in Cologne, Germany, and at the age of twelve, he began studying jazz guitar with his supporter and mentor Rick Abao. At the age of 20 he crossed the Atlantic for the first time, embarking on a musical journey that would take him into the world of sessions. Upon his return to Europe, Fessler began a concentrated shortstudy of jazz vocal technique at the renowned Cologne Music Conservatory. Soon after, Fessler became the front man and voice of the succesfull TRIO RIO - group (New York-Rio-Tokyo). Since his return to Europe he has continued to tour, performing live on the concert stage and logging numerous television and radio productions along the way. Fessler's voice can be heard by children all over Germany in the title role of the Walt Disney film "Aladdin", the German version. Following the release of his recording "Don't Tell Me", Fessler dedicated his next album-recordings to jazz and latin-jazz repertoire while simultaneously exploring the territory covered by his own compositions. Since his spectacular duet performance with Al Jarreau at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Peter Fessler has been considered the premiere jazz voice of Germany.

Randy Crawford, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Toots Thielemanns, and many other stars also recognize his unique talent and singular ability. As one of the next generation's jazz stars, he has earned his place on the international stage untill today. Fessler's recent recording and his performance as a "solophonic" musician is a breathtaking fusion of voice and classical guitar. He has found the perfect sound asthetic: High emotional, fascinating and virtuoso.

It all started for German-Canadian Peter Fessler in 1987 with the Top 10 hit "New York, Rio, Tokyo" and the band Trio Rio. Even then many of his breezy pop miniatures bore the influence of Bossa Nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim. Today Fessler is regarded without a doubt as the most competent interpreter of modern Brazilian sounds in our European climes. A relocation to San Francisco made a decisive mark on him, promptly expressed in songs with a quintessential California "easy feeling".These years of artistic self-searching in the realms of Latin pop, jazz standards, Bach vocalizing or just the barest guitar accompanying his song miniatures have made him a sound to be reckoned with. Nowadays making his home near Cologne, Germany, the inimitably personal style of multi-voice FESSLER is ranked as the European counterpart to such grand masters as Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin. Bio ~ http://www.mymusicbase.ru/PPB/ppb35/Bio_3548.htm

Lovers, Fools And Dreams

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Brian Lynch - Peer Pressure

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1986
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:55
Size: 123,7 MB
Art: Front

(10:11)  1. Thomasville
( 8:44)  2. Park Avenue Petite
( 6:01)  3. Peer Pressure
( 7:00)  4. The Outlaw
( 9:00)  5. Change of Plan
( 4:59)  6. 'Nother Never
( 7:57)  7. I Concentrate on You

Lynch wrote three of the seven tracks, while Horace Silver, Benny Golson, Tommy Turrentine and Cole Porter penned one apiece. His trumpet sound definitely borrows from previous modern masters Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan & Bill Hardman, and the influence of Silver, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and those of the hard/post bop movement cannot be denied. The latin tinge is also prevalent on the Brazilian bossa inflected "Change Of Plan" and Silver's Afro-Cuban tinged classic "The Outlaw." These two selections serve Lynch well for future excursions away from strict mainstream jazz. A rock solid date from a promising musician whose star is on the rise. ~ Michael G.Nastos https://www.allmusic.com/album/peer-pressure-mw0000410785

Brian Lynch Sextet: Brian Lynch (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jim Snidero (alto saxophone); Ralph Moore (tenor saxophone); Kirk Lightsey (piano); Jay Anderson (bass); Victor Lewis (drums).

Peer Pressure

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Scott Hamilton - Italian Quartet

Styles: Jazz
Year: 2026
Time: 50:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 115,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:50) 1. Expense Account
(5:10) 2. Con Alma
(8:12) 3. Out Of The Past
(5:14) 4. Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
(5:38) 5. Heartaches
(8:24) 6. Idle Moments
(6:56) 7. Keester Parade
(4:42) 8. Where Is Love

Scott Hamilton is considered the most popular saxophonist today. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1954, Scott began his career during a musically wild era with a style that was then outside the public's expectations, a style that later became very common among all new performers. His sound and impeccable phrasing were rare among young talents. So, when he signed a contract and began recording albums for Concord Records, it was a source of genuine surprise and excitement among fans of the style and throughout the entire music scene. His first album for Concord, Scott Hamilton is A Good Wind Who Is Blowing Us No Ill, dates back to 1977 and takes its title from a flattering review by critic Leonard Feather. But this was only the first in a memorable series of some thirty albums, which also featured artists such as Buddy Tate, Gerry Mulligan, Ray Brown, Red Norvo, Al Cohn, Flip Phillips, and others. His membership in the groups of Benny Goodman and Rosemary Clooney definitively cemented his fame. Despite his international success, Scott continues to pursue his favorite music, the one that introduced him to jazz, demonstrating a continuous refinement of his creative imagination and the rich, deep sound of his saxophone, to which he adds an impeccable sense of swing, creating a unique atmosphere in each piece he performs. His Italian quartet, with which he has also recorded five CDs, includes Martien Oster (guitar), Marco Micheli (double bass), and Alfred Kramer (drums).

https://green-music.art/green_music/scott-hamilton-italian-quartet/

Italian Quartet (mp3 320)
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