Various Artists - Jazzmen Play the Blues 1923-1957 (CD 1 & 2)

Jazzmen Play the Blues 1923-1957 (CD 1)

Styles: Blues
Year: 2009
Time: 65:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 152,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:10) 1 Louis Armstrong. West End Blues
(4:20) 2 Louis Armstrong. Back O’Town Blues
(3:45) 3 Louis Armstrong. Jack-Armstrong Blues
(3:40) 4 Tommy Ladnier. Really the Blues
(2:29) 5 King Oliver. Dippermouth Blues
(3:11) 6 Bubber Miley & Duke Ellington. Black and Tan Fantasy
(2:33) 7 Cootie Williams. Mobile Blues
(3:15) 8 Rex Stewart. Jug Blues
(4:21) 9 Sidney De Paris. The Call of the Blues
(2:44) 10 Hot Lips Page & Mezzrow-Bechet. House Party
(3:20) 11 Hot Lips Page & Don Redman. Carrie Mae Blues
(3:13) 12 Buck Clayton & Teddy Wilson. Blues Too
(3:02) 13 Kid Ory. Aunt Hagar’s Blues
(2:54) 14 Cootie Williams & Duke Ellington. Sweet Chariot
(4:43) 15 Vic Dickenson & Albert Ammons. Bottom Blues N°2
(3:23) 16 Dickie Wells. Dickie Wells Blues
(3:06) 17 Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton & Duke Ellington. Harlem Flat Blues
(3:06) 18 Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton & Duke Ellington. Saturday Night Function
(2:55) 19 Johnny Dodds & Louis Armstrong. S.OL. Blues
(2:36) 20 Johnny Dodds. Clarinet Wobble

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Jazzmen Play the Blues 1923-1957 (CD 2)

Styles: Blues
Year: 2009
Time: 67:29
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 156,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:30) 1 Sidney Bechet. Blue Horizon
(2:44) 2 Mezzrow-Bechet. Gone Away Blues
(2:59) 3 Johnny Hodges. Dooji-Wooji
(2:58) 4 Johnny Hodges. That’s the Blues, Old Man
(3:05) 5 Louis Jordan. Inflation Blues
(2:45) 6 Ben Webster & Johnny Otis. One Nighter Blues
(3:11) 7 Buddy Tate. Blue Buddy
(2:36) 8 Illinois Jacquet. Goofin’ Off
(3:07) 9 Arnett Cobb & Lionel Hampton. Salty Papa Blues
(2:55) 10 Joe Thomas. Harlem Hop
(4:36) 11 Ike Quebec. Blue Harlem
(2:59) 12 Eddie Chamblee & Sonny Thompson. Long Gone Part 2
(6:02) 13 Lionel Hampton. Vibe Boogie
(2:59) 14 Milton Buckner. Mighty Low
(3:40) 15 Wild Bill Davis. I Ain’t Feeling So Long
(3:29) 16 Count Basie. Way Back Blues
(2:26) 17 Pete Johnson & Albert Ammons. Cuttin’ the Boogie
(3:06) 18 Buddy Johnson. Minglin’
(4:20) 19 T-Bone Walker. Blues for Marili
(2:56) 20 Tiny Grimes. Rockin’ the Blues Away

Not only a form of expression unique to black America, the blues is one of the major musical elements of jazz. Great jazzmen are often also great bluesmen with the gift of adapting the sound of the human voice to that of their instrument. In this album, comprising two CDs, Jacques Morgantini presents some of the most beautiful blues recorded by jazz musicians, a perfect blend of the lyricism of blues and the exuberance of jazz. (by Patrick Frémeaux)

https://www.fremeaux.com/en/2478-jazzmen-play-the-blues-1923-1957-3561302525624-fa5256.html

Jazzmen Play the Blues 1923-1957 (CD 1 & 2) (mp3 320)
Jazzmen Play the Blues 1923-1957 (CD 1 & 2) (FLAC)

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Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd1, Cd2

Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd1

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2023
Time: 46:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 107,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:50) 1. Don't You Worry About a Thing
(9:24) 2. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
(4:39) 3. Congolese Children
(4:29) 4. I'm All Smiles
(4:45) 5. Invitation
(6:31) 6. Once I loved
(3:17) 7. Cute
(5:01) 8. This Is New
(4:37) 9. Come Sunday

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Sullivan Fortner - Solo Game Cd2

Time: 32:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 75,4 MB
Art: Front

(0:15) 1. Power Mode
(5:07) 2. It's a Game
(5:28) 3. Snakes And Ladders
(1:25) 4. Hounds and Jackal
(2:04) 5. King's Table
(1:07) 6. Stag
(2:54) 7. Cross and Circle
(4:51) 8. Space Walk
(3:20) 9. Valse du petit chien
(1:56) 10. Fred Hersch, notes on Solo
(3:58) 11. Jason Moran, notes on Game

Mentored by Fred Hersch and Jason Moran, and produced by Hersch, Solo Game puts pianist Sullivan Fortner in a really good place. That is before the music even starts. Then it does start with a sly and subdued solo on Stevie Wonder's buoyant 1973 top tenner, "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing," while dropping subtle hints to the trip ahead, forged by Fortner's quixotic self.

Fortner, who has steadily grown a discography which includes his own quartet recording Aria (Impulse!, 2015), a seven year stint with Roy Hargrove, and choice sessions with Paul Simon, Cecile McLorin Salvant (who adds her ethereal magic to the "Tubular Bells" like "Snakes and Ladders"), and Melissa Aldana just to name a few. With his perfect pitch and classic stride approach, the pianist has a long and illustrious career ahead of him.

An autumnally seasoned approach to Richard Rodgers' "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" belies Fortner's age. There is a clear sense of yearning yet knowing the years reveal as they will. Hersch's production is pristine, throwing light on Fortner's clearly articulated vision a new and most assured take on things of beauty over convenience, things with eternal presence.

The pianist does what all great artists, innovators, and true creators (not Tik Tok spin offs) do; they challenge themselves and rise well above said challenge. So, Randy Weston's "Congolese Children" sounds fully conceived and of a piece, as does Antonio Carlos Jobim's luscious "Once I Loved." Fortner is so aware of those who have mastered the keys before him that, by the time we get to singularly malleable romps through Neil Hefti's bouncing "Cute" and Kurt Weill's neo-ragtime "This Is New," visions of Art Tatum and Bud Powell are dancing in our heads.

These solo ventures can get over-wrought at times think of young Keith Jarrett's one man Restoration Ruin (Vortex, 1968) but Solo Game for the greater part avoids those youthful pratfalls. Though it does have its wrought moments, such as "It's A Game" the second track on Disc Two it runs a bit too long, predictably. Here the pianist takes on a host of instruments including vibes, celeste, chime tree, Moog, Vocoder, Rain Maker, Hammond B3, and egg shaker.

Fully composed by Fortner, the brooding Shaft-like undertow "Snakes and Ladders" falls victim to, once again, its length. "Hounds and Jackals" on the other hand, is too short. "Space Walk " is. well, the new generation watching 2001: A Space Odyssey. But, given the gravity and the gravitas of Solo Game, this is really nitpicking. These two discs are beyond question worth the time it takes to get pulled into their gracious and sustainable orbit. By Mike Jurkovic Sullivan Fortner: Solo Game album review @ All About Jazz

Personnel: Sullivan Fortner: Piano (Steinway B), Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3 Organ, Vibes, Celeste, Chime Tree, Moog, Vocoder, Rain Maker, Hand Percussion, Egg Shaker, Triangle, Vocals, Hand Claps, Shakers, Canopus Bass Drum, Mongolian Gong (2); Kyle Pool: hand claps on (2-2); Cecile McLorin Salvant: vocals on (2-3).

Solo Game (mp3 320)
Solo Game (FLAC)

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