Ralph Sutton - Ralph Sutton At Cafe Des Copains

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1987
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:51
Size: 126,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:13)  1. Laugh Clown Laugh
(4:30)  2. You Can Depend On Me
(3:30)  3. Poor Butterfly
(4:19)  4. Snowy Morning Blues
(4:48)  5. Russian Lullaby
(5:45)  6. Sweet Sue
(5:32)  7. This Is All I Ask
(3:44)  8. Somebody Stole My Gal
(5:43)  9. St. Louis Blues
(3:14) 10. My Blue Heaven
(4:23) 11. Exactly Like You
(4:05) 12. Christopher Columbus

Ralph Sutton is such a consistent pianist that virtually all of his releases are recommended. At the top of his admittedly small field (stride piano has become an almost extinct art form), Sutton always seems to sound inspired no matter how many times he has performed a particular number. This superior solo CD features Sutton live at Toronto's Cafe Des Copains, recorded live for radio during performances in 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1987. The stride pianist's style, which was fully formed by the mid-1950s, did not change during the era, so there is a strong unity to the music (as if it had all been played the same day). Highlights include "Laugh Clown Laugh," "You Can Depend On Me," "Somebody Stole My Gal" and "Christopher Columbus." ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/at-cafe-des-copains-mw0000873850

Ralph Sutton At Cafe Des Copains

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The Jonah Jones Quartet - Swingin' Round The World/Jumpin' With A Shuffle

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 51:49

Size: 118.6 MB

Styles: Swing, Trumpet jazz

Year: 2014

Art: Front

[1:57] 1. Arrivederci Roma

[1:54] 2. Swingin' 'round The World

[2:28] 3. South Of The Border

[1:59] 4. A Foggy Day

[2:11] 5. April In Paris

[1:53] 6. Brazil

[2:00] 7. Madrid

[1:57] 8. Chicago

[2:23] 9. Manhattan

[2:09] 10. Song Of The Islands

[2:04] 11. Isle Of Capri

[1:47] 12. Shamghai

[2:12] 13. Dream

[2:07] 14. You're Driving Me Crazy

[2:06] 15. Lazy River

[2:19] 16. More Than You Know

[2:10] 17. Nine Twenty Special

[2:13] 18. Entratter's Blues

[2:14] 19. Misty

[1:53] 20. The Great Lie

[2:31] 21. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

[2:24] 22. One For My Baby

[2:10] 23. The Lonesome Road

[2:36] 24. My Monday Date

Jonah Jones, trumpet & vocal on #3,9,15 & 21; Teddy Brannon, piano; John Brown, bass; George 'Pops' Foster, drums. Recorded in New York City, 1958 (#1,4-7 & 9-10), 1959 (#2,3,8,11 & 12); and Las Vegas 1960 (#13-24).

"I'm going to find this album very difficult to remove from my CD player! From the moment Jonah's big buttery sound filled the room I was hooked."

Warm toned and with a lively vibrato Jonah's swinging playing would suit fans of Harry 'Sweets' Edison and Buck Clayton to a tee. Seemingly simple big swinging phrases and fiery dextrous soloing, both open and in a range of very enviable mutes, show just what a star of the trumpet Jonah Jones really is.

This CD features two albums, Swingin 'Round the World and Jumpin with a Shuffle, a total of 24 delicious well-known standard tracks recorded in 1958 and 1960. Although both CDs feature just a trio with Jonah on trumpet and occasional husky-toned vocal, the accompanying trio are toe-tappingly light, swinging and tasteful, with the feel veering more towards jump jive... dare I say 'rock and roll' on tracks 13-24. Each track is no more than two and a half minutes long but this provides ample time for Jonah's infectiously joyful trumpet playing to become something you want to listen to time and again. I'd like the other six CD's now please!" ~Georgina Jackson

Swingin' Round The World/Jumpin' With A Shuffle

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