Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Coming About

Title Of Album: Coming About
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: ArtistShare
Genre: Jazz, Big Band
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 67:48 min
Total Size: 85,3 MB
WebSite: mariaschneider.com

Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson made their first important big-band recordings seventy years ago, back when
Calvin Coolidge was in the White House and Charlie Parker was in short pants. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. Big bands are still around, and still as musically vital as they were in 1926 - but they don't sound the same. The dance-oriented bands of the '30s and '40s are now a thing of the distant past. Today's big bands perform in clubs and concert halls, and their music is for listening, not dancing, so much so that a growing number of musicians prefer to call them "jazz orchestras." No matter what you call them, though, there's something about the sound of large jazz bands that continues to make audiences sit up and take notice, and causes composers to grab for their pens. That's why seventeen of New York's top jazz musicians get together every Monday night at Visiones, a New York nightclub, to play the music of Maria Schneider. They could be making better money doing almost anything else, from recording jingles to doing clinics. But Monday nights at Visiones aren't about money: they're about music. So is this CD... / read more /

TRACKLIST
01. El Viento [11:18]
02. Love Theme from Spartacus [07:04]
03. Part One: Bombshelter Beast [09:43]
04. Part Two: Night Watchmen [11:26]
05. Part Three: Coming About [12:48]
06. Giant Steps [07:45]
07. Waxwing [07:44]

http://rapidshare.com/files/295075784/Maria_Schneider-Coming_About-_Remastered_-2008-MARIASCHNEIDER-isra.rar.html

Manhattan Transfer - The Chick Corea Songbook

Title Of Album: The Chick Corea Songbook
Year Of Release: September 29, 2009
Label: Four Quarters Ent
Genre: Jazz / Vocal / Vocal Pop
Bitrate: VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 55:39 min
Total Size: 80.1 MB

Tracklist
01. Free Samba
02. Prelude (Spain - I Can Recall)
03. Spain (i Can Recall)
04. One Step Closer (Rhe One Step)
05. Children's Song #15
06. 500 Miles High
07. Another Roadside Attraction (Space Circus)
08. Times Lie
09. La Chanson Du Bebe (Children's Song #1)
10. Ragtime In Pixiland (pixiland Rag)
11. The Story Of Anna & Armando (Armando's Rhumba)
12. Free Samba (Extended Version)


GRAMMY-Award winning jazz vocal group, MANHATTAN TRANSFER, are currently in the studio finalizing their new release The Chick Corea Songbook, a record inspired by the classic work of jazz great Chick Corea. The CD features fresh and exciting vocal interpretations of many popular and brilliant Chick Corea compositions, and also includes a new Corea original entitled Free Samba which was written specially for this album. The forthcoming release also features special guest appearances by some of the finest musicians in the industry (in addition to Corea), Airto, Alex Acuna, Christian McBride, Fred Hersch, Edsel Gomez and Lou Marini among others. The Chick Corea Songbook is scheduled for digital release the third week of August and will be released nationally on September 29 on respected specialty label FOUR QUARTERS ENTERTAINMENT. This marks the vocal quartets first new original work in five years--as they celebrate their 40th Anniversary in the entertainment industry.

MANHATTAN TRANSFER has been a major staple both within the jazz community and the mainstream music community for four decades, with their genre defying sound. The critically acclaimed vocal group has been able to enlighten listeners by bringing different genres of music to the forefront of the jazz.
http://rapidshare.com/files/294294145/MTransfer.rar

Tine Bruhn - Entranced

Year Of Release: 2009
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Bitrate: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 40:15 min
Total Size: 51,6 MB

Tracklist
01 Miles Away (birthday song) 05:47
02 Tears 04:30
03 Search for peace 06:25
04 Baby, let me love you 04:16
05 If loneliness (after) 04:25
06 close to nothing 04:42
07 Upside down (flor de lis) 04:39
08 Har du visor min vдn 05:31

RELEASE NOTES
How many times have you found yourself alone on a rainy day? And the only thing you wanted to do was put on some good music and sit as close to the rain, without getting wet. Maybe, you'll let the rain hit your face. And each time it does you smile. Relaxing? Yes! Well, that's what I did
today.

I listened to Tine Bruhn, a young Jazz singer from Brooklyn. Already I like her cause she's from Brooklyn. Tine has a beautiful voice that moves so softly with the music; making you feel all the emotions that the song was meant to deliver. And her delivery, is like the feeling you have right before a first kiss. The anticipation of her next note is chilling. One of or songs on her new album is titled “Close To Nothing” and if you listen to any of Tine's music, you must listen to that song. I like this lady a lot. And she is surrounded by a splendid band as well.

Tine Bruhn's debut album "Entranced" by Inenomis Records is now available on CD Baby. I ust get it.

(by Mike McCabe - thebestindiemusic.com)

Jazz vocalist Tine Bruhn's debut album "Entranced" is a welcoming blend of mellow, yet groove-based originals, two contemporary pieces by Joshua Redman with Tine's lyrics, songs by
McCoy Tyner and Djavan, and a Swedish folk song arranged as a jazz waltz.

Personnel:
Maurice Brown - trumpet (Tracks 1 & 4)
Daniela Schдchter - piano
Marco Panascia - bass
Greg Hutchinson - drums

Tine Bruhn moved to New York City in 2001 after having graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. She quickly became part of New York’s jazz scene as she started singing at “Kavehaz” and has since performed at some of the city’s best music venues including “The Jazz Standard”, “The Cutting Room” and “55 Bar”. Once a month ine and her group of outstanding musicians perform at the well-known jazz club “Zinc Bar” in downtown Manhattan.

Born in 1978, Tine grew up belonging to the Danish minority in Flensburg, Germany. At the age
of 15 she founded the a cappella group "Kvart I Fire" which gained high recognition in Denmark
and Germany, especially after its release of the CD "Go 4 it" in 1996. The group kept an average
of 3 performances a week during their high school years and they were requested at many official functions as well as private parties.
Additionally Tine sang in classical choirs including the highly renowned semi-professional youth choir “Landes Jugend Chor Schleswig Holstein” and “Jugend Kammer Chor Flensburg”.
Around that time she discovered her passion for jazz and started getting solo gigs.

In Boston she continued performing in a cappella settings, one of them being the "Vocal Jazz Ensemble" under the direction of Sharon Broadley-Martin, a Vox One member. She studied with Sheryl Bentyne (Manhattan Transfer), Walter Beasley, recording artist, Richard Evans, Grammy award winning arranger, and legendary scat educator Bob Stoloff.

In April 2009 the Tine Bruhn Quartet was on tour in Europe where they played at sold out venues such as “B-Flat” in Berlin. A follow up tour is being planned for the Summer of 2010 with a focus on jazz festivals.

http://rapidshare.com/files/248144896/Tine_Bruhn.rar

Jane Monheit - June Vocal Series

FEATURING:Jane Monheit, vocals Michael Kanan, piano Neal Miner, bass Rick Montalbano, drums
It is a lifelong musical journey from the dreamy innocence of “Never Never Land” to the world-weary delusion of “Something Cool.” Yet, Jane Monheit, now firmly established as one of the post-millennial jazz world’s foremost vocalists, has managed to make the trip in just eight years. In 2000, Monheit chose the sweet, escapist Peter Pan lullaby as the title tune for her debut album. Now, with The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me, her sophomore release for Concord (following 2006’s sumptuous Surrender), she is plumbing the gin-soaked escapism of the heartrending tune made famous by June Christy in 1953. But “Something Cool” is just one of several tracks on The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me, Monheit’s widest-ranging and most accomplished album to date, that suggest the honey-voiced chanteuse is ushering in an artistic era of heightened sagacity and maturity. She also navigates the dark corners of Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman’s poignant “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men,” delivers a superlative interpretation of Paul Simon’s bittersweet “I Do It for Your Love” and embraces such contemporary songwriters as Corrine Bailey Rae (“Like A Star”) and Fiona Apple (“Slow Like Honey”). “I was,” confesses Monheit, “obsessed with Fiona Apple’s first record when I was in college, and that’s the album that song is from. I thought it was interesting to do it and “Like A Star” because both are by female songwriters who are almost exactly my age, and they’re songs I really love. I’m always doing songs from the Great American Songbook by long-dead composers, mostly male. Standards are still where my heart is, but it’s great to go beyond that.” The disc’s title is instantly recognizable as a line from “Rainbow Connection,” the sweetly optimistic Muppets tune that closes the album. “I was actually having trouble coming up with a title,” says Monheit, “so I asked for advice from a friend of mine and within seconds he said, ‘call it The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me.’ I was like, ‘oh my Lord, that is the most perfect thing I’ve ever heard,’ because I’m playing these different characters on the record and coming from these different points of view. Every song isn’t about me. So this cast of characters is the lovers, the dreamers and me. Some of the songs are utterly appropriate to my own point of view, but others like “Something Cool” and “I Did It for Your Love” are things I haven’t lived.” Monheit also chose to include “Rainbow Connection,” the last song recorded for the album, because of wee Jack. “I sing that song to him and he loves it,” she says, adding that she wanted to add it “because it will be so nice to have that documented and be able to say to him, ‘I recorded this for you when you were about three months old and it was your favorite song.’ It ended up being so cool, with Gil Goldstein playing accordion. Gil arranged it, and it’s such a great version. I loved that the modulation is downward instead of up. It’s such an interesting thing to do because, rather than making the tune bigger and brighter, it holds you in closer and makes it even more intimate.” The album’s second recording session, held after Jack’s birth, ushered in an equally stellar team of musicians, including Goldstein on piano, guitarist Romero Lubambo (who provides sole accompaniment on “A Primeira Vez”), drummer Antonio Sànchez, bassist Scott Colley and percussionist Bashiri Johnson. Goldstein also crafted more than half the arrangements, with Lubambo stepping in to arrange the two Brazilian tracks and Kanan shaping “Get Out of Town,” “I’m Glad There Is You” and “Lucky to Be Me.” Among Goldstein’s brilliant work is a fiery treatment of the Bonnie Raitt anthem “I Ain’t Gonna Let You Break My Heart.” The song is, says Monheit, “one that I’ve always wanted to record. Bonnie Raitt has been a huge influence on me since I was a tiny kid, so I’ve had that one in my back pocket for years waiting for a chance to do it, and it seemed to fit with the rest of the tunes on the album.” As for Goldstein’s stunning spin on Simon’s “I Do It for Your Love,” Monheit says, “Gil and I agreed we wanted a lot going on in that song, almost like a tumultuous, chaotic feel with a lot of drama, so that the vocal could be very simply stated atop all of this turmoil. And it really came out that way. You feel this tremendous narrative going on underneath, while the person telling the story is holding back a lot of emotion.” The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me carries a dual dedication: to infant Jack and to the late Joel Dorn, who produced Monheit’s first three albums. “There are so many things on this record that Joel would have loved,” she muses, “and I included “The Ballad of the Sad Young Men” for him because he had a famous version of it with Roberta [Flack, who included the song on her Dorn-produced, platinum-selling debut album, First Take, in 1969]. I learned so much about making records from him. We were very, very close. I saw him one last time before he died, and we talked about a new project we wanted to do together. I literally found out about his death while standing outside the hospital waiting to go in for an ultrasound and hear my baby’s heartbeat for the first time. I was on the table crying out of sadness for Joel’s loss and for hearing the beat of my son’s heart. It was a very surreal experience. So, it just seemed right to dedicate the album to both of them.”

http://www.bluenotejazz.com/newyork/schedule/index.shtml

Karrin Alyson - On the vocal jazz scene - June 23-24

Tues-Wed, June 23-24
Karrin Allyson is one of the freshest voices on the vocal jazz scene, and one of the most exciting talents to have emerged in the last 20 years. A rare singer with an instrumentalist's approach to her art, Allyson's sound is influenced by the rich tradition of jazz vocalists but remains free of direct comparison to any one singer. Her tireless dedication to her music and her honest approach to the song make her a favorite of classic and modern jazz lovers.

Hailing from Great Bend, Kansas, Allyson started out on classical piano at age six, taking it seriously and eventually making it her major in college. She put herself through school playing and singing in pop and funk bands, and got introduced to jazz through fellow students. She focused her studies on jazz, gradually making singing her focus. Upon moving to Minneapolis, Allyson worked regularly and refined her style until a unique opportunity opened up at a Kansas City jazz club. She took a job at the Phoenix club as house singer, and honed her skills as a vocalist and bandleader before making the jump to New York, where she currently performs regularly.

Allyson's recorded output is varied: French and Brazilian music (From Paris to Rio), a tribute to John Coltrane (2001's Ballads), and a blues record (In Blue). Her latest release, Imagina: Songs of Brasil, was nominated for a 2008 Grammy award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. While her records are excellent, her live performances are the best way to experience Allyson's gifts as a song interpreter.

Notable jazz critic and historian Gary Giddins affirms,"Allyson coolly stakes her claim.
See something in the link:http://myaccount.emarketforward.com/clicktracker.php?cd=12121&ld=1&md=1122&ud=ad1a04c6e3f3a94e99560e4e6e263328&url=http://www.dakotacooks.com/2009/04/karrin-allyson/

Emilie-Claire returns to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal!

July 2nd, 2009 - Don't miss Emilie-Claire Barlow live at Club Soda as part of the Montreal Jazz Festival.

Click the tickets button for tickets and more info!

http://www.clubsoda.ca/fiche.php?id=454

Special offer for Dakota Patrons - Monty Alexander at the State Theater

Our friends at the Hennepin Theater Trust have been presenting a Jazz Piano Series, and they've booked the great Monty Alexander for a concert where the audience will be seated on the stage with the band. They're offering a special discount for Dakota Patrons. Here's a You Tube video of the Jamaican born jazz giant playing a Bob Marley tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1RMdWWVlEM

Bonnie Lam - You Make Me Feel Brand New

Year Of Release: 2008
Genre: Jazz / Vocal
Bitrate: 320kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 52:17 min
Total Size: 108 MB

Tracklist
01. You Make Me Feel Brand New
02. Blue Moon
03. Scarborough Fair
04. True Colours
05. Last Christmas
06. Bridge Over Troubled Water
07. You Light Up My Life
08. They Can't Take Away From Me
09. That's All
10. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
11. My One And Only Love
12. Close To You
13. Tammy
http://rapidshare.com/files/220370429/Bonnie.rar

Keiko Lee - In Essence

Year Of Release: November 27, 2007
Label: Sony Music Japan International
Genre: Jazz / Soul-Jazz / Vocal
Bitrate: 192kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 68:47 min
Total Size: 91.0 MB

Tracklist:
01. Ain't No Sunshine
02. I Can't Help It
03. I Can't Make You Love Me
04. That's Enough for Me
05. One Hundred Ways
06. Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You
07. Superstition
08. Someday We'll Be Free
09. You Can Have Me Anytime
10. Minute by Minute
11. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
12. How Deep Is Your Love
13. Bridge Over Troubled Water
http://rapidshare.com/files/220386278/Keiko.rar

Kate McGarry - If Less Is More... Nothing Is Everything

Year Of Release: 2008
Genre: Jazz / Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3
Bitrate: ~180 kbps VBR
Total Time: 52:32 min
Total Size: 69 Mb

Tracklist:
01. Kate McGarry - Let's Face The Music (6:35)
02. Kate McGarry - You're My Thrill (5:42)
03. Kate McGarry - Just What I Needed (6:21)
04. Kate McGarry - The Times They Are A-Changin' (4:23)
05. Kate McGarry - Caminhos Cruzados (5:48)
06. Kate McGarry - You Don't Have To Cry (4:31)
07. Kate McGarry - The Priest (5:27)
08. Kate McGarry - Flor De Lis (4:38)
09. Kate McGarry - I Carry Your Heart (5:47)
10. Kate McGarry - Man Of God (3:23)
http://rapidshare.com/files/216955374/Kate-McGarry.rar