Streetwize - Does The Divas (2015)
Artist: Streetwize
Title Of Album: Does The Divas
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Shanachie Ent. Corp
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:46:37
Total Size: 107 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. Blow
02. Stay
03. Dream Lover
04. I Blame You
05. Call My Name
06. It's My Time
07. Whole Damn Year
08. Price Tag
09. The Worst
10. Bang Bang
A smooth jazz studio supergroup led by saxophonist Kim Waters, Streetwize feature a roster including singer Maysa Leak and guitarist Ken Navarro. The idea of collaboration is nothing new to jazz — smooth or otherwise — the twist here is that Streetwize perform contemporary rap and R&B radio hits. Their first album, Streetwize: Smooth Urban Jazz, was released by Shanachie in 2002 and featured versions of Mystikal's "Shake It Fast," Aaliyah's "Rock the Boat," and D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar." A second album, Work It, appeared the next year with Kim Waters and company polishing the edges off tracks made popular by Missy Elliott, Erykah Badu, and Jennifer Lopez. In 2004, Streetwize delivered the sultry Slow Jamz featuring the Isley Brothers tributes "Don't Say Goodnight" and "Between the Sheets." Two years later, the band returned with Does Dre which included songs associate with rapper Dr. Dre such as Eminem's "My Name Is," Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice," and "Nuthin' But a G Thang." The band continued in the slow jam cover song vein with 2007's Sexy Love, 2008's Streetwize Does Mary J Blige, and 2009's Put U to Bed. In 2012, Streetwize released its eighth studio album, Feelin' Sexy, featuring covers of songs by Robin Thicke, R. Kelly, Frank Ocean, and others. Body Party followed in 2013 with versions of Ciara's song of the same title, Drake's "Hold On, We're Going Home," and Tamar Braxton's "The One." ~ Wade Kergan & Matt Collar, Rovi
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Добавлено: Roberta Donnay - Bathtub Gin (2015)
Artist: Roberta Donnay
Title Of Album: Bathtub Gin
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Motéma Music LLC
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:03:14
Total Size: 145 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. Bathtub Gin
02. Why Don't You Do Right
03. If You Want the Rainbow (You Must Have the Rain)
04. Wake Up and Live
05. Just What the Doctor Ordered
06. When I Take My Sugar to Tea
07. Shake Sugaree
08. Throw Your Heart (Over the Fence)
09. (We've Got to) Put the Sun Back in the Sky
10. Happy Feet
11. Bye Bye Blackbird
12. Kitchen Man
13. Smile
14. Horizontal Mambo
15. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
The fine and seductive vocalist Roberta Donnay and her Prohibition Mob Band swing mightily with an authentic collection of vintage jazz, blues and swing. Donnay performs music from her latest release, Bathtub Gin, which features rare gems from the 1920s and ‘30s plus 4 party-rousing shout-chorus originals that evoke and revive the open spirit where jazz was born.
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Добавлено: Phil Perry - A Better Man (2015)
Artist: Phil Perry
Title Of Album: A Better Man
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Shanachie Ent. Corp.
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:42:42
Total Size: 107 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. A Better Man
02. You're the Only One
03. Feelin' You (feat. Rick Braun)
04. Sorry I Let You Go
05. Let It Rain
06. Gypsy Woman
07. Beautiful Girls
08. I'm So Proud (feat. Kim Waters)
09. Dreaming's Out of Season
10. Stand Up (feat. Howard Hewett)
On his seventh album for Shanachie, singer and songwriter Phil Perry and longtime producer Chip Davis lay out a set of excellent covers, originals, and a throwback surprise. Highlights include the glistening groove in the opening title track, wherein Perry offers the set's statement of purpose — in some way, virtually each of these ten tracks zones in on what it takes to become a better man — in spirit, in thought, in relationships, etc. The Curtis Mayfield nugget "I'm So Proud" features the lyrical saxophone of Kim Waters, and is one of numerous tracks on which guitarist Rohn Lawrence shines: he adds elegant fills, colorful chord voicings, and his signature rhythmic approach — check the way he plays under Waters' solo. As has been Perry's wont on earlier recordings, he takes on a true soul classic in Mayfield's Impressions hit "Gypsy Woman." Despite the iconic weight the tune is imbued with, Perry's read — with wonderful help from Lawrence — adds rather than detracts. Perry's vocal here is silky but finds its way right into the seam of the lyric and exposes the finer points in the songwriter's poetic use of metaphor. Slightly funkier and ripe for sophisticated clubbers is "Feelin' You," with lithe trumpet lines by Rick Braun. Just before the close, Perry delivers a stellar — and thoroughly revisioned — take on "Dreaming's Out of Season," which he first recorded with the Montclairs. The innovative vocal chart reveals why some songs are eternal. Reinforcing the album's theme is the closer "Stand Up," a killer duet with Howard Hewett that nods back at classic, '70s-era Marvin Gaye. Perry ups his game on A Better Man, choosing to rely on real lyric substance as well as an abundant vocal style. He hasn't left the loverman behind, he's just added more dimension and character to his profile.
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Добавлено: Marion Meadows - Soul Traveler (2015)
Artist: Marion Meadows
Title Of Album: Soul Traveler
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Shanachie Ent. Corp.
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:51:39
Total Size: 118 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. Celebration Road (feat. Najee)
02. Magic Men (feat. Elan Trotman)
03. Andalusian Sunset
04. Soul Traveler
05. Humanity (feat. Lamar Gaines)
06. Invisible
07. Mother Earth (feat. Tony "TB" Bias)
08. Dark Beauty (feat. Lamar Gaines)
09. Life in the Clouds (feat. Joey Summerville & Kyle Turner)
10. Dream Catcher
11. Real Time (feat. Vincent Ingala)
12. Last Ticket To Somewhere
Smooth jazz-styled soprano saxophonist Marion Meadows was born in West Virginia and raised primarily in Connecticut; after adopting the classical clarinet at age nine, he moved to the saxophone as a teen, later studying composition and arranging at Boston's Berklee College of Music. A protege of Joe Henderson and Eddie Daniels, Meadows later served a long stint as a member of Norman Connors' Starship Orchestra; after a series of session dates and sideman gigs, he made his solo debut in 1990 with the RCA release For Lovers Only, followed in 1992 by Keep It Right There. Resurfacing two years later with Forbidden Fruit, after 1995's Body Rhythm Meadows jumped to Discovery to issue 1997's Pleasure. He then moved to Heads Up for Another Side of Midnight (1999), Next To You (2000), and In Deep (2002).
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Добавлено: Matt Belsante - When You're Smiling (2015)
Artist: Matt Belsante
Title Of Album: When You're Smiling
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Green Hill Productions
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:46:53
Total Size: 107 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. When You're Smiling
02. Nothing But the Best
03. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
04. On the Sunny Side of the Street
05. The Nearness of You
06. It's Only a Paper Moon
07. Make You Feel My Love
08. They Didn't Believe Me
09. Exactly Like You
10. Skylark
11. Nothing Can Change This Love
12. More
13. Angel Eyes
Matt Belsante performs like a seasoned entertainer well beyond his years. An old soul with a distinctly modern sound, you can hear the respect and appreciation for the material in his smooth as silk voice.
Maybe it was the old Sinatra records that he used to listen to with his Grandfather. Or maybe it was the steady diet of Coltrane, Ellington, Basie and Fitzgerald that he was fed at home. Whatever it was, Matt knew it was in his bones, a part of his DNA that would ultimately lead this young artist to pursue a dream of his own.
Just out of grade school, Matt picked up the tenor sax at the age of twelve and became a standard fixture in his middle school and high school jazz bands. But the sax wasn't his only instrument: he soon found he had a talent for using his voice. By his senior year of High School, Matt had won the prestigious Louis Armstrong Jazz Award in both the vocal and instrumental categories, the first student from his school to achieve such a feat.
That affirmation was a turning point for Matt, as he realized that his true passion was for using his voice to interpret a song. He grabbed a guitar, taught himself to play and began composing his own music the summer before he entered Nashville's Vanderbilt University. Before the first day of class commenced, the late Vanderbilt/Blair school of Music director, Billy Adair, had already recruited Matt to sing for the Blair Big Band. Soon, Matt was directing himself, leading the Dodecaphonics, an all-male a cappella group on campus.
The rising star eventually came to the attention of Nashville's well-heeled music industry following a performance of the Nashville Jazz Orchestra. That night, the NJO performed a Sinatra tribute, and Matt sang many as if he was channeling Sinatra himself. That performance landed him a televised appearance as a featured entertainer for the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant 2006, which eventually lead him to Green Hill Music, where he recorded an album of Christmas classic (White Christmas), and followed that with a spectacular non-seasonal collection of standards (Blame It On My Youth). The titles quickly became two of the label's top selling releases.
CBL Properties and KMT Creative Group tapped Matt to become both the voice and the face of the campaign. As a result, Matt was featured in a series of spots on television, radio and internet.
Matt's latest collaboration with Green Hill, teams him with GRAMMY nominated producer, Jack Jezzro, acclaimed arranger and orchestrator, Jeff Steinberg and the exciting new jazz pianist, Mason Embry. A collection of traditional jazz and Big Band standards, as well a couple of pop and R&B classics, WHEN YOU RE SMILING boasts Matt's best vocal work to date.
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Добавлено: Joe Alterman - Georgia Sunset (2015)
Artist: Joe Alterman
Title Of Album: Georgia Sunset
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Joe Alterman
Genre: Jazz, Piano Jazz
Quality: mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:57:31
Total Size: 132 mb
Tracklist ---------
01. Blue Moon
02. Other Voices
03. Hard Times
04. Georgia Sunset
05. That Sunday, That Summer
06. For Once in My Life (feat. Houston Person)
07. I'll Let You Know
08. The Theme (feat. Houston Person)
09. This Time the Dream's On Me Moonlight Becomes You (feat. Houston Person)
10. Moonlight Becomes You (feat. Houston Person)
11. Snake Eyes (feat. Houston Person)
12. How Deep Is Your Love?
Produced by legendary tenor saxophonist Houston Person and featuring his playing on 5 tracks, this album also features one of the world's most potent rhythm section teams: bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson. A wonderful blend of trio, quartet, saxophone/piano duo and solo piano tracks, "Georgia Sunset" is a wonderful showcase for pianist Joe Alterman's exciting, tasteful & swinging sound. One of the many highlights of this album is a very special piece entitled "The Theme", which Alterman co-wrote with the legendary Les McCann.
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