1996: Xhange – Uma Frase Qualquer
Artist: Xhange
Album: Uma Frase Qualquer
Label: Anjo Pro-Edit
Year: 1996
Quality: mp3; vbr
Size: 46.37 MB
Xhange is Joao Ferreira. Portuguese. Born in Central-African Republic. Joao began playing piano in Coimbra (Portugal) at the age of five. He stopped his classical education ten years later and started playing in local rock bands, forming a jazz-rock band, Mazary-Shariff. At the same time Joao started playing flute. At the age of twenty Joao moved to Montpellier, France where he opened a macrobiotic restaurant and also performed as piano-bar musician. Read more »
2001: Eberhard Weber – Endless Days
Artist: Eberhard Weber
Album: Endless Days
Label: ECM (ecm1748)
Year: 2001
Genre: Jazz, Modern Jazz, Jazz-Classical crossover
Format, bitrate: FLAC
Time: 47:28
Size: ~275 MB (2 files)
For his first recording since 1993’s Pendulum, bassist Eberhard Weber teams up with Paul McCandless on woodwinds, Rainer Brьninghaus on piano and keyboards, and (emerging from retirement) Michael DiPasqua on drums and percussion. Weber’s new compositions involve little improvisation and a steadfast avoidance of typical jazz vocabulary. Read more »
1997: The Mood Mosaic – Volume 1
Artist: VA
Album: The Mood Mosaic – Volume 1 -The Haschish Party
Label: Rare Groove
Years: 60’s and 70’s; release:1997
Format: MP3; VBR
File: 70 MB
A wonderfully groovy set every bit as great as you might guess from the title and the cover and the very first installment in the now-legendary Mood Mosaic series! Read more »
Together, Lew Green, Joe Muranyi
“If you can feel your pancreas dancing, the music is swinging.” The quote comes from Bob Leary, banjoist/guitarist on this session. The visceral aspect is hard to prove, but his musical assessment is quite accurate. Cornetist Lew Green and clarinetist Joe Muranyi, who have individually accumulated many decades of touring and recording world-wide, even working as sidemen in the same bands, finally pool their Traditional talents as co-leaders, and the result is often authentic, vintage Dixieland. What gives it authenticity right at the outset, Read more »
The Morning World, Chris Morrissey Quartet
The shape of things to come. For twenty-eight year old Minnesota born and Brooklyn-raised bassist and bandleader Chris Morrissey, has released an excellent debut album titled The Morning World. Morrissey has composed nine well thought out and perfectly crafted songs and has surrounded himself with an outstanding cast of players, such as saxophonists Michael Lewis and Chris Thomson, David King on drums, Peter Schimke and Bryan Nichols on the piano.
Lead track “The Skinny Part of Idaho” is a superb opener. What really stands out is the fact that the bass does not stand out. Morrissey allows the bass to be more of a simple instrument and lets it speak for itself. “The Skinny Part of Idaho,” like the rest of the album, is Read more »
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