Rosemary Clooney "The Rosemary Clooney Show", Frank Kimbrough "Lullabluebye", Jim Black "Habyor"

ROSEMARY CLOONEY - THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY SHOW

Year: 2004

1.Tenderly [1:10]1.7 Mb

2.Botch-A-Me [1:19]1.9 Mb

3.Mambo Italiano [1:35]2.2 Mb

4.Moonlight in Vermont [2:50]4.1 Mb

5.My Blue Heaven [1:46]2.5 Mb

6.How About You [2:39]3.8 Mb

7.Ive Got My Love to Keep Me Warm [2:15]3.2 Mb

8.There Will Never Be Another You [2:56]4.2 Mb

9.Lullaby of Broadway [1:40]2.4 Mb

10.I Can't Believe that You are in Love [2:01]2.8 Mb

11.A Foggy Day [2:49]4 Mb

12.You Make Me Feel So Young [2:25]3.5 Mb

13.Chicagom that Toddlin Town [1:43]2.4 Mb

14.Dream [2:52]4.1 Mb

15.Just You Just Me [1:23]2 Mb

16.I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good) [2:46]4 Mb

17.Too Marvelous for Words [2:10]3.1 Mb

18.This Ole House [2:48]4 Mb

19.They Can't Take that Away from Me [2:21]3.4 Mb

20.Taking A Chance on Love [1:53]2.7 Mb

21.Blues in the Night [3:40]5.2 Mb

22.Come on-A My House [0:57]1.4 Mb

23.Hey There [3:31]5 Mb

24.Up A Lazy River [2:21]3.4 Mb

25.Ill Be Seeing You [2:27]3.5 Mb

26.Haven't Got A Worry [1:53]2.7 Mb

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Rosemary Clooney "The Rosemary Clooney Show" Album Review

A Great Clooney Christmas
While Rosie's voice was in decline when she recorded this album in 1996, her interpretive ability and singing style were very much intact, as was her impeccable taste in song selection. Thank God she finally recorded a vibrant and dignified Christmas album. Her updated version of "Count Your Blessings" (from the holiday film classic "White Christmas") alone makes this CD worthwhile: Clooney, "Blessings..." and "White Christmas" EMBODY the holiday season. "Sleep Well, Little Children" is a new classic, so beautiful and touchingly rendered by Rosie. And her tongue in cheek duet "Don't Wait Till the Night Before Christmas" with her brother, Nick Clooney", is a folksy and fun tag to end the Christmas celebration. For 25 years, Rosie recorded an album every year for Concord Jazz until her death in 2002. She left behind a legacy that will never be equalled and this CD is the icing on the cake. How she is missed.

Video The Hi-Lo's with Rosemary Clooney and Hoagy Carmichael

The Hi-Lo's sings with Rosemary Clooney and Hoagy Carmichael on the Rosemary Clooney Show.

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FRANK KIMBROUGH - LULLABLUEBYE

Year: 2004

1.Lullabluebye [4:46]7 Mb

2.Centering [4:20]6.2 Mb

3.Kid Stuff [5:48]8.8 Mb

4.Ode [5:51]8.3 Mb

5.Whirl [5:23]8.1 Mb

6.Ghost Dance [6:41]9.8 Mb

7.You Only live Twice [6:06]8.9 Mb

8.Fubu [4:36]6.8 Mb

9.Bens Tune [5:20]8 Mb

10.Eventualities [6:31]9 Mb

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Frank Kimbrough "Lullabluebye" Album Review

A very very nice album...
Just a quick reference so you know where I'm coming from: I like Brad Mehldau, Vijay Iyer, Keith Jarrett, Jean-Michele Pilc, Vassilis Tsabroupoulous, Jason Moran, and certainly others. Ok. This latest Frank Kimbrough CD is the first I've heard of his, and I completely love it. There is excellent fresh playing, great ideas, a good variety of tunes, some rather adventurous, (such as Eventualities), some more standard tunes, (such as You Only Live Twice), happier stuff and contemplative stuff. The players all work very well together, and for me these guys are definitely "first tier"; I can't believe this is the first I've heard of Frank. For fans of piano trio, this is a must have. I'm stingy with my stars; this is really five star jazz.

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JIM BLACK - HABYOR

Year: 2004

1.Talk About [4:04]6.3 Mb

2.Z [4:25]7 Mb

3.Rade [6:45]10.2 Mb

4.Cha [5:27]8.4 Mb

5.Part Wolf [5:55]9.2 Mb

6.Hello Kombiant [3:28]5.7 Mb

7.Let it Down [6:07]9.5 Mb

8.Be Real [4:31]6.1 Mb

9.Endgatherers [6:38]10.7 Mb

10.Stay Go [4:21]6.6 Mb

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Jim Black "Habyor" Album Review

Thanks to Jim Black
People will be talking about this music for a long time. Arguments will come and go as to whether this is jazz or rock or some hybrid yet to be labelled.
I don't think that matters.
This music sings with the very joy of creation. A sound that is common to all genres when the artists involved are speaking truly and without thought for markets or labels.
What we have on this CD is four musicians dedicated to the task of realizing the compositions of their leader, Jim Black...and we have a leader with the wisdom and faith in his band to allow them to extrapolate and improvise around, over and through his wonderful musical ideas. They create sound-scapes that are evocative, minimalist, dense, industrial, poetic, humorous and/or just plain beautiful...sometimes within seconds of one another.
Alasnoaxis are, I believe, that rare phenomenon in music...something new. They combine their collective musical experiences and create something immediately accessible and yet at the same time, exotic...foreign. Accessible because there are no barriers to this music other than the preconceptions you might bring to it. Foreign, as there are no four gentlemen at this time putting it down in this particular way...of course. This music has the `shock of the new' but is not self-consciously avant-garde... it seems to exist for the best reason of all...because it must.

I don't hear `Habyor' as better or worse than the two previous releases from Alasnoaxis. I hear a continuity of purpose in the three CDs so far. I wait for further releases impatiently.

Those with ears will listen and hear...those with a need to pigeon-hole might be in trouble.

Thanks to Jim Black.

P.S. - The packaging, production and recording quality are all first rate.

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