New Pop-Jazz Artist Who Is Going To Participate To Sanremo After A Long Live Experience. Her Sanremo Single Features A Guest Performance By Jazz Trumpetist Fabrizio Bosso. The Album Also Features The Participation Of Stefano Di Battista, Gio’ Di Tonno. The Album Also Contains Songs Intepreted In French And English...
Nat “King” Cole endured more than his share of scorn and rebuke from all manner of fans and critics. He wasn’t jazzy enough to satisfy many, not white enough to please the pop cultural obsession with Anglo- and Euro-American stardom. In answer to all of this, Cole simply proceeded, crooning beautifully even after he’d walked away from the piano and become primarily a vocal sensation. This 1956 collection is famous as Cole’s riposte to the critique that he wasn’t jazzy. ...
While singer Susie Arioli and guitarist Jordan Officer usually team up for renditions of Django Reinhardt-flavored swing classics, Learn to Smile Again is a change of pace. Most of the repertoire is taken from the book of Roger Miller (although “King of the Road” is bypassed), and this is a surprisingly natural fit since both Arioli (who has a quietly beautiful voice) and Officer have a real feel for vintage country/pop/folk music. Assisted by rhythm guitar, bass, quiet percussion, and the background vocals of Jason and Sheldon Valleau, this lyrical and heartfelt effort (which also includes two originals and the vintage “By Myself”) is an offbeat success, logical in hindsight if not inevitable....
Its business as usual in The Smokey Bandits house: bass lines come and go, trumpets sitting lazy in the living room, accordions and trombones melting around, congas, maracas and bongos arguing about the last Tarantino’s film, flutes want to take the leadership, old-school Waltzes Tangos drinking a big bottle of champagne, guitars and Rhodes sitting comfortably in the sofa watching (one more time) Smokey And The Bandit (their favorite film). Everything?s so everyday cool that you might ask yourself if this is the normal for every house.If you take a look at the walls? corners you might discover the grooves dynamics sitting there quietly. Even their girlfriends don?t know that they are there. And all of a sudden you can imagine it: two Dark Knights walking in extremely dangerous neighborhoods of Gotham City alongside Almodovar, Guy Richie, Danny Boyle and Quentin Tarantino! It’s time to direct a film. But is this true or another fake dream.At least 20 years have passed from the first time that The Smokey Bandits have seen Chet Baker in television, singing and playing his trumpet. Since then they have believed that he has always had the golden touch.He had people eating music dreams from the palm of his hands. Those years Margaret Thatcher was still in power. Ronald Reagan was President of USA. Berlin Wall stood still. Nelson Mandela was in prison and apartheid was the king in South Africa. But things always change. A social and cultural revolution was ready to take the lead.There were hundreds of illegal warehouse parties all over the world mixing up music and people. ...
This is the debut album from the sultry and ever swinging Ms. Wilde and her Jumpin’ Jubilee Orchestra, a sweet blend of 16 world-class musicians who specialize in the raw, earthy big-band rythmn & blues of the 40′s and 50′s. This is music from the special time before strict boundaries were drawn between jazz, blues and r&b. Combining the drive of swing and jump-blues, the hot soloing of jazz, and the sublime vocal stylings of Lily Wilde, the Jumpin’ Jubilee Orchestra appeals to dancers, listeners and all fans of timeless music played by great musicians....
Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen is a rare and wonderful combination, equal parts musician, poet and storyteller. This enjoyable Scandinavian lady is hailed by Norwegian press as “three parts Monroe and one part Holiday”. Hilde Louise’s poetry is hypnotic. Her instrumental arrangements are like dark, expencive chocolate – rich, sweet-tasting, and very satisfying, while leaving you wanting more! Hilde Louise Orchestra, a collection of Norway’s best known musicians, is led by keyboardist and musical director Anders Aarum. (quote Skoot Larsson)...
On record you can’t see the many costume changes into stunning ’30s vintage dresses, or be impressed by the trio’s mugging or musical chops — Marcella Puppini plays piano and accordion and Stephanie O’Brien plays credible jazz fiddle. This leaves the vocalizing, and while the trio isn’t half bad, its members are not spectacular or particularly adventurous singers. On their second album they follow the template of their first. There are a couple of standards including “It Don’t Mean a Think If It Ain’t Got That Swing,” and contemporary numbers — “Spooky,” “Walk Like an Egyptian” — delivered in ’40s vocal trio-style arrangements. Fine as far as it goes, but the joke is wearing thin. The Puppini Sisters’ salvation is clearly in their original material. All three Sisters write solid tunes; the sooner they can come up with a full album’s worth of original tunes, the better their career prospects will be. Puppini’s “I Can’t Believe I’m Not a Millionaire” is a blues full of arch humor, and her “Jilted” sounds like it would have been a natural for Peggy Lee, a sultry, sexy tune with a strong hook and a great lyric. O’Brien contributes “Soho Nights” a jump tune with a strong vocal arrangement, a perfect evocation of the era they obviously love. Kate Mullins may be the strongest writer of the three. Her “It’s Not Over (Death or the Toy Piano)” is another song in the big-band mode, but its complex melody and inventive lyric make it one of the album’s strongest tracks....
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933) is an American music impresario, musical arranger, record producer, and film composer.
During 50 years in the entertainment industry Jones’ work has earned him more than 70 Grammy Award nominations, more than 25 Grammy Awards, and a Grammy Legends Award in 1991. He is best known as the producer of two of the top-selling records of all time: the album Thriller, by pop icon Michael Jackson, and the charity song “We Are the World”. Also known for work with Frank Sinatra....
