Maanouche Swing Quintet Montreal Jazz Up

La période de l'entre-deux-guerres voit l'émergence en Europe du jazz venu des Etats-Unis. Le phénomène est principalement dû au fait que nombre de soldats noirs américains préfèrent s'installer à Paris, loin de la ségrégation raciale qui les attend chez eux. À Montmartre fleurissent des clubs où l'on peut entendre la même musique qu'à Harlem. C'est dans ce contexte qu'apparaît le "swing", des deux côtés de l'Atlantique. Bien vite, les musiciens français voudront imiter leurs collègues américains, allant jusqu'à obtenir un quota obligatoire de musiciens locaux dans les clubs de jazz parisiens. C'est alors que Django REINHARDT et Stéphane GRAPPELLI créent une véritable nouveauté…

Katrine Madsen (born 7 March 1972 in Århus ) is a Danish jazz singer, composer and teacher. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. In 1994 she formed the group Swing Quintet which debuted with I'm Old Fashioned in 1996, which was followed by Dream Dancing in 1997. She has also appeared in Ed Thigpens Ed Thigpen Rhythm Features, has toured with Lars Moller on saxophone, Jan Lundgren piano, Jesper Bodilsen on bass and Morten Lund on drums in different contexts…

Dizzy Gillespie albums are sometimes criticized for being silly, never for lacking stamina. Pleyel Jazz Concert 1953 is no exception to this rule, though it would certainly be understandable if it were. The live recording, issued and repackaged at least three times since the late '90s, dates from a period when Gillespie was in Paris and as busy as God, as musicians like to say in reference to the deity, not the European noise music band. If datebooks kept by people nicknamed Dizzy are to be trusted, the bebop kingpin had during a previous 48-hour period cut albums for two different competing firms, one involving a string orchestra. About ten collections have been published involving this material. Meanwhile, his rhythm section cut an album on the same day of the Pleyel Concert Hall event, also reissued at least three times and representing the sole effort by pianist Wade Legge as a leader…

Joe Harriott Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite (1966) {2013 Japan Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series WPCR-27472}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 237 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 85 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 21 Mb | 5% repair rar | 24-bit remaster
© 1966, 2013 Atlantic / Warner Japan / WEA / Rhino | WPCR-27472 | Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series
Jazz / Post Bop / World / Saxophone

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. At long last, Caribbean saxophonist Joe Harriott's classic collaboration with Calcutta composer and conductor John Mayer is back in print on this Koch CD reissue of the original Atlantic LP from 1967. In England in the 1960s, Harriott was something of a vanguard wonder on the order of Ornette Coleman. And while the comparisons flew fast and furious and Harriott was denigrated as a result, the two men couldn't have been more different. For one thing, Harriott was never afraid to swing. This work, written and directed by Mayer, offered the closest ever collaboration and uniting of musics East and West.

The "JFK" Quintet - New Jazz Frontiers From Washington (1961) {Prestige OJCCD-1924-2 rel 1999}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 280 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 101 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 20 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1961, 1999 Prestige / Fantasy | OJCCD-1924-2
Jazz / Cool / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Straight-Ahead Jazz

The young men who comprised the JFK Quintet were looking for greater freedom of expression while never forgetting the elemental black music of their Southern upbringings. The result was a blues-inflected music under the spell of developments put forward by Ornette Coleman and by Miles Davis and Bill Evans in the Davis band that included John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley. It was Adderley who discovered the band in Washington, D.C. and brought them to public attention by way of this recording.