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David Hazeltine, Joe Farnsworth & Peter Washington - Blues for Gerry (2023)

David Hazeltine, Joe Farnsworth & Peter Washington - Blues for Gerry (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 398 MB | Cover | 01:02:09 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 143 MB
Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Criss Cross Jazz

Pianist David Hazeltine has a history with Criss Cross. To be specific, between 1995 and 2010, Gerry Teekens, the label’s founder, presented eight albums on which Hazeltine led trios, quartets and quintets featuring his impeccable, individualistic pianism, original compositions and arrangements; another five with the cooperative all-star sextet One For All (tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, trombonist Steve Davis, trumpeter Jim Rotondi, bassists Peter Washington or John Webber, and drummer Joe Farnsworth), whose grooving, harmonically acute charts bear his stamp; and another 17 as a sideman with the aforementioned luminaries, trumpeter Brian Lynch, alto saxophonist Jim Snidero, and other high-level jazzfolk who now hold pride of place in the hardcore jazz ecosystem.
Joe Farnsworth - In What Direction Are You Headed? (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Joe Farnsworth - In What Direction Are You Headed? (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:53 minutes | 1,33 GB
Contemporary Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Smoke Sessions Records, Official Digital Download

Drummer Joe Farnsworth sets out on a bold new path in answer to the question IN WHAT DIRECTION ARE YOU HEADED? and features a stellar all-star quintet with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, pianist Julius Rodriguez, and bassist Robert Hurst.
Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:10 minutes | 894 MB
Jazz, Bebop | Label: Origin Records, Official Digital Download

Now almost 15 years into her New York City life, South Korean pianist and composer Jihee Heo has thrived during her deep journey into the city's towering jazz piano legacy. Her studies in Amsterdam and at the Manhattan School of Music blended experimental jazz with classical and bop, but the rich connection she discovered with drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Alex Claffy several years ago awakened sounds she's had stored away since she first encountered jazz.
Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)

Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 Mb | 00:43:10
Jazz, Bebop | Label: Origin Records

Now almost 15 years into her New York City life, South Korean pianist and composer Jihee Heo has thrived during her deep journey into the city's towering jazz piano legacy. Her studies in Amsterdam and at the Manhattan School of Music blended experimental jazz with classical and bop, but the rich connection she discovered with drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Alex Claffy several years ago awakened sounds she's had stored away since she first encountered jazz. Now a steady presence in New York's clubs, this trio's journey is documented on Flow, which was, appropriately enough, recorded by Maureen Sickler at Rudy Van Gelder's famed studio in Englewood, NJ. Joining the trio for two tunes is the alto titan, Vincent Herring.
Adrian Thompson, Marcus Farnsworth, John Talbot - E.J. Moeran: Folksong Arrangements (2015)

Adrian Thompson, Marcus Farnsworth, John Talbot - E.J. Moeran: Folksong Arrangements (2015)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 65:41 | 279 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.571359

Ernest John Moeran was born in London but grew up in Norfolk and had strong ties with Ireland. While still a student at the Royal College of Music he was inspired by a performance of Vaughan Williams’s Norfolk Rhapsody that seemed “to breathe the very spirit of the English countryside”, and was soon collecting folksongs for himself. Moeran’s transcriptions were taken from English and Irish traditional singers with both rural and seafaring backgrounds, rescuing music and words both entertainingly earthy and sublimely beautiful which would otherwise have died with the artists who performed them.
Anthony Stanco, Randy Napoleon, Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker & Joe Farnsworth - Stanco's Time (2024) [Digital Download 24/48]

Anthony Stanco, Randy Napoleon, Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker & Joe Farnsworth - Stanco's Time (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 67:20 minutes | 819 MB
Jazz, Bebop | Label: OA2 Records, Official Digital Download

Detroit-bred trumpeter & composer Anthony Stanco is a 5th generation Italian-American, steeped in the tenets of Black American Music: blues, bebop, and the progressive fire that fuels modern jazz. In his sound, the guidance of Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and Miles Davis, as well as his close mentors Marcus Belgrave and Rodney Whitaker, is evident and clearly celebated. Full of joyous, vibrant discoveries, "Stanco's Time" announces not only a trumpeter entering his primetime, but also suggests the idea of traveling back to New York's 52nd Street circa 1955, with fresh, fiery sounds billowing out of clubs, marking a monumental cultural revolution.
Anthony Stanco, Randy Napoleon, Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker & Joe Farnsworth - Stanco's Time (2024)

Anthony Stanco, Randy Napoleon, Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker & Joe Farnsworth - Stanco's Time (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 429 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 155 Mb | 01:07:20
Jazz, Bebop | Label: OA2 Records

Detroit-bred trumpeter & composer Anthony Stanco is a 5th generation Italian-American, steeped in the tenets of Black American Music: blues, bebop, and the progressive fire that fuels modern jazz. In his sound, the guidance of Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and Miles Davis, as well as his close mentors Marcus Belgrave and Rodney Whitaker, is evident and clearly celebated. Full of joyous, vibrant discoveries, "Stanco's Time" announces not only a trumpeter entering his primetime, but also suggests the idea of traveling back to New York's 52nd Street circa 1955, with fresh, fiery sounds billowing out of clubs, marking a monumental cultural revolution. Along with his quintet - guitarist Randy Napoleon, pianist Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker on bass and drummer Joe Farnsworth - Stanco deftly avoids the trap of repertory imitation and hero worship by imbuing his originals and arrangements with life, fire and relevancy. "… The emotional source of each of Stanco's tracks is always something incredible that speaks to places we've all been, a place we've all shared."
Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 43:10 minutes | 894 MB
Jazz, Bebop | Label: Origin Records, Official Digital Download

Now almost 15 years into her New York City life, South Korean pianist and composer Jihee Heo has thrived during her deep journey into the city's towering jazz piano legacy. Her studies in Amsterdam and at the Manhattan School of Music blended experimental jazz with classical and bop, but the rich connection she discovered with drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Alex Claffy several years ago awakened sounds she's had stored away since she first encountered jazz.
Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)

Jihee Heo, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth & Vincent Herring - Flow (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 252 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 99 Mb | 00:43:10
Jazz, Bebop | Label: Origin Records

Now almost 15 years into her New York City life, South Korean pianist and composer Jihee Heo has thrived during her deep journey into the city's towering jazz piano legacy. Her studies in Amsterdam and at the Manhattan School of Music blended experimental jazz with classical and bop, but the rich connection she discovered with drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Alex Claffy several years ago awakened sounds she's had stored away since she first encountered jazz. Now a steady presence in New York's clubs, this trio's journey is documented on Flow, which was, appropriately enough, recorded by Maureen Sickler at Rudy Van Gelder's famed studio in Englewood, NJ. Joining the trio for two tunes is the alto titan, Vincent Herring.
Marcus Farnsworth and Eric McElroy - Gurney: Songs, Vol. 2 (2024)

Marcus Farnsworth and Eric McElroy - Gurney: Songs, Vol. 2 (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:10:45 | 235 Mb
Genre: Classical

Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even set his own lyrics. This wide-ranging selection includes his masterpieces – among them Sleep and Severn Meadows – with several songs heard in their first recording. Marcus Farnsworth, First Prize winner in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, has been praised for his ‘superbly controlled baritone voice’ (Fanfare). This album is Volume 24 in The English Song Series on Naxos.