Harrell

Tom Harrell - Trip (2014) {HighNote}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Sept. 4, 2016
Tom Harrell - Trip (2014) {HighNote}

Tom Harrell - Trip (2014) {HighNote}
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Genre: Straight-Ahead Jazz, Post-Bop

Since the 70s, trumpeter Tom Harrell has branded a prolific stature within the annals of modern jazz as an artisan who possesses an enviable technique marked by his exquisite phrasings, silky tone and fluid progressions. Even during pieces constructed on gutsy or penetrating ensemble work, Harrell has an uncanny way of dishing out ferocious licks with heartfelt overtones and a penchant for eloquently rebuilding themes and regenerating numerous slants on a given melody. Here, the trumpeter lines up with celebrated and eternally versatile bandleader, saxophonist Mark Turner (Kurt Rosenwinkel, OAM Trio).

Haydn, Vivaldi - Cello concertos - Lynn Harrell  Music

Posted by EnzoF at Aug. 27, 2007
Haydn, Vivaldi - Cello concertos - Lynn Harrell

Haydn, Vivaldi - Cello concertos - Lynn Harrell
APE | 1 CD | 70 mins | 330 MB

Tom Harrell - Prana Dance (2009) {HighNote}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 9, 2020
Tom Harrell - Prana Dance (2009) {HighNote}

Tom Harrell - Prana Dance (2009) {HighNote}
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Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz

Following up his 2007 effort Light On (HighNote), trumpeter Tom Harrell continues to document his original compositional voice and uncommonly tight working band with Prana Dance. Again there's the youthful, hungry lineup of tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, pianist Danny Grissett and drummer Johnathan Blake, with long-serving Harrell stalwart Ugonna Okegwo digging in on bass. The material is all original, all new, teeming with harmonic secrets and an uncanny marriage of the simple and complex, not to mention ample possibilities for elaboration in the live setting—as the band proved during a galvanizing Thursday night set at New York's Village Vanguard in April, 2009.

Tom Harrell - Labyrinth (1996)  Music

Posted by TmanHome at March 31, 2016
Tom Harrell - Labyrinth (1996)

Tom Harrell - Labyrinth (1996)
Jazz, Hard Bop | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 66 min | 151 MB
Label: RCA Victor | Rel: 1996

Tom Harrell has been gradually gaining recognition as one of the most consistently creative brassmen in jazz. Although his soft tone can sometimes be a little reminiscent of Chet Baker, Harrell's technique is on a higher level and he is a more advanced player. Harrell is heard in fine form throughout this CD which is split between appearances with his impressive quintet and with a nonet/tentet. The trumpeter, who contributed nine of the ten selections, is quite generous in allocating solo space and in keeping his improvisations relatively brief and to the point. The selections display variety within the hard bop/post bop idiom, ranging from rhythmic pieces such as "Marimba Song" and "Samba Mate" to the tongue twister "Cheetah" and several numbers which make the augmented group sound like a big band.

Tom Harrell - Paradise (2001)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Feb. 13, 2019
Tom Harrell - Paradise (2001)

Tom Harrell - Paradise (2001)
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Post-Bop, Chamber Jazz | Label: BMG Bluebird - 09026-63738-2

One of Tom Harrell's stated goals is "to find beauty in music and life." On this sumptuous, 71-minute disc, the trumpeter and flugelhornist, augmented by strings and surrounded by sympathetic bandmates, succeeds admirably. This is beautiful music, more suggestive of a chamber group than a jazz one per se, though Harrell's full-bodied tone and tenor Jimmy Greene's attractive gruffness give the music heft and swing. The production throughout emphasizes a lush density over which Harrell builds lovely tone poems, each one distinctive, though the entire CD, beginning with "Daybreak" and ending with "Sunrise," suggests a coherent vision of reflection and introspection. The mood is sustained in the lengthy "Wind Chant" and "Morning Prayer, Parts One and Two," where Harrell's smooth, rich sound is given full flight. Reminiscent of Freddie Hubbard's CTI recordings of the early 1970s, this music showcases the logic and beauty of matching strings with strong, melodic trumpet playing. –Wally Shoup

Tom Harrell - Sail Away (1989) {Original Jazz Classics}  Music

Posted by tiburon at March 13, 2018
Tom Harrell - Sail Away (1989) {Original Jazz Classics}

Tom Harrell - Sail Away (1989) {Original Jazz Classics}
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Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

Recorded in 1989 and re-released on Original Jazz Classics in 2003, Sail Away is a fine outing by trumpeter Tom Harrell. He's joined by pianist James Williams, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Adam Nussbaum. A handful of guests – flutist Cheryl Pyle, guitarist John Abercrombie, tenor Joe Lovano, and soprano Dave Liebman – fill out the arrangements on ten instrumentals (two are bonus cuts from Visions). Together, Harrell and company add a contemporary spin to mainstream jazz. The ten-minute track "Dream in June" takes a number of adventurous flights of fancy without ever losing track of its base. Both Harrell and Abercrombie's solos build complex, forceful ideas against a backdrop of Nussbaum's powerful drumming, creating a dense sound that belies predictability.

Claudio Riggio Ensemble & Tom Harrell - Audrey (2011)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Dec. 23, 2011
Claudio Riggio Ensemble & Tom Harrell - Audrey (2011)

Claudio Riggio Ensemble & Tom Harrell - Audrey (2011)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 62:12 min | 113 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Abeat

The CD “Audrey” features the compositions of Claudio Riggio, supported by excellent musicians who in turn give rise to different ensembles (duo, trio, quartet, …) and Tom Harrell who once again descends into a Italian weblog Abeat recording project of great scope.A disc which is linked to a series of tracks in the form of cameos lasting a few minutes, sometimes seconds. A dimension almost timeless and "impressionist"in which Tom Harrell said to feel comfortable as rarely happens. The result is an unusual expressive intensity. The songs develop as "images" that take shape almost painterly brushstrokes of copyright and in which the palette of "sounds" is changing every time like in a kaleidoscope of "colors".

Tom Harrell - Colors Of A Dream (2013) {HighNote}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Oct. 19, 2017
Tom Harrell - Colors Of A Dream (2013) {HighNote}

Tom Harrell - Colors Of A Dream (2013) {HighNote}
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Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

Colors of a Dream is the sixth HighNote Records album by trumpeter-composer Tom Harrell, featuring two basses played by Ugonna Okegwo and Esperanza Spalding, with the latter doubling on vocal, Jaleel Shaw on alto saxophone, Wayne Escoffery on tenor saxophone, and Johnathan Blake on drums. According to JazzTimes, this album deviates from Harrell's previous works. The use of piano is absent, and the three horns often play in block-chord formation. There are hints of Latin jazz, R&B and indie-rock. According to the review, "Colors of a Dream may deviate, but it never disappoints."
Tom Harrell - The Art Of Rhythm (1998) {RCA Victor 09026-68924-2 rec 1997}

Tom Harrell - The Art Of Rhythm (1998) {RCA Victor 09026-68924-2 rec 1997}
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© 1998 RCA Victor / BMG | 09026-68924-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Straight-Ahead Jazz / Trumpet

Best known as a superior and advanced cool-toned trumpeter, Tom Harrell shows throughout this consistently brilliant set that he has also developed into an excellent composer and a particularly talented arranger. All ten songs and arrangements are his, and the music both swings and is quite original. Harrell doubles on flügelhorn and utilizes a wide variety of interesting musicians, including clarinetist Greg Tardy (who plays beautifully on the opening "Petals Danse"), acoustic guitarist Romero Lumbambo (heard on the more Brazilian-oriented numbers), the great free bop tenor Dewey Redman, pianist Danilo Perez, electric guitarist Mike Stern, tenorman David Sanchez, and several strings (including Regina Carter) among others.

Tom Harrell - Trip (2014)  Music

Posted by mark70 at Jan. 17, 2015
Tom Harrell - Trip (2014)

Tom Harrell - Trip (2014)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 61:25 min | 142 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: Highnote

Few people would fit the 'jazz hero' mold less than Tom Harrell, whose modesty and lack of pretense is in direct inverse proportion to his talent. And yet, Harrell is revered, not for playing fast, high or loudly, but for his supremacy at fashioning astonishingly beautiful aural shapes with a tone of immense gentleness and depth. Many listeners may be familiar with his compositions including Sail Away and his superb arrangements on all his HighNote recordings, while many will have remembered his fine work in the 70's alongside Bob Berg in Horace Silver's band, and a decade later with Phil Woods.