245. Sonny Rollins, The sound of Sonny

1957 heralded a new phase in Sonny Rollins’’ (tenor sax) career. He began — what was at the time — an almost blasphemous trend of recording for a number of different labels. His pioneering spirit yielded a few genre-defining albums, including this disc. His performances were also at a peak during 1957 as Down Beat magazine proclaimed him the Critics’’ Poll winner under the category of “New Star” of the tenor saxophone. This newfound freedom can be heard throughout the innovations on Sound of Sonny. Not only are Rollins’’ fluid solos reaching newly obtained zeniths of melodic brilliance, but he has also begun experimenting with alterations in the personnel from tune to tune. Most evident on this platter is “The Last Time I Saw Paris” — which is piano-less — and most stunning of all is Rollins’’ unaccompanied tenor solo performance on “It Could Happen to You.” Indeed, this rendering of the Jimmy Van Heusen standard is the highlight of the disc. That isn’‘t to say that the interaction between Sonny Clark (piano), Roy Haynes (drums), and bassists Percy Heath and Paul Chambers — who is featured on “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and “What Is There to Say” — is not top shelf. Arguably, it is Rollins and Heath — the latter, incidentally, makes his East Coast debut on this album — that set the ambience for Sound of Sonny. There is an instinctually pervasive nature as they weave into and back out of each others’’ melody lines only to emerge with a solo that liberates the structure of the mostly pop standards. This is a key component in understanding the multiplicities beginning to surface in Rollins’’ highly underappreciated smooth bop style.

01 - The Last Time I Saw Paris
02 - Just In Time
03 - Toot, Toot, Tootsie
04 - What Is There To Say
05 - Dearly Beloved
06 - Ev’‘ry Time We Say Goodbye
07 - Cutie
08 - It Could Happen To You
09 - Mangoes
10 - Funky Hotel Blues

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352. George Benson, Weekend in L.A

Recording live at Los Angeles’’ Roxy club — then a showcase for many of the hottest acts in pop — was just the tonic that George Benson and his Breezin’’ band needed on this often jumping album. With unusually lively crowds (for a record-industry watering hole) shouting encouragement, the band gets deep into the four-on-the-floor funk and Benson digs in hard, his rhythmic instincts on guitar sharp as ever. The balance between vocals and instrumentals is about even — George’‘s voice sounds more throaty and soul-oriented than before — and amid the new material, there is a revisit to a favored CTI-era instrumental, the lovely “Ode to a Kudu.” This album also introduced “On Broadway,” an extended stomping version of the Drifters’’ hit that would become Benson’‘s climactic showstopper for years. The only superfluous element is the after-the-fact addition of Nick DeCaro’‘s string synthesizer backdrop; the real Claus Ogerman-arranged thing would have been preferable if strings are a must.

01 Weekend in L.A
02 On Broadway
03 Down Here on the Ground
04 California P.M
05 Greatest Love of All
06 It’‘s All in the Game
07 Windsong
08 Ode to Kudu
09 Lady Blue
10 We All Remember Wes
11 We as Love

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194. ONLY THE LONELY* - Frank Sinatra – Capitol (1958)
Only The Lonely
Angel Eyes
What’‘s New?
It’‘s A Lonesome Old Town
Willow Weep For Me
Good-Bye
Blues In The Night
Guess I’‘ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
Ebb Tide
Spring Is Here
Gone With The Wind
One For My Baby

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195. COME DANCE WITH ME* - Frank Sinatra – Capitol (1959)
Come Dance With Me
Something’‘s Gotta Give
Just In Time
Dancing In The Dark
Too Close For Comfort
I Could Have Danced All Night
Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)
Day In - Day Out
Cheek To Cheek
Baubles, Bangles And Beads
The Song Is You
The Last Dance

http://depositfiles.com/files/2169148

276. NICE N’ EASY* - Frank Sinatra – Capitol (1960)
Nice ‘‘N’’ Easy
That Old Feeling
How Deep Is The Ocean
I’‘ve Got A Crush On You
You Got To My Head
Fools Rush In
Nevertheless
She’‘s Funny That Way
Try A Little Tenderness
Embraceable You
Mam’‘selle
Dream

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275. AFTER HOURS* - Andre Previn vbr eac lame mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/48321383/Andre_Previn_with_Joe_Pass___Ray_Brown_-_1989_-_After_Hours.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/48321720/Andre_Previn_with_Joe_Pass___Ray_Brown_-_1989_-_After_Hours.part2.rar

Desperately seeking Stanley Turrentine album - Salt Song.

218. RITUAL* - Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Blue Note vbr eac lame mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/48328706/Art_Blakey_-_1957_-_Ritual.rar

Bill Evans is listed 6 times in the top 40. Incredibly, unbelievably and inexplicably neither Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane or Freddie Hubbard are mentioned anywhere in that top 40. I think this list was composed as a goof.

thanks jazzgiant, thanks sir_alex

Qrat - 12 August 2007 10:24 AM

thanks jazzgiant, thanks sir_alex

37. The Modern Jazz Quartet with Laurindo Almeida - Collaboration (1964)

http://rapidshare.com/files/47350461/The_Modern_Jazz_Quartet_-_Collaboration_With_Almeida__1964_.rar.html

Hrasko - 30 May 2007 08:53 AM

245. Sonny Rollins, The sound of Sonny

1957 heralded a new phase in Sonny Rollins’’ (tenor sax) career. He began — what was at the time — an almost blasphemous trend of recording for a number of different labels. His pioneering spirit yielded a few genre-defining albums, including this disc. His performances were also at a peak during 1957 as Down Beat magazine proclaimed him the Critics’’ Poll winner under the category of “New Star” of the tenor saxophone. This newfound freedom can be heard throughout the innovations on Sound of Sonny. Not only are Rollins’’ fluid solos reaching newly obtained zeniths of melodic brilliance, but he has also begun experimenting with alterations in the personnel from tune to tune. Most evident on this platter is “The Last Time I Saw Paris” — which is piano-less — and most stunning of all is Rollins’’ unaccompanied tenor solo performance on “It Could Happen to You.” Indeed, this rendering of the Jimmy Van Heusen standard is the highlight of the disc. That isn’‘t to say that the interaction between Sonny Clark (piano), Roy Haynes (drums), and bassists Percy Heath and Paul Chambers — who is featured on “The Last Time I Saw Paris” and “What Is There to Say” — is not top shelf. Arguably, it is Rollins and Heath — the latter, incidentally, makes his East Coast debut on this album — that set the ambience for Sound of Sonny. There is an instinctually pervasive nature as they weave into and back out of each others’’ melody lines only to emerge with a solo that liberates the structure of the mostly pop standards. This is a key component in understanding the multiplicities beginning to surface in Rollins’’ highly underappreciated smooth bop style.

01 - The Last Time I Saw Paris
02 - Just In Time
03 - Toot, Toot, Tootsie
04 - What Is There To Say
05 - Dearly Beloved
06 - Ev’‘ry Time We Say Goodbye
07 - Cutie
08 - It Could Happen To You
09 - Mangoes
10 - Funky Hotel Blues

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the link of :

1. KIND OF BLUE* - Miles Davis - Columbia
2. CLIFFORD BROWN AND MAX ROACH AT BASIN STREET* - Emarcy

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many thanks

and:
8. SKETCHES OF SPAIN* - Miles Davis - Columbia 192 k “File not Found”