Karen Mantler - Farewell

After two albums with a band, this work was created just by Mantler and percussionist Michael Evans, and the smaller scale approach suits the subject. The two players' inventiveness is compelling. "Help Me" is a mournful tune centered on the harmonium with evocative percussion underscoring the mood. Mantler sings, with some input from Evans, who adds counterpoint to the character-driven narratives. The mood throughout is not unlike that created on many of the works by her mother, the composer Carla Bley.
After an absence of half a decade, Karen Mantler returned with this somber song cycle in 1996. Where her first two albums (MY CAT ARNOLD, and KAREN MANTLER AND HER CAT ARNOLD GET THE FLUE) chronicled aspects of her life as well as her attachment to her cat, FAREWELL looks at the death of Arnold and her life without him.
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JazzTimes (3/97, p.83) - "...Karen Mantler has a keen sense of song structure, and a dark affinity for minor keys..."
Option (1-2/97, p.95) - "...Maudlin and hilarious....she plays an excellent piano and harmonica, has a crisp, quirky voice that recalls Suzanne Vega...and writes wonderful tunes that recall the angular melodies of Kurt Weill..."

TrackList
01. Farewell
02. Mister E
03. Brain Dead
04. Arnold's Dead
05. I'm His Boss
06. My Life Is Hell
07. Help Me
08. The Bill
09. Con Edison
10. I Hate Money
11. Beware
Recorded and mixed by Tom Mark / Grog Kill Studio, Willow, NY, December 1995

Personnel:
Karen Mantler - Vocals, Harmonica, Piano, Organ, Synthesizer, Harmonium and Glockenspiel
Michael Evans - Drums, Alto Saxophone, Vibraphone, Tabla, Whistiling and "Electrical" Sounds, Vocal on "Arnold's Dead", Percussion (Frying Pan, Oven Rack, Whisk, Refrigerator Pan, Ankle Bells, Bean Pod, Indian Bell, Snake Charmer, Glasses, Chains, Sheet Metal)
Special Guests:
Carla Bley - C Melody Saxophone on "The Bill" and "Con Edison"
Scott Williams - Vocal on "The Bill"

Label: ECM Records / Watt Works
Format: FLAC
Total time: 00:44:42
Gene: Vocal Jazz, Jazz-Pop, Post-Bop

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Keith Jarrett - Standards, Vol 2

Artist: Keith Jarrett
Title: Standards, Vol.2
Label: ECM Records
Catalog: ECM 1289, 825 015-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Recorded at Power Station, New York,
New York in January 1983.
Released: 1985
Genre: Jazz
Style: Post Bop, Contemporary Jazz
Source: Original CD
Size: 225 MB

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Tracklisting:

1. So Tender (K. Jarrett) 7.15 -
2. Moon And Sand (A. Wilder/W. Engvick/M. Palitz) 8.55 -
3. In Love In Vain (J. Kern/L. Robin) 7.06 -
4. Never Let Me Go (R. Evans/J. Livingston) 7.42 -
5. If I Should Lose You (R. Rainger/L. Robin) 8.29 -
6. I Fall In Love Too Easily (S. Cahn/J. Styne) 5.12

Personnel:

Keith Jarrett (piano);
Gary Peacock (bass);
Jack DeJohnette (drums).

http://ul.to/ae6xwmzs/Keith.part1.rar

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John Abercrombie - Class Trip 2004

The John Abercrombie Quartet's Cat 'n' Mouse, issued in 2002, showcased a band that was on the verge of something that approached greatness. Abercrombie, violinist Mark Feldman, drummer Joey Baron, and bassist Marc Johnson gelled together inside the framework of the guitarist's increasingly open-ended compositions and became a unit that could articulate the most subtle of sonorities and intricate harmonic architectures. But they also revealed that they were entering the zone where they could actually stretch time and space. On Class Trip, the bandmembers come together fully and build on that concept with such beauty and grace that they sound as if they've been playing together all their lives. The sheer subtle intuition that guides these proceedings is breathtaking, whether they are weaving through one another on "Cat Walk," which is alternately full of shimmering yet knotty harmonics with Abercrombie's chord voicings offering a dimensional extension of Feldman's lines in counterpoint, finding a common singing voice where time signatures seemingly disappear, as on "Risky Business," or messing about with Bartok's "Soldier's Song" and turning its melodic line back on itself in an inverse scalar schemata. This band is concerned only with the articulation and expression of a musicality that lies not in the obviousness of its contributors' considerable musical gifts as jazz improvisers, but in the sheer nuanced elegance of an ensemble whose blurring of traditions under the rubric of improvisation makes the group not only compelling but brilliant. Abercrombie's compositions for this band are the most adventurous and graceful of his long career; as a unit, the quartet is a band without peers that plays a music whose challenge is only eclipsed by its accessibility and singular language.  - Tom Jurek

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TRACKS (total time 72:01)
Tracklist

1.	Dansir (9:27) [John Abercrombie]
2.	Risky Business (7:36) [John Abercrombie]
3.	Descending Grace (8:53) [John Abercrombie]
4.	Illinoise (5:33) [Abercrombie, Feldman, Baron, Johnson]
5.	Cat Walk (7:53) [John Abercrombie]
6.	Excuse My Shoes (8:26) [John Abercrombie]
7.	Swirls (6:03) [John Abercrombie]
8.	Jack and Betty (3:37) [John Abercrombie]
9.	Class Trip (7:25) [John Abercrombie]
10.	Soldier's Song (2:56) [Béla Bartók]
11.	Epilogue (3:37) [Abercrombie, Feldman, Baron, Johnson]

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1319338001
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1319320281
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1319318391

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