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Jazz Express Presents Music for Dinner Parties - Laid Back Tunes for Dining Rooms
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Cedar Walton, Charles Mingus, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, Chet Baker, Clare Teal, Count Basie, Dexter Gordon, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Jacqui Dankworth, Jamie Cullum, Kenny Burrell, Lester Young, Mark Murphy, Pat Martino, Stacy Kent
első megjelenés éve: 2008
74 perc

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1.  In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Jamie Cullum
2.  The Feeling Of Jazz
Duke Ellington
3.  Teach Me Tonight
Jacqui Dankworth
4.  These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You
Lester Young
5.  Time After Time
Chet Baker
6.  So Little Time
Kenny Burrell
7.  Something I Dreamed Last Night
Clare Teal
8.  Body And Soul
Charles Mingus
9.  As Long As There's Music
Cedar Walton
10.  Time On My Hands
Mark Murphy
11.  I Can';t Escape From You
Dexter Gordon
12.  Shiny Stockings
Count Basie
13.  East Of The Sun
Stacy Kent
14.  Send In The Clowns
Pat Martino
15.  Bird Of Paradise
Charlie 'Bird' Parker
16.  Moonglow
Erroll Garner
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Hey, welcome to Jazz Express, the place where the music matches the mood. If you're a newbie, come on in, you'll love it. If you've been before, you'll know to expect the finest jazz musicians groovin' on the cooler side, keepin' it mellow so you guys can relax, eat something, look into each others' eyes through the candlelight, or whatever it is you do at dinner parties.


Hey, welcome to Jazz Express, the place where the music matches the mood. If you're a newbie, come on in, you'll love it. If you've been before, you'll know to expect the finest jazz musicians groovin' on the cooler side, keepin' it mellow so you guys can relax, eat something, look into each others' eyes through the candlelight, or whatever it is you do at dinner parties.

Jamie Cullum sets the tone with his pretty version of "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning", a song that was first recorded in 1955 by Frank Sinatra. As good as he is, young Jamie may not quite convince us of his heartbreak the way Ol' Blue Eyes did; but give him time to get married and have kids, then leave his family for an actress who then dumps him for a bullfighter, maybe he will.

Whatever he did, the Duke of Ellington always convinced us. "The Feeling Of Jazz"? This man not only played the piano and composed for his mighty orchestra with the feeling of jazz, he walked, talked and breathed with it. Weirdly, ol' Edward K. didn't even like the word jazz, preferring the term "Negro music". Whatever you call it, it's deep and delicious and swings like a mother. Those sensuous, slidey notes on alto saxophone are by the inimitable Johnny Hodges.

Singer Jacqui Dankworth has spoken of her difficulty with finding her own musical identity, being the offspring of the famous singer Cleo Laine and bandleader/saxophonist John Dankworth. Her gentle version of "Teach Me Tonight", featuring brother Alec on double bass and Mike Outram on discreet guitar, proves she has found her own voice and a gorgeous, spacey, bluesy thing it is too.

Next up, a trio of instantly identifiable jazz greats. Lester Young - heard here on "These Foolish Things" - inspired many a tenor saxophonist who was in thrall to his light, cool sound and his hip musical phrases. Also, trumpeter/singer Chet Baker - here with "Time After Time" - himself an early Miles Davis advocate, was the template for many a cool-school horn player and understated singer. But as influenced as their followers were, none quite captured the essence of Prez's or Mr B's style; the musical character of a great jazzman is as unique to him as his DNA. And did warm-grooving guitarist Kenny Burrell ever play an un-tasty note in his life? Here he is on a sumptuous performance of his own ballad composition "So Little Time".

Following her endorsement by Michael Parkinson as "a major star" and the subsequent media exposure and major label signing, singer Clare Teal has enjoyed a meteoric rise to the kind of fame and sales most jazz artists can only dream about. Though also developing into a songwriter with her own quirky style, her version of Jack Yellen and Herb Magidson's "Something I Dreamed Last Night" shows her feeling for the dustier corners of the American Songbook.

Bassist Charles Mingus is best known for his sprawling, muscular Ellington-style original compositions, but here he leads an airy, contrapuntal arrangement of the 1930 standard "Body And Soul", a song which became an obligatory harmonic assault course for all jazz musicians after Coleman Hawkins's famous 1939 version. Much less known, though no less rich, is "As Long As There's Music", a dense composition written by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn for the 1944 Frank Sinatra movie vehicle Step Lively. Here, master pianist Cedar Walton teases out nuances of this undeservedly obscure song with typical elegance.

You can always rely on singer Mark Murphy to champion an undersung piece. On "Time On My Hands", he even resurrects the verse of this 1931 Vincent "Tea For Two" Youmans tune and turns it into something all of his own. Check out that hip final note. A flatted fifth, that's bebop, baby. Another bopper easing his way through a little-played piece is saxophonist Dexter Gordon who makes macho-tender work of "I Can't Escape From You", a Robin/Rainger song introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1936 movie Home On The Range.

The pianist/bandleader Count Basie had already checked out for that great jam session in the sky by the time what was left of his orchestra recorded this remake of "Shiny Stockings". But with long-time arranger/saxophonist Frank Foster in charge, the music was faithful to the swinging style and spirit of Basie's classic bands while adding a dash of something fresh too. Likewise, singer Stacey Kent and her musicians always bring a spring-clean approach to familiar material, as here on "East Of The Sun". Already memorably interpreted by Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, Stacey's direct, simple version is as memorable and telling as any.

Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns" is arguably one the most over-exposed songs of them all, with singer after singer - intrigued by the oblique imagery in the lyric - giving it their best shot. Shorn of the lyric here, guitarist Pat Martino's winning instrumental reading has the gravitas and luminosity of a respectful recital. Saxophone great Charlie Parker certainly respected the chords of Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are" enough to blow over them and create a marvellous improvisation, but he called the result "Bird Of Paradise" and took the composing royalties himself. A little disrespectful to Kern perhaps, but legal and financially sensible.

To close, an imperishable standard. Pianist Erroll Garner wrote a couple of imperishables himself ("Misty" being the most famous) but here he applies his rollicking, romantic style to "Moonglow", Eddie De Lang's swing-era classic made famous by Benny Goodman.

Ok, time to wind up for now. Look forward to seeing you again at Jazz Express. We're always open and you're always welcome.
---Chris Ingham
Weboldal:Union Square Music

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