Paul Desmond - Easy Living

Артист: Paul Desmond
Альбом: Easy Living
Страна: EU, France
Стиль: Cool-jazz
Year Of Release: 1966
Recording Date: 1995
Лейбл: BMG France
Формат: APE (image + .cue)
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 68:09 min
Архив: 123.98MB(x2)+109.82MB
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Personnel:
Paul Desmond (alto sax)
Connie Kay (Drums)
Eugene Wright (Bass)
Gene Cherico (Bass)
Percy Heath (Bass)
Jim Hall (Guitar)

Трэклист:
1.     When Joanna Loved Me (Segal / Wells) 05:45
2.     That Old Feeling (Brown) 05:49
3.     Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Burke / VanHeusen) 05:51
4.     Polka Dots And Moonbeams (Alternate Unissued In France - Wright) 06:11
5.     Here's That Rainy Day (Burke / VanHeusen) 05:47
6.     Easy Living (Rainger / Robin) (Rainger / Robin) 07:08
7.     I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Lerner / Loewe) 04:20
8.     Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (Hart / Rodgers) 06:27
9.     Bewitched 07:49
10.     Blues For Fun (Desmond) 06:26
11.     All Through The Night (Porter) 06:34

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"Easy Living" is what you think somebody else has because he's loaded with money and has a nice pad and stereo speakers and a complete set of Paul Desmond albums and good booze in the pantry and a beautiful girl who's madly in love with him and tissues handy in case he sneezes.
Except he owes the bank; the rent is murder for penthouses; the guy who installed the stereo has to come up once a month to adjust something; everybody's always "borrowing" his Desmond records; hangovers get him down; the girl doesn't look so-great without eye shadow and lately keeps saying she's got to spend the weekend with her mother in the country and he always sneezes faster than he can reach for the tissue box. In fact, he knows that easy living is what you've got because you're listening to a Desmond album right now. So easy living is - a frame of mind.
The good life and the cool, sinuous sound of Paul Desmond's alto saxophone are a matchless pair. Elegance and refinement can make living that much easier to take. They are an ever-present part of the Desmond expression. Some musicians may convey musical emotion with rawness, even violence. Paul is no less intense, but when he exults there's a touch of gentlemanly polish and restraint. When he's down you really know it, but he doesn't drown his sorrows in beer - not even the best imported. No, it's the finest Napoleon brandy, savored and sipped from a liter-sized crystal snifter.
Most of the songs in its collection have a torchy touch. A bit of sentiment; a hint of sadness (bittersweet, but sweet) leaven the richness and beauty which mark the Desmond sound. Easy living becomes that old feeling when Joanna loved you - or was it Audrey ? No matter; the feeling is there. The sadness of that inevitable, predicted rainy day or the bewilderment that goes with bewitchment - these are part of the same sensation of nostalgia with a twinge that time has not quite healed. It may have seemed unbearable then, but now it's easier to take.
The memories of good things float comfortably on the velvety lushness of Paul's saxophone. The soft-focus recollection of Polka Dots and Moonbeams is obviously longer ago than the remembrance of one's beloved soon after parting, but the sentiment is the same. The device of a key change for every chorus of I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face parallels step-by-step mental searching that one goes through in trying to recall the image of one he loves.
A jaunty outlook goes with the easy life. The musicians, in the course of making these recordings, had themselves a ball with a bouncy up-tempo blues. Blues for Fun, Paul calls it. That it is - a happy counterpoint to the reflective moodiness of most of the other selections in this album.
Jim Hall, the nonpareil of the guitar, and the equally tasteful Connie Kay on drums are perfection as the mainstays of Paul Desmond Quartet. Aided on different occasions by bassists Gene Wright (of the Dave Brubeck Quartet), Gene Cherico (who was with Stan Getz at the time of this recording session) and Percy Heath (Connie's colleague in the Modern Jazz Quartet), they are as one with Paul's conceptions and with each other.
Particularly in the interplay between Jim and Paul, there is a qualify of mutual enhancement which is rare, even in so interactional a music as jazz. Jim Hall someone once said, caresses a guitar like it'll caress back. The solo voices of the Quartet enjoy this kind of musical sensivity to each other. It's all part of why the living is easy around Paul Desmond and Jim Hall, no matter what musical mood it might be.
Producer: George Avakian. (1966)

Paul Desmond. Gerry Mulligan

Two of a Mind (1962)

Артист: Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan
Альбом: Two of a Mind
Стиль: Cool-jazz
Year Of LP: 1962
Recording Date: 1989
Лейбл: BMG Music
Страна: W.Germany
Формат: FLAC
Тип рипа: (tracks).cue,covers+log
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 40:49 min
Архив: 143.05MB+118.10MB
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Биография: PRESS/НАЖАТЬ

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Personnel:
Paul Desmond (alto sax)
Gerry Mulligan (baritone saxophone)
John Beal, Wendell Marshall, Joe Benjamin (bass)
Connie Kay, Mel Lewis, Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
Jim Hall (Guitar)

Трэклист:
1 All The Things You Are 05:53
2 Stardust 08:23
3 Two Of A Mind 05:48
4 Blight Of The Fumble Bee 06:37
5 The Way You Look Tonight 07:22
6 Out Of Nowhere 06:41

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        Two of the finest talents to emerge in the post-war jazz generation are brought together here for a happy, informal, yet
earnest session of music-making. Individually, Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan can each look back at a decade of winning
jazz polls. Paul as the alto saxophonist of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, and Gerry as a baritone saxophonist who has led his
own groups for many years, ranging from a quartet to a full-sized band.
Прекрасный альбом, неформальные сессии с прохладой джазового звучания альт-саксофона Пола Дезмонда и баритона Джерри Муллигана.
"Если бы мне сказали, что некоторые части этого произведения были взяты из фуги Баха для клавесина и Бассо Continuo, и были расшифрованы на альт-и баритон саксофон, я бы в это поверил,"- сказал кто-то из написавших рецензию на этот сборник. Особенность зтого диска заключается в том, что песни были искусно подобраны и редактировались в нескольких студиях. Результат - льющееся ровное, довольно "бесшовное" повествование при прослушивании музыкальных партий, которые звучат как одна партия, указывающая на доброе взаимодействие и теплоту этих двух мастеров саксофона. К сожалению на диске только 6 треков, на более поздних переизданных версиях, больше.
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Paul Desmond - Pure Desmond (1975)

Артист: Paul Desmond
Альбом: Pure Desmond
Стиль: Cool-jazz
Album originally released in 1975
Recording Date: 2003
Лейбл: EPIC, Sony Music
Страна: England
Формат: FLAC
Тип рипа: (image + .cue)
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 58:32 min
Архив: 157.36MB+149.91MB
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Источник: Биография: PRESS/НАЖАТЬ

Personnel:
PAUL DESMOND – alto sax
ED BICKERT – guitar
RON CARTER – bass
CONNIE KAY – drums

Трэклист:
1. Squeeze Me 04:34
2. I'm Old Fashioned 04:57
3. Nuages 05:15
4. Why Shouldn't I 03:37
5. Everything I Love 03:50
6. Warm Valley 04:27
7. Till The Clouds Roll By 04:09
8. Mean To Me 05:48
9. Theme From MASH (Suicide Is Painless)     03:04
10. Wave     06:16
11. Nuages (Alternate Take)
12. Squeeze Me (Alternate Take)
13. Till The Clouds Roll By (Alternate Take)

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Отредактировано Swingle (2009-06-08 22:00:13)