SPYRO
GYRA – THE RHINEBECK SESSIONS
2013
album from contemporary Jazz supergroup Spyro Gyra. Founded in 1974 by
saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, Spyro Gyra have consistently been one of the
commercially successfully Pop Jazz groups of the past 30 years. The band became
a full-time venture in 1976 and has been touring ever since. Critics love to
attack this band's music, which combines R&B and elements of Pop and Caribbean
music with Jazz, but its live performances are often stimulating -- unlike many
of its records, which emphasize the danceable melodies. ~ amazon.com
JOE COCKER - LIVE AT MONTREUX 1987
Joe
Cocker has enjoyed a hugely successful career around the world since the late
sixties when he topped the charts with his version of the Beatles With A Little
Help From My Friends, a song that he managed to make completely on his own. A
string of hugely successful albums and singles followed and he continues to
record and to perform to huge audiences wherever he goes. Cocker's impassioned
delivery and instantly recognizable voice are immediately in evidence on this
Montreux concert from 1987, the first of several appearances that he has made
at the festival. The tracklisting features hit songs from across his career and
is now being made available on CD for the first time. Includes Dear Landlord, You Can Leave Your
Hat On, Feeling Alright, Civilized Man, Inner City Blues, Just Like Always, Up
Where We Belong, Seven Days, Shelter Me, With A Little Help From My Friends,
You Are So Beautiful, Watching The River Flow, and Guilty. ` amazon.com
HAROLD LOPEZ-NUSSA - NEW DAY
With
roots in both Cuba and Europe, the thrilling young jazz pianist Harold
Lopez-Nussa displays an impressive maturity, which at merely thirty years of age
will no doubt guarantee him a place amongst the greats. His latest album, New
Day, clearly represents an watershed moment - the rising star refines his style
and adds color to his artistic palette (listen for the Fender Rhodes keyboard),
all to further charm his ever-growing audience across the globe. Lopez-Nussa's
music is an intoxicating blend of lush melodies and quicksilver rhythms that
owes as much to the distinguished school of Cuban piano as to the pianist's
innate virtuosity, which has been cultivated under the influence of such great
jazzmen as Keith Jarrett and Wayne Shorter.~ amazon.com
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