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Otis Sandsjö, Petter Eldh and Dan Nicholls – Y-OTIS TRE (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:07 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © We Jazz
Berlin-based Swedish tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjö returns with his third album Y-OTIS TRE on We Jazz Records, February 23. Y-OTIS TRE finds Sandsjö in close collaboration with his long-time working partner and friend, bassist/producer Petter Eldh, and Dan Nicholls, the keyboardist of the Y-OTIS live band and a solo artist on his own right. Composed by the three and produced by Eldh & Sandsjö, Y-OTIS TRE lives up to its name (“tre” means three in Swedish) and stands strong in the continuum of layer-caked liquid jazz, a staple of the Eldh/Sandsjö production duo lauded for their string of releases as Y-OTIS and Koma Saxo.
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Natasha Pirard – Dream Cycles (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:59:56 minutes | 1010 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DEEWEE
Speak to most musicians about their motivations, inspirations and processes and you will, generally, get variations on a similar, broadly consensual, theme. Natasha Pirard is genuinely different. Her interest in sound goes way beyond the superficial and the ephemeral. She is fascinated by how and why sound makes us feel, the political implications of sound, noise pollution and the everyday sounds embedded in our immediate environment.
Contextually, this makes a lot of sense when confronted with her debut release for DEEWEE, Dream Cycles. A 120-minute exploration of sounds, loops, frequencies and waves, it’s an eight- part musical cycle split into 15-minute sections across four cassettes, she believes, reflects on this notion of cyclical, rather than linear, time. The eight song cycles are repetitive. They start off basic and functional and build over time. They begin with one sound but soon you hear other sounds. From there you get taken to another point, where you hear something else and so on and so forth. The circle is never-ending.
Natasha Pirard is a musicologist and composer from Ghent. She will be releasing her album Dream Cycles on February 21st, as a limited edition four cassette box set, marking her debut on the Ghent-based label DEEWEE.
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Louis Prima – The Call Of The Wildest (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:53 minutes | 441 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, his music further encompassed early R&B and rock ‘n’ roll, boogie-woogie, and Italian folk music, such as the tarantella. Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian and Sicilian identity with jazz and swing music. At a time when ethnic musicians were discouraged from openly stressing their ethnicity, Prima’s conspicuous embrace of his Sicilian ethnicity opened the doors for other Italian-American and ethnic American musicians to display their ethnic roots
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Les Brown – Sentimental Memories (Remastered 2023) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:34 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hindsight Records
Brown was born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania. He enrolled in the Conway Military Band School (later part of Ithaca College) in 1926, studying with famous bandleader Patrick Conway for three years before receiving a music scholarship to the New York Military Academy, where he graduated in 1932. Brown attended college at Duke University from 1932 to 1936. There he led the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils, who performed regularly on Duke’s campus and up and down the east coast. Brown took the band on an extensive summer tour in 1936. At the end of the tour, while some of the band members returned to Duke to continue their education, others stayed on with Brown and continued to tour, becoming in 1938 the Band of Renown. The band’s original drummer, Don Kramer, became the acting manager and helped define their future.
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Johnny Mercer – Accentuate The Positive (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:26 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Arlen and Mercer wrote the song Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive for the film Here Come the Waves (1944, directed by Mark Sandrich), starring Bing Crosby and Betty Hutton. Bing Crosby and Sonny Tufts introduced the song. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive received an Oscar nomination in the Best Song category in 1946.
The refrain of the song is similar: “You should do the positive ak-zen-tu-ie-ren, the negative e-li-mi-never-ren, and cling to the affirmative, do not mess with Mister in between.“
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