Ann Hampton Callaway

Ann Hampton Callaway – Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · March 8, 2023 · Comments off

Ann Hampton Callaway - Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration! (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

With her artist legacy series, pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter Ann Hampton Callaway paid homage to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan on two critically-acclaimed CDs while staying true to her artistic aesthetic. Callaway continues that series with Fever: A Peggy Lee Celebration!, which highlights the songwriting talents of Lee, who wrote or co-wrote over 270 songs in her lifetime, and features two of Lee’s compositions that have never before been recorded. One, a poem written by Lee titled “Clair De Lune,” Callaway composed music for; the other, a premiere of “The Other Part of Me,” a song written by Lee and Paul Horner for the 1983 autobiographical Broadway musical, Peg. Featured on two tracks is special guest John Pizzarelli, another connection to Lee, whose favorite guitar player, after her husband, Dave Barbour, was John’s father, Bucky Pizzarelli.
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Ann Hampton Callaway – Jazz Goes To The Movies (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · June 28, 2022 · Comments off

Ann Hampton Callaway - Jazz Goes To The Movies (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

World renowned Tony nominee, New York Cabaret Award Best Jazz Vocalist winner and Theater World Award winner Ann Hampton Callaway delivers a must have album.

A spectacular collection of all-time great movie songs lovingly performed by Ann and her ensemble led by Ted Rosenthal, winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, Jazz Goes To The Movies conjures stirring images from the golden age of Hollywood.

Highlights include the iconic As Time Goes By from Casablanca, Irving Berlins immortal Blue Skies from The Jazz Singer, Jerome Kerns The Way You Look Tonight from Swing Time and many more movie classics.
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Ann Hampton Callaway – Blues In The Night (2006) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

SACD / DSD By admin · June 23, 2022 · Comments off

Ann Hampton Callaway is not your typical jazz songbird. For one thing, she’s an accomplished and award-winning songwriter, which is unusual in a field dominated by interpreters. But what’s most surprising is her voice — it’s a low alto instrument with a rich, dark, butterscotchy tone, and when she gets way down into her lower range the effect can be downright startling. Her latest album is a pleasing mixture of originals and standards, some performed with a small combo that includes bassist Christian McBride and drummer Lewis Nash, others with the all-female Diva Jazz Orchestra. The big-band pieces pack the most wallop, which is no surprise given both the quality of the band and the fact that the arrangements were written by the great Tommy Newsom; a powerhouse rendition of her own “Swingin’ Away the Blues” opens the program with a serious bang, and her small-scale but equally powerful take on the chestnut “Blue Moon” carries the energy forward nicely. The rest of the album is a mix of tender ballads and vibrant uptempo numbers, most with a theme related to the blues, either in a mood of resigned acceptance (“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” “Willow Weep for Me”) or defiant opposition (the Callaway original “Hip to Be Happy”). She imbues most of these songs with a smoldering, torchy quality that brings new energy to old material, and her new songs stand up very nicely next to the established standards. Highly recommended.

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