The Danish Radio Big Band & Charlie Watts – Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

The Danish Radio Big Band & Charlie Watts – Charlie Watts Meets The Danish Radio Big Band (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:52 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Impulse!

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts returns to his jazz roots with the Danish Radio Big Band on this album, recorded live in 2010. Watts and the band rehearsed for four days before playing a concert at the newly opened Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen which was taped for broadcast by Danish National Radio. After several years, a souvenir of that historic gig is now available. Watts is one of the great ambassadors of jazz and while every jazz lover will relish the performance, his involvement may bring jazz to the attention of some Stones fans who are not even sure if they like jazz.

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Sinne Eeg, The Danish Radio Big Band – We’ve Just Begun (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Sinne Eeg, The Danish Radio Big Band - We've Just Begun (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Sinne Eeg, The Danish Radio Big Band – We’ve Just Begun (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 51:46 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BFM Jazz

A star in her native Denmark, jazz singer Sinne Eeg has been weaving her spell in performances throughout Europe, the United States and Asia, where audiences and critics alike have responded enthusiastically to her dark, alluring voice, rich timbre, impeccable intonation, inherent sense of swing and remarkably natural scatting ability that recalls her own vocal jazz heroes, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Anita O’Day. On We’ve Just Begun, her winning collaboration with the 19-piece Danish Radio Big Band and 9th album overall, Eeg sings with signature soulfulness, sassy spirit and jazzy abandon on a program of three well-chosen standards, a swinging adaptation of a tune from a vintage Danish film, and five affecting originals with Eeg as composer and/or lyricist.
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Curtis Stigers, The Danish Radio Big Band – One More For The Road (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Curtis Stigers, The Danish Radio Big Band – One More For The Road (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:31 minutes | 428 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Jazz

Just in case the title One More for the Road didn’t suggest Sinatra, Curtis Stigers underscores his debt to the Chairman of the Board by patterning the artwork for this 2017 collaboration with the Danish Radio Big Band after 1966’s Sinatra at The Sands. In fact, One More for the Road is something of a salute to that 1966 record, containing eight songs from that double album and adhering to the snazzy swing of late-period Frank. Stigers even channels that sensibility into “Summer Wind,” a gentle breeze of a single, and that’s one of the distinguishing factors of One More for the Road. Another distinguishing factor is the cheerful blare of the Dutch Radio Big Band, who are big and brassy without overwhelming the singer. For his part, Stigers doesn’t mimic Sinatra, appropriating just a bit of swagger — and, sometimes, the arrangements — but plays with his phrasing and alternates between crisp enunciation and elongated notes. This is enough to make One More for the Road something a bit different than a straight-up tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes because it shows how Stigers can hold his presence on-stage while sharing the spotlight with his idol.

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