Yesterday in Dead Musicians ♪♫ - September 26 09-26: Bartók Miraculous Mandarin | Music for Strings etc / Boulez - Baden Powell Solitude 1971 - The Audience With Betty Carter 1980 - Jonas Hellborg / Shawn Lane Zenhouse 1999 - Bessie Smith Empress of the Blues 1923-1933 1788 – François Bainville (French organist & composer) 1800 – William Billings (American choral composer & tanner) 1808 – Pavel Vranický [Paul Wranitzky] (Moravian composer & conductor, active in Austria) 1871 – Cipriani Potter (English composer, pianist & teacher) 1937 – Bessie Smith (American blues singer) 1944 – Ernst Isler (Swiss organist, pianist, composer & music critic) 1945 – Béla Bartók (Hungarian composer, pianist & folksong collector) http://www.zti.hu/bartok/exhibition/en_TOC.htm 1968 – Władysław Kędra (Polish pianist) 1979 – Seymour Shifrin (American composer) 1983 – Tino Rossi (Corsican-born French cabaret singer & actor) 1989 – Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay [] (Indian singer & film composer, director & producer) 1991 – Billy Vaughn (American country, R&B & pop singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, & A&R man for Dot Records) 1998 – Betty Carter (American jazz singer & songwriter) 2000 – Baden Powell [de Aquino] (Brazilian jazz & classical guitarist, composer & singer) 2003 – Shawn Lane (American rock & jazz guitarist & pianist, Black Oak Arkansas, Jonas Hellborg) 2003 – Robert Palmer (English rock, pop & R&B singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist) 2008 – Marc Moulin (Belgian jazz pianist, composer, journalist, humorist, economist, animator & radio producer) ************************************************* Bessie Smith - Empress of the Blues 1923-1933 1. Do Your Duty 2. Gimme A Pigfoot 3. Take Me For A Buggy Ride 4. I'm Down In The Dumps 5. Safety Mama 6. He's Got Me Goin' 7. Take It Right Back 8. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 9. Kitchen Man 10. Me And My Gin 11. Trombone Cholly 12. Alexander`s Ragtime Band 13. After You've Gone 14. Young Woman's Blues 15. I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle 16. Careless Love 17. Cake Walkin' Babies From Home 18. You've Been A Good Ole Wagon 19. The St. Louis Blues 20. Weepin' Willow Blues 21. My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn't Say Where, When Or Why) 22. 'Taint Nobody's Bizness If I Do Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong, James P. Johnson et al. front: http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/bessie-smith/album-the-empress-of-the-blues-1923-1933.jpg mp3: http://www.filesonic.com/file/967669984 ************************************************* Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin - Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta (Deutsche Grammophon, 1996) 01 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - Beginning (Allegro) 02 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - First seduction game - the shabby old rake (Moderato) 03 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - Second seduction game 04 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - Third seduction game (Sostenuto) 05 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - The Mandarin enters and remains immobile in the doorway… (Maestoso) 06 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - The girl sinks down to embrace him… (Allegro) 07 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - The tramps leap out, seize the Mandarin and tear him away from the girl 08 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - Suddenly the Mandarin’s head appears between the pillows and he looks longingly at the girl 09 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - The terrified tramps discuss how they are to get rid of the Mandarin at last. (Agitato) 10 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - The body of the Mandarin begins to glow with a greenish blue light. (Molto moderato) 11 - The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19, Sz 73 - She resists no longer; they embrace (Più mosso - Vivo) 12 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 - I. Andante tranquillo 13 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 - II. Allegro 14 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 - III. Adagio 15 - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106 - IV. Allegro molto Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Pierre Boulez - Conductor front: http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1006731-1236222373.jpeg back: http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1006731-1236222398.jpeg mp3@320: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1DGKDNIK ************************************************* Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter (Verve, 1980) "...considered by some critics to be the finest jazz vocal performance ever recorded..." Disc One "Sounds" (Movin' On) (Betty Carter) – 25:20 "I Think I Got It Now" (Carter) – 3:33 "Caribbean Sun" (Carlos Garnett) – 4:17 "The Trolley Song" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:37 "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 6:16 "I'll Buy You a Star" (Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:12 Disc Two "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:41 "Can't We Talk It Over"/"Either It's Love or It Isn't" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts)/(Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 7:26 "Deep Night" (Charles Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 2:45 "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Fran Landesman, Tommy Wolf) – 7:22 "Tight" (Carter) – 3:44 "Fake" (Carter) – 4:16 "So..." (Carter) – 7:03 "My Favorite Things" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers) – 4:39 "Open the Door" (Carter) – 5:09 Betty Carter - Vocals John Hicks - Piano Curtis Lundy - Bass Kenny Washington - Drums front: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tEA2HvJ2cls/TSLsleKogQI/AAAAAAAAElo/OLcTHfQqrh4/s1600/Front.jpg inside: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tEA2HvJ2cls/TSLsctY1h4I/AAAAAAAAElg/7xAftrU4z4E/s1600/Inside%2B1.jpg mp3@320 Disc 1: http://www.mediafire.com/?kmx3pkf0mbp1302 Disc 2: http://www.mediafire.com/?3dz4ttjdm9xbu5s ************************************************* Baden Powell - Solitude On Guitar (Columbia/CBS, 1971) 1. Introduçao Ao Poema Dos Olhos da Amada (DeMoraes, Powell, Soledade) 3:33 2. Chará (Powell) 2:15 3. Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você (DeMoraes, Jobim) 2:11 4. Marcia, Eu Te Amo (Powell) 5:10 5. Na Gafieira Do Vidigal (Powell) 5:21 6. Komnt Ein Vogel Geflogen (Traditional) 1:32 7. Fim da Linha (Powell) 2:50 8. The Shadow of Your Smile (Mandel, Webster) 2:01 9. Brasiliana (Powell) 3:27 10. Bassamba (Weber) 4:39 11. Por Causa de Voc (Duran, Jobim) 2:56 12. Solitário (Powell) 2:51 Baden Powell - guitar, vocals Joaquim Henriques - bass, drums front: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jaGGurxStCc/TjMF89R-7uI/AAAAAAAAB5M/nWONxwRRzX8/s1600/baden+-+solitude+on+guitar+P.JPG mp3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GIN8PQXT or: http://hotfile.com/dl/121948823/009cb49/Solitude_on_Guitar.rar.html or: http://depositfiles.com/files/rjho2m33a ************************************************* Jonas Hellborg / Shawn Lane - Zenhouse (Bardo, 1999) 1 In The House 13:03 2 Outdoors 17:07 3 Departure 13:45 4 Conclusion 10:14 Jonas Hellborg - acoustic double-neck guitar/bass guitar Shawn Lane - acoustic guitar Jeff Sipe - drums front: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iY-tKrJa_yg/Tfx6uGpGnuI/AAAAAAAABRI/NiOSEoKUVhk/s1600/Jonas+Hellborg+%2526+Shawn+Lane+-Zenhouse.bmp mp3@320: http://www.mediafire.com/?luv71nfp226d6a2 ************************************************* http://yesterdayindeadmusicians.blogspot.com/