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Let’s Dance (One Microphone Recording)

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 26 May 2023 07:00:20 +0000

PapaJazz, the Jazz Swing Music Band from Hunnia, returns to NativeDSD with their second album Let’s Dance (One Microphone Recording). Like their earlier album Eisemann Songbook (One Microphone Recording in Pure DSD 256), this album highlights the music of the ’20s,’30s and ’40s. It is also a One Microphone Recording use a single AEA R88 Stereo Ribbon Microphone.

PapaJazz says “By now we’re having less arrangements, less preparation so that we can be more spontaneous, our focus is more on improvisation. The songs on this current album is mainly music from the 20s and 30s of America. This album is a time travel with dancing – a real ‘old school’ jazz with the most popular songs from the ‘20s, ’30s and ’40s.”

Sax Player Arpad Dennert, a member of PapaJazz and the Jazz band ArpiTalk tells us “PapaJazz regularly plays for Lindy Hoppers for many years. On this album we present a bunch of the most popular songs among dancers. Enjoy and let’s dance!”

PapaJazz
Attila Korb – Cornet, Trombone, Bass Sax, Piano & Vocals
Árpád Dennert – Clarinet, Tenor Sax
Attila Sidoo – Guitar
Péter Kovács – Tuba
Balázs Cseh – Drums

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The Duke Book: The Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn [Pure DSD]

Sjoerd Staal — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Angelo Verploegen dazzled NativeDSD listeners last year with his Jazz trio and their Just Listen release The Sweetest Sound. With The Duke Book, he teams with drummer Jasper van Hulten to perform standards from the Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn catalogs.

Rather than the familiar full ensemble or full orchestra performance of these tracks, this is simply the horn player and the drummer. It is a memorable journey and these two fine Jazz musicians put their own stamp on some very familiar and popular compositions.

And now we have The Duke Book. Be sure to have a look at the rave reviews of this album in the Reviews Tab – and then pick up a copy in DSD Stereo and DSD Multichannel (or both)!

This is a Pure DSD 256 Stereo & 5 Channel recording from Just Listen. No equalization, mixing, compression or editing is used on this album. All DSD bit rates were created in the DSD Domain using Signalyst HQ Player 4 Pro mastering tools.

A Personal Note from Angelo Verploegen

“The Duke Book is about melody and rhythm, about sound and time, about exploring the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn in all kinds of ways alongside exploring the sonorities of our instruments. Playing in numerous drum-less bands for some time now, I felt more and more the urge to investigate the possibilities of combining melody with only rhythm. And what better repertoire to do this with than Duke Ellington’s?

Ellington set the standard for melody, form, rhythm in the jazz idiom. So, when I was given the opportunity by label co-founder Jonas Sacks to make a new recording for Just Listen, I grabbed it with both hands and invited Jasper van Hulten to join me on this musical journey. Somehow Jasper’s musical intuition and incredible sensitivity fit my playing like a glove. His open mind, inventiveness and great dynamics make him a perfect match for this adventure.

This is the second collaboration with the outstanding Just Listen crew. My first encounter with their pure DSD recording was with my musical soulmates guitarist Ed Verhoeff and bassist Eric van der Westen doing the award-winning album The Sweetest Sound (JL009 Album Page). No sound-equalizing, no mixing, no compressing, no editing applied here. Just the musicians in a beautiful medium-large concert hall, the best possible technical equipment and a great set of ears of producer and recording engineer Jared Sacks.”

Producer’s Note from Jared Sacks

“Flugelhorn and Drums…. A whole album? Both of you will have to be very good to keep the listener’s attention for the duration of a complete album. And yes, it is all very good. These boys needed no producing on my part. Setting up the microphones was also easy. A great space to play, two very musical minded players. I only needed to press record!”

Angelo Verploegen – Flugelhorn
Jasper Van Hulten – Drums

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Ben Webster Plays Duke Ellington

Sjoerd Staal — Sun, 02 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000

For many people Ben Webster is indelibly linked with the name of Duke Ellington. Ben had a long and distinguished career, of which his work with Duke was only a small part, but the crucial exposure just as he reached musical maturity was given by Ellington, and that maturity was hastened by the challenge of playing with Ellington. Yet he also gave a lot to the band and to the continuing Ellington tradition.

In other words, he created the role of the tenor saxophone with Duke. Before he joined for his longest stay (in January 1940), there had been no expectation of significant tenor contributions – despite Ben’s previous brief encounters in 1935 and 1936. But, in far less time than the 3 ½ years he remained, Ben had made the tenor an Ellingtonian voice almost as strong as Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney on alto and baritone. His departure left a huge hole in Duke’s music, which was filled by a series of heavyweight soloists including Al Sears, Jimmy Forrest, Don Byas, Ben again, and the great Paul Gonsalves.

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Half & Half

Sjoerd Staal — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In these days, when jazz has turned to consolidation rather than innovation, records by old masters like Charlie Shavers and Johnny Hodges achieve gold standard almost by definition. Sleeve note accolades can often do little more than acknowledge and applaud the fact, for Shavers and Hodges were genii, of course: unflawed musicians, total original minds, two of the great burnished talents that were ablaze in those fiery jazz years. All that we’ve long known.

The two masters on this record led separate musical lives publicly. Like most jazz history this is probably (as Henry Ford once remarked) bunk – who can document the meetings on a neon-lit Swing Street, or lonely midnight roads? – But on this record they occupy separate sides and exclusive treatment in this annotation.

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