Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Jesper Lundgaard is one of Storyville's most prominent bassists and his permanent trio was established in 2004 consisting of Jesper Lundgaard, Hans Ulrik and Niclas Knudsen. The trio describes their music as a playground where they try out new compositions and pay homage to great icons in the history of Jazz. On this new album entitled “2016” you may enjoy ten compositions: eight originals written by each band member and two updated versions of jazz standards.

The album is a continuous journey through a landscape constantly changing. Along the way, your ears will encounter simplicity, fragility, ferocity, sensitivity and a special sense of greatness in the smallest of details. From beautiful ballads of stormy moods to swinging jazz - everything beautifully executed by Margrete Grarup’s unique and expressive voice. Each track has an identity of its own - still, they all come together and make a whole. Walk with Me includes new, wondrous takes on classics such as “Georgia on My Mind”, “Strange Fruit” and “My Funny Valentine” along with some of the musician’s own compositions which in combination creates a soulfully meditative and with every turn delightfully unknown journey to be experienced. Margrete Grarup is an educated soloist from Nordjysk Musikkonservatorium and knows how to balance the power of her voice with delicate nuances and a certain humility.

This album is a collection of classic melodies from the repertoire of Ben Webster’s famous employer of many years, Duke Ellington. The album is comprised of three live radio sessions with the Danish Radio Big Band in 1969 and 1971, plus live concert sessions with two different backing trios (Finland in 1967 and Denmark in 1969). Aside from one tune, all the performances with the Danish Radio Big Band are based on Ellington’s original scores. The quartet sessions are also great - one with Ben’s boss from the early 1930’s, Teddy Wilson, and the other with Kenny Drew. That Ben Webster was one of the undisputed jazz greats on the tenor saxophone - both in a big band and small group context - is amply illustrated on this fine album.

Classical Music

Classical Music

This release is a new live recording from the legendary Jazzhus Montmartre in the heart of Copenhagen, this time with Rodney Green Quartet and Warren Wolf on vibraphone. The recordings on this release are chosen from three terrific evenings at Montmartre in February 2016. Christian Brorsen, Music Director at Montmartre 2011-2016, says: “Dexter Gordon said it himself when he returned to the United States after 14 years in Copenhagen: “I miss the American drummers.” If you have been lucky enough to experience one of them live, you know why. Among the masterful drummers who have visited Montmartre in the course of time, we find the likes of Art Blakey, Art Taylor, Ed Thigpen and Billy Higgins. Rodney Green belongs to a new generation of great drummers. Brought up by elite musicians such as Mulgrew Miller and Charlie Haden, he knows something about the nature of jazz and what it takes to perform on a level so few others are capable of. Rodney’s got it all: good taste, a dazzling technique, and a formidable beat”. For Rodney Green, the music always comes first. It all looks so simple when he’s sitting there, behind the drum set. There’s no showing off, but it always sounds incredibly good, so there’s a good reason why he is so much in demand. Simplicity and authenticity also underpinned these three terrific evenings at Montmartre, where he was asked to put together a quartet of musicians who, like himself, are capable of being present in the moment, doing away with long rehearsals. “As far as I’m concerned, real jazz musicians must be able to meet and play without discussions or long rehearsals, and just let their instruments speak,” says Green. And that is how these sessions unfolded at Montmartre, to the delight of an enthusiastic audience who couldn’t get enough of this ardent quartet of musicians that, besides Rodney Green, comprised Danish pianist Jacob Christoffersen and American bassist David Wong. Together the three laid a hard-swinging foundation for Warren Wolf´, also from the U.S. and possibly the greatest vibraphone virtuoso ever.

Classical Music

Storyville Records is proud to present Volume 23 in the Duke Ellington Treasury Shows series. In April, 1945, to promote the sale of war bonds, the US Treasury Department contacted Duke Ellington to do a series of 55 minute public broadcasts. These sessions would give Ellington a wide choice of material to perform including his older work - new instrumentals and pop tunes and his extended works as well. This double album contains a series of different radio broadcasts from the Meadowbrook Gardens Cafe in Culver City, California, and a bonus 1943 radio braodcast from the famous Hurricane Restaurant in New York City. Listeners also get a 1946 broadcast from the Lincoln Theatre in Los Angeles, California and bonus tracks from a 1946 broadcast at New York's Aquarium Restaurant. The broadcasts are featured complete with radio speaks and encouragements to buy bonds read by the Duke himself plus extensive bonus material and liner notes.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Two of the most towering talents (and most outsized personalities) to emerge from the jazz age are on beautiful display. These radio broadcasts capture Cab in '40 and '45 and Fats in '36 and '43; includes Cab's Minnie the Moocher; Limehouse Blues; Russian Lullaby; Hard Times ; Fats' Honeysuckle Rose; Ain't Misbehavin'; Cash for Your Trash; Your Feet's Too Big, and 42 more!

This box set includes a DVD and 7 CDs. Sidemen include Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines, and Barney Bigard.