Results for "BluePort Records"

Live at the Athenaeum

By Jon Mayer

Label: BluePort Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: All the Things You Are; My Foolish Heart; Minority; Tenderly; The Touch of Your Lips; Shari’s Bolero; Young and Foolish; Lakeside; For All We Know.

Jon Mayer: Live at the Athenaeum

by C. Michael Bailey
January 12, 2018

Pianist Jon Mayer has been quietly building his considerable discography over the last 25 years. Live at the Athenaeum joins eight previous releases that include, Full Circle (Reservoir Music, 2002); So Many Stars (Reservoir Music, 2007); Nightscape (Reservoir Music, 2009); and The Art of the Ballad (UDJ, 2014). These releases more than solidify Mayer's bona fides ...

Joe Diorio Trio: Joe Diorio Trio: Live

by Dave Nathan
March 1, 2002

Guitarist Joe Diorio is one of those excellent jazz musicians who, regrettably, seem permanently assigned to the “artists deserving wider recognition" category. Performing for more than 30 years, Diorio has worked and/or recorded with some of jazz's more outstanding performers, including Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris and Bill Henderson. He also has produced a full discography of ...

BluePort Jazz Sampler

Label: BluePort Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Estat

For Heaven's Sake

By Jackie Ryan

Label: BluPort Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: * Someone To Light Up My Life (Se Todos Fossem Iguais A Você) * Comes Love * I Concentrate On You * Caminhos Cruzados * Nice Work If You Can Get It * For Heaven's Sake * Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado (What A Difference A Day Made) * You Better Know It * Black Coffee * Samba De Rei * Words Can't Describe * What A Little Moonlight Can Do

Sure Thing

By Nancy Marano

Label: BluePort Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Very Close to Love*%**; My One and Only Love*; So in Love*%**; Sure Thing^; Thanks a Million^$@**; The Bad and the Beautiful^; The Night We Called it a Day*%**; Heart's Desire#; The Man I Love#; In April^$**; Easier to Say Goodbye^$; April in Paris^; Medley/Never Let Me Go/Goodbye^&**

Jackie Ryan: For Heaven's Sake

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

For heaven’s sake! After reading Jim Merod’s laudatory liner notes to Jackie Ryan’s CD, I thought to myself that she’d have to be one helluva singer to live up to that kind of praise. Well, when all is said and done and the smoke has cleared, she is — at least, she’s close enough to make ...

Nancy Marano: Sure Thing

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2001

Nancy Marano taps the best of both West and East players for her latest album. The West Coast contingent is led by the inestimable and undervalued Mile Melvoin. For the session 3,000 miles to the East, another under recognized pianist, Michael Abene takes the lead. Marano takes is on piano for two of the tunes. Marano ...

Jackie Ryan: For Heaven's Sake

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

Jackie Ryan is another of those fine singers who enliven the San Francisco jazz scene these days. Although the Bay City is her home base, she has performed in jazz venues throughout the world including one of the most famous, Ronnie Scott's London jazz club. Jim Merod's BluePort label - - a label very active in ...

Various: BluePort Jazz Sampler

by Dave Nathan
March 1, 2001

This release hawks the virtues of the Blue Port label's first eight releases by whetting the appetite with samples from each of the albums. Featuring a stable of fine jazz musicians, mostly from the West Coast, all of whom offer absorbing and fresh renditions of mostly standard material, this CD allows the jazz fan to become ...