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Artist: Stephanie Nakasian Title: Billie Remembered Year Of Release: 2009 Label: Inner City Records Genre: Jazz Vocals Quality: 320 kbps Total Time: 39:26 Total Size: 108 MB Tracklist: 1. No Regrets (2:46) 2. Did I Remember (2:56) 3. What A Night, What A Moon, What A Boy (2:53) 4. I Wished On The Moon (3:41) 5. I Cried For You (3:51) 6. These Foolish Things (4:51) 7. What A Little Moonlight Can Do (3:38) 8. Reaching For The Moon (4:27) 9. Too Hot For Words (2:55) 10. If You Were Mine (4:07) 11. Miss Brown To You (3:15) Ever since she chose jazz singing over trading currency futures on Wall Street, Stephanie Nakasian has been one of the top singers in jazz, in addition to being an influential educator. Her extroverted style, influenced by both Ella Fitzgerald and bebop, is both accessible and adventurous, she is always in-tune, and she swings at every tempo. While she is not as famous as she deserves, she is well known and respected in the jazz world. Irv Kratka, the founder of Inner City Records and Music Minus One, thought it would be a great idea if Stephanie recorded a full set of music in Billie Holiday's style. Stephanie knew right away that this would be difficult but was up for the challenge. "Billie Holiday is an advanced study. Her rhythm, which is often behind-the-beat, is not laidback and it actually has a lot of drive. She was very aware of what the rhythm was doing behind her but it did not dictate what she sand. There are few singers who can sing with the complexity of Billie Holiday. The band on this CD is ideal. Trumpeter Randy Sandke has long shown the ability to play in most styles ranging from New Orleans and swing to modern. His concise solos and ensemble playing during these performances are full of fire and exhilarating chance taking of Berigan, Eldridge and Jones. Tenor-saxophonist Harry Allen does a fine job of sounding like early Ben Webster. Dan Block on clarinet and alto knows the early swing style very well. Rhythm guitarist Marty Grosz, bassist Neal Miner and drummer Chuck Riggs swing quietly but with intensity. Stephanie's husband Hod O'Brien, cast in the role of Teddy Wilson, had a particularly difficult task because he has his own masterful bop-oriented style, inspired by Bud Powell. After a period of time burying himself in Wilson's music, he decided that, even while paying tribute to Wilson's conception, it was important to also be himself. The result is that the music is not a strict note-for-note recreation of the past but often sounds like an alternate take from the sessions, played by comparable musicians. While the arrangements are similar to the original recordings, there are some changes not only in the solos but in the frameworks. On first listen, one will naturally compare Stephanie Nakasian's singing to Billie Holiday's, but on repeated listenings, these new recordings have a life of their own. Stephanie does a remarkable job capturing Lady Day's spirit as well as her phrasing and strong hints of her voice. She gets it. Billy Holiday's early music is colorblind, timeless, playful, and a great deal of fun. Stephanie Nakasian does her justice. ~Scott Yanow http://rapidgator.net/file/02d9cb99874a25cb107f7cee411b4dfc/StephanieNakasianRemembered2009.rar.html http://ssh.tf/M0V9Ec73J/StephanieNakasianRemembered2009.rar http://uploaded.net/file/h82yf2oi/StephanieNakasianRemembered2009.rar

Patrick D. Smith - A Land Remembered Unabridged AudioBook | 1996 | Genre: HistoricalFiction | English | ISBN-13: 9781561641161 | MP3 64Kb | 798.18 MB In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that the land has been exploited far beyond human need. The sweeping story that emerges is a rich, rugged Florida history featuring a memorable cast of crusty, indomitable Crackers battling wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the swamp. But their most formidable adversary turns out to be greed, including finally their own. Love and tenderness are here too: the hopes and passions of each new generation, friendships with the persecuted blacks and Indians, and respect for the land and its wildlife. A Land Remembered was winner of the Florida Historical Society's Tebeau Prize as the Most Outstanding Florida Historical Novel. Now in its 14th hardcover printing, it has been in print since 1984 and is also available in trade paperback. Download Link http://rapidgator.net/file/7d756668a2a3bbde0873ca5809d816ef/A.Land.Remembered.part1.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/a94314a7962d528c6158accaea2a35b7/A.Land.Remembered.part2.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/3593f9253f73c5376bf31f781202ad5c/A.Land.Remembered.part3.rar.html http://rapidgator.net/file/a462afff0794de2f6a18c31cd6229ac6/A.Land.Remembered.part4.rar.html