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Tom Lellis - The Flow (2016)

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Tom Lellis - The Flow (2016)

Tom Lellis - The Flow (2016)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 56:19 min | 131 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova | Label: Tom Lellis / Beamtide Music CD / "The Flow"

Vocal Jazz with Brazilain, Latin, modal post bop flavors, originals and guests Toninho Horta and Orlando "Maraca" Valle join in recording English versions of their songs with Tom's lyrics.

New York resident Tom Lellis is part of what has seemed like an endangered species in recent decades–he's a male jazz singer. Lellis, whose influences have included Mark Murphy and Jon Hendricks (among others), isn't as well known as he should be. But the talent is certainly there; in addition to being an insightful interpreter of lyrics, he is a risk-taking, expressive improviser who has often written lyrics for jazz gems that started out as instrumentals (including Keith Jarrett's "Lucky Southern," Herbie Hancock's "Tell Me a Bedtime Story," Chick Corea's "Times Lie," Dave Brubeck's "The Duke," McCoy Tyner's "Man from Tangayika" and Wayne Shorter's "E.S.P."). Although Lellis lives in New York, the Big Apple is not his home town. Lellis (who plays acoustic piano) was born in Cleveland on April 8, 1946 and raised in that northern Ohio city, where he started singing jazz as a teen-ager. After moving to New York in 1973, Lellis became active on the Manhattan club scene. He recorded his first album, And in This Corner, in 1979; the Los Angeles-based Inner City label released the album on LP in 1981. And in This Corner boasted an impressive lineup for a debut album; acoustic bassist Eddie Gomez (who is best known for his long association with pianist Bill Evans) and drummer Jack DeJohnette were among the improvisers who backed Lellis on his first release. In an ideal world, Lellis would have gone on to build a large catalog; but regrettably, his trips to the studio have been sporadic. Lellis' second album, Double Entendre (which reunited him with DeJohnette and Gomez), was released by Beamtide Music in 1991 and was followed by his only Concord Jazz release, Taken to Heart (which came out in 1993 and found the singer doing some collaborating with Brazilian great Toninho Horta). After parting company with Concord, Lellis didn't provide any more albums until he recorded Skylark (which unites him with Holland's Metropole Orchestra) for Total Music Design. In 2002, Lellis' first album, And in This Corner, finally came out on CD and was reissued by the Japanese P-Vine label.

Tracklist:

01. The Flow
02. Dance with Me
03. Berimbau / Pomba Gira
04. Waiting the Day
05. Sea Aura
06. Dawn of the New World
07. Notes to Self
08. Icarus
09. A Bar Tone
10. Love Comes and Goes
11. All This Love
12. Tones for Joan's Bones
13. Can It Be Done

Personnel:

Tom Lellis, vocals, keyboard (vibes, samples), piano #7, guitar, #8,#11, perc. #3 #8
Guest artist,/composers:
Toninho Horta, guitar (Waiting the Day)
Orlando "Maraca" Valle, flute (Dance With Me)
Gary Fisher, piano, except #6, keyboard, #7,,keybd. bass, #2
Ed Howard, bass #1,3-5, 7, 8,10,12
Johnathan Blake, drums, #1,3-5, 7, 8,10,12
Kip Reed, e.bass #9, #11
Ed Uribe, drums and percussion #2 ,
Tommy Campbell, drums #9, #11 additional perc. #2
Cafe daSilva, percussion , #9, #11
Rogerio Boccato, percussion, #3
William Galison, harmonica, #13
Melba Joyce and Donna Cumberbatch, vocals , #3
(#6) Dawn of the New World personnel:
Tom Lellis, vocals, keyboard,
Dave Kikoski, piano,
Tony Marino, bass,
Tommy Campbell, drums,
Jeremy Steig, flute