Jeff Steinberg Jazz Ensemble - Velvet Martini: A retro European lounge mix (2009)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) & mp3 @ 320 kbps | tracks: 12 | Cover | 49:18 | ~ 307 Mb & 113 Mb
Label: Green Hill Records | 5% recovery record | Smooth jazz, lounge
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks & cue & log) & mp3 @ 320 kbps | tracks: 12 | Cover | 49:18 | ~ 307 Mb & 113 Mb
Label: Green Hill Records | 5% recovery record | Smooth jazz, lounge
As it is with most nostalgia, each bygone era has its own allure. With the songs on Velvet Martini, the era evoked is one where men wore suits and ties, women wore dresses or gowns, and everyone tired to exude a modicum of dignified style and class. Composer, arranger, instrumentalist and producer, Jeff Steinberg and his Smooth Jazz Ensemble, selected 12 all time beloved tunes, and created this delightful album. Enjoy "Mambo Italiano", "Volare", "More", "Begin the beguine" and more, Jeff's way.
In thirty-plus years as a composer, arranger, instrumentalist and producer, Jeff Steinberg has been active in all areas of the music industry: jazz, pop, R&B and classical recordings, film, television, theater, advertising, corporate communications, publishing, and music education. After graduating from the Berklee School in 1969, he joined The Glenn Miller Orchestra under the direction of Buddy DeFranco and toured the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Japan. In the years since he has worked as arranger/composer for numerous recording artists (Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., Johnnie Taylor, Leslie Uggams, Don Henley, Sting), advertising campaigns (General Motors, McDonald's, ALCOA, The Monsanto Company, TimeLife), jazz luminaries (Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson) and symphony orchestras (The London Symphony and London Philharmonic Orchestras, Nashville and Detroit Symphony Orchestras). Jeff is an artist/producer/arranger with Village Square Records where he works on the recordings of Beegie Adair, Denis Solee and Lori Mechem, as well as those under his own name. He is currently a frequent guest POPS conductor with the Nashville Symphony and other orchestras and conductor/arranger/pianist for Broadway's Mike Eldred.TRACKLIST
01. Begin The Beguine
02. Sway
03. Senza Fine
04. Let's Face The Music And Dance
05. Frenesi
06. Goldfinger
07. It Had Better Be Tonight
08. More
09. Mambo Italiano
10. From Russia With Love
11. Lullabye Of Birdland
12. Volare
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Jeff Steinberg / Velvet Martini
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EAC extraction logfile from 19. February 2011, 1:46
Jeff Steinberg / Velvet Martini
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Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 102
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:47.72 | 0 | 21596
2 | 4:47.72 | 3:20.43 | 21597 | 36639
3 | 8:08.40 | 3:49.60 | 36640 | 53874
4 | 11:58.25 | 4:12.12 | 53875 | 72786
5 | 16:10.37 | 3:44.49 | 72787 | 89635
6 | 19:55.11 | 4:37.39 | 89636 | 110449
7 | 24:32.50 | 3:18.06 | 110450 | 125305
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10 | 35:52.47 | 5:11.47 | 161447 | 184818
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Special thanks to the initial ripper who shared this beautiful album