George Benson - (b. Mar 22, 1943 in Pittsburgh, PA). На эстраде Джордж Бенсон дебютировал как певец. Свой первый сингл She Makes Me Mad он записал, когда ему было 10 лет. Через несколько лет чернокожий вундеркинд образовал собственный вокальный ансамбль, исполнявший ритм-н-блюз. Примерно в то же время он начал увлекаться игрой на гитаре и вскоре одним из первых джазменов того времени стал петь фрагменты своих музыкальных композиций в унисон с гитарой...

Artist: Avishai Cohen
Album: At Home
Date: 2005
Label: Razdaz Records
Quality: 320 Kb/s
Total size: 78 Mb + 70 Mb

Вчера побывал на концерте этого музыканта. Было просто потрясающе!
«Музыка говорит лучше слов» - эту фразу один из самых интересных басистов современного джаза Авишаи Коэн поместил в буклете своего альбома. Могу подтвердить — чистая правда! :)

     Artist: MILT JACKSON AND THE MONTY ALEXANDER TRIO
     Album: Soul Fusion
     Style: Jazz
     Label: Pablo Records
     Recorded 1 & 2 June 1977 Group IV Recording Studios, L.A.
     Produced by Norman Granz
     Time: 47:30
     320 kb\sec - 112 mb

     Этот альбом достаточно редкий. На нем играют два любимых мною музыканта: вибрафонист - Милт Джексон (Milt Jackson) и пианист Монти Александр (Monty Alexander), о котором я несколько раз рассказывал (см. В клубе: «Rocksteady» 2004 и «Stir It Up: The Music of Bob Marley» 1999).
     Радости!

     Artist: Lalo Schifrin
     Album: There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On
     Label: Epic
     Year: 1968
     Genre: jazz
     Tracks: 11
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: 320 kbps
     File Size: 66 MB

     Artist: Eric Clapton
     Album: Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert Remastered and Expanded
     Label: Polydor
     Year: 1995
     Genre: Blues Rock
     Tracks: 14
     Total Time: 73:50
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     File Size: 84 MB + 81 MB


     The concert was held at the Rainbow Theatre in Finsbury Park, London, January 13,1973. The venue itself was popular during the 1960s and early 1970s, musicians such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and others performed there. The concert heralded the return of Eric Clapton out of heroin-induced isolation and inactivity with the help of Pete Townshend and others.

     Artist: Eric Clapton
     Album: Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert
     Label: Polygram
     Year: 1973
     Genre: Blues Rock
     Tracks: 6
     Total Time: 34:36
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     File Size: 78 MB



     Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert is an album recorded live at London's Rainbow Theatre on January 13, 1973, and released within the year. The concert was organised by Pete Townshend and marked Eric Clapton's comeback after the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh. In the year after the Rainbow Concert, Clapton recovered from his heroin addiction and recorded 461 Ocean Boulevard.

     Artist: Rudy Rotta & Brian Auger
     Album: Captured Live
     Label: PEPPER CAKE-ZYX
     Year: rec. August 3,2002/rel.2005
     Format: MP 3 @ 320
     Time:59:22
     Size:71.5 + 60.00 Mb

Artist: Lalo Schifrin (with WDR Big-Band) Live
Album: Latin Jazz Suite
Label: Aleph
Year: 1999
Genre: jazz/orchestral/latin/
Tracks: 6
Format: mp3, Bitrate: 128 kbps
File Size: 60 MB
Total Time: 64:57

Featuring the Cologne-based WDR Big Band with guests trumpeter Jon Faddis, saxophonist David Sanchez, and three superb percussionists--Alex Acuna, Alphonso Garrido, and Marcio Doctor

Artist - Oscar Peterson
Album - Oscar Peterson & Friends -
Lausanne 1953 JATP
Genre - jazz, swing, mainstream
Label - TCB
Year - 1953
Quality - MP3@320kbs/s
Size - 73,4mb
Total time - 52:29

Rare and previously un-issued performances recorded at a Jazz At The Philharmonic concert in Lausanne, Switzerland, 1953 and recorded by Swiss Radio for broadcast. Presented by impresario Norman Granz to an ecstatic audience, Oscar is featured in the company of a veritable ‘who’s who’ of jazz ‘swingsters’ and super stars of the day: Lester Young, Willie Smith, Charlie Shavers, Barney Kessel, Ray Brown and J.C.Heard and Gene Krupa. *****AMG

Artist: Idris Muhammad
Album: Power Of Soul
Label: Sony
Year: 1974 ( release 2002)
Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
Size: 81 mb

A frequent drummer on some of the most visible Kudu sessions, Idris Muhammad was finally signed to the label as a recording artist, and marked his album debut with the sensational POWER OF SOUL. With Bob James writing the charts, and Grover Washington, Jr. providing some exquisite contributions on the saxophone, the album made quite a splash at the time, and quickly established Idris as a force to contend with on the music scene. This is the first time this seminal album is available on CD

Artist: Lalo Schifrin
Album: Bullitt - Music from the Motion Picture
Label: Aleph
Year: 1968
Genre: jazz/orchestral/latin/easy-listening
Tracks: 12
Format: mp3, Bitrate: 320 kbps
File Size: 77 MB



Bullitt is an extraordinary film with an extraordinary actor (the late Steve McQueen) and an extraordinary soundtrack by the specialist in music for scenes of nervous action, Señor Lalo Schifrin.

This is a reference album for a serious soundtrack collection.
Also a stand alone CD independently from the movie due to inspired music and top Jazz performance.

     Artist: Lizz Wright
     Album: Salt
     Label: Verve Resords
     Genre: Vocal
     Styles: Vocal, Vocal Jazz, Neo-Soul
     Recording Date: August 2002 - December 2002
     Original Release Date: May 13, 2003
     Quality/Bitrate: APE (Monkey's Audio) / Mode: Exrta High / 44.1 Khz / Stereo
     Total Time: 50:24 Min

     Website: www.lizzwright.net

     Vocalist Lizz Wright delivers jazz that harks back to such luminaries as Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln on her debut Verve release, Salt. Still in her early twenties, Wright has a warm, dusky voice reminiscent of Cassandra Wilson and similarly to Wilson seems interested in tackling an eclectic mix of jazz standards, traditional folk, and R&B. Early on, a folky afterglow-Latin version of "Afro Blue" takes center stage followed by the gorgeous "Soon as I Get Home," which betters the version from The Wiz. Wright fairs equally well as a songwriter with about half the album filled with her soaring, bluesy ballads. There is a melancholy yet positive '70s vibe that eminates from songs like "Fire," which resonates lyrically as well as melodically much like the personal/sociopolitical writing of another of Wright's obvious inspirations, Terry Callier. Perhaps a little too low-key to register very high on the pop radio scale, but invested with enough sanguine emotionality and chops to make Salt easily recommended to fans of the neo-soul movement. ~ Review by Matt Collar ~

     Artist: Jeff Coffin
     Album: Bloom
     Year: 2005
     Genre: funk
     Format, bitrate: MP3 256 kbps
     Time: 61:18
     Size: 112,3 mb

     Сольный альбом саксофониста "Bela Fleck And The Flecktones" Джеффа Коффина.

     Artist: The Rippingtons
     Album: Live! Across America
     Label: Peak Records
     Year: 2000
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Tracks: 14
     Total Time: 65:03
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ VBR
     File Size: 51 MB + 51 MB


     While most artists merely appreciate the applause of their fans, Russ Freeman and his Rippingtons literally take requests; though they had put out Live in L.A. in 1993, their rabid fans flooded the band's official website with requests for another live date, and this set (recorded in numerous locations throughout the U.S. on 1999's Topaz tour) is the fun-filled result.

     Artist: Grant Geissman
     Album: Business As Usual
     Label: Positive Music
     Year: 1995
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Tracks: 12
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ VBR
     File Size: 87 MB



     A popular contemporary jazz recording artist in his own right, Grant's previous four releases have all been in the Top 10 on the national airplay charts. Two of these albums, Flying Colors and Time Will Tell, rose to the #1 position on the Gavin, MAC, and Radio and Records charts!
On Business As Usual, his tenth solo album and the first for Positive Music, Grant makes a triumphant return to musical expression on the electric guitar, after concentrating solely on acoustic treatments for his last four albums. Says Grant, "I found that I missed the snap and funky quality that I can get out of the electric guitar. I haven't abandoned the acoustic but on this album, I allowed myself to pick the most appropriate instrument for each song."

     Artist: B. B. King
     Album: The Vintage Years
     Label: Ace Records
     Year: 2002
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 106
     Total Time: 300+ minutes
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 192
     File Size: 7 x 57 MB + 1 x 2 MB



     This four-CD extravaganza, an import from the folks at London's Ace Records, collects 106 tracks waxed by the peerless bluesman. B.B. King recorded all of the songs for Hollywood's Modern group of labels in the 1950s and 1960s.

     Artist - Wyinton Kelly
     Album - Kelly Blue
     Label - OJC/Riverside
     Year - 1959, release - 1989
     Quality - MP3@320kbs/s
     Size: 61,9 + 61,9 + 3,03 Mb
     Total time - 56:35


     Прекрасный пианист, много работавший с Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Charley Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery. До 1951 года много работал в стиле R&B, затем стал одним из
лучших боповых пианистов.

     Artist: Анна Нетребко
     Video: DivX | 880x496 | 1802 Kbps | Qf 0.165
     Audio: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 | 48000Hz 320 kb/s tot, Joint Stereo
     Total Size: 89,2+97,9 Mb


     АННА НЕТРЕБКО - ЗВЕЗДА НОВОГО ПОКОЛЕНИЯ,ОПЕРНАЯ ПРИНЦЕССА.
Два прекрасных клипа с записи концерта Operngala в Баден-Бадене,3 августа 2007.

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     Artist: The Rippingtons
     Album: Wild Card
     Label: Peak Records
     Year: 2005
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Tracks: 13
     Total Time: 55:11
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ VBR
     File Size: 40 MB + 40 MB



     After several mediocre past efforts, the Rippingtons are back with a vengence with this new CD, "Wild Card." What stands out about this CD is that not only are the compositions refreshing and creative, but the recording quality is outstanding.

     Artist: The Rippingtons
     Album:Topaz
     Label: Windham Hill Records
     Year: 1999
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Tracks: 10
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ VBR
     File Size: 35 MB + 34 MB


     Whether traveling musically to places like Aruba or Kenya, or spending a playful weekend in Monaco as he did in 1992, Russ Freeman has mastered the art of the exotic, smooth-jazz sojourn. Rather than getting a passport this time, he and the new Rippingtons lineup (with guest Paul Taylor replacing longtime saxman Jeff Kashiwa) take a trip just down the road from Freeman's Colorado spread, to the New Mexico arts community of Taos.