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 - Ella Fitzgerald
Album - Ella Sings Broadway
Label - Verve
Year - 1962, release - 2001
Quality - MP3@320kbs/s
Size - 76,3mb
Total time - 34:10


Ella Fitzgerald combined forces with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Marty Paich for this 1962
studio session covering selections from hit Broadway productions, featuring compositions by Rodgers
& Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Adler & Ross, and Frank Loesser.

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: Count Basie
     Album: Basie's Beatle Bag
     Label: Verve
     Year: 1966
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.38:10
     Size: 87,5 MB
     AMG Rating: 4 1/2 Stars


     Предлагаю вашему вниманию довольно интересный альбом - оркестр великого Count Basie исполняет бессмертные мелодии The Beatles.

     Свингующий "Michelle" - это здорово!

     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: Various Artists
     Album: Jazz Masters 60 CD Collection
     Year: 1994-96
     Label: Verve
     Genre: Jazz
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: 160 - 320 Kbps
     Time: 64:36:27
     Size: 4,65 GB (Rapidshare.com)


     Прекрасное пособие для тех, кто хочет приобщиться к джазу и определиться в своих музыкальных пристрастиях.

     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 - Artie Shaw
     Album - The Complete Gramercy Five Sessions
     Label - RCA/Bluebird
     Years: 1940/45, release - 1992
     Quality - MP3@224kbs/s
     Size - 72,8mb
     Total time - 45:28

     Предлагаю снова вернуться в замечательные времена Кларнетист, композитор, бандлидер и писатель Шоу был одной из самых выдающихся фигур в истории джаза.
     В 1940 г. Artie Shaw организовал ансамбль «Грамерси файв», ставший одним из ведущих камерных джазовых ансамблей своего времени.

     "The Gramercy Five", a small group formed out of the band (using Guarnieri on harpsichord)