Artist: Phineas Newborn
      Album: Harlem Blues
      Year: 1969
      Label:Contemporary/OJC
      Size: 90,3 mb
      Time: 37:58
      Format/Bitrate: MP3, 320 kb/sec
     AMG Rating:

      Мы уже говорили в Клубе о незаслуженно забытых или недооцененных гениях на примере Kenny Dorham. Я хочу предложить вашему вниманию хороший альбом блестящего пианиста - Phineas Newborn, который обладая большим талантом, высоким мастерством и очень серьезным отношением к музыке, все-таки оказался в чулане забвения истории

      Artist: Luther Allison
      Album: The Motown Years 1972-1976
      Release Date: February 6, 1996
      Label: Motown/ADA Sound Ltd
      Genre: Modern Electric Blues, Chicago Blues.
      Format: mp3 @ 320kbit/s
      Time: 71:48
      Size: 86+41 Mb


      Luther Allison. Еще немного. Из раннего.

      Artist: Tony Williams
      Album: Tokyo Live
      Label: Blue Note Records
      Release: 1992
      Genre: Jazz
      Bitrate: 320 kbps
      Size: 329mb
      Playing Time: 2:21:48
      AMD Rating: 5 stars

      Artist: Benny Goodman
      Album: Colecao Folha Classicos do Jazz vol 9
      Release: nov-18-2007
      Label: MEDIAfashion
      Genre: Jazz
      Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
      Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
      Total Time: 60:37 min
      Size: 45.5 MB

      Artist: The Robert Cray Band
      Album: Time Will Tell
      Release date: July 1, 2003
      Label: Sanctuary Records
      Quality: mp3 320 kB/sec (CBR)
      Total size: 49,5 Mb + 48,9 Mb
      Official site: http://www.robertcray.com

      Хочу представить вниманию клуба интересную работу группы, носящей имя своего фронт-мена и работающей в постоянном составе более 15 лет (я не говорю о приглашаемых музыкантах). Этот альбом, как, впрочем и остальные, крепок, основателен и обладает притягательностью, а тексты заслуживают отдельного внимания (одна лишь первая, "Survivor" чего стоит: "...You take a little schoolboy and teach him who to hate/ then you send him to the desert for the oil near Kuwait...").

      Artist: John Lee Hooker
      Album: This Is Hip
      Year: 1992
      Label: Charly Blues Masterworks, Vol. 7
      Format: MP3 @320kbps
      Size: 85mb (RS.com)
      Includes Covers + Liner Notes

      John Lee Hooker gives new meaning to the Muddy Waters phrase "The blues had a baby and they named it Rock and Roll". There are other Hooker collections available, but Charly was the label that got the really cool stuff together back when hardly anyone realized what truly cool music sounded like (it was the age of disco when 'the most popular music' totally [stunk]). Anyhow, this collection has a mix of well known and obscure tunes, all of which are classic rock archetypes.

      Artist: Son House
      Album: The Original Delta Blues
      Year: 1998
      Recording Date: April 1965
      Label: Columbia/Legacy
      Format: MP3 @192kbps
      Size: 77mb
      AMG: 4½ stars

      This Columbia Legacy reissue of the 1965 release is one of the few recordings available of one of the blues' founding fathers. It contains some of his best songs, which have unsurprisingly become classics of the Delta blues genre: "Death Letter," "Preachin' Blues," "Levee Camp Moan," "Pony Blues," and "Downhearted Blues" are all here. Though not as comprehensive as Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions, this CD is an excellent introduction to this seminal artist's work, revealing the creativity, passion, skillful guitar playing, and rich singing that helped form a whole new kind of music. --Genevieve Williams (Amazon.com)

      Album - Swing 39
      Artist - Django Reinhardt
      Release Date - Apr 24, 2001
      Recording Date - Mar 21, 1939-May 17, 1939
      Label - Verve
      Genre - Jazz, Swing
      Format/Bitrate - MP3/320 kbps
      Type - Compilation
      Size -(64.25+ 42.62) Mb
      AMG Rating - 4.5 Stars

      Легенды чуть ли не с рождения окружали Джанго Рейнхардта - цыгана, выросшего в таборе, не окончившего и начальной школы, не знавшего нот и игравшего искалеченной рукой, но обладавшего манерами принца и музыкальным даром гения. Он до смерти боялся привидений. Он не мог бороться со своей неодолимой тягой к картам и рулетке, и при этом одинаково хорошо играл во все игры, начиная от пинбола до пула. Он обожал кино, особенно голливудские гангстерские фильмы, позаимствовав из них моду на широкополые шляпы, которые лихо водружал набекрень, так что поля закрывали один глаз. У него была ручная обезьянка. Но конечно, главным была и остается музыка. Джанго Рейнхардт - признанный основатель цыганского джаза.     

     Artist: Livin' Blues
     Album: Blue Breeze
     Label: Ariola/Repertiore GmbH
     Year: 1976
     Format: MP3 @ 320 kbs
     Time:67:59
     Size: 90.5 + 56 Mb

      Album - Danger White Men Dancing
      Artist - The Hoochie Coochie Men feat. Jon Lord
      Release Date - 2007
      Genre - Hard Rock / Blues Rock
      Format/Bitrate - MP3/320 kbps
      Size -140 Mb

"The Hoochie Coochie Men" - новая группа, в чей состав вошли бывшие участники легендарных "Deep Purple" Jon Lord и один из самых известных бас-гитаристов в мировой истории хард-рока - Bob Daisley.
"Danger White Men Dancing" - новый студийный альбом проекта. Настоящий подарок для истинных ценителей блюза, поклонников "Deep Purple" и всех любителей хард-рока.

     Artist: Rodney Whitaker
     Album: Ballads & Blues
     Label: Criss Cross Jazz (1167 CD)
     Year: 1998, release 1999
     Format, bitrate: MP3@256 kbit/s VBR
     Time 70:22

Artist: Jackie McLean
Album: Action
Year: 1964
Label: Blue Note
Format: MP3 @320kbps
Size: 92mb (RS.com w/ 5% file recovery)
Includes Covers + Scans
AMG: 4½ stars

This recording, whose music has been reissued as part of a Mosaic Jackie McLean box set, has several selections that are quite fascinating. McLean (along with trumpeter Charles Tolliver, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Billy Higgins) plays free hard bop on "Action" (which does not have a specific set of chord changes to follow), a pair of Tolliver compositions ("Plight" being the most well known) and even the standard "I Hear a Rhapsody" (McLean's feature). Only the bluesy "Hootnan" is a bit more conventional, although the solos are far from predictable. This album is full of exciting music that has long been overshadowed. - Allmusic.com

      Artists: Stan Getz, João Gilberto
      Album: The Best of Two Worlds
      Year: 1975
      Label: Columbia
      Format: MP3 @320kbps
      Size: 107mb (RS.com) with cover
      AMG: 4 stars

      A wonderful return ot the sounds of Brazil for Stan Getz -- a 70s album that reunites him with Joao Gilberto, but in a style that's somewhat different than the pair's older Verve recordings! The sound here is looser, freer -- more in that breezy Brazilian mode that evolved out of the initial bossa years -- and Stan's tenor sounds great in the setting, with those loose yet heartfelt lines we love so much from this period! Joao's great too -- somehow even more "present" on the record than before, with that amazing ability to do so much with so little -- as on some of his own great 70s recordings. Miucha contributes some English language vocals to the record alongside Joao's Portuguese ones, and Oscar Castro Neves handled the arrangements with a nicely stripped-down style that has plenty of focus on the percussion and rhythms. Titles include a sublime English language version of "Aqua De Marco (Waters Of March)", plus the tracks "Double Rainbow", "Falsa Bahiana", "Ligia", "Izaura", "Eu Vim Da Bahia", and "E Preciso Perdoar".

      Artist: Chet Baker
      Album: Chet Is Back
      Year: 1962
      Label: RCA Italiana
      Format: MP3 @320kbps
      Size: 115mb (RS.com w/ 5% File Recovery)
      Includes Covers + Scans

      This excellent sextet album, recorded in Italy in 1962, features Chet with legendary Belgian musicians Bobby Jasper on tenor sax and flute and Rene Thomas on guitar. They blow beautifully on standards as well as tunes by Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and Oscar Pettiford.

      Artist: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson
      Album: Highwayman
      Label: Sony
      Year: 1990
      Genre: Country
      Tracks: 10
      Total Time: appr. 34 min.
      Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
      File Size: 74 MB

      It's amazing how each song highlights each one of the foursome's strong points. This CD really made me stand up and listen. The CD opens with "Silver Stallion" and one cannot help but think of bygone cowboy days. Waylon Jennings transforms "Angels Love Bad Men" into one of his trademark wicked songs. Reminds you of the "Waylon and Willie days" when everybody wanted to be an outlaw. This album would get five stars if it had included their version of "Help Me Make it Through the Night" (a danceable form of the famous Kristoferson tune). And, it's nice to know that Johnny Cash sounds as good as ever.