Artist: John Coltrane
     Album: A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] (1965/2002)
     Year: 1965, release 2002
     Label: Impulse!
     Format: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 251 mb (RS.com)
     AMG Rating: 5 Stars

     Inevitably, certain jazz titles will be reissued over and over. Miles Davis' seminal Kind of Blue has been reissued many times, and you can safely assume that A Love Supreme will continue to be a decent seller (by jazz standards) as long as it keeps getting reissued. What separates this deluxe 2002 reissue of the John Coltrane classic from all of the previous versions that have come out over the years? For one thing, this version is a two-CD set; the previous versions were either single CDs or single LPs. While disc one offers the digitally remastered (again) contents of the original A Love Supreme, disc two is devoted to previously unreleased material — all of which is aimed at serious collectors. Part of disc two focuses on a July 26, 1965, appearance at the Antibes Jazz Festival in France, where Coltrane, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones perform A Love Supreme's four-piece suite in its entirety. (continued -->)

Artist - Onder Focan Group
Album - Swing a La Turc
Label - Kalan Music
Year - 2007
Genre - jazz, Ethnic
Quality - MP3@192kbps
Size - 88mb

Artist: Art Blakey
Album: Orgy In Rhythm Volumes 1 & 2
Year: 1957
Label: Blue Note
Time: 68:12
Format: MP3 @320kbps
Size: 151mb (RS.com)
AMG rating: 4 star

This CD reissues one of the first percussion-oriented jazz records, although it was preceded two weeks earlier by Art Blakey's obscure Columbia set Drum Suite. For the Blue Note date, which was originally released as two LPs and is now available as a single CD, Blakey enlisted quite a lineup — the leader, Art Taylor, Jo Jones, and Specs Wright on drums (with the latter two doubling on timpani); five percussionists; flutist Herbie Mann; pianist Ray Bryant; and bassist Wendell Marshall. Mann plays a variety of African wood flutes, except on the final number, a conventional blues featuring his regular flute. With percussionist Sabu leading the chanting and taking three vocals (Blakey himself sings a little on "Toffi"), the music is quite African-oriented and generally holds one's interest, preceding Max Roach's M'Boom by over 20 years. Mostly for specialized tastes, this is a set that drummers should consider essential. -- AMG

Artist: Joaqui Valdez
Album: The Jazzanova Project
Label - Vicor
Year: 2007
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Format: mp3, 320kbit
Size: 99.72 MB



Of the album, Joaqui said: "My being a ‘jazz singer’ is more experiential than technical. I like and listen to jazz music but I don’t think I deserve to be called one -- at least not yet. It will take years of listening and singing to jazz before I redibly imbibe the essence of the genre."

Artists - Hank Jones with
Dave Holland and Billy Higgins
Album - The Oracle
Label - EmArcy
Year - 1989, release - 1990
Quality - MP3@320kbps
Size:102,4+38,2mb
Total Time - 61:21

One could excuse Hank Jones if, at the time of The Oracle, the 70-year-old pianist chose to stick to revivalist bop, but the biggest surprise of this very democratic date is how modern he plays. Jones is Monkish on "Blues for CM" and often sounds more like a contemporary of McCoy Tyner than of Bud Powell, whom Hank was actually born six years before. Bassist Dave Holland has nearly as much solo space as Jones (along with contributing three compositions), and drummer Billy Higgins gets more space than usual. If there is any fault to this otherwise flawless CD (which also has some underplayed standards such as "Beautiful Love" and "Yesterdays"), it is that there are no individual features. But the interplay between the three musicians is quite impressive. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Artist: John Coltrane
Album: Live In Seattle
Year: 1965
Label: Impulse!
Format: MP3 @320kbps
Size: 320mb (RS.com)
Covers Included
AMG rating: 4½ stars

This double CD features John Coltrane at a concert in Sept. 1965 with his expanded sextet (which included pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders on tenor and Donald Garrett doubling on bass clarinet and bass). Coltrane experts know that 1965 was the year that his music became quite atonal and, with the addition of Sanders, often very violent. This music, therefore, is not for fans of Coltrane's earlier sheets of sound period or for those who prefer jazz as melodic background music. The program from the original double LP (the nearly free "Cosmos," an intense workout on "Out of This World," a bass feature and the truly wild "Evolution") is augmented by previously unissued versions of "Body and Soul" and a 34-minute "Afro Blue" that is incomplete because the tape ran out. Throughout much of this set Coltrane plays some miraculous solos, Sanders consistently turns on the heat, Garrett makes the passionate ensembles a bit overcrowded, Tyner is barely audible, Garrison drones in the background and Jones struggles to make sense of it all. This is innovative and difficult music that makes today's young lions (not to mention the pop saxophonists) sound very old-fashioned in comparison. -- AMG

Artist - Tony Bennett
Album - Sings His All Time Hall Of Fame Hits
Label - Columbia
Years - 1960s, release - 1970
Quality - MP3@320kbps (LP-rip)
Size - 80,7mb (sharebee)
Total Time - 38:04

     Artists - Coleman Hawkins with Red Garland Trio
     Album - Swingville
     Label:OJC
     Year: Rec. 1959
     Format/Bitrate - APE
     Size - (2*95+0.7) Mb

     Artist: GRP All-Star Big Band
     Release Date: Oct 5, 1993
     (Original Release Date: Jan 31, 1993)
     Label: GRP Records
     Genre: Jazz
     Styles: Big Band, Hard Bop
     Format/Bitrate: MP3@320 kbps + ape (image + .cue + .log + 5%recovery)
     Size: (73 mb + 60.8 mb) + 433 Mb
     Time: 1:03:55

     Artist: Hank Mobley
     Album: Poppin'
     Label: Blue Note
     Release Date: 1957
     Format: MP3@320
     Size: 92.3 MB
     Time: 40:30