Label - Columbia/ Legacy
Release - 1997
Quality - MP3, 320Kb/s
Size- 85,8 + 33,5 Mb


Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy is a 1954 live release by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, described by All Music as "Louis Armstrong's finest record of the 1950s" and "essential music for all serious jazz collections".[1] Columbia CD released the album on CD in 1986 in a much altered form, with alternative versions in place of many of the original songs, but restored the original with its 1997 re-issue, which also included additional tracks: a brief interview by the producer, George Avakian, with W.C. Handy; a joke told by Louis Armstrong; and several rehearsal versions of the songs.

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     Artist - Louis Armstrong
     Album - Louis Armstrong's All Stars
     Label - Storyville
     Years - 1961/62, release - 1986
     Quality - MP3@320 kb/s
     Size - 92,2 mb
     Total time - 40:34

      Artist: Louis Armstrong
      Album: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (4 CD Boxed Set)
      Recording Date: Apr 6, 1923-Oct 1934
      Release: 1994
      Label: Sony
      Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
      Size: 88MB, 97MB + 5MB, 97MB +7MB, 97MB + 15MB

      Louis Armstrong is considered to be the most influential jazz musician of all-time. This 4 CD boxed set of his early stuff is truly the roots of modern jazz. This is an essential release especially if you don't already have a lot of early Armstrong in your collection.

REPOST!

Armstrong often stated in public interviews that he was born on July 4, 1900 (Independence Day in the USA), a date that has been noted in many biographies. Although he died in 1971, it wasn't until the mid-1980s that his true birth date of August 4, 1901 was discovered through the examination of baptismal records. So, today we celebrate the King's Birthday!

     Artist: Bobby Timmons
     Album: The Soul Man!
     Label: Prestige
     Year: 1966
     Quality: MP3 @320 kbps
     Size: 98 mb (RS.com) Includes Covers + Scans

     The Soul Man! is beautiful, elegant music and, contrary to what one might expect from a straightforward Prestige session, it's made up entirely of compelling, memorable originals. When the album was recorded, both Wayne Shorter and Ron Carter were in the second Miles Davis quintet, and it appears from this record that they were willing to contribute original compositions for a smaller unit under someone else's leadership, even someone as modest as Bobby Timmons, who was essentially just a reliable, bluesy pianist, while Miles was a giant.
     Plenty of funk, blues, and soul-jazz, plus great piano.

     Artist: Bob Dylan
     Album: Blood on the Tracks
     Label: SONY
     Orig Year: 1975
     Release Date: 06/01/2004
     Genre: Folk
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 60,2+63,3 MB

     Following on the heels of an album where he repudiated his past with his greatest backing band, Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely quiet, acoustic-based album. But this is hardly nostalgia -- this is the sound of an artist returning to his strengths, what feels most familiar, as he accepts a traumatic situation, namely the breakdown of his marriage. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve. That's not to say that it's an explicitly confessional record, since many songs are riddles or allegories, yet the warmth of the music makes it feel that way. The original version of the album was even quieter -- first takes of "Idiot Wind" and "Tangled Up in Blue," available on The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3, are hushed and quiet (excised verses are quoted in the liner notes, but not heard on the record) -- but Blood on the Tracks remains an intimate, revealing affair since these harsher takes let his anger surface the way his sadness does elsewhere. As such, it's an affecting, unbearably poignant record, not because it's a glimpse into his soul, but because the songs are remarkably clear-eyed and sentimental, lovely and melancholy at once. And, in a way, it's best that he was backed with studio musicians here, since the professional, understated backing lets the songs and emotion stand at the forefront. Dylan made albums more influential than this, but he never made one better. [In 2003, Columbia/Legacy reissued 15 selected titles from Dylan's catalog as hybrid SACDs, playable in both regular CD players and Super Audio CD players. Each title is packaged as a digipak, containing the full original artwork. On each of the titles, and on each of the layers, the remastered sound is spectacular, a considerable upgrade from the initial CD pressings. Blood on the Tracks was one of five titles that also included a 5.1 Surround Sound mix.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine,All Music Guide

Artist: Michael Bublé
Album: Caught in the Act
Label: REPRISE / WEA
Release Date: 11/22/2005
Genre: Jazz
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
Size: 73,7MB

Featured as a PBS "Great Performances," Caught in the Act finds modern-day crooner Michael Bublé performing live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Bublé has a warm, naturally pure voice perfectly suited to the swinging standards and heartfelt contemporary ballads he's made his name with since his debut in 2003. It doesn't hurt either that here he is backed by a full big band including a string section. Bublé's between-song banter is also charming and adds to the loose and fun feel of the album. Included are such classic songs as "Summer Wind" and "The More I See You" as well as the hit "Home." ~ Matt Collar, All Music Guide

     Artist: Herb Ellis & Ray Brown
     Album: Soft Shoe
     Year: 1974
     Format: Flac

     This early Concord recording has Herb Ellis and Ray Brown co-leaders of a quintet that include Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison, Jake Hanna and George Duke in one of his very few mainstream jazz outings.

     Artist: Benny Golson
     Album: Gone with Golson
     Label: New Jazz
     Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
     Size: 232 MB & 82 MB
     Time: 36:25

     Shortly before the formation of The Jazztet, tenor-saxophonist Benny Golson and trombonist Curtis Fuller teamed up for this quintet set with pianist Ray Bryant, bassist Tommy Bryant and drummer Al Harewood. Although Golson contributed three of the six songs ("Blues After Dark" is the best-known one), the emphasis is on his playing; the tenor is quite heated on the uptempo blues "Jam for Bobbie." The CD reissue adds "A Bit of Heaven" (originally on a sampler but part of the same session) to the original program, a fine example of hard bop of the late '50s. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Ruth Brown
     Album: A Good Day for the Blues
     Quality: mp3@320 Kbps
     Size: 135 MB (scans)
     Year: 1999
     Label: Bullseye
     Total time: 60:35

     At age 70, Ruth Brown was still in full command of her powers when she cut this beaut of an album in 1998. Fueled by an all-star band featuring Duke Robillard on guitar and New Orleans session stalwarts like James Singleton on bass, keyboardist Davell Crawford, alto saxophonist Ray Moore, and a core group that also serves as her touring outfit, this record was cut live with all the musicians (including a full horn section) playing at once with no overdubs, a throwback to her recording modus operandi at Atlantic back in the 1950s. The songs are first-rate, featuring new compositions from soul tunesmith Dan Penn ("Can't Stand a Broke Man," "Be Good to Me Tonight"), torchy ballads ("Never Let Me Go," "A Lover Is Forever," "The Richest One," "I Believe I Can Fly," and "True"), riotous spoken word fables ("Cabbage Head" and "H.B.'s Funky Fable"), and solid rhythm numbers ("Hangin' by a Shoestring," "Ice Water in Your Veins"), all expertly played and sung. Far from being on the downhill side of things, Brown demonstrated that there was still plenty of gas left in the tank when she cut this one. ~ by Cub Koda, AMG

   Artist: Dick Farney
   Album: Dick Farney e seu Jazz Moderno no Auditório O Globo
   Label: EMI-Odeon
   Year: 1959, release: 1958
   Genre: Jazz
   Format, bitrate: mp3, 224kbit
   Time: 51:41
   Size: 81mb

      - Brazilian jazz, before the Bossa

   Dick Farney studied classical piano and singing with his parents, and started performing classical works on the radio. In 1937, he started working as a singer, and later transferred to Radio Mayrink Veiga, where he had his own show, “Dick Farney, his Voice and his Piano”. He played in jazz and popular music orchestras, and even performed at the Urca Casino, one of the most prominent music venues in that period. He specialized in North American repertory until releasing his big success, “Copacabana” (J. de Barro/ A. Ribeiro), in 1946, arranged by Radamés Gnattali, which would be considered the precursor of Bossa Nova.
   In the 1940s, he went to the United States, where he performed with Nat King Cole, Dave Brubeck and Bill Evans, remaining for over year. He was the first to record the American standard, "Tenderly" (Walter Gross). Farney returned to Brazil, well known for the recordings which Continental had released while he was in the USA, like "Marina" (Caymmi). In the 1950s, he became involved with the Bossa Nova movement, performing some classics like "Tereza da Praia" (Jobim/ B. Blanco), in a duet with Lúcio Alves. He also took part in the first recording of "Sinfonia do Rio de Janeiro", written by the same composers, in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s, he toured round many countries, appeared on television shows and became the owner of nightclubs in São Paulo.