Artist:Wardell Gray
Album:Memorial I
Label: Prestige
Years:1949.1953
Quality Mp3 320 +covers +5% recovery
Size:128Mb

The first volume of Gray's recordings for Prestige provides a complete anatomy of a 1949 quartet session with the superb rhythm section of pianist Al Haig, bassist Tommy Potter, and drummer Roy Haynes, a unit then working regularly with Charlie Parker. The multiple takes of "Twisted" reveal the evolution of a bop masterpiece, a performance that has been further immortalized in Annie Ross's vocal version of Gray's improvisation (available on King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings). The final four tracks come from a 1953 session led by vibraphonist Teddy Charles, with strong contributions from Gray and another brilliant and doomed bopper, the young Sonny Clark.

     Artist: Bobby Hackett & Jack Teagarden
     Album: Coast Concert/ Jazz Ultimate
     Genre: Dixieland
     Label: Dormouse
     Years: 1955, 1957
     Size: 146 Mb
     Format/Bitrate: MP3, 320 kb/sec

     Довольно долго я искала записи Джека Тигардена, попутно пытаясь понять почему он мне так нравится.
     Объяснить это мое бедное красноречие не в силах, поэтому я просто процитирую Харуки Мураками:
     "Слушать подобное исполнение, на мой взгляд, - одно из высочайших наслаждений в музыке"

     Artist: Charlie Parker
     Album: Savoy Jazz Originals: The Complete Savoy Live Performances
      Recording Date: Sept. 29, 1947-Oct. 25, 1950
      Release Date: Oct 6, 1998
      Label: Savoy
      Time: 4:30’06”
      Format: MP3 128 kbps
      Size: 95.7+95.7+52.6 Mb

      Полная коллекция (по состоянию на 6 октября 1998) концертных записей Паркера, сделанных для лейбла Savoy.
      Формат, пожалуй, достаточный, учитывая качество исходных записей.

      This three-CD box set contains all of the recordings Charlie Parker made for the Savoy label and it is overflowing with gems and an almost countless number of alternate takes. Bird was one of the most important jazzmen of all time and nearly every note he recorded (in the studios if not live) is well worth hearing.

REPOST! Today's Bird's Birthday!

     Artist: Dinah Washington and Brook Benton
     Album: The Two of Us
     Label: Mercury
     Year: 1960
     Genre: R&B
     Size: 82 MB
     Time: 50:35
     Format/Bitrate: AAC; 256 kb/s

     Новое имя в клубе - Brook Benton. В 60-70-x месяцами не выходил из Хит-парадов, очень популярный певец, с неповторимым голосом.
     Dinah Washington в Клубе хорошо знают.
     Альбом составлен так – 1 поет Дайна – 2 поет Брук – 3 дуэт и т.д. И все на загляденье здорово.

REPOST! Dinah Washington - Queen of the Blues - was born today - August 29, 1924!

     Artist: Charlie Parker & Miles Davis
     Album: BlueBird: Legendary Savoy Sessions
     Label: Disconforme
     Release: 2000 Recording Date: Nov 26, 1945; May 8, 1947
     Format: Mp3, Bitrate: 192 kbps
     Time: 01:03:23
     Size: 88.9 Mb (Rapidshare.com)

REPOST! Charlie Parker - one of the most influential of jazz musicians was born August 29, 1920.

Artists: Milt Buckner, Buddy Tate, Wallace Bishop
Album - I Giganti Del Jazz 13
Label - Curcio
Year - 1968
Quality - MP3@256 kbps (LP-rip)
Size - 80,7 mb
Total time - 44:12

Artist: Booker Little
Album: Out Front + 1
Label: Candid
Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
Size: 289 MB & 113 MB
Time: 50:16

Booker Little was the first trumpet soloist to emerge in jazz after the death of Clifford Brown to have his own sound. His tragically brief life (he died at age 23 later in 1961) cut short what would have certainly been a major career. Little, on this sextet date with multi-reedist Eric Dolphy, trombonist Julian Priester, and drummer Max Roach, shows that his playing was really beyond bebop. His seven now-obscure originals (several of which deserve to be revived) are challenging for the soloists and there are many strong moments during these consistently challenging and satisfying performances. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Bill Evans
     Album: I Will Say Goodbye
     Year: 1977
     Label: Fantasy/OJC
     Time: 37:23
     Format: MP3 @320 kbps
     Size: 117 mb (includes covers)
     AMG Rating: 4 Stars

     The title refers to the Michel Legrand piece performed twice on the date, and to the fact that pianist Bill Evans was on the verge of switching labels from Fantasy to Warner Bros. For his final Fantasy album, Evans, bassist Eddie Gómez, and drummer Eliot Zigmund perform memorable renditions of such songs as Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance," Johnny Mandel's "Seascape," and Burt Bacharach's underrated "A House Is Not a Home." The CD reissue adds two additional selections ("Nobody Else But Me" and "Orson's Theme") from this excellent series of sessions. Fine post-bop music from an influential piano giant. -- AMG

     Artist: Jacek Kochan
     Album: Corporate Highlanders
     Label: UNITY RECORDS
     Release: 1993
     Genre: modern jazz, free jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3 320 kbps
     Time: 50 min
     Size: 116 mb.

     Предлагаю вашему вниманию альбом барабанщика Яцека Кохана. Родился и начинал в Польше, затем эмигрировал в США, потом в Канаду, потом в Европу, где и исполняет весьма своеобразную смесь джаза, рока, электроники и пр.

     Artist: B.B. King
     Album: One Kind Favor
     Label: Geffen Records
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 12
     Format: MP3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320 kbit/s
     Size: 61 MB + 63 MB

     This isn't just B.B. King's best album in years, it's one of the strongest studio sets of his career, standing alongside classics such as Singin' the Blues and Lucille. Where those early titles highlighted his youthful, wailing vocals and stinging guitar, this one plays to King's current strengths: the tear-stained vibrato of his mature voice, punctuated by raunchy licks. For too long, King has drowned in slick production, propped up by stiff duets with the likes of Eric Clapton. Here, King is front and center, with a killer backing band — Jim Keltner (John Lennon, Mick Jagger) on drums, Nathan East (Clapton) on stand-up bass and Dr. John on piano — that remains in the background. King is heartbreakingly intimate on standards like Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" and John Lee Hooker's "Blues Before Sunrise." How did the 82-year-old find his old passion? With T Bone Burnett, naturally — the producer whose understated touch helped bring Robert Plant and John Mellencamp into their twilight years with dignity. Those projects were mere dress rehearsals for this one.

     Artists: Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce
     Album: When Farmer meets Gryce
     Label: Prestige / OJC
     Year: 1954-1955
     Quality: MP3 320 kbit/s +covers + 5% recovery
     Size: 88 Mb

     Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. "When Farmer Met Gryce" was truly a momentous event.

     Artists: Timeless All Stars
     Album: Timless Heart
     Label: Timeless
     Quality: MP3 320 kbit/s + 5% recovery
     Size: 84 Mb

     All star sextet with auspicious beginnings. Curtis Fuller (trombone), Harold Land (tenor sax), Bobby Hutchinson (vibes), Cedar Walton (piano), Buster Williams (bass), Billy Higgins (drums).
     A bright, clean, happy sound. Extension of MJQ.

Artist - Buck Clayton
Album - Lucky Draw
Label - OJS/ZIX
Year - 1946, release - 2006
Quality - MP3@256 kbps
Size - 64,8 mb
Total time - 36:36

This limited-edition CD features small-group swing originally issued on the H.R.S. label from three different sessions in 1946. On one date, the great trumpeter Buck Clayton heads an octet with both Trummy Young and Dicky Wells on trombones; on another occasion he leads an unusual pianoless quartet that also includes clarinetist Scoville Brown, guitarist Tiny Grimes and bassist Sid Weiss. In addition, Clayton is heard as a sideman with Trummy Young's septet, which also features clarinetist Buster Bailey. Swing was going very much out of style at the time, and these somewhat obscure dates can be considered among the final small-group swing sessions of the classic era. More importantly, all of the principals sound creative and full of spirit. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

Artist: Sarah Vaughan
Album: In the Land of Hi-Fi
Label: EmArcy MG 36058
Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
Size:111 MB & 75 MB
Time: 33:35


This single CD (whose contents are also included in the box set The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury Vol. 1) has one of the great singer's best jazz dates for EmArcy. Accompanied by an all-star orchestra arranged by Ernie Wilkins and featuring altoist Cannonball Adderley (who was near the beginning of his career), Vaughan is in superior form during these concise (around three minutes apiece) performances, particularly on "Soon," "Cherokee," "I'll Never Smile Again" and "An Occasional Man." A strong session. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

     Artists: Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin
     Album: Great Encounters
     Label: Columbia
     Year: 1978
     Quality: MP3 320 kbit/s + 5% recovery
     Size: 106 Mb

     The two great tenors, Dexter Gordon and Johnny Griffin, battle it out on in exciting fashion on live versions of "Blues Up and Down" and "Cake." Bop singer Eddie Jefferson and trumpeter Woody Shaw join Gordon and his quartet (pianist George Cables, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Eddie Gladden) on "Diggin' In" and "It's Only a Paper Moon" and Gordon takes Thelonious Monk's ballad "Ruby My Dear" as his feature. Everything works quite well on this diverse but consistent LP, one of Dexter Gordon's later efforts. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

    Artist: Joe Farrell
    Album: Sonic Text
    Label: Contemporary(original Jazz classic)
    Year : 1975
    Quality: Mp3 + 5 % Recovery
    Size: 105 Mb

   This is an excellent straight-ahead outing matching Joe Farrell (who takes four songs on tenor and one apiece on soprano and flute) with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, keyboardist George Cables, bassist Tony Dumas, and drummer Peter Erskine. Originally cut for the Contemporary label, the set has six group originals (by Farrell, Hubbard, and Cables) that are performed at the perfect length, mostly between six and eight and a half minutes (other than the 12-minute "Malibu"). The concise solos make expert use of every note, and the results are both fresh and swinging.

Artist: Abby Lincoln & Stan Getz
Album:You Gotta Pay the Band
Label: Polygram Records
Year:October 22, 1991
Quality APE & CUE
Size: 284 Mb
Total time - 57:56

Stan Getz is featured on one of his final recordings on this excellent Abbey Lincoln CD; Getz's cool tenor fits in very well with Lincoln's voice, making one wish that they had met up previously. With pianist Hank Jones, bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Mark Johnson, and (on two songs) Maxine Roach's viola completing the group, it is not surprising that Lincoln sounds typically inspired. Actually, her version of "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" is a bit of a misfire with its dated lyrics (which should have been modified and altered to fit a female). However, "Bird Alone," Freddie Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring" (given lyrics by Lincoln), and five of her originals more than compensate. Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

   Artist: Gilles Coquard
   Album: Reïsa Whith Bireli L & Marcel Loeffler
   Genre Jazz Swing Manouche
   Label: Fairtune
   Years 2001
   Country: France
   Format: Mp3 320 kbps, MP3 160 kbps, Flac

   Gilles Coquard continues with Reïsa a work of arrangement with many artists and produces a more personal expression within the group formed for the Reïsa album, with Marcel Loeffler, Pascal Martinez and Pascal Coquard. Fine melodist, it offers to us with this last disc a particularly melody jazz where the musical topics engraved with precision, answer of great beaches of controlled improvisations which give the share bell to instrumental virtuosity. Between subtle recoveries and compositions, Reïsa proposes a ludic jazz, that the complicity of the three musicians makes available to all the public ones.

     Artists: Kenny Dorham & Barry Harris
     Album: Kenny Dorham meets Barry Harris Quartet
     Year: 1964
     Lablel: RLR Records
     Quality: MP3 320 + covers + 5 % recovery
     Size: 92 Mb

     Artists: Stephane Grappelli & Martial Solal
     Label: Atlantic Jazz
     Released: 6/12/1990
     Total time: 1:03:25
     Formate: MP3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 95,4 + 55 MB

     Violinist Stephane Grappelli has recorded so many fine sets during the past two decades that although virtually all of them are enjoyable, most are not essential. This fine concert performance with a quartet (which also includes the guitars of Marc Fosset and Martin Taylor) is typical of Grappelli's ability to infuse familiar melodies that he has performed a countless number of times with enthusiasm, energy and wit. Pianist Martial Solal and violinist Svend Asmussen make guest appearances but most of the focus is on the great Grappelli, who never seems to have an off day. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide.