Artist: Damnation
     Album: Mentally Trapped
     Year: 2002
     Label: self produced
     Genre: prog metal, symphonic metal
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
     Size: 70 MB


     Very good Israeli Prog Metal group that unfortunately didn't have lots of success and stopped existing round 2005.

     Artist: Ron Thal
     CD title: The Adventures of Bumblefoot
     Release year: 1995
     Genre: rock, prog rock, prog metal, jazz rock.
     Quality: 256 kbps
     Size: 89 MB

     Superb original guitarist who plays many styles and did not get enough attention in my opinion. His sound is excellent, he's got great technique and wonderful feel. His melodies are cool and can be a mix of metal with jazz, latin or any other music style. very very nice solo's and open parts for improvisation. This is his best cd as i see it.
     If you're a guitar lover... GET IT NOW!!!! Tell me after listening what did you think.

     Artist: Archie Shepp, Siegfried Kessler
     Album: First Take
     Label: Archie Ball ARCH0104
     Year: 2003
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kb/s
     Time: ~72 min
     Size: 162,14 MB

     This is the first release from a new label dedicated to the music of Archie Shepp. At this point in his career, the saxophonist's output has shown a serious lack of consistency, but this meeting between two longtime accomplices proves that he can still deliver. Originally, this was German pianist Siegfried Kessler's live date, and Kessler incidentally decided to invite Shepp. As his excellent recordings with Horace Parlan also bear witness, the saxophonist seems to entertain a special relationship with pianists. He met Kessler in the late '60s and this date gives them the opportunity to revisit some themes that they have often played together, such as the opener, an epic rendition of "Les Matins Noirs," which features Shepp on soprano and is alone worth the price of admission. His raw and emotional blowing is instantly gripping. Elsewhere, he remains in full command of his instrument, constantly switching from tenor to soprano, and delivers some beautifully heartfelt and expressive lines -- he has seldom sounded so moving and dramatic. Kessler can be economical, which always leaves many options to the saxophonist, but what strikes most is his percussive style sustained with a very strong left hand. On most tracks, Shepp sings and his smoky voice has enough endearing power to overcome its limitations. While First Take is far from the innovations and urgency of Shepp's early recordings, it is a fine addition to the saxophonist's collection.
     After a long lapse of time, they are united once again on this fine album - recreating the natural empathy they felt at their first chance meeting - when Shepp heard one of his own compositions ”The Morning of the Blacks” (only then recently recorded) being played by Siggy in a Paris night club. They reinvestigate the piece for 23 minutes on the wonderful, opening track of this album, before going on to play their versions of Strayhorn’s ”Lush Life”, Ellington’s ”Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” and 3 more Shepp originals, with a brief detour to Monk’s ”Misterioso”. Two master musicians in complete, heartfelt harmony. Shepp, playing soprano & tenor and occasionally providing evocative vocals, plays as expressively as ever - a real return to form.

     Artist: Peter Green
     Album: The Anthology (Deluxe) [4CD Box set]
     Label: Salvo
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: EAC/CD Image | Flac+Cue | Covers
     Size: 1.50Gb
     AMG Rating:

   "...his graceful passion is in plentiful supply..."
   For many, Peter Green is the finest blues guitarist this country ever produced. True, Clapton had the more dazzling technique, and there were several who could probably leave him standing in terms of mere notes-per-second; but such pissing contests completely miss the point, which is that the blues is a matter of feeling. And either none felt quite as deeply as Greeny, or none could express their feelings with quite his subtlety. His graceful passion is in plentiful supply on this four-disc career retrospective, which tracks Green's progress from sideman in future Camel leader Peter Bardens' Looners, through the brief stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers that first established his reputation, to his apotheosis with Fleetwood Mac and the comeback with his own Splinter Group that followed his lengthy period in reclusion. Punctuated by collaborations with notables such as Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Otis Rush and Dr John, it's an object lesson in how to simultaneously expand a roots form, both creatively and commercially, without sacrificing the authentic emotional power at its heart.
   ~ Andy Gill, The Independent

     Artist: Kenny Drew and Hank Jones Great Jazz Trio
     Album: New York Stories
     Label: Alfa Jazz (LP)
     Release: 1990
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 132 MB




     Моим друзьям по Клубу....

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     Artist: Lee Morgan
     Album: Standards
     Year: 1967
     Label: Blue Note / EMI
     Time: 42:10
     Quality: MP3 @320kbps
     Size: 100mb (RS.com) with cover

     Artist - Art Farmer
     Album - On The Road
     Label - OJC/Contemporary
     Year - 1976, release - 1990
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 94,4 mb
     Total time - 41:16


     This CD reissue of a Contemporary set from 1976 features a logical but only one-time collaboration between flugelhornist Art Farmer and altoist Art Pepper. With pianist Hampton Hawes, bassist Ray Brown, and either Steve Ellington or Shelly Manne on drums completing the quintet, the five standards and Hawes' original "Downwind" were certainly in good hands. A special highlight is a duet version of "My Funny Valentine" featuring Farmer and Hawes. Everyone plays up to par on this spirited straight-ahead set. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist:Ella Fitzgerald
     Album:Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas
     Label:Capitol (LP)
     Release Date:1967
     Studio/Live:Studio
     Mono/Stereo:Stereo
     Format/Bitrate:MP3/320
     Time:27:27




     ELLA FITZGERALD'S CHRISTMAS is among the best Christmas albums of all time...

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     Artist & Band: Арсенал и А.Козлов (A. Kozlov and Arsenal)
     Title Of Album: Лучшее (the best)
     Year Of Release: 2001
     Label: BEST records
     Genre, Style: Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Fuzion
     Type, Quality: mp3, 256 kbps
     Total Time: 01:17:40
     Total Size: 142.53 MB

     After years of making an impact on the Soviet Union's jazz underground, saxophonist Alexey Kozlov formed the Arsenal in the early '70s. The band, which became one of the most popular jazz-rock groups in the Soviet Union, released a number of LPs from 1976 to 1991. These were later collected and reissued by Boheme Music as a four-CD box set, Scorched By Time. In 1986, Kozlov became a regular host of TV and radio programs on jazz and rock history and in 1989 he published one of Russia's first-ever objective histories of western rock music, entitled Rock Music: Roots and Development. The '90s brought some new collaborations and musical directions for Kozlov, who began to work with new age styles, as well as undertaking a critically acclaimed collaboration with the Shostakovich String Quartet. The album which resulted from that collaboration, Alexey Kozlov and the Shostakovich String Quartet, was released by Boheme Music in 2000. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide

Московская группа АРСЕНАЛ основана в 1973 году джазовым саксофонистом Алексеем Козловым. В начале своей музыкальной карьеры группа играла джаз и джаз-рок. В дальнейшем АРСЕНАЛ превратился в ансамбль, экспериментирующий в самых современных стилях. Одна из первых в стране группа освоила стиль "фьюжн" и "новую волну". В годы тотального увлечению брейком коллектив играл и в этом стиле. Выступления АРСЕНАЛА часто превращались в сценические шоу. После 1986 года, не отказываясь от электронных инструментов, группа вернулась к авангарду и джаз-року.

     Artist: Oscar Peterson
     Album: An Oscar Peterson Christmas
     Label: Telarc
     Studio/Live: Studio
     Mono/Stereo: Stereo
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320 kbps
     Size: 122 MB
     Time: 52:10




    Волшебный рождественский альбом от Oscar Peterson ...


     
     

     Performer: LaVerne Butler
     Title: Day Dreamin'
     Year: 1994
     Label: CHESKY RECORDS
     Quality: mp3@256 kbps
     Size: 85 mb

     With LaVerne Butler having provided so much passionate, intense hard bop on her debut album, No Looking Back, it came as quite a surprise when the singer took a more mellow and laidback approach on her second album, Day Dreamin', which was devoid of loud horn solos and found her joined by an intimate piano trio. Not thrilled to hear Butler interpreting songs by the Isley Brothers and Aretha Franklin, some jazz purists dismissed the CD as lightweight quiet storm music and argued that Butler should have stuck with standards and hard bop. But in fact, Day Dreamin' has a lot going for it. By choosing less obvious material, Butler was taking chances, and they pay off handsomely. The Isleys' "For the Love of You" and Franklin's "Day Dreamin'" work well in an acoustic jazz setting, as does Brazilian singer Dori Caymmi's "Photograph." This CD can function as mood music, but it's personal, heartfelt mood music that is as rewarding as it is thoughtful.

     Artists: Various
     Album: Black Saint Story
     Genre: Jazz and Free Jazz
     Quality: mp3 - 320 kbps
     Time: 74:21 minutes
     Size: ~ 150 MB
     Includes scans and info

     Artist: Masaru Imada
     Album: Andalusian Breeze
     Genre: Jazz, Fusion
     Label: Trio
     Year: 1980
     Quality: MP3@320 kbs/s
     Size: 90 mb

     This LP by japanese pianist Masaru Imada was released in 1980 on Trio Records, the players are Masaru Imada on piano, Mitsuaki Furuno on bass, Shinji Mori on drums, Yuji Imamura on percussion and Kazumi Watanabe on guitar.

     Artists: IL Divo
     Album: The Christmas Collection
     Label: Syco Music/Columbia Records
     Year: 2005
     Genre: Classical Pop vocal
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.37:01
     Size: 85 MB



     Красивая рождественская музыка...

     Краткая информация о популярной вокальной группе...

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: A Twist of Marley Jazz tribute
     Year: 2002
     Format: MP3
     Quality: 256 kbps
     Размер: 115 MB