Artist: Astrud Gilberto
     Album: Astrud Gilberto Canta In Italiano
     Year: 1968
     Original Release Date: 1968
     Label: Verve
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: MP3/192 kb
     Size: 44.7 MB


     Astrud Gilberto (born March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award winning song "The Girl from Ipanema".
She sang on the influential album Getz/Gilberto featuring Joгo Gilberto, Stan Getz, and Antonio Carlos Jobim. She had never performed professionally, and sang on the recordings at the suggestion of her husband, Joгo Gilberto (they divorced in the mid-1960s).
Gilberto's recording of "The Girl from Ipanema" established her as a jazz and pop singer.
Astrud Gilberto received the "Latin Jazz USA Award for Lifetime Achievement" in 1992, and was inducted to the "International Latin Music Hall of Fame" in 2002. Although not officially retired, Gilberto announced in 2002 that she was taking "indefinite time off" from public performances

     Artists: Earl Hines & Roy Eldridge
     Album: At The Village Vanguard
     Label: Xanadu
     Year: 1965, release:1975
     Quality: MP3, VBR
     Size: 75,8 mb


     This 1965 evening at the Village Vanguard is not very well described by the CD title, as Earl Hines and Roy Eldridge appear together on only one track, a brief rendition of "Blue Moon." The pianist opens and closes the disc with long medleys of favorites, with all of the flashy runs and flurries that one expects from Hines. Eldridge plays muted trumpet exclusively, heard on the venerable favorite "I Can't Get Started" and an original blues by bassist George Tucker (who tragically died very young of a cerebral hemorrhage later that year), with the dependable drummer Oliver Jackson rounding out the rhythm section throughout the set. The recording quality has an informal air, with the microphones giving the listener a front row seat in the famous night club. Unfortunately, the master tape runs out before Hines completes his second medley ("Black Coffee" and "I Wish You Love"). This enjoyable CD is becoming harder to find with the demise of the @Xanadu label only a few years after its reissue. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

     Artist: Erroll Garner
     Album: Mambo Moves Garner
     Label: Mercury
     Release: 1991
     Orig Release: 1954
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 119 MB
     Time: 51:54


     Зажигательные ритмы Mambo от Erroll Garner

     Enjoy....

REPOST
Mr. Garner died on January 2, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

     Artist: Erroll Garner
     Album: Encores in Hi-Fi
     Label: Tristar (LP)
     Release: 1956
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/256
     Size: 76 MB
     Time: 41:11



     Очередная встреча с Erroll Garner

     Вы только послушайте Humoresque (А. Дворжака) - какая прелесть!....

          Artist:Carol Kidd
          Album: Debut
          Label: Linn records AKD 228
          Quality: FLAC
          Size: 891 mb
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          Recorded in 1984, this title features standards such as The More I See You and We'll Be Together Again, plus a witty Mel Torme arrangement of I Like To Recognise The Tune. Carol is supported by her excellent trio, whose long-standing collaboration ensures sensitive and instinctive performances.

          Her best known admirers include Frank Sinatra, who personally invited her to open for him at his Scottish shows, and Tony Bennett who, following a live performance, enthused to Carol: "Where have you been?! You should be world famous!"

     Carol Kidd's debut album confirmed her status as a leading jazz singer of modern times and marked the beginning of a career spanning three decades. Carol remains a popular performer in the UK and worldwide, performing sell-out concerts in Jakarta, Bali, Singapore and most recently China in 2007. She was a particular favourite of the late Ronnie Scott. In recent years jazz legends such as George Chisholm, Buck Clayton, Eddie Thomson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Cliff Hardie, Bob Brookmeyer and Martin Taylor have been pleased to work alongside and enthuse about Carol's singing.

     Artist:David Darling
     Album: Cycles
     Year: 1982
     Label: ECM
     Size: 120 Mb
     Quality: MP3 320 Kbps
     Time: 45:59

     Cellist David Darling, best known at the time for his long stint with Paul Winter's Consort, mostly performs spacy ballads on this ECM release. Teamed up in different combinations (three unaccompanied solos, a duet, two trios and a quintet number) with Collin Walcott (who doubles on sitar and tabla), pianist Steve Kuhn, Jan Garbarek (on tenor and soprano), acoustic guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves and bassist Arild Andersen, Darling and his sidemen give the music a wide variety of sounds. However, the sleepy mood is very much in the stereotypical ECM mold, making this set mostly of interest for selected tastes. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist:Sonny Stitt
     Album: Live at the Hi-Hat
     Label: Blue Note
     Year: 1954, release: 1993
     Format: Flac
     Size: 225 Mb




     Sonny Stitt is in excellent form on this Roulette CD. Recorded live at a Boston club, Stitt uses a local rhythm section (pianist Dean Earl, bassist Bernie Griggs and drummer Marquis Foster) as he jams on a variety of standards. Stitt mostly switches between alto and tenor, but on "Tri-Horn Blues" he takes solos not only on both of those saxes, but also on his rarely heard baritone. Overall, this CD gives one a good all-around sampling of early Sonny Stitt. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

     Artist: Augusto Mancinelli
     Album: Jazz Work
     Label: Splasc(h)
     Year:1995, release:1997
     Quality:mp3@320k
     Size:73+59 mb

     Augusto Mancinelli is a guitar player whose roots lie in the early jazz years of Wes Montgomery and the middle-period soul/blues years of Grant Green. As such, he possesses tremendous chops, impeccable taste, and a truly endearing tone. On 16 tunes (the vast majority of them originals), he paints his particular jazzbo blues all over the place. Mancinelli digs deep along with his rhythm section to cover the guitar's nuanced place in jazz history, while making it swing red, hot, and blue throughout the program. Of the originals, "Sassi Neri," with its whispering balladic opening, is the most notable. Mancinelli's tone shifts from an elongated series of trills into the melody, which is a Pat Metheny-like chordal dance, and then into a Montgomery two-string arpeggio meditation, all before the rhythm section kicks into gear. When it does, the tone moves into euphoric, six-string bliss, with stinging swathes of notes arranged in patterns that cover jazz, blues, groove, italian folk music, and swing. This is indicative of Mancinelli's style. He alternates between playing many and few notes, all the while trusting the rhythm section to point his way ever further into the heart of a composition. Most of the covers are journeyman-like and don't succeed as well as the originals, though there is nothing particularly wrong with them. Mancinelli's read of Ray Noble's bop classic "Cherokee" is an exception. True to the Charlie Parker dictum that one needed to be able to play the tune in all 12 keys and improvise with scalar invention in each, Mancinelli tears the lid off the bop songbook with this one. He moves so quickly from B flat to C sharp, covering the turnarounds with the keys in between, that it's dizzying. His swiping of one scale to fit another and bridge them both with chords of his own design is intimidating and dexterous. Finally, as he shakes arpeggios out of the jazz tree, he begins to speed up an already impossibly fast tune, and double times the band without a seam. It's a breathtaking introduction to a guitarist listeners should be hearing a lot more about than they are. What a debut. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

     Artist: The Wynton Kelly Trio with Special Guest Hank Mobley
     Album: Live At Left Bank Jazz Society Baltimore
     Year: 1967
     Quality: MP3 @ 320kbps
     Tracks: 6
     Time: 45:43 + 43:41
     Size: 213mb (RS.com) with Covers & Scans
     Label: Fresh Sound

     Wynton Kelly's four years with Miles Davis from 1959 to 1963 really put him into a special jazz category and for which he is probably best known. On leaving Davis he again formed his own trio, this time using his former rhythm section colleagues from the Miles Davis quintet, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb. Much in demand throughout the 1950s and 60s, Kelly also worked and recorded with Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, J.J. Johnson, George Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter and Clark Terry, plus, as here, Hank Mobley.

     Artist: Johnny Smith
     Album: Wild Horses Rock Steady
     Year: 1971
     Label: CTI
     Quality: mp3@320 + covers

     Hammond's trademark B-3 work is showcased here on six extended cover versions of tunes from the pop vernacular. The lineup includes guitarists George Benson, Eric Gale, and Melvin Sparks, saxophonists Grover Washington, Jr. and Pepper Adams, bassist Ron Carter (playing electric as well as double bass), and drummers Bernard Purdie and Billy Cobham! There are grooves galore in this wondrously mixed set, from the smoking guitar breaks in the read of Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady" to the syncopated organ pyrotechnics in "It's Impossible," with Washington playing his ass off around Hammond's organ breaks, and the beautiful horn arrangements by James in "Peace Train." The funky-butt glimmer in "I Don't Know How to Love Him" could have been played by the Stax/Volt horns with a Funk Brothers rhythm section. James weaves a string section in harmonic counterpoint to Hammond's organ in the melody, creating a moving tapestry of textures against the backbeat. But nothing can prepare the listener for the closing cover of Jagger and Richard's "Wild Horses," with a military snare beat providing an unlikely intro to an "All Along the Watchtower"-like progression that transforms itself seamlessly into a darkly minor reading of the original melody, with beautiful fills by Benson and Sparks. When the horns kick in during the refrain with plenty of fuzz guitar and bass over the top, the listener falls headlong into the magic of dirty groove and roll. This is a bona fide classic of the era and is well worth the investment on CD.

          Artist: John Hammond
          Album: So Many Roads
          Year: 1965
          Quality: mp3@320Kbps
          Size: 86MB (covers) +240 Mb (flac)
          Label: Vanguard
          Total time: 38:33

     Artist: Coleman Hawkins
     Album: Bouncing With Bean/Blues Changes
     Label: TIM CZ
     Year: 1938-1943, release 2001
     Genre: jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320
     Time:65:13
     Size: 100MB+ 38MB +100Mb + 46Mb

     Продолжаю выкладывать пластинки Коулмена Хокинса. Сегодня будут 4 и 5 пластинка из комплекта "Coleman Hawkins - Portrait". Надеюсь, что кому нибудь понравится. 2:0

"As far as I'm concerned, I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first, right? As far as myself, I think I'm the second one." -- Lester Young, 1959 interview with Jazz Review]

     Artist - Count Basie
     Album - High Voltage
     Label - MPS
     Year - 1970
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 76,2 mb
     Total time - 34: 29




     A dozen generally excellent standards are given overly brief interpretations by the Count Basie Orchestra. Chico O'Farrill was responsible for the arrangements and he should have given the band more space in which to explore these tunes. Since only one number exceeds four minutes in length, none get much beyond the melody. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist - Count Basie
     Album - Basic Basie
     Label - MPS
     Year - 1969
     Quality - MP3@320kb/s
     Size - 78,2mb



     Прекрасный, довольно редкий
     диск известнейшего бигбенда!




     

Artist: Stanley Turrentine
Album:Never Let Me Go
Label: Blue Note
Year:1963, release:1992
Quality: mp3;320 kbps
Size: 104 mb
Total time: 45:28

This 1961 groove date by Stanley Turrentine is an example of him at his fiery peak. Far from the slow groover of the CTI years, Turrentine's early Blue Note sides were massive and bright, saturated in deep soul and blues. This set featured Turrentine's wife, organist and composer Shirley Scott, and a pair of alternating rhythm sections. The first is Major Holley on bass and Al Harewood on drums, and the second is with Sam Jones and Clarence Johnston. Latin Conguero Ray Barretto appeared with the Holley/Harewood band. The set opens with a stomping version of Lloyd Price's "Trouble," with Scott taking the early solo while driving the groove. Turrentine burns the edges of the tune and Barretto punches up the middle with decorative flourishes and fills. This is followed by the a deeply moving read of "God Bless the Child." With Turrentine playing in his smokiest, silkiest, Ben Webster-inflected tone. Scott's solo, by contrast, is pure blues. The coolest tune on the set is "Major's Minor," written by Stanley and Shirley. With its seeming quotations from "So What?" and "Chim Chim Cherie," in the foreground, it gives way to a completely funky blues, which is a bit of a surprise. But the easy swing and in-the-pocket saxophone soloing punctuated by fat, grooved-out chords by Scott make it the gem it is. The alternate rhythm section of Jones and Johnston appear on the title track. This is one of those grand ballads where the organ acts as the testifying pulpit from which to speak, and Turrentine not only speaks, he weeps and whispers and wails here. All the while his rhythm section layers washes of percussion and muted changes in ever-present but subtle shades of blue. It's a stunner. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

     Artist: Bill Carrothers
     Album: After Hours, Vol. 4
     Label: Go Jazz
     Year: 1998
     Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 62:02
     Size: 140.3 Mb

     This piano trio recording by Bill Carrothers (William Gaylord Carrothers III) was released on the tiny Go Jazz label in 1998, but it was unknown to me until I recently visited Carrothers' website. Thinking this collection of ballad standards would be ideal for my weekly radio program "NightTown," I immediately ordered it.
     I have been fascinated by Carrothers' playing since the Berman Music Foundation brought him to Lincoln in April 1998 as part of A Band in All Hope, a trio also featuring Anton Denner on saxophone and Bill Stewart on drums. That performance at Westbrook Auditorium was a revelation, largely because of Carrothers' unusual technique and utterly unique sense of melody and time. I also share his love of Civil War-era folk music and frequently listen to his solo piano recording "The Blues and the Grays."
     "After Hours" is similar to that release in the pianist's use of shifting, otherworldly harmonies and a free rhythmic sense. With sympathetic partners Billy Peterson on bass and Kenny Horst on drums, Carrothers paints these well-known tunes in broad impressionist sweeps, hinting at the true melody, then delving into the darker recesses of harmony and meter. The tempos are sometimes painfully slow. On sad songs of lost love, like "In the Wee Small Hours," "It's So Easy to Remember" and "Young and Foolish," the dirge-like tempos and wistful meandering of the melody seem intensely melancholic, even suicidal. Indeed, the overwhelming despair of "Chelsea Bridge" is enough to precipitate a leap into the nearest river. Perhaps that's what makes Carrothers' playing so enthralling is his interpretations reveal the immense sadness at life's core.
     Even the somewhat more "upbeat" tunes here, such as "On Green Dolphin Street" and "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," can transport the listener to an uneasy state of mind. By their quirky moods and dark harmonies, we know for certain that we are not in the safe, predictable hands of a George Shearing or a Diana Krall. As much as I love this stuff, I'm afraid that if I play it on NightTown "that nocturnal refuge for the romantic heart" - I may have to open a counseling hotline to handle all the calls from depressed listeners.~ By Tom Ineck

     Artist: Ленинградский ансамбль джазовой музыки п/у Давида Голощекина
     Album: 15 лет спустя
     Label: «Мелодия» С60 20507 007
     Year: 1983, release 1984
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbit/s LP-rip
     Time: 37:14
     Size: 52 MB

Поздравляю всех с наступившим Новым годом!

     Предлагаю послушать замечательную, на мой взгляд, запись.
Заранее прошу прощения за качество записи - диск не в идеальном состоянии и опыта подготовки у меня нет

Давид Голощекин. Биография

     Artist: Antonio Carlos Jobim
     Album: The Man From Ipanema (3CD set)
     Label: Verve
     Release Date: Nov. 21, 1995
     Year: 1963-1994
     Genre: Jazz
     Quality: Mp3@320 Kbps
     Size: 3CDs, 6 files - 426.91M
     Total Time: 74:52; 52:17; 64:22
AMG Rating:

Issued nearly a year after Jobim's death, this three-CD set is ground zero, the place to start if you don't have any Jobim in your collection or for anyone who wants a single package of his multifaceted art. The set encompasses not only Jobim's own sporadic work for Verve from 1963 until his final 1994 Carnegie Hall concert and the two A&M albums of 1967 and 1970, but also sessions led by Stan Getz, Joao, and Astrud Gilberto in which Jobim appeared as a sideman. Guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, who selected the music for this set, follows a unique game plan, devoting disc one to vocal renditions of Jobim's songs, disc two to instrumental versions, and disc three to multiple comparisons of a few Jobim standards by different performers. The selections are often adventurous, and the programming digs deeply into Jobim's PolyGram catalog for such overlooked gems as the bossa waltz "Mojave," the sly "Captain Bacardi," and the self-mocking "Chansong." For casual listening, discs one and two flow beautifully, and even disc three works, for despite the repetition of tunes, the approaches are varied enough to keep one's attention. Jobim collectors probably have almost everything on the set anyway, as there are no unreleased tracks other than a humorous uncredited rehearsal of "Aguas de Marco" tacked onto the end of "Vivo Sonhando." But they are certain to be attracted by the unique packaging -- a double-spiraled fold-out book containing lots of fascinating interviews and essays, and three discs wrapped in paper cutouts environmentally designed to look like fish, flowers, and leaves. The CD era's most imaginative graphics department has done it again. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

     Artist & Band: VA
     Title Of Album: Jazz For A Rainy Afternoon
     Year Of Release: 1998
     Genre, Style: Jazz
     Type, Quality: mp3, VBR kbps
     Total Time: 56:42
     Total Size: mp3 - 92.95 Мб

     Artist: Gerry Mulligan
     Album: The Original Quartet with Chet Baker
     Label: Pacific Jazz/Capitol records, Limited Edition Release
     Year: Rec. Jun 10, 1952-May 20, 1953/rel. 1998
     Format: MP 3 @320 Kb/s
     Time: CD 1(67:54) + CD 2(63:33)
     Size: CD 1(95.4+35.1) Mb + CD 2(95.4+29.1) Mb

     AMG rating: