Artist: John Coltrane
     Album: Coltrane/Prestige 7105
     Label: Original Jazz Classics
     Year: 1957
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.41:42
     Size: 93 MB

       


     Прекрасный образец раннего творчества одного из самых гениальных тенор-саксофонистов!

     This CD reissue, Coltrane, brings back the music originally released as First Trane. The classic of the set is the emotional and eerie "While My Lady Sleeps," but all six selections (including "Violets for Your Furs") are notable for tenor saxophonist John Coltrane's passionate solos. This was his first full session as a leader (as opposed to heading jam- session dates), and it also features either Mal Waldron or Red Garland on piano, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Al "Tootie" Heath, and on some numbers trumpeter Johnny Splawn and baritonist Sahib Shihab. As with 'Trane's other Prestige sessions, this valuable music is also available in his huge box set; recommended in one form or another.

     Artist: Jimmy Cobb
     Album: Marsalic Music Honors Series: Jimmy Cobb
     Label: Marsalis Music/Rounder
     Format: mp3@320; covers
     Size: 95M + 49.9M = 144.9M
     Time: 61:57




     Jimmy Cobb spent five years with Miles Davis in the 1950s and '60s, and also played with Charlie Rouse, Leo Parker, Frank Wess, Billie Holiday, Pearl Bailey, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic and Dinah Washington, among others. He took over for Philly Joe Jones in the Davis band in 1958 and was on hand for several seminal dates. He finally left, along with Paul Chambers, to team with Wynton Kelly. The trio played and recorded with Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and J.J. Johnson before it disbanded. He worked with Sarah Vaughan through the 1970s and then worked with Richie Cole, Sonny Stitt, Nat Adderley and Ricky Ford. During the '80s he worked with the Joe Albany trio.

     Artist: Mose Allison
     Album: M. A. Sings the 7th Son
     Recorded between 1957-1959
     Label: OJC
     Format:  flac, scan
     Total time: 34:26
     Genre: bluesy jazz

     This is the first time an all-vocal Mose Allison album has been issued. It contains examples of the several types of material with wich he comprises his repertoire: the blues; the 'blues ballad'; and the ballad standard...

     Artist: Chris Jones & Steve Baker
     Album: Smoke and Noise
     Label: Acoustic
     Year: 2002
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320kbps
     Time: 67:23
     Size: 128 mb

     With refreshing directness and dynamic intensity, the live recording "Smoke and Noise" captures the concentrated energy which one of the finest and most original blues duos performing today puts over on stage. Guitarist/singer Chris Jones and harp virtuoso Steve Baker need no introduction to blues lovers - through countless concerts these two exceptional musicians have won the hearts of a growing number of fans and garnered enthusiastic press reports along the way. The combination of Jones’ expressive vocals and unmistakable picking style with Baker’s uniquely recognizable harmonica sound creates its own category of musical energy. Earthy, soulful and skillfully crafted acoustic music of the highest quality – "Smoke and Noise" is a masterly fusion of traditional blues, rock&roll, songs, ballads and acoustic funk which defies classification. ~ Acoustic Music Review

     Artist - Ron Goodwin And His Orchestra
     Album - Gypsy Fire
     Label - EMI
     Year - 1957
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 91,9 mb
     Total time - 44:48

     Очень приятная вечерняя расслабляющая музыка ! Вы услышите популярные цыганские, венгерские и другие мелодии

     Very pleasant evening relaxing music! You will hear the popular Gypsy, Hungarian and other melodies performed by the

     Lurking behind this cheesy cover is a real light classics gem. Produced by George Martin, the tracks on this album show a quality of arrangement and orchestration that owes much to British composers such as Vaughn-Williams and Elgar. This is also one of the best-preserved records I have ever purchased, and you will hear the difference - the violins in particular have a clean, crisp presence that adds to the overall air of orchestral respectability.

     Artists: Conte Candoli & Lee Morgan
     Title: Double or Nothing
     Year: 1957 (2003 release)
     Label: Fresh Sound
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Size 110 MB (includes scans)

     Re-issue of all-star 1957 Hollywood studio gathering led by top trumpeters Conte Candoli and a youthful Lee Morgan with solid support from Benny Golson, Wynton Kelly, Frank Rosolino, Bob Cooper, Red Mitchell, Stan Levey, Charlie Persip, Dick Shrieve and Wilfred Middlebrooks.
     The band were all regular performers at the famous Lighthouse Club and this session was organised and overseen by club owner and bass player Howard Rumsey. Benny Golson wrote 4 new pieces for the session, plus one from Bob Cooper, Dizzy's "The Champ", "Quicksilver" by Horace Silver, "Wildwood" by Gigi Gryce, and the perennial "Bye Bye Blues".

     Artist: Bob Cooper
     Album: Group Activity
     Year: 1954
     Label: fresh sound
     Format: mp3, quality: 320 kbps
     includes full scans.

     When Bob Cooper (1925-1993) made his record debut as a leader in 1954, he was already well known for his solo work on tenor sax with Stan Kenton. He was articulate and original in both writing and playing. Cooper and his associates take us here through a wide range of musical adventures, from a slow subtle ballad, to clever contrapuntal invention, to swinging dynamic improvisation. All the arrangements and four of the compositions are by Cooper’s own pen. These recordings feature some of his most swinging, best-sounding tenor on record. Here are winds
blowing out of the west, carrying the sound of Jazz, zesty as a salt breeze off the California beach, kaleidoscopic, like spindrift.

     Artist - Oscar Peterson
     Album - Paris Jazz Concert CD 1/2
     Label - Laserlight
     Years - 1957,1960, 1961, 1963. Release - 2002
     Quality - MP3@320kbps
     Size: 158mb
     Total time - 72:30

     Oscar Peterson очень часто гастролировал в Париже, где встречался со своими друзьями - музыкантами. В предлагаемых сесииях вы можете услышать его с Roy Eldridge и Stuff Smith.

     Oscar Peterson very often toured to Paris, where he met with friends - musicians. The proposed sessions can hear it with Roy Eldridge and Stuff Smith.

     Artist: Chick Corea
     Album: The Leprechaun
     Label: Verve
     Year: 1976
     Format, bitrate: flac
     Time: 38:07
     Size: 220 MB


     Прекрасный образец стиля эклектика. В альбоме есть и классический джаз-рок. И шедевр в стиле новый академизм трек № 5 "Soft and Gentle" (Gayle Moran).
     Один из моих самых любимых альбомов в музыке вообще.

This mid-70s set as charming qualities but not so admirable execution. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide

     Artist: Joe Pass. A man and his guitar
     Album: Live at Long Beach City College
     Label: Pablo
     Year: 1984
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbis/s
     Time: 0.52:00
     Size: 120 MB
     AMG Rating: ****


     В концертной серии "A man and his guitar" фирма "Pablo" выпустила четыре альбома Джо Пасса. Предлагаю послушать первый диск этой серии...

     Artist: Lionel Loueke
     Album: Karibu
     Year: Mar 25, 2008
     Genre: Folk-Jazz, World Fusion, Post Bop
     Label: Blue Note Label
     Format: Mp3@ 320/kbs
     Size: 136,8 Mb

     Лайонел Луэке – джазовый гитарист родом из Бенина. В 2008 удостоился Jazz Awards в номинации «Восходящая звезда года».
     Луэке родился в сельской местности в западноафриканском государстве Бенин. Его старший брат был гитаристом в группах, играющих в стилях Fela Kuti и King Sunny Ade. Он стал первым вдохновителем и учителем Луэке, быстро проявшего способности в освоении инструмента. Луэке также интересовала традиционная африканская музыка, а услышав Жоржа Бенсона и Уэса Монтгомери, он решил посвятить себя джазу. В 1990 г. Луэке переехал на Берег Слоновой Кости, чтобы учиться в National Institute of Art. С 1994 по 1998 годы учился в Американской Школе Современной Музыки в Париже. В 1999 году поступил в Berklee College of Music. В 2002 году во время обучения в Thelonious Monk Institute Луэке начал выступать вместе с Теренсом Бланшардом (Terence Blanchard) и принял активное участие в записи двух его альбомов на Blue Note Label - «Bounce» и « Flow». Затем была работа с Чарли Хэйденом (Charlie Haden), Кенни Бэйрона (Kenny Barron) и в составе квартета Хэрби Хэнкока (Herbie Hancock), который, кстати, поучаствовал в качестве приглашённого гостя в двух последних лидерских работах Луэке.
     Дебютный на Блю Ноут альбом 2008г "Карибу" к карибской музыке не имеет отношения. Слово «Карибу» в переводе с суахили означает «добро пожаловать». «Луэке не просто играет на гитаре, а ещё и поёт в унисон своей импровизации, примерно, как Джордж Бенсон (George Benson), только бенинскому музыканту это гораздо труднее – играет он на гитаре практически без электроусиления. И, кстати, в таких головоломных ритмах, которые кажутся непростыми даже для африканца, не говоря уже просто о джазе.» http://www.radiorus.ru/issue.html?iid=180496

     Artist: Dexter Gordon
     Album: Tangerine dream
     Label: Prestige
     Year: 1972
     Quality: mp3@320 + covers
     Size: 104 mb

     Still considered an expatriate as he resided in Europe, Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) returned stateside in mid-1972 long enough to lay down two sessions' worth of material that would primarily be split between Tangerine (1972), Generation (1973), and Ca'Purange (1973). The opening update of the Johnny Mercer staple "Tangerine" gets things underway with a mid-tempo treatment allowing Gordon, Thad Jones (trumpet), Hank Jones (piano), and Stanley Clarke (bass) plenty of room to groove on their own as well as in the quintet with Louis Hayes' (drums) rock-solid downbeat. Oddly, the performance is not presented in its entirety, fading out nearly nine minutes in. Hank Jones shines on the easygoing "August Blues" -- the first of three Gordon originals featured on the platter. Gordon is more methodical as his interesting ideas develop organically and inspire the same from Thad Jones, who kicks things up with his dizzying double-time before handing things back to pianist Hank Jones. Clarke steps up and gives the tune a final shot of soul as the rest of the ensemble join back in. The funky "What It Was" is the most modern-sounding side on the album, with Clarke's undulating and propulsive bass giving the number a contemporary kick. Although pianist Jones decides to class up the joint with refined and bluesy contributions that rhythmically jump and jive all over the beat. From a slightly earlier date, Gordon is accompanied by Cedar Walton (piano), Buster Williams (bass), and Billy Higgins (drums) on the LP's final two entries. The interpretation of the Mancini/Mercer classic "Days of Wine and Roses" is suitably stately with Gordon's rich tone perfectly capturing the tuneful romanticism without seeming maudlin or trite. The same can be said of Walton's warm and inviting runs that glide into a short but sublime bass solo from Williams. It certainly ranks up there as one of Gordon's greats. Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) is on hand for the closer -- Gordon's "The Group" -- as listeners are given a taste of the former's strong melodic sense. His blows are resounding, particularly so when doubling up beside Gordon for maximum impact. ~ Lindsay Planer, AMG

     Artist: Oscar Peterson
     Album: Oscar In Paris, Live at the Salle Pleyel
     Year: 1996
     Release: 1997
     Label: Telarc
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
     Time: 56:34 (Disc One) + 51:45 (Disc Two)
     Size: 260 MB


     One of the most sentimental, lyrical, lifeful and amazing Oscar Peterson's live recordings I've ever heard! According to this album we can easily say that at the age of 71 Great Oscar had 25 years young hands and 100 years old wise and ever-young soul!

     The first Salle Pleyel, on the Rue Rochechoart in Paris, was opened by the Pleyel piano firm in 1830 and quickly established itself as one of the leading concert halls in Europe. Its founder, the composer, pianist, publisher, and piano maker Ignace Joseph Pleyel, was an extraordinarily versatile figure in nineteenth-century music, so popular in his own lifetime that even so remote a settlement from Paris as the whaling port of Nantucket in Massachusetts had its own Pleyel Society. His son, the pianist Camille Pleyel, continued the family traditions, and among the most famous pianists he presented at the hall was his friend Frederic Chopin, whose first and last Paris recitals were given there respectively in 1832 and 1848.

     Artist: George Wallington
     Album: Jazz at Hotchkiss
     Label: Savoy
     Year: 1957
     Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
     Size: 240 MB & 90 MB
     Time: 40:07


     This LP-length CD reissue features pianist George Wallington and his 1957 quintet (which consists of trumpeter Donald Byrd, altoist Phil Woods, bassist Knobby Totah and drummer Nick Stabulas) stretching out on five numbers. The repertoire is highlighted by Bud Powell's "Dance of the Infidels" and Dizzy Gillespie's "Ow." Both Woods and Byrd (two up-and-coming players) are in excellent form, making this an enjoyable outing for bop fans. ~ Review by Scott Yanow, AMG.

     Artist: James Cotton
     Album: Mighty Long Time
     Year: Release Date - 1991
     Format, bitrate: MP3, @320 kbit/s
     Time: 52:31
     Label: Texas Music Group
     Size: 121.42 Mb


     

     Artist: James Cotton
     Album: Deep In The Blues
     Label: Polygram Records
     Year: 1996
     Genre: Electric Chicago Blues
     Format: mp3 , bitrate: 224kb/s & APE
     Size: 91 MB & 95+95+83

     Продолжение харп-темы! Думаю, у ув. г-на Teds есть этот диск. Тем не менее, это мой подарок ему и всем членам клуба! (Извините, битрейт низковат. Виноват, понимаю... )

REPOST with APE links from Mr. tzolelan and pal47.

Grammy Award, 1996 ”Deep in the Blues” - Traditional Blues Album
Handy Award, 1997 Acoustic Album of the Year - ”Deep In The Blues”
Down Beat 45th Annual Critics Poll, 1997 ”Deep in the Blues” - Blues Album of the Year
Down Beat 62nd Annual Readers Poll, 1997 ”Deep in the Blues” - Blues Album of the Year

     Artist: Oscar Peterson
     Album: Oscar Peterson with Barney Kessel and Ray Brown
     Label: Chronological Classics 1456
     Years: 1952-1953, release 2008
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 1.11:58
     Size: 145 MB

     Ещё одна приятная компиляция от французского лейбла Chronological Classics.
     Альбом примечателен ещё и тем, что больше трети диска занимают вокальные партиии Оскара...