Artist: Berry
     Album: Mademoiselle
     Year: 2008
     Format: mp3
     Bitrate: vbr 192-256
     Total time: 46:56
     Size: 57 мб

     "Mademoiselle's debut EP shines to the heavens with restless, emotional songs of such high gloss it's hard to believe that the entire release, from artwork to final mix, is the product of just one dude, Sam Cabral... The stormy vocals are the focal point on these five tracks... Vocal expression can't be taught. You either have it or you don't. This guy has it, and manages to invoke the spirit of isolation amidst beauty, singing private pain out loud in the fearless style of Jeff Buckley, Thom Yorke or Coldplay's Chris Martin. Ghosts and gypsies haunt "Drink All Your Wine", a stand-out track anchored by a deadly bass line. "Worth Changing" is a cathartic rocker. But it's the radio-ready "Tornado" that will no doubt get Mademoiselle the most attention. Put simply, it rocks. The vocals seethe, guitars soar to a crescendo, and an electronic groove zings straight through your chest cavity like a sonic twister. Better grab hold of something, because Mademoiselle is just getting started." ~ Lexi Kahn, Lowbudgetsuperhero.com

     Artist: Rebecca Parris
     Album: You Don't Know Me
     Label: Saying It With Jazz
     Year: 2007
     Genre: Jazz, Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 73:45
     Size: 160,4 Mb

     Rebecca Parris, like many other jazz artists, sought to make a studio recording that is fairly close to what one of her live engagements might sound like. Because she utilizes her regular rhythm section and sticks to gig-tested songs and familiar arrangements while adding some spice with a few all-star guest soloists, You Don't Know Me is truly a memorable recording. Parris is a slightly husky alto who knows the nuances of jazz singing, she doesn't go through the motions mouthing the lyrics but acts as if she has lived them; she also arranged the songs in collaboration with pianist Brad Hatfield. A perfect example is her almost-conversational interpretation of Duke Ellington's ballad "I Don't Know About You," where she lags behind the beat and makes it seem like she's conveying it over coffee. She's not particularly a fan of scat singing, since too many vocalists have no clue as to how to properly do it, but when Parris chooses to incorporate it into her brisk treatment of "All of You," backed by vibraphone virtuoso Gary Burton and her regular bassist Peter Kontrimas, it's clear that she knows what she's doing. Tenor sax great Houston Person is on hand for Parris' moving rendition of the late Etta Jones' signature song "Don't Go to Strangers," while another fine tenorist, Jerry Bergonzi, makes a guest appearance on her snappy setting of "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)." This CD is a perfect example of what can happen when a talented jazz vocalist gets her way in the studio, something that doesn't happen often enough! ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

     Artist: Jimmy Smith
     Album: Monster
     Label: Verve
     Year: 1965
     Styles: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s (LP rip)
     Time: 0.38:31
     Size: 90 MB

     Due to the material, which includes the two-part "Goldfinger," and the themes from Bewitched, The Munsters and The Man with the Golden Arm, this is one of organist Jimmy Smith's lesser recordings. The LP does have some reasonably inventive arrangements for the accompanying big band by Oliver Nelson and some spirited organ playing, but overall is a rather forgettable and overproduced effort. ~ Review by Scott Yanow, AMG.

     Дополняем дискографию знаменитого джазового органиста...

     Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins
     Album: Hootin' The Blues
     Label: Ace
     Genre: Blues
     Year: 1965
     Quality: MP3 @ 192kbps
          Size: 46mb (RS.com) with Cover
Tracks: 8

     The most important part of Lightnin' Hopkins' career was spent in juke joints in Houston, but during the early 1960s, he also became a star along the folk circuit, playing clubs that catered mostly to college students eager to hear authentic acoustic blues. Several of those shows were recorded over the years to capitalize, and while the albums don't have the same importance as Hopkins' classic blues sides of the 1940s and 1950s, they do show another side of the man, and one he seemed to take to very naturally. Hootin' The Blues is one of Hopkins' better folk club concerts, capturing him in an intense performance on acoustic guitar, rapping (in the sense of talking) about the blues and what it means as he introduces some powerful songs: "Blues Is a Feeling," "In the Evenin'," and "Meet Me in the Bottom," among others. The best moment, though, is his reinvention of Ray Charles' "What'd I Say" as an acoustic guitar number (trust me, it works), which displays the kind of fingering that must've made a young Eric Clapton want to sit down and cry. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

          Artist: Tommy Flanagan
          Album:Thelonica
          Label: Enja
          Year: 1982
          Quality: Mp3 320 + 5% Recovery + Losless&MP3 (from Mr. hungaropitecus)
          Size: 114 Mb + 236 MB (Losless) & 105 MB (MP3)

     Artist - The Singers Unlimited
     Album - A Special Blend
     Label - MPS
     Year - 1975
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 84,6 mb
     Total time: 37:25

     Artist: John Hammond
     Album: Frogs and Snakes
     Label: Rounder (1994)
     Format: FLAC & mp3 (320 k/s)
     Size: 264 & 90 MB (scans)
     Total time: 39:10




     Although this is an older cd by John Hammond it still sounds better than the majority of the blues music being released today. He is the only white bluesman who can truly capture the essence of the blues. It is unfortunate that John Lee Hooker and J.H only team up for one song and it is not on this cd. The man is an underrated guitarist,vocalist and all around musician. If you love the blues pick up a John Hammond cd today. He has recored throughout his career every song Robert Johnson recorded and improved all of them. Clapton's tribute to R.J. is good (probaly his best since his very first solo album) but his versions don't stack up to John's. - by Dennis R. Goodwin, Amazon.com

     Artist: Tony Williams
     Album: Wilderness
     Year: 1996
     Label: Ark 21
     Format: Mp3 320 Kbps
     Time: 65:09
     Size: 185 MB

     Незадолго до своей смерти, Энтони Уильямс, реализует, один из своих самых глобальных проектов. Выходит его альбом "Wilderness". Музыка написана для симфонического оркестра, ритм секции и солистов. Идея написания подобного произведения, появилась у автора, когда он обучался в Калифорнийском университете. Многие композиции весьма академичны, по форме и звучанию. В целом музыка "Wilderness", по словам самого Уильямса, выражает ощущения человека, покинувшего что-то знакомое, привычное и начавшего путешествие в мир неизведанного. Произведение поистине символично. Прорыв к неведомым горизонтам - вот девиз всей жизни музыканта.
Спасибо Вам, Мистер Уильямс!
Tony William's last album and in many ways a synthesis of more new beginnings for him - jazz meets the orchestra - neo-fusion - funk - latin - swing - classical. If anything, I was only disappointed he didn't throw in some hard bop - but his own compositional leanings were more toward jazz-rock-fusion, and in some ways that has become mainstream - only because Mr Williams was one of the key innovators of these genre, and we are appreciating his work from a post-Williams, post-Zappa perspective, if you get my drift. Anyway, it's a fantastic album - with great synergy between all players - all giants of jazz!! Highly recommended, along with the Mosaic Select CD of TW's work!

     Artist – The George Barnes Octet
     Album - The Complete Standard Transcript
     Label - Soundies
     Years - 1946/1951, release - 2006
     Quality - MP3@162 kbps
     Size – CD1: 98,0 mb; CD2: 38,6 mb
     Total time – 1:58:34


     George Barnes may not be as well-remembered as Les Paul or Chet Atkins, but he was an influence on both and a master on par with the best jazz and country guitarists. The Complete Standard Transcriptions is a two-disc set that resurrects nearly 50 1946-1951 recordings of Barnes and his octet performing unique jazz-pop guitar instrumentals that bear little similarity to anyone else. The tight and inventive arrangements revolve around the interplay between Barnes' jazz/pop guitar leads and the octet's woodwinds, resulting in a delightfully different and surprising instrumental blend that sounds like the swingingest chamber music ever made. It's a minor miracle that such an extensive showcase of Barnes' talents exists and, as such, The Complete Standard Transcriptions is recommended not only for those who appreciate guitar wizardry and the Country All Stars scene of which Barnes was a part, but for all lovers of good music. ~ Greg Adams, AMG

     Artist - Milt Jackson
     Album - Ain't But A Few Of Us Left
     Label - OJC/Fantasy
     Year - 1981, release - 1990
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 90,5 mb
     Total time - 39:54



     Despite the pessimistic title, all of the members of this particular quartet (vibraphonist Milt Jackson, pianist Oscar Peterson, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Grady Tate) were still active into the mid-'90s. The music is unsurprising but still quite enjoyable and virtuosic as Bags and Co. perform blues, standards and ballads with their usual swing and bop-based creativity. Highlights include the title cut, "Stuffy," "What Am I Here For" and a vibes-piano duo version of "A Time for Love." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artists: Lee Konitz / Martial Solal
     Album: Impressive Rome
     Label: Campi SJG 12003
     Year: 1968
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320kb/s
     Time: ~35 min
     Size: 80,40 MB


     Lee Konitz has been ever the pliable innovator over sixty years since he began (at twenty with Lennie Tristano) beating a cooler, looser bebop path divergent from that of Charlie Parker. Konitz has always enjoyed head-to-head confrontations—he laid down an album of iconoclastic duets in 1967—and keeping that ego-free persona. Fleet meets phlegmatic in this exquisite 1968 meeting during a Konitz tour of Europe with Algerian-born pianist Martial Solal and le plus grand rhythm section in all Europe back then: drummer Daniel Humair and bassist Henri Texier.

     Artists: Lee Konitz / Martial Solal
     Album: European Episode
     Label: Campi SJG 12002
     Year: 1968
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kb/s
     Time: ~ 45 min
     Size: 102,45 MB

     Lee Konitz has been ever the pliable innovator over sixty years since he began (at twenty with Lennie Tristano) beating a cooler, looser bebop path divergent from that of Charlie Parker. Konitz has always enjoyed head-to-head confrontations—he laid down an album of iconoclastic duets in 1967—and keeping that ego-free persona. Fleet meets phlegmatic in this exquisite 1968 meeting during a Konitz tour of Europe with Algerian-born pianist Martial Solal and le plus grand rhythm section in all Europe back then: drummer Daniel Humair and bassist Henri Texier.

     Artist: Carmen Cavallaro
     Album: Swingin` Easy The poet of piano
     Label: Decca
     Year: 1962 [Digital Remastered]
     Genre: Lounge
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 38:21
     Size: 83.8 Mb



     If any one cocktail lounge or supper club were able to secure the full-time. Permanent services of Carmen Cavallaro – the internationally acclaimed “ Poet Of The Piano” – it would be in a position to save thousands upon thousands in furnishings and decorations. For the extraordinary magic of Mr. Cavallaro`s piano artistry could easily even a football field with the most romantic of moods.
     Swingin` Easy is a collection of romantic favorites, materializing under the facile fingertips of Carmen Cavallaro in magnificent wisps of blue-smoke intimacy and sophistication. Here are melodies warm in their familiarity, yet, clothed in the dekicate phrasing and flashing Cavallaro keyboard technique, refreshingly and eternally new. Ley There Be Love, Everybody Loves a Lover, I Got It Bad, It`s All Right With Me, Tonight, and many more … our reipe for Swingin` Eady, served up by the master musical chef, Carmen Cavallaro.

     Artists: Art Farmer / Phil Woods
     Album: What Happens?...
     Label: Campi SJG 12001
     Year: 1968
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kb/s
     Time: ~ 43 min
     Size: 101,51 MB

     Brilliant work by both Farmer and Woods -- recording here in a European setting, produced by Clarke-Boland Band impresario Gigi Campi, with a French rhythm section that features Marital Solal, Henri Texier, and Daniel Humair. The tracks are long and openly grooving -- with a return to a harder sound from Farmer, who works great next to the edgey alto of Phil Woods, freed from some of the electric grooving of his other European albums on this set. Titles include "Blue Bossa", "Watch What Happens", "Blue Lights", and "The Day After".

     Artist: Eric Burdon & War
     Album: Love Is All Around
     Label: Avenue
     Year: 1976, release 1993
     Quality: mp3@320 Kbps + flac,
     Size: 102 MB (+ covers) +294 MB w. scans
     Total time: 43:46

     

     Artist: Gene Ammons
     Album: Gene Ammons Story: Organ Combos
     Year: rec. Jun 17, 1960,Nov 28, 1961
     Label: Prestige
     Genre: Soul-Jazz, Hard Bop
     Type: Compilation
     Time: 78:33
     Format: MP3@320/kbs
     Size: 174.98 MB

Недавний пост уважаемого Iskander36, посвящённый истории создания и развития «Хаммонда», заставил стряхнуть пыль с этого альбома.
Gene Ammons recorded frequently for Prestige during the 1950s and early '60s and virtually all of the tenor's dates were quite rewarding. This two-LP set reissues Twistin' the Jug plus part of Angel Eyes and Velvet Soul. Ammons, a bop-based but very versatile soloist, sounds quite comfortable playing a variety of standards and lesser-known material in groups featuring Jack McDuff or Johnny "Hammond" Smith on organ and either trumpeter Joe Newman or Frank Wess on tenor and flute. This version of "Angel Eyes" became a surprise hit. by Scott Yanow

     Artist - Oscar Peterson
     Album - Pastel Moods
     Label - Verve
     Years - 1952/1954
     Quality - MP3@320kbps
     Size - 100,0mb
     Total time - 45:30

     Artist: Karrin Allyson
     Album: Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane
     Year: 2001
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s + FLAC
     Tracks: 11
     Time: 1.01:42
     Size: 72&70 MB + 475 MB


     В очередной раз послушал замечательный альбом John Coltrane Quartet - Ballads и наслаждался не только мастерством исполнителей, но и чудесными музыкальными темами, слушая которые даже захотелось петь. Но эти прекрасные баллады не так давно были исполнены современной джазовой вокалисткой Karrin Allyson. И у неё это великолепно получилось! Рекомендую слушать именно в такой последовательности: сперва оригинальный альбом Колтрейна, а затем вокальную интерпретацию, исполненную 40 лет спустя. Ведь трек-листы обеих альбомов совпадают...

     Artist: Eric Dolphy
     Album: Out There
     Label: Fantasy Records
     Year: 1960 (release 2006)
     Genre: Jazz
     Styles: Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.34:10
     Size: 78 MB

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     Предлагаю послушать более серьёзную музыку - талантливого импровизатора-мультиинструменталиста free-джаза Эрика Долфи. Влияние Чарли Паркера на его музыку очень хорошо заметно, но не шагнул ли Эрик немного дальше, чем гениальный Паркер?