Artist: Bill Evans
     Album: The Complete Riverside Recordings (12CDs)
     Year: 1956 - 1963
     Release: 1991
     Label: Riverside
     Format: FLAC + MP3@192
     Size: ~ 4.2 GB
     Time: 804:05

   Artist: Erich Kunzel & Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
   Album: A Celtic Spectacular
   Label: Telarc
   Year: 2002
   Format: mp3 VBR
   Time: 59:40
   Size: 100Mb + 12Mb

   В архиве лежит вся информация о пластинке.
   The full information about this disk is in archive.

   Я замучился распознавать этот буклет, поэтому, кому интересно, читайте в отсканированном виде.
   Recognition of the text has appeared difficult, therefore all is presented in the scanned kind.

    Ireland, with its rich heritage of Celtic, Christian, Scottish, Scandinavian and English influences, has spawned one of the greatest treasures of music among the world’s cultures. A Celtic Spectacular, the latest Telarc recording by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, offers some of the most beloved songs and dances associated with the Emerald Isle and its neighboring lands.

   Artist: Lou Donaldson
   Album: Complete 1952 Blue Note Studio Sessions
   Label: Jazz Factory
   Year: 1952
   Release: 2004
   Format, bitrate: MP3, 224 kb/s vbr
   Time: 1:05:21
   Size: 106 MB (covers)
   AMG Rating:

   This unbelievable recording contains Lou Donaldson's Complete 1952 Blue Note Studio Sessions. It features four separate all-star lineups of some of the greatest names in jazz, and captures the raw energy of Donaldson's earliest recordings.
   The first all-star rhythm section backing Donaldson is none other than the famed Modern Jazz Quartet. This incredible group plays with grace, style and unyielding swing. Donaldson more than holds his own, using his technical virtuosity and exceptional phrasing to balance Jackson's brilliant work on the vibes.
   Even though Donaldson doesn't appear on song number four, "What's New", we have included it in order to preserve the integrity of the session and the exceptional solo by Milt Jackson.
   The second session features Donaldson pit against the piano genius of Thelonious Monk and the indomitable drumming of Max Roach. The great trumpeter Kenny Dorham also shows up with some high quality soloing on this exceptional date.
   Pianist and composer Horace Silver joins Donaldson for the third session. Bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Art Taylor round out the quartet. Silver's powerful composition "Roccus" highlights the date.
   Donaldson and Silver are teamed up with legendary drummer Art Blakey, trumpeter Blue Mitchell and bassist Percy Heath for the fourth and final date on the album. With a line-up like this what more needs to be said?
   This outstanding collection is a must have for any Donaldson fan, and lies proof to the claim that Donaldson is one of jazz's greatest hidden treasures.
   Liner notes, Eric Mills

   Artist: Michael Brecker
   Album: Nearness Of You: The Ballad Book
   Label: Verve 549 705 2
   Year: 2001
   Format Mp3, bitrate: 320 Kb/s
   Time: 55:36
   Size: 127 Mb
   AMG Rating


   The seven-time Grammy award-winning tenor saxophonist, Michael Brecker brings an all-star band together on this first ever ballad project titled Nearness of You: The Ballad Book. Accompanied by Herbie Hancock on piano, Pat Metheny on guitars, Charlie Haden on bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums, and a special guest appearance by James Taylor, singing his sensational hit "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight" and Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You," the tenor saxophonist creates rich resonant statements on 11 songs collected in two chapters and their epilogue. Brecker has updated these great songs with the addition of Pat Metheny's excellent production prowess on such great ballads as Joe Zawinul's "Midnight Mood" and the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin standard "My Ship." "Midnight Mood" is sensual and seductive, complete with a blithe piano solo by Herbie Hancock in the middle section. Hancock fills in the beauty of Brecker's saxophone lines on this arrangement that is partially based on guitarist Wes Montgomery's version. James Taylor sings one of the best renditions of his "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," and it's clearly due to the excellent musicians on this CD. Pat Metheny excels as a serious jazz artist with his well thought out treatment of "Nascente," which was inspired by Gil Evans' classic 1948 arrangement for Miles Davis on Miles Ahead. Michael Brecker has clearly maintained his status as one of the best tenor saxophonists on the jazz scene, and this, his eighth CD as a leader, is well within the musical excellence previously recorded.
   ~ Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide

   Artist: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
   Album: Live At The Olympic
   Year: 2002
   Format: Dvd-Rip | AVI/XVID,
   Audio: Mp3, 320 kbps
   Size: 1,45

      Description
   Recorded on October 16th, 2002, catch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as they tear up the stage in the Grand Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles. Touring to coincide with the LAST DJ album, this show captures the record in its entirety. A two-disc set, disc one features the tracks "Have Love Will Travel," "Money Becomes King," "Blue Sunday," "Like a Diamond," and many others. The second disc is a four track audio CD, including "I'm Crying," "I Got a Woman," and more.

   Artist: Miles Davis & Thelonious Monk
   Album: Live at Newport
   Label: Sony
   Year: 1958 & 1963
   Release: 1993
   Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 Kb/s
   Time: 1:31:29
   Size: 217 Mb (complete covers)
   AMG rating

   Although on the CD covers, Miles & Monk are billed together in matter of fact, as you can see below, they played separately. Miles in 58 and Monk in 63.
    The piano player from the 1958 concert is another jazz great: Bill Evans.
   This doesn't make this pair of concerts less interesting, of the contrary. Both concerts were introduced by the great jazz commentator Willis Conover (whom some of the older generation still remember him for his great jazz shows at The Voice Of America in the 60s & 70s).
   ~ Bubu Hans

   I recommend this two cd set to any Jazz fan. It features some great live music from the '58 and '63 Newport Jazz festivals. Miles plays with his first sextet, and is in top form for this great performance. Monk plays with his quartet featuring Charlie Rouse, and on the second half of the Monk cd, Pee Wee Russell is featured, which provides for some great musical interplay between two of Jazz's greatest musicians. I highly recommend this cd to any Jazz fan who is looking for great live music.
   ~ Amazon.com

    Artist: Buddy Rich
    Album: Swingin' New Big Band
    Label: Blue Note
    Year: 1966
    Format, bitrate: Mp3 320 Kbps
    Time: 63:24
    Size: 133 MB

   1966 was a most illogical time for anyone to try forming a new big band but Buddy Rich beat the odds. This CD reissues the first album by the Buddy Rich Orchestra, augmenting the original Lp program with nine previously unissued performances from the same sessions. The arrangements (eight by Oliver Nelson along with charts by Bill Holman, Phil Wilson, Jay Corre, Don Rader and others) swing, put the emphasis on the ensembles and primarily feature Corre's tenor although trumpeter Bobby Shew, altoist Pete Yellin, pianist John Bunch and guitarist Barry Zweig are also heard from. Most of the songs did not stay in the drummer's repertoire long (other than Bill Reddie's adaptation of "West Side Story" and "Sister Sadie") and in fact only three members of the 17-piece orchestra would still be working for Rich a year later. An enjoyable and somewhat historic set.
   ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guid

   Artist: Sonny Stitt
   Album: In Style
   Label: Muse 5228
   Year: 1982
   Format/rate: MP3/320, (LP-Rip)
   Size: 86 MB

   Sonny Stitt was one of the ‘giants’ of the saxophone, who could play any tune in any key and often did so, sometimes at 100 MPH! Like Zoot Sims and many of his contemporaries, he was happy to wander about the USA and Europe playing with whichever rhythm section was in residence at the ‘gig’ in question.
   Here he works with excellent musicians and the sound is great. One of his best recordings!

    Artists: Charlie Haden & Hampton Hawes
    Album: As Long As There's Music
    Label: Polygram
    Year: 1976
    Release: 1993
    Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
    Time: 01:10:14
    Size: 160 Mb

   Although one would not immediately associate bassist Charlie Haden with pianist Hampton Hawes, they had performed together on an occasional basis since first meeting in 1957. This Artists House LP, a set of five duets, was their last opportunity to play together because Hawes would pass away the following year. The music includes a fairly free improvisation on "Hello/ Goodbye," the duo's intepretation of the title cut, a collaboration on "This Is Called Love" and two originals from the pianist. This quiet and often lyrical set contains a great deal of thoughtful and subtle music by two masters.
   - allmusic.com

   Artist - Earl Hines
   Album - 57 Varieties
   Label - Marshall Cavendish
   Years: 1928-1950
   Quality - MP3@320 kbps
   Size - 106 mb
   Total time - 64:09
   AMG Rating






   This French CBS LP features the great Earl Hines on four classic piano solos from 1928 (including "A Monday Date" and "57 Varieties"), two takes apiece of two solo pieces in 1932 and a trio session from 1950. Brilliant music from the chancetaking pianist that deserves to be reissued on CD. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

   Artist: Charlie Haden with Michael Brecker
   Album: American Dreams
   Label: Verve
   Year: 2002
   Format: mp3@320kbps
   Time: 01:14:59
   Size: 171 Mb


   This overly long quartet-plus-strings session is Charlie Haden's paean to an ideal America, made during a time that was ripe for such reflections. The band, with Haden on bass, Michael Brecker on tenor, Brad Mehldau on piano, and Brian Blade on drums, is unassailably strong. But listeners could have lived without the ear-candy sheen provided by the 34-piece orchestra, arranged primarily by Alan Broadbent, with additional contributions from Jeremy Lubbock and Vince Mendoza. (Broadbent and Mendoza also penned charts for Jane Monheit's In the Sun, released two weeks earlier.) Aside from outright banalities like "America the Beautiful" and "It Might Be You" (yes, the Stephen Bishop lite-radio hit), there are some saving graces, like Keith Jarrett's "Prism" and "No Lonely Nights," Mehldau's "Ron's Place," and Haden's two originals, "American Dreams" and "Nightfall." But Pat Metheny's "Travels" goes soggy without its Midwestern guitar twang, and Ornette Coleman's "Bird Food," one of only three tracks not to feature the orchestra, is so wildly out of place that its impact is somehow diminished -- notwithstanding a vivid pedal-point interlude about six minutes in.
   

   Artist: Yoshiko Kishino
   Album: Photograph
   Label: GRP MVCR 30002
   Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
   Size: 299 MB & 134 MB
   Time: 59:56






   Tokyo female jazz pianist Yoshiko Kishino graduated from Tohhoh music college, won the keyboard prize in the Yamaha Popular Contest and, in 1990, went to New York to study composition. In 1993 she lead her first group, Brand New. Her first album Fairy Tale (GRP 1995) won her the Golden Disk with Japanese jazz magazine SwingJournal. She has worked together with musicians like Marc Johnson or Peter Arskin. Yoshiko Kishino plays in the lyrical style of the Bill Evans school.

     Artist: Kenny Dorham
     Album: Afro-Cuban
     Label: Blue Note 92744
     Year: 1955
     Release: 2007
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 45:44
     Size: 84.3 Mb
     

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: Poker Lounge
     Year: 2008
     Label: Wagram Music S.A.
     Format, bitrate mp3 / 320 kbps / 44.1 KHz / Full Stereo
     Time: 03:33:19
     Size: 497 Mb (rar-archive from 6 parts: 95,7+95,7+95,7+95,7+95,7+18,5 Mb)



     Замечательный сборник от знаменитого лейбла Wagram Music. 4 тематических диска привлекут внимание как любителей Lounge, так и сторонников традиционного джаза.
Для последних наиболее желанными станут диски №2 и 3, которые отличаются своей Retro-направленностью. Иногда, в дружеской компании (да и наедине с собой любимым) можно позволить себе немного погрустить о прошлом, о том чего не вернуть. А предаться воспоминаниям будет гораздо приятней в компании давно знакомых исполнителей, в числе которых Фрэнк Синатра (Frank Sinatra), Мэрилин Монро (Marilyn Monroe), Луи Армстронг (Louis Armstrong), Сэмми Дэвис (Sammy Davis Jr), Луис Прима (Louis Prima) и многие, многие другие.

      Artist: CTI All-Stars
      Album: CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl, Volumes 1, 2 & 3
      Label: CTI
      Year: 1972
      Release: 1991
      Format Mp3@320 kbps
      Size: 247.5 Mb



      This all-star concert by an incredible line-up of some of the best CTI artists was recorded live at the Hollywood Bowl in July 1972 and features Deodato, Johnny Hammond, Bob James, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, George Benson, Airto, Hank Crawford, Joe Farrell, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington Jr., Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Milt Jackson, Esther Phillips, with MCs Leonard Feather and Rick Holmes.