Artist: Esbjorn Svensson Trio
   Album: Live at Juan-les-Pins
   Time: 58 Min
   Format: avi 640x416 & mp3 320 kbps
   Size : 700 mb

Джазовая сюита с неповторимым звучанием. Одно из самых ярчайших выступлений группы!

   Juan-les-Pins is famous for its annual jazz festival in July. New Orleans is a sister city, something which for a series of years was manifested with carnival festivities in the streets of Juan-les-Pins, with both local and New Orleans jazz bands parading. Along the street behind the seaside stage where the annual jazz festival "Jazz а Juan" is held, one will find ceramic tiles laid into the pavement with handprints of more than 50 jazz musicians who have played at this festival, among those.

Жизнь Последнего Лейкоцита

Шведское джазовое трио e.s.t. - одна из самых влиятельных групп последнего десятилетия, недавно записавшая свой последний альбом Лейкоцит, все композиции которого, полностью основаны на свободных импровизациях.
За три месяца до выпуска альбома, при погружении с аквалангом, трагически погиб основатель группы Эсьбьёрн Свенссон. Барабанщик Магнус Остром, рассказал о своём товарище, и процессе создания музыки для этого альбома.

The Swedish trio e.s.t., one of the most influential bands of the last decade, recently released their last album, Leucocyte, a series of informal jam session-based free improvised tunes. Tragedy struck three months before its release with the death of pianist Esbjцrn Svensson in a diving accident. Drummer Magnus Цstrцm was kind enough to speak on the phone to Arturo Mora about Esbjцrn’s passing, the new CD and what’s to come: past, present and future.

    Artist: Chris Potter
    Album: Gratitude
    Label: Verve
    Year: 2001
    Format, bitrate: MP3 @320 kbps.
    Time: 72 min.
    Size: 169 Mb.
    AMG Rating:

    Saxophonist Chris Potter honors the legacy of some of jazz's greats on Gratitude, his debut for Verve. The award-winning virtuoso and composer is compelling on his tributes to John Coltrane, Eddie Harris, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, and several other legendary saxophonists. Gratitude contains nine original compositions written by Potter, who plays tenor saxophone on the majority of the songs, switches to soprano saxophone on "Eurydice," his tribute to Wayne Shorter, and plays the alto saxophone and Chinese wood flute on "Star Eyes," the tribute to Charlie Parker. Chris Potter is outstanding on bass clarinet on his composition "The Visitor" for Lester Young and captures the ambience that reflects the many styles of these accomplished players, including sliding from one note to a higher or lower note with intermediate pitches on "The Source," his tribute to the glissandi (sheets of sound) of John Coltrane, and capturing the dense, soulful sound of Joe Henderson on "Shadow." Gratitude also includes a song titled "What's New," for the current generation which completes the set. Potter, leading his great quartet of contemporaries -- keyboardist Kevin Hayes, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Brian Blade -- makes a significant contribution to jazz history with this project and offers musical statements and voices that are truly varied in scope and deep in their essence.
   ~ Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide

    В 1971-м году Дюк Эллингтон со своим оркестром посетил с концертами СССР, выступив в Москве, Ленинграде, Минске, Киеве и Ростове-на-Дону. Советские гастроли музыканта оказались исключительно успешными: билеты на его концерты были полностью проданы. На каждом из трех концертов Эллингтона в Киеве присутствовало десять тысяч человек, а московские выступления посетило более двенадцати тысяч человек...

    Как написал Александр Медведев в предисловии к книге Джеймса Л. Коллиера "Дюк Эллингтон", для советских музыкантов эти гастроли были "кульминацией, вершиной общения с джазом".

    Artist: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
    Album: Peak To Peak (Live at Montreux)
    Label: bootleg
    Year: 1978/1983/1992
    Release: 1992
    Format, bitrate: mp3 320 kb/s
    Time: 1:18:10
    Size: 179 Mb

   This bootleg compilation is a sort of a "Best Of" consisting of selections of live appearances of the blues duo, and Buddy Guy and his band at the Montreux Jazz festival through the years (09 jul 78, 18 jul 83 & 09 jul 92). For completists only.

    Artist: Freddie Hubbard
    Album: Keystone Bop, Vol. 2: Friday & Saturday Night
    Label: Prestige Records
    Year: 1981
    Release: 1996 (Vol. 2)
    Formate, Bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
    Time: 69:35
    Size: 164 mb

    In 1981, legendary bebop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard got together with fellow elder statesmen Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson and an energetic rhythm section to play a weekend of gigs at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco. The Sunday night performances can be heard on Keystone Bop: Sunday Night, and Prestige has released music from the Friday and Saturday night sets as well: Keystone Bop, Vol. 2: Friday & Saturday Night. . . .

   Artist: Oscar Pettiford
   Album: Sextet
   Label: Vogue/Debut
   Year: 1954
   Release: 1997
   Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
   Time: 40:04
   Size: 95 Mb


   The six main selections on this CD were last released as part of a Prestige LP titled The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Album, also including four tunes from a Serge Chaloff set. The CD reissue adds two alternate takes to the excellent session which features Pettiford on occasional bass solos and (on "Rhumblues") overdubbed on cello. The superior set also features tenor saxophonist Al Cohn, trombonist Kai Winding, guitarist Tal Farlow, French pianist Henri Renaud and drummer Max Roach -- quite an all-star group. Renaud contributed two of the songs which also include numbers by Hoagy Carmichael ("Stardust"), Gerry Mulligan and both Leonard and Jane Feather. The music is straight-ahead, with "Burt's Pad" (heard in two versions) going on for over 9Ѕ minutes. A fine CD that is easily recommended to bop collectors.
   ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

   Artist - Zoot Sims
   Album - Somebody Loves Me
   Label - Delta/Laserlight
   Year - 1974, release - 1996
   Quality - MP3@320 kbps
   Size - 139 mb
   Total time - 61:50

    Artist: Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
    Album: Last Time Around - Live at Legends
    Label: Jive Records/Sony Bmg Europe
    Year: 1993
    Release: 1998
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
    Time: 53:00
    Size: 127 Mb (full covers)

   Last Time Around — Live At Legends is a fitting farewell to the late, great Junior Wells and his partnership, friendship and kinship with Buddy Guy that lasted decades. The album is a historic release in many ways. It reunites two blues legends who began their unique association in the 1950s. The album was recorded live in March 1993 at Buddy Guy's world-famous Chicago blues mecca Legends, and it's an acoustic document of many classic songs that made both Wells and Guy legends in their own right, such as "She's Alright" and "I've Been There," along with other classic blues standards such as "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Key to the Highway," all delivered with a looseness and power that define both Guy and Wells. It also marks the last time the two ever played together.
   - Matthew Greenwald, AMG

   Artist: Jimmy McCracklin
   Album: High On The Blues
   Label: Stax
   Year: 1971
   Format, bitrate: MP3, 256 kbit/s
   Time: 42:13
   Size: 80mb




   Given that this was co-produced by Al Jackson (of Booker T. & the MG's) and Willie Mitchell (of Hi Records), and adds embellishment by the Memphis Horns, it's unsurprising that this is very much a soul-blues record. It's a workmanlike effort with an early-'70s Stax period feel, including remakes of two of his past R&B singles, "Think" and "Just Got to Know." The CD reissue adds a couple of previously unreleased bonus tracks.
   ~ Richie Unterberger, AMG

    Artist: Oscar Peterson
    Album: Gypsy In My Soul (compilation)
    Label: Verve France
    Release: 1971
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 192 kb/s (vinyl rip)
    Time: 44:36
    Size: 61,4 Mb

          EVERY DAY IS AN OSCAR PETERSON DAY !

   An obscure compilation from an even more obscure French subsidiary of Verve Recors Company issued in 1971 (on vinyl only) this wonderful collection of Oscar Peterson songs (both live and studio), as a part of "Midnite Jazz and Blues" series.
   The whole bulk of tracks can be found remastered on Oscar's "The Piano Player" CD, but here we can enjoy the romantic analogue LP sound. For completists only.

   Artist: Bob Mintzer Big Band
   Album: Swing Out
   Label: Mcg Jazz
   Year: 2008
   Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 Kbps
   Time: 63:55
   Size: 118 MB

   Bob Mintzer has led big bands off and on since the late 1970s, in addition to small groups and working as a part of the jazz fusion band the Yellowjackets. These sessions open with his colorful "'Swing Out," a forward-thinking chart in the mold of Bob Brookmeyer's large ensemble writing. "Each Day" is an upbeat number with a gospel undercurrent, while "Swangalang" is an infectious midtempo blues. Vocalist Kurt Elling once again guests on a track, writing lyrics to Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny's "Minuano," delivering a heartfelt performance followed by potent solos from Mintzer and pianist Phil Markowitz. Mintzer also finds fresh approaches with his arrangements of the standards "My Shining Hour" and the venerable "Someday My Prince Will Come." The tenor saxophonist's arrangements are first-rate throughout these enjoyable sessions. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this CD benefits the programs of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh.
   ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

   Artist: Wynton Kelly
   Album: Last Trio Session
   Label: Delmark
   Year: 1968
   Release: 1993
   Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
   Size: 94.2 MB
   Time: 40:23

   The trio led by pianist Wynton Kelly, which also included bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Jimmy Cobb, first functioned as the rhythm section of Miles Davis' Quintet in 1958. In 1963, they left Davis' band and spent time as Wes Montgomery's backup group; the unit stayed together until Chambers' death on Jan. 4, 1969, a run of over ten years (Kelly would pass away two years later). Their final studio session, released for the first time domestically by Delmark in 1988, is partly hindered by the inclusion of some unsuitable pop songs (including "Say a Little Prayer for Me," "Watch What Happens," "Light My Fire" and "Yesterday"), but typically, the musicians do their best to swing the tunes. Best tunes on the historic set are "Kelly's Blues" and "Castilian Waltz"...
   ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide