Artist: Yellowjackets featuring Mike Stern
    Album: Lifecycle
    Label: Heads Up
    Release: 2008
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
    Time: 1:02:43
    Size: 150 Mb (cover)

    If the Yellowjackets needed a guest guitarist, who would be the best person for the job? Pat Metheny would be an excellent choice, as would Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, or John Scofield. Well, the Yellowjackets did hire a guest guitarist for Lifecycle — an excellent and well-known guitarist, in fact — and they feature him extensively on this 2008 release. The guitarist is Mike Stern, who enjoys a strong rapport with the Yellowjackets' 2008 lineup: Russell Ferrante on acoustic piano and electric keyboards, Jimmy Haslip on electric bass, Bob Mintzer on tenor and soprano sax and bass clarinet, and Marcus Baylor on drums and percussion. . . .

     Artist: B.B.King
     Album: Blues Summit
     Label: MCA Records
     Year: 1993
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Size: 134 MB

     "Blues Summit" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Traditional Blues Album."

     "Blues Summit" возвращается к формам стандартов, когда Кинг пел в дуэтах с равными по положению исполнителями (John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Fulson, Koko Taylor).

     On this release, King comes close to equaling his past triumphs on small independent labels in the '50s and '60s. He's ditched the psuedo-hip production fodder and cut a 12-song set matching him with blues peers. His duets with Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, and Albert Collins are especially worthy, while the songs with Koko Taylor, Ruth Brown, and Irma Thomas have some good-natured banter and exchanges, as well as tasty vocals. The master gives willing pupils Joe Louis Walker and Robert Cray valuable lessons on their collaborations. There's also a medley in which King invokes the spirit of his chitlin circuit days, taking the vocal spotlight while his Orchestra roars along underneath.
   - Ron Wynn

     Artist: Jackie McLean
     Album: It's Time!
     Year: 1964
     Label: Blue Note
     Format: MP3 @320kbps
     Size: 101 mb


     Recorded in 1964, Jackie McLean's It's Time was only available on CD in the United States as part of a four-disc Mosaic set of his complete Blue Note recordings between 1964-1966. The band here includes trumpeter Charles Tolliver, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Roy Haynes. The music was written entirely by either Tolliver or McLean and walks the line between modal post-bop and free jazz. It came hot on the heels of McLean's first forays into these waters on 1963's One Step Beyond and Destination Out!. There is more to it than that, of course; chordal improvisation still plays a large part in the music on this fine record. Hancock's solo on the opening "Cancellation" is the most angular thing here, and the tempo is simply breathtaking. McLean's butt funky "Das' Dat," which follows, owes a debt to Horace Silver to be sure, but the blues element, which is in the tune's head, is pure Jackie McLean. . . .

     Artist: Bud Powell
     Album: THE BUD POWELL COLLECTION
     BOOK:
     Author: Gene Rizzo (transcriptions), Peter Pullman (text)
     Paperback: 96 pages
     Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation (June 1, 2002)
     Language: English
     CD:
     10 Tracks
     Format: MP3 various quality
     Size: 60.4 MB

     Known for his innovative technique and sheer intensity, Bud Powell was one of the finest bop pianists of the 1940s-60s. This folio features note-for-note transcriptions of his performances of nine tunes - his own compositions and standards. Includes: April in Paris * Danceland * Get Happy * It Could Happen to You * Oblivion * Parisian Thoroughfare * So Sorry Please * Tempus Fugit * Un Poco Loco. Also contains a biography and discography.

     These should be all the matching tracks for the transcriptions in the book, which is fully bookmarked. The tracks come off of [i]The Complete Bud Powell On Verve box set (which can be found on Demonoid), and the Blue Note The Amazing Bud Powell series.

However, I'm a guitar player & I didn't go through every scrip note for note. Most are correct, but if you find one that's wrong let me know. "It Could Happen To You" is the track I'm least sure of.
Also includes Marco Di Gennaro's transcription of "Celia".
~ marcodigennaro.com

     Artists - Count Basie & Oscar Peterson.
     Album - Satch And Josh... Again
     Label - Pablo
     Year - 1977, release 1987
     Quality - MP3@320kb/s
     Size - 112 mb
     Total time - 51:46

    

  

Recorded three years after their first full album together, this second encounter between Count Basie and Oscar Peterson on twin pianos (this time with a quartet) is as strong as the original, alternating standards with blues. Both Peterson and Basie have one number apiece on electric piano, making this album historic as well as quite musical.

    Artist: Various Artists
    Album: A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion Guitar
    Label: Tone Center
    Release: 2004
    Genre: jazz/fusion
    Format, bitrate: mp3 320
    Time: 1:01:04
    Size: 148 Mb (full covers)

Given the label and roster here, one should have a good idea of what's in store for Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion Guitar: fusion guitar giants performing well played, immaculately produced songs written or popularized by John Coltrane. And that's what it delivers, but while some of the performances are impressive, the overall sound seems to place more emphasis on technique and production than the spiritual passion embodied by Coltrane. Each player is backed by electric bass, drums, Hammond organ and rhythm guitar, giving each song an almost-funky smooth jazz vibe.

     Artist: Mathias Eick
     Album: The Door
     Year: 2008
     Label: ECM Records
     Format: mp3@320/ FLAC+cue
     Size: 93+21 MB / 115+105 MB (with scans)

REPOST with new links for lossless

     Отличный дебютный сольный альбом норвежского трубача, получившего ”The International Jazz Award for New Talent 2007”, игравшего с Manu Katchй, Chick Corea and Pat Metheny и в группе Jaga Jazzist. Современный северный джаз в духе ECM.

     It seems strange that The Door on ECM is 29-year-old trumpeter/composer Mathias Eick's debut album as a bandleader. Strange because despite his age, Eick has appeared on over 50 recordings already, five of them — not including this one — for ECM in the last four years. But it's not only that Eick is, like many of his generation in Norway, a very diverse musician whose tastes run from jazz to club to rock & roll to funk, it's more that these are all traditions that are opening up to one another in new ways in the 21st century (in Europe at least). Some evidence is in his choice of companions on The Door. Veteran pianist and fellow ECM labelmate Jon Balke is here, as is bassist and guitarist Audun Erlien (a member of Eivind Aarset's recording and touring groups), drummer Audun Kleive, who plays with Balke and Jan Garbarek's groups as well as performing on the Terje Rypdal/Ronni Le Tekrш albums, and the nearly ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Stian Carstensen on pedal steel on three of the set's eight tunes. . . .

     Artists - Count Basie & Oscar Peterson.
     Album - The Timekeepers
     Label - OJC / Pablo
     Year - 1978, release - 1983
     Quality - MP3@320kb/s
     Size - 82,5
     Total time - 37:39

     Ещё одна, четвертая по счету, совместная запись двух легендарных музыкантов.

     1-й, 2-й и 3-й альбомы в Jazz Blues Club: Count Basie Encounters Oscar Peterson, Satch And Josh... Again, Night Rider



     From the same sessions that resulted in Night Rider and Yessir, this quartet date also features the two pianos of Oscar Peterson and Count Basie collaborating and interacting on swing standards and blues. Any of their five albums together are worth acquiring.

    Artist: Jeff Berlin
    Album: In Harmony's Way
    Label: MAJ/Rock Empire
    Release: 2001
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 256 kb/s
    Time: 1:04:11
    Size: 73,4 Mb
   

   Jeff Berlin is best known as a fusion-oriented electric bassist with phenomenal chops. This CD therefore should be a surprise to both his fans and the jazz world in general, for much of the music is actually straight-ahead. Berlin plays brilliantly throughout the set, featuring guest vibraphonist Gary Burton on "This Is Your Brain on Jazz," welcoming guitarist Mike Stern and Dave Liebman (on soprano and tenor) to three numbers apiece (both are on "Runaway Train"), featuring both keyboardist Clare Fischer and the voice of Steve Shephard on "Pale Gilder," and utilizing pianist Richard Drexler and drummer Danny Gottlieb as his core unit. Eight of the nine selections are by Berlin and these range from heated jams to tasteful ballads. Overall this is the most rewarding jazz recording of Berlin's career. -
    Scott Yanow, AMG

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Джордж Рассел, американский пианист, педагог, джазовый композитор и теоретик музыки, скончался в Бостоне в возрасте 86 лет от осложнений, связанных с болезнью Альцгеймера. Associated Press.

BOSTON – Jazz composer George Russell, a MacArthur fellow whose theories influenced the modal music of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died.
His publicist says Russell, who taught at the New England Conservatory, died Monday in Boston at age 86 of complications from Alzheimer's. Associated Press.

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     Artist: George Russell
     Album: Ezz-thetics
     Label: Riverside/OJC
     Year: 1961
     Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 kb/s
     Time: 42:59
     Size: 99,1 Mb
     

     This is a true classic. Composer/pianist George Russell gathered together a very versatile group of talents (trumpeter Don Ellis, trombonist Dave Baker, Eric Dolphy on alto and bass clarinet, bassist Steve Swallow, and drummer Joe Hunt) to explore three of his originals, "'Round Midnight" (which is given an extraordinary treatment by Dolphy), Miles Davis' "Nardis," and David Baker's "Honesty." The music is post-bop and although using ideas from avant-garde jazz, it does not fall into any simple category. The improvising is at a very high level and the frameworks (which include free and stop-time sections) really inspire the players. Highly recommended.
    ~ Scott Yanow, AMG