Artist: Big Brother & The Holding Company
    Album: Cheap Thrills (bonus tracks)
    Label: Columbia/Legacy
    Year: 1968
    Release: 1999
    Style: blues-rock
    Format, bitrate: Mp3 256 kb/s
    Time: 55:37
    Size: 114 Mb (full covers)
   

            WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
                    DAY TWO
In the mid-'90s, Sony Music began remastering and upgrading many of the classic albums in their library, and Cheap Thrills got the bonus-track treatment in 1999. The major-label debut of Janis Joplin, the original LP was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful albums of 1968. Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company had earned extensive press notice ever since they played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, but for a year after that their only recorded work was a poorly produced, self-titled album that they'd done early in their history for Mainstream Records; it took the band and the best legal minds at Columbia Records seven months to extricate them from their Mainstream contract, so that they could sign with Columbia...

    Artist: Oscar Peterson
    Album: The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson/Affinity
    Label: Verve
    Year: 1959, 1962
    Release: 1996 (CD)
    Format, Bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
    Time: 74:23
    Size: 171 MB
    AMG Rating:



    This 1996 single-CD reissues the complete contents of two former LPs by the Oscar Peterson Trio (consisting of pianist Peterson, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Ed Thigpen) in 1959 and 1962. Although the pianist is virtually always the lead voice, Brown and Thigpen both make strong (if subtle) contributions to the music. Highlights include "Liza," "Con Alma," "Waltz for Debby," Brown's "The Gravy Waltz" and "Yours Is My Heart Alone." An above-average release (and rather generous at 74 minutes) from the much-recorded Oscar Peterson.
    ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

ФИАЛКИ по СРЕДАМ (выпуск тридцать третий)

     Artist: Звонари Киево-Печерской Лавры
     Album: Киево-Печерская Лавра на рубеже тысячелетий
     Year: 2001
     Genre: Sacred music
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 46 min, 32 sec
     Size: 111 mb.

     Всех православных поздравляю с Праздником Преображения Господня.
Давайте сегодня послушаем немного колокольной музыки.
Возможно, предлагаемые звоны не очень-то и подходят к сегодняшнему дню, но, как говорится, чем богаты...

     Artists - Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
     Album - Diz'n Bird At Carnegie Hall
     Label - Roost
     Year - 1947, release - 1997
     Quality - MP3@320 kb/s
     Size - 156 mb
     Total time - 73:14

  
Nine years after Benny Goodman's groundbreaking concert, bebop finally came to Carnegie Hall. Most notable on this 1997 CD (which contains music that has been reissued many times, often incoherently) is the meeting between altoist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Joined by the underrecorded piano of John Lewis, bassist Al McKibbon and the slightly overrecorded drums of Joe Harris, Bird and Diz generate some real fireworks on five songs, and Parker's rendition of "Confirmation," and the CD's high point, is definitive and memorable. The remainder of the set (ten selections including "Cool Breeze," "One Bass Hit," "Cubano-Be, Cubano-Bop" and "Things to Come") features the Gillespie big band in typically spirited form. Of particular interest are a few numbers ("Relaxin' at Camarillo," which was arranged by George Russell, "Hot House," and "Toccata for Trumpet") that were never recorded in the studio by the big band. Classic bebop. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Eddie Condon
     Album: Bixieland
     Label: Columbia (Original) Membran Music (Reissue)
     Year: Apr 20, 1955 - Apr 22, 1955
     Release: 2005
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kb/s
     Time: 39:48
     Size: 129Mb



     Although a tribute to the music of the legendary cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, the ten selections on this 1955 LP are really jam sessions with no attempt to recreate Beiderbecke's recordings or solos. Condon's band on this occasion features Wild Bill Davison or Bobby Hackett on cornet, trombonist Cutty Cutshall, Dick Cary on alto horn, clarinetist Edmond Hall and a fine rhythm section. Highlights include "At the Jazz Band Ball," "I'll Be a Friend with Pleasure," "Fidgety Feet" and "Royal Garden Blues." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Artist: Jazz at the Philharmonic
    Album: Jazz at the Philharmonic at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1975
    Label: Pablo/OJC
    Release: 1975
    Style: bop
    Format, bitrate: Mp3 256 kb/s
    Time: 48:07
    Size: 76,8 Mb (covers)
    AMG Rating:

     Norman Granz and Pablo Records took over a large segment of the 1975 Montreux Jazz Festival and many recordings resulted. This particular CD is a colorful reissue featuring trumpeters Roy Eldridge and Clark Terry, Zoot Sims on tenor, altoist Benny Carter, guitarist Joe Pass, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Keter Betts, and drummer Bobby Durham performing four fairly lengthy renditions of standards. Everyone is in fine form, but it is the joyful playing of the two complementary but contrasting trumpeters (both of whom can be immediately recognized in a note or two) that makes this a recommended set for fans of straight-ahead jazz. - Scott Yanow at AMG

     Artist: Stanley Jordan
     Album: The Blue Note Concert
     Label: Pioneer LDC
     Year: 1989
     Release: 1989
     Format, bitrate: DivX(4/5/6), Video Bitrate: 791 Kb/s, MP3: 128 Kb/s
     Time: 59:37 min
     Size: 392 MB

     This concert was videotaped at Manhattan Center Studios on March 21 1989.
     This is from my LaserDisc. The audio is great but the video, well it's not DVD,

     Artist: Benny Carter
     Album: Aspects
     Label: United Artists
     Year: 1958
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.47:11
     Size: 108 MB
     AMG Rating:

     Большой свинговый биг-бенд под управлением Benny Carter показывает и би-боповые фрагменты.
     1958 год. "Смутное время" джаза...

     Artist: Sean Jones
     Album: The Search Within
     Label: Mack Avenue Records
     Year: 2009
     Quality:mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 138.08 MB
     AMG Rating:


     Beginning with his Mack Avenue Records debut in 2004, Eternal Journey, trumpeter-bandleader Sean Jones has embarked on a series of quests, passionately plumbing the depths of different wellsprings of his life as a musician. Recorded when he was 24, Eternal Journey was his awakening, ”my first step out into the recording world,” Jones says.

     That was followed by more steps as well as leaps, with the theme of personal navigation at the center of his vision. Jones has developed into one of jazz’s top young trumpeters, known for both his lyrical fluidity and high-tier technical facility. ”The idea of being on a journey has been in line with all my albums,” he says. ”My second album, Gemini, explored both sides of my musical loves, r&b and jazz. I expanded that with Roots, where I revisited my youth and paid tribute to gospel. And then on Kaleidoscope, I created a collage of sounds, exploring different timbres by enlisting vocalists to be collaborators.” ~ Mack Avenue Records

     Artist: Kristin Asbjornsen
     Album: The Night Shines Like The Day
     Label: Universal
     Year: 2009
     Quality: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 102 MB


     
     This album is all about loss and belonging – a journey of hope, embrace and transforming moments of life.
Kristin wrote the songs at the piano; but along the way the music developed within a haunting and distinctive ensemble sound, where West-African guitars blend creatively with the cello and piano. The arrangements are coloured by Kristin’s interpretations of African American spirituals on the critically acclaimed album ‘Wayfaring Stranger’, as well as her long term duo work with Tord Gustavsen. And they show traces of old gospel hymns and the West African danceable approach.
The album is produced by Jostein Ansnes, and Nils Petter Molvжr (trumpet) and Sizwe Magwaza (vocals) is also participating on the album.
Kristin says:
     ”I invited some of the musicians that have been very important to me during the past years. I feel humble and I am touched by the way they have approached my songs, with such powerful musical performances and with so much beauty.” ...

     Artist: King Pleasure
     Album: Golden Days
     Label: Original Jazz Classics
     Original Release Date: June 14, 1960; Release: July 1, 1991
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kb/s
     Time: 31 minutes
     Size: 71.5 MB

     This CD reissue (one of three King Pleasure sets that together contain all of his recordings) has an LP-length session from 1960 (originally put out by HiFi Jazz) that is dominated by spirited remakes of past glories. The vocalese singer revisits such songs as "Moody's Mood for Love," "Don't Get Scared," and "Parker's Mood" with the assistance of tenors Teddy Edwards and Harold Land and pianist Gerald Wiggins. Worth picking up, although the other two King Pleasure releases are generally on a higher and more creative level. ~ Review by Scott Yanow, AMG.

     Artist: Gary Kesayan
     Album: Jazz Quartet (DVD Audio Rip) and Best of All (CD)
     Date: 10 October 2007, Release: 2008
     Format: DVD AudioRip and CD Rip
     Bitrate: MP3 320 KBps
     Size: 129 MB + 118 MB + 3 MB (scans)



     Представляю вам известного армянского джазового музыканта - оригинального композитора, пианиста и Hammond B3 органиста Гари Кесаяна.

     Gary Kesayan - well-known armenian jazz composer, piano and Hammond B3 organ player.

     "... У моей музыки армянская сущность, а облекаю я её в формы, популярные во всем мире - джаз, фанк, ритм-н-блюз. Когда я пишу её, то вкладываю в неё всё то, что есть в душе у каждого армянина." (Г. К.)

     "... The essence of my music is armenian, and I give him forms that are popular in the whole world - jazz, funk, rhythm'n'blue. All that lives in every armenian soul, I put into my music. " (G. K.)

     Artist: Betty Bennett
     Album: Nobody Else But Me
     Label: Atlantic AMCY-1065
     Year: 1955, release: 1991
     Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
     Size: 192 MB & 82 MB
     Time: 37:33
     AMG Rating:

     Nobody Else But Me illuminates the dark corners of romance with rare depth and maturity--Betty Bennett's sultry, knowing vocals further establish the palpable feeling that this is a record for adults. Shorty Rogers and Andre Previn share arranger duties, and both operate in a framework emphasizing nuance and restraint, enabling Bennett to articulate her tales of love and loss without embellishment or redundancy--equal parts stylist and storyteller, she fully inhabits relatively little-known songs like "This Is the Moment" and "Treat Me Rough." ~ Review by Jason Ankeny, AMG.

    Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Album: Creedence Clearwater Revival Box Set
    Label: Fantasy Records
    Year: 1961 - 1971
    Release: 2001
    Style: rock & roll
    Format, bitrate: Mp3, 256 kb/s vbr
    Time: 1:02:50 1:10:12 1:03:58 1:14:56 1:18:00 1:10:04
    Size: 788 Mb (complete full covers)
    AMG Ratings:

            WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
                    DAY TWO

In 2000, Fantasy finally treated the Creedence Clearwater Revival catalog with the respect it deserved, remastering the entire catalog and issuing them in lavish editions with rich liner notes and slipcases. So, when they decided to release a "complete recorded works" box set a year later, the results weren't quite as revelatory as they may have been, since even if this was remastered again, it's hard for most listeners to notice the difference between this and the previous material, and all the liner notes —