Artist: Tadd Dameron
     Album: The Tadd Dameron Memorial Album
     Label:Prestige Records
     Year: 1956
     Format, bitrate: MP3 320kbps
     Size: 50,85 MB
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Also released under the more widely available Fontainebleau title, the Tadd Dameron Memorial Album is one of most original sets from the burgeoning hard bop days of the mid-'50s. Blessed with Dameron's complex yet seamlessly atmospheric charts, the five-track set features some of the pianist's most involved (the title track, "The Scene Is Clean") and swinging pieces ("Delirium," "Flossie Lou"). And helping out along the way, bop standouts like trumpeter Kenny Dorham, alto saxophonist Sahib Shihab, and drummer Shadow Wilson make choice contributions throughout. A must for any jazz collection. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide

     Artist: David Sánchez
     Album: Obsesión
     Label: Sony
     Year: 1998
     Format, bitrate: mp3 @ 192kbps
     Time: 54:16
     Size: 88,1 MB
     AMG rating


David Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He graduated from a performing arts high school in 1986, spent a year studying psychology, and then moved to New York City in 1988, having decided to become a musician. Sanchez attended Rutgers University, studying with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar, and John Purcell. After a period freelancing in New York with many top Latin players (including Paquito D'Rivera and Claudio Roditi), Sanchez joined Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra in 1990, also getting the opportunity to play with Dizzy's small group. Since then he has toured with the Philip Morris SuperBand, recorded with Slide Hampton's Jazz Masters, Charlie Sepulveda, Kenny Drew, Jr., Ryan Kisor, Danilo Perez, Rachel Z, and Hilton Ruiz (among others), and headed his own sessions for Columbia. David Sanchez is a tenor player whose music mixes together Afro-Cuban rhythms with advanced bebop on releases like 1994's Sketches of Dreams and 1996's Street Scenes. Obsession followed two years later and Melaza in mid-2000. Since that time, Sanchez has kept busy releasing Travesía in 2001, Coral in 2004 and Cultural Survival in 2008. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Fiona Apple
     Album: Tidal
     Label: Epic (a subsidiary of Sony)
     Year: 1996
     Genre: Jazz fusion, Alternative, Experimental
     Format, bitrate: mp3; 320kbps.
     Time: 51:29
     Size: 120MB.
     AMG rating




Fiona Apple demonstrates considerable talent on her debut album, Tidal, but it is unformed, unfocused talent. Her voice is surprisingly rich and supple for a teenager, and her jazzy, sophisticated piano playing also belies her age. Given the right material, such talents could have flourished, but she has concentrated on her own compositions, which are nowhere near as impressive as her musicianship. Most of Tidal is comprised of confessional singer/songwriter material, and while they strive to say something deep and important, much of the lyrics settle for clichés. Apple does have a handful of impressive songs on Tidal, like the haunting "Shadowboxer" and "Sullen Girl," but the gap between her performing talents and songwriting skills is too large to make the album anything more than a promising, and very intriguing, debut.

     Artist: Ron Carter
     Album: Stardust
     Label: Blue Note
     Year: 2001
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 52:10
     Size: 121 mb (megaupload)


     Stardust is another satisfying record from Ron Carter, this one in part a tribute to the late Oscar Pettiford. Leading a quintet with Benny Golson on tenor, Joe Locke on vibes, Sir Roland Hanna on piano, and Lenny White on drums, Carter picks three choice tunes by Pettiford - the swing-to-tango "Tamalpais," the minor-key bop classic "Bohemia After Dark," and the masterfully simple "Blues in the Closet." Carter's originals, also numbering three, include the slow 14-bar blues "Nearly," the mid-tempo swinger "Tail Feathers," and "That's Deep," which is Carter's answer to the question, "How Deep Is the Ocean?" Locke sits out on a fairly upbeat rendition of "The Man I Love"; Carter and Hanna close with a duet on "Stardust," with Carter taking the melody. Golson and Hanna are in particularly good form, their richly seasoned sounds meshing well with the elan of the younger Locke.

     Artist: Stan Getz
     Album: Teenage Stan 1943-1947 Complete Edition Vol.1,Vol.2 (2CD)
     Label: Masters of Jazz
     Year: 1943-1947
     Release: 1997,1998
     Format: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 350M　(inc. booklet)

     At the tender ages of 18 and 19-going-on-20, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz was plowing his own furrow in the fertile turf of the postwar jazz scene, developing his own sound while honoring the influence of Lester Young. Vol. 2 in the Masters of Jazz Getz chronology is appropriately entitled Teenage Stan. Rather than including every single Benny Goodman recording on which Getz blew his horn as a member of the Goodman sax section, the producers of this exciting retrospective have selected the sides on which Getz actually soloed. The first five tracks portray Getz as a fine featured horn with Goodman in the Los Angeles area during the first few weeks of 1946. Getz is also heard swinging with West Coast bands led by trumpeter Randy Brooks and tenor saxophonist Vido Musso; sitting in with the second-to-last-ever Blue Rhythm Band in 1947 and jamming on-stage at one of Gene Norman's Just Jazz concerts. Smack in the middle of this invigorating compilation Getz presides at his very first recording date as a leader (see tracks eight through eleven). This Savoy session, which took place in New York on July 31, 1946, involved pianist Hank Jones, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Max Roach; the group was billed both as "the Bebop Boys" and the Stan Getz Quartet. This superb collection is packed with great music and is guaranteed to please anyone who loves big-band swing, vintage bop and formative Stan Getz.

     Artist: Miles Davis
     Album: The Complete On The Corner Sessions
     Label: Sony Music Distribution
     Year: 1972-1975
     Release: 2007
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320
     Time: 6:47:13
     Size: 6 CD: 169 mb/151 mb/134 mb/141 mb/157 mb/141 mb
     AMG Rating:

      From the opening four notes of Michael Henderson's hypnotically minimal bass that open the unedited master of "On the Corner," answered a few seconds later by the swirl of color, texture, and above all rhythm, it becomes a immediately apparent that Miles Davis had left the jazz world he helped to invent — forever. The 19-minute-and-25-second track has never been issued in full until now. It is one of the 31 tracks in The Complete On the Corner Sessions, a six-disc box recorded between 1972 and 1975 that centers on the albums On the Corner, Get Up with It, and the hodgepodge leftovers collection Big Fun. It is also the final of eight boxes in the series of Columbia's studio sessions with Davis from the 1950s through 1975, when he retired from music before his return in the 1980s. Previously issued have been Davis' historic sessions with John Coltrane in the first quintet, the Gil Evans collaborations, the Seven Steps to Heaven recordings, the complete second quintet recordings, and the complete In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and Jack Johnson sessions. There have been a number of live sets as well; the most closely related one to this is the live Cellar Door Sessions 1970, issued in 2005....

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: Americans In Sweden - Dear Old Stockholm Vol.1
     Label: Metronome JMLP 2-102 (Double LP)
     Year: 1949-1953
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbs (Covers Front/Inside/Back HD Ripped from original LP)
     Time: 42/46 min
     Size: 101,84+97,08 MB


     This double-LP from the Swedish Metronome label has a variety of intriguing bop-oriented performances by Americans who were visiting Sweden during 1949-1953. Some of these selections were leased by Prestige, and a few became famous, including two that were utilized for vocalese performances. Tenor saxophonist James Moody is featured on a dozen selections, including his version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" that became the basis for "Moody's Mood for Love." Zoot Sims is heard on two numbers; the great Swedish baritonist Lars Gullin leads a date that also includes Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Lee Konitz, and Zoot Sims; and pianist George Wallington heads a sextet for an extended "Blue Bird." In addition, Annie Ross sings two songs (including the original version of "Jackie") and Stan Getz's eight numbers include the first American version of "Dear Old Stockholm" and his "Don't Be Afraid" (which would become a vocalese classic); pianist Bengt Hallberg is in the supporting cast. Some of these performances have not yet become readily available on CD, and, in any case, this is a particularly attractive two-fer that includes pictures of many of the main soloists.

     Artist: Thorbjorn Risager
     Album: Track Record
     Label: Cope/VME
     Year: 2010
     Format MP3, bitrate: 320 kbps
     Time: 40:43
     Size: 75,71 Mb (+3%)



     The time has come for Thorbjorn Risager’s fifth CD. Ever since the debut, this great Danish vocalist and his equally outstanding band is delivering new albums with about a year's interval, full of new compositions. How they find time for this – especially the composing – in spite of their intense touring, is a bit of a mystery. But life on the road is definitely a source of inspiration, which some of the songs, and even the cover photos, are reflecting - even though they don't do so much of their travelling by train...

ФИАЛКИ по СРЕДАМ (выпуск 58)

Artist: Wynton Marsalis
Album: Clasiic Wynton
Label: Sony
Year: 1998; release: November 10, 1998
Genre: classical music
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
Time: 1h, 9 min, 36 sec
Size: 167 mb.

И снова в моей цветочной лавке (проездом из Ню-Ёрка в Бердичев) даёт концерты выдающийся трубач-классик, непонятно, каким образом попавший в список джазменов - Уинтон Марсалис!
А согласитесь, как трубач-классик он просто великолепен.



Итак...

     Artists: Chief Schabuttie Gilliam
     Album: Snakes Crawls At Night
     Label: Random Chance
     Recording : 2001-2002
     Release date : Mar 16, 2004
     Format/quality: mp3/ 320 kbps / 44,1Hz / Stereo
     Playtime: 46:32
     Size: 112 Mb



      Вся инфа о Chief Schabuttie Gilliame исходит из его уст. Родился в Египте в 1925 году.Соседи называют его "вождь",он регулярно выступает по всей Калифорнии, не говоря уже о родном Фениксе.Исповедует вудуизм, пишет справа налево, семь раз был женат и имеет 17 отпрысков.
Вот такой зашифрованный перец...

     Artist: Jack Teagarden
     Album: Meet Me Where They Play The Blues
     Label: Bethelehem/Membran
     Year: 1954, release: 2005
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 106 mb (sharebee)
     Total time: 49:24
     AMG Rating:





For this LP, trombonist Jack Teagarden is heard with three different groups on a dozen titles recorded in Nov. 1954. Although the supporting cast on various selections includes trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, clarinetists Edmond Hall and Kenny Davern, and Dick Cary, Norma Teagarden and Leonard Feather on pianos, Teagarden is the main star throughout. His trombone playing was still in prime form and his vocals give spirit to the music. Highpoints of this enjoyable Dixieland set include "Original Dixieland One Step," "Blue Funk," "Eccentric" and "Milenburg Joys." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Artist: Charles Mingus
    Album: Mingus At Antibes
    Label: Atlantic
    Year: Jul 13, 1960; release: 1992
    Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz
    Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s
    Time: 1:11:27
    Size: 174 Mb (covers)
    AMG Rating:

During 1960, bassist Charles Mingus led one of his finest bands, a pianoless quartet with Eric Dolphy (on alto, flute, and bass clarinet), trumpeter Ted Curson, and drummer Dannie Richmond. For this live concert, the band is augmented by the great tenor Booker Ervin for some stirring music. All of the music is memorable: "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting," "Prayer for Passive Resistance," "What Love," "Folk Forms No. 1," and "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul." The immortal pianist Bud Powell sits in on a fine version of "I'll Remember April" and Dolphy and Ervin in particular generate a great deal of heat during some of their solos. - Scott Yanow at All Music Guide