Artist: Chet Baker
     Album: Broken Wing
     Format/bitrate: mp3/320 kbs
     Size: 127 mb
     Audio CD (15 Feb 2001)
     Label: Universal Classics
     ASIN: B000051TKO
     Recorded Paris, 1978

This is a good Chet Baker album that is not know so well. Lots of feeling later in his career.

     The Jazz in Paris-Broken Wing CD presents a 1978 quartet recording by the trumpeter Chet Baker and adds two lengthy alternative takes to the LP from which it's derived. The Paris rhythm section: Phil Markowitz on piano, Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke on bass and Jeff Brillinger on drums provide ideal support with some particularly impressive bass solos. Chet's wistful singing is heard on "Oh, You Crazy Moon" but otherwise his poignant trumpet, lyrical and beautifully controlled, is predominant. The spirit of Miles Davis hovers at Chet's shoulder, but he has his own tone and phrasing, less dramatic but subtly insinuating. "Blue Gilles", a Baker original, is a very slow, mournful lament dedicated to Gilles Gautherin, the producer of this session. Wayne Shorter's "Black Eyes", which comes in two versions, has a medium-tempo bossa nova beat, but otherwise it's the slower tempos, at which Baker excelled, that determine the reflective ambience of this late December Franco-American encounter. --Graham Colombй

     Artist : Buddy Tate
     Album: Groovin' with Buddy Tate
     Label: Prestige
     Year: 1961
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Total Time: 77:01
     Size: 178 Mb

     Buddy Tate is not the most well known tenor sax. That does not take away from his greatness. He swings, plays the blues, plays with taste and represents the best of mainstream jazz. These dates from 1959 and 1961 show him in top form. He he is seen as the main performer as he is often known for his work with Count Basie. During the time of this recording Buddy was known as the resident artist at Harlems Celebirty Club.

REPOST! Buddy Tate was born today, February 22!

     Artist:Merle Haggard
     Album: Same Train, Different Time
     Label: Bear Family
     Styles: Traditional Country, Bakersfield Sound
     Years: 1968-1969, release: 1995
     Format: MP3/320
     Size: 145 mb
     AMG Rating:

     Same Train, Different Time is Merle Haggard's affectionate tribute to Jimmie Rodgers. Haggard provides narration between the songs, offering tales of Rodgers' life and music. While the album is rooted in the past, the key to its success is how Haggard updates these traditional songs without losing sight of their roots. There are contemporary folk, country and blues influences scattered throughout the record, adding depth to the music and proving that Rodgers' music is indeed timeless. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

   Artist: CORNELL DUPREE & WHO IT IS
   Album: COAST TO COAST
   Label: ANTILLES
   Format: MP3/320
   Size: 108 MB

   It should have come as no surprise that ace session guitarist Cornell Dupree could come up with as thoroughly tasty a solo album as this, but it is a surprise nonetheless since we're so accustomed to hearing his distinctive touch backing someone else. Here the menu is bedrock R&B/jazz with roots in the 1960s, and Dupree's highly expressive signature blues style is everywhere, although he does adopt a more generic rock style on one occasion. At the same time, ever the team player, Dupree also frequently puts on his formidable rhythm boots and drives his quintet forward. Richard Tee rides barrelhouse R&B piano on an instrument that sounds as if the strings were steel rods, along with his familiar chorused electric piano sound. Lou Marini adds trademark soul licks on saxophones, while Frank Canino (bass) and Christopher Parker (drums) complement the leader's subtle use of space. Most of the tunes are Dupree's, save for a couple of contributions by Tee and a nice cover of the Jacksons' "Destiny," and it all goes down with plenty of back-home Southern dignity and grit.
   Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

     Artist - Toots Thielemans
     Album - Harmonica Jazz
     Label - Columbia
     Years: 1954-55; 1978, release - 1994
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps


     This album is a nice combination of the commercial and jazz music of Toots. This music is very honest and comes from his heart.

     Artist - Ike Quebec
     Album - Complete Blue Note 45's
     Label - Blue Note
     Years: 1959-1962
     Quality - MP3@192 kbps & MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 176 MB or 320 MB
     AMG Rating:

     These 26 tunes, recorded at three sessions between 1959 and 1962, were initially done to produce 45-pm singles for the jukebox market. The material leans heavily toward standards with a few bluesy originals thrown in. Quebec’s vulnerable, big-toned tenor caresses every melody beautifully and his heartfelt solos are stirring. Sidemen include Sir Charles Thompson (on organ), Milt Hinton and Skeeter Best.

     Artist: Buddy Tate
     Album: Buddy Tate and his Celebrity Club Orchestra
     Label: Black & Blue
     Year: 1968, release 2001
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s


     Buddy Tate led a band at New York's Celebrity Club for many years. But it did not get to record very often. It is to the shame of American record companies that it was Black and Blue in Paris that recorded this band in 1968. This band has a great line up of jazz veterans all on great form.

     Artist - Shirley Scott
     Album - Hip Soul
     Label - Prestige
     Year - 1961
     Quality - MP3@160 kbps
     Size - 45,2 mb


     Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine recorded a series of lesser known albums before their commercial sucess during the late 60's. These records were bluesy, groovy, smokey organ jazz which showed Stanley Turrentine at his best. Turrentine fans must have these records.

     Artist - George Benson
     Album - Body Talk
     Label - CTI
     Genre - Smooth jazz, R&B
     Year - 1973
     Quality - MP3@320kbps
     Size - 91,9mb
     Total time - 48:33

     The CTI sound. This was one of the early attempts at making commercial smooth jazz. Creed Taylor who originally
worked with Impulse records, did his best to package Benson. You may find the horn arrangements a bit dated
but the playing is quite good. You have all of the trappings of the CTI label, Fender Rhodes, horns, Ron
Carter bass and a selection of songs that are accessable to the public. When you look at the whole
"smooth jazz" movement, you have to admit - they haven't come any further than Benson did during the
70's. It's all a replay of what a few musicians did so well during the 70's.

     Artist - Illinois Jacquet
     Album - Illinois Jacquet Story
     Label - Proper Records
     Years: 1939-1952, release - 2002
     Quality - MP3@320kbps
     Size - 442,56mb

     Illinois Jacquet was the tenor saxophonist who informed the world that something new in tenor saxophone stylings had been forged with his famous solo on Lionel Hampton's "Flying Home" in 1942. The master of the Texas tenor style proves his versatility and command of the horn in this 4CD set that ranges from stomping swingers to romantic ballads and down-home blues performances. Among the supporting cast on this essential 79 track set are Charles Mingus, Sir Charles Thompson, Johnny Otis, Shadow Wilson, Bill Doggett and Art Blakey.

     Artist: Lou Donaldson
     Album: Midnight Creeper
     Label: Blue Note Records
     Year: Rec. 1968/rel. March 15, 1968
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time:34:53
     Size: 80.58 Mb