Artist: Femi Kuti
Album: Day By Day
Label: Downtown
Year:2008
Quality: mp3 @192 kbps
Size:89MB
Total time: 62:40

Femi Kuti announced he will release his new album, Day by Day, November 18th on Downtown Records new imprint, Mercer Street. Femi Kuti, son of Afrobeat founder and African musical legend Fela Kuti, hasn't released a studio album in seven years. His younger brother, Seun, recently stole the spotlight from Femi as Fela's progeny and afrobeat torchbearer with his 2008 release, Many Things. With this release Femi, is taking back the mission pushing Afrobeat to the next level.

As Fela's oldest son, Femi played in his legendary father's band, Egypt 80, from a young age. He later broke away from Egypt 80 to start his own band, Positive Force, which played at The Shrine, Fela's home club in Lagos, Nigeria, one night a week. Femi has long displayed his father's passion for social justice and political action, but has differed from Fela on many fronts including religious views and the threat of AIDS.

Femi collaborated with Mos Def, Common, and Jaguar Wright on his 2001 release, Fight to Win. On his new release, Day by Day, he emphasizes more of a jazz sound playing trumpet instead of saxophone on several tracks. Having spent seven years honing his style and learning to properly play the piano, Day by Day is expected to have a more refined, tight sound. After Seun's 2008 release, the world is eager to see what Femi has in store to stake his claim to Afrobeat's throne.

Artist:Esbjorn Svensson Trio
Album:Leucocyte
Original release: ACT music 2008.
Genre:Modern jazz
Format/bitrate: mp3,248 kbps
Size : 114 MB

Esbjörn Svensson's legacy is the last studio e.s.t. album, 'Leucocyte', which the group had finished recording and mixing in Australia shortly before his untimely death.
Leucocyte - the white corpuscles that protect us from disease, but whose presence is a warning. e.s.t. could play with multifaceted ideas like this in their music whilst maintaining a popular profile unheard of for a band performing improvised music steeped in the history of jazz. Amazon.com

     Artists: The New Gerry Mulligan Quartet
     Album: Americans in Sweden
     Year: 1959
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps


     The most famous and probably greatest jazz baritonist of all time, Gerry Mulligan was a giant. A flexible soloist who was always ready to jam with anyone from Dixielanders to the most advanced boppers, Mulligan brought a somewhat revolutionary light sound to his potentially awkward and brutal horn and played with the speed and dexterity of an altoist. Here, he performs live at Stockholm’s Konserthuset, May, 1959, accompanied by Art Farmer on trumpet.

     Album - Life Space Death
     Artist - Bill Laswell/Dalai Lama/Toshinori Kondo
     Date - 2002
     Label - Meta
     Genre - Avant-Garde, Spiritual, Ambient
     Format/Bitrate - MP3/ 192 kbps
     Size - 49,4 MB

     Artist - Lizabeth Scott
     Album - Debut
     Label - Vic records
     Year - 1957
     Quality - MP3@ 224kps




     Definitely different. She had quite a presence on the screen. She was a noir queen. Notice the many song titles with Men in the title. Her phrasing is interesting. She pushes the beat. You wonder what she might have done with some punchy jazz players. Did she do any other albums? The notorious scandal sheet Confidential printed rumors that she was a Lesbian. She sued them but the case was thrown out. It just about killed her movie career.

      Artist - Kenny Garrett
      Album - Songbook
      Label - Warner Bros.
      Year - 1997
      Quality - MP3@320 kbps
      Size: 85,0+58,4mb
      Total time - 59:35

      Artist - Sonny Rollins
      Album - Freedom Suite
      Label - OJC/Riverside
      Year - 1958
      Quality - MP3@224 kbps
      Size - 65,2mb
      Total time - 40:43


      Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' last Riverside album has been reissued on this Original Jazz Classics CD. Jamming in a pianoless trio with bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Max Roach, Rollins is very creative, stretching out on his lengthy "Freedom Suite," tclearly enjoying investigating the obscure Noel Coward melody "Someday I'll Find You," turning the showtune "Till There Was You" into jazz and finding beauty in "Shadow Waltz" and "Will You Still Be Mine." A near-masterpiece. — Scott Yanow

Artist - Bugge Wesseltoft
Album - IM
Label - Jazzland Recordings
Year - 2007
Quality: MP3@320kps; Flac
Size: MP3(70,0+49,6mb); Flack(100,0+97,6mb)


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Bugge Wesseltoft (born February 1, 1964 in Porsgrunn) is a Norwegian jazz musician, pianist, composer and producer. He has his own label named Jazzland Records. In the 1990s, Bugge has made a transition from Nordic jazz traditions exemplified by the ECM record label to a style sometimes referred to as "future jazz" or nu jazz. He has played with Jan Garbarek.

      Album - Re-birth of the cool
      Artist - Gerry Mulligan
      Recording Date -1992
      Label - GRP
      Genre - Jazz,Cool Jazz
      Format/Bitrate - MP3@256 kbs/s
      Total Time - 49:27
      Size - 91,7 mb


      In 1991, Mulligan contacted Miles Davis about revisiting the music from the seminal 1949 Birth of the Cool album. Davis had recently performed some of his Gil Evans collaborations with Quincy Jones at the Montreux Jazz Festival and was enthusiastic. However, Davis died from a stroke in September and Mulligan continued the recording project and tour with Wallace Roney and Art Farmer subbing for Davis. Re-Birth of the Cool (released in 1992) featured the charts from Birth of the Cool, and a new nonet which included Lewis and Barber from the original Davis band.

      AMG *****

Artist - Frank Sinatra
Album - A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
Label - Capitol
Year - 1957
Quality - MP3@320kbs/s
Size - 84,4mb
Total time - 38:32