Artist - Billie Holiday
     Album - Love Songs
     Label - Columbia
     Years- 1937 - 1941 (Release - 1996)
     Genre - Jazz, Blues, Vocal
     Tracks - 16
     Total time - 47:34
     Formate, bitrate - MP3, 320 Kb/s
     File - 67,3Mb

     

     Artist - Brad Mehldau
     Album - Largo
     Label - Warner Bros. Records
     Year - 2002
     Quality - MP3@256 kbps
     Size: 65,0+59,0 mb
     Total time - 64:09

     Having essayed "the art of the trio" on several albums boasting that same tag, pianist Brad Mehldau opens up his style here to embrace horns and strings, electronics and robo-beats. Produced by popmeister Jon Brion (Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple), whom he hooked up with at the Largo nightclub in Los Angeles, Largo the CD is thick with atmosphere: titles such as "When It Rains" shouldn't be taken lightly. But its studied romanticism, while cutting back on the pianistic posturing that has turned off some jazz critics on Mehldau (while intensifying the devotion of others), is ultimately thin in substance. At its best, as on the freewheeling "Paranoid Android," the music attains a kind of hermetic intensity. At other times, it recalls the acoustic experimentation of Medeski Martin & Wood with its decorative grooves and empty claims on free expression. Cocktail music is but a few degrees of banality away, which, depending on your taste, is either reason to stay away or reason to make Mehldau even more of a hot property. -- Lloyd Sachs

     Artist: Blue Mitchell
     Album: The Complete Blue Mitchell Blue Note
     Sessions 1963-1967 - 4CDs
     Year: 1963
     Label: Mosaic MD4-178 (4 Discs)
     Time: 4 hours, 6 minutes, 31 seconds
     Format: MP3 @320kbps
     Size: 683.6mb (RS.com, with 5% WinRar File Recovery)
     Includes Covers + Scans + 16-page PDF Booklet
     AMG Rating:

     Blue Mitchell was always a consistent, lyrical, and pleasing trumpeter. Although not as significant during the 1960s as Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard (much less Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis), Mitchell had his own appealing sound and was a major asset on many modern mainstream dates. This four-CD limited-edition Mosaic box set collects Mitchell's first six Blue Note dates as a leader: Step Lightly, The Thing to Do, Down With It, Bring It Home to Me, Boss Horn, and Heads Up. Three albums are by his quintet, which included tenor saxophonist Junior Cook and usually the young pianist Chick Corea and was formed shortly after he left Horace Silver, and the three others are with larger groups, two of which have arrangements by Duke Pearson. Among the other key sidemen are tenor great Joe Henderson, altoist Leo Wright, baritonist Pepper Adams, and pianists Herbie Hancock and McCoy Tyner. There are just two previously unreleased cuts (both alternate takes), but most of the sets have been somewhat rare for years, and taken as a whole, the swinging hard bop and boogaloo performances are Blue Mitchell's finest recordings. -- AMG

Artist - Keith Jarrett
Album - Birth
Label - Wounded Bird Records
Year - 1971
Quality - MP3@320kbps
Size - 94,2mb
Total time - 45:33

Pianist Keith Jarrett's sessions of July 1971 resulted in three LPs and the birth of his finest group: a quartet (and sometimes quintet) with tenor saxophonist Dewey Redman, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Paul Motian. This particular album has some eccentric moments, with Jarrett switching to soprano on the effective "Mortgage on My Soul" and making appearances on steel drum, recorder, and banjo (in addition to piano) on two adventurous pieces. Redman is featured on Chinese musette during "Spirit" (which has Haden on conga and steel drums) and also plays some clarinet in addition to his usual tenor. Not everything works, and there are some wandering moments, but the music always holds one's interest; one can easily see the potential that would soon be realized by this intriguing ensemble. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Various Artist
     Album: Looking For The Light; A Tribute To Chet Baker
     Year: 1999
     Label: KingJazz
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 50:20
     Size: 57.2 + 53.7 Mb

     Artist: Victor Wooten
     Album: Palmystery
     Label: Heads Up Records
     Genre: Smooth jazz
     Year: 2008
     Size: 114,71 MB
     Total time: 65:48

     Bassist Victor Wooten, whose sense of creative exploration has fueled a highly successful career that spans more than two decades, five solo recordings, a diverse resumй of guest-artist work and a longstanding collaborative relationship with the innovative Bйla Fleck and the Flecktones, makes his debut on Heads Up International with Palmystery. His latest release embraces a range of styles – jazz, funk, pop, soul, gospel, world music and more.

     Artists: Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack DeJohnette
     Album: Setting Standards - New York Sessions
     Label: ECM
     Years: 1983-1985, release January 22, 2008
     Size: 292 Mb (3CDs)
     Format/Bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/sec
     AMG Rating: ****


     Предлагаем вашему вниманию юбилейное издание от компании ECM, посвящённое 25-летию образования знаменитого трио "Standards" с участием Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock и Jack DeJohnette.

     Artist: Anjani
     Album: Blue Alert
     Label: Columbia Records
     Year: 2006
     Format: MP3:320 kbit/s
     Size: 95,6 Mb
     AMG Rating: ****

     Anjani Thomas (born 10 July 1959) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist best known for her work with singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, as well as Carl Anderson, Frank Gambale, and Stanley Clarke. She became a solo artist in 2000.
     Anjani was born in Honolulu, Hawaii where she trained in guitar, piano and voice. She attended Berklee College of Music for a year then moved to New York City to a pursue a music career. She performed in jazz clubs before meeting producer John Lissauer, who hired her to provide backup vocals on Leonard Cohen's influential song "Hallelujah" from Various Positions. Anjani went on to tour with Cohen in 1985 as his keyboardist and backup vocalist, and has regularly worked with Cohen ever since, lending her talents to I'm Your Man, The Future, and Dear Heather.
     Anjani launched a solo career with Anjani in 2000 followed by The Sacred Names in 2001 – an ode to the Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew names of God. In 2006, Cohen contributed lyrics and production talents to Anjani's music and arrangements for Blue Alert on Columbia Records. The song "Blue Alert" was used in a 2007 Old Navy TV spot.

     Artist: The Rolling Stones
     Album: Between The Buttons
     Year: 1967/rel.Mar 21, 2006
     Label: London (Polydor)/Japan
     Format: MP3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 38:42
     Size: 85.7 Mb
     

     Artist: Eliane Elias
     Album: So Far So Close
     Year: 1988, release - 1989
     Label: Blue Note
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/VBR 224-320
     Size: 68 MB (RS)
     Time: 41:45