Artist: Pamela Williams
     Album: The Look of Love
     Year: Jun 26, 2007
     Label: Shanachie
     Genre: Jazz, Smooth jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3 -320 kbps

     Женщина в джазе не редкость... либо вокал, либо фортепьяно, или то и другое вместе, и чаще всего это приносит великолепные плоды. Pamela Williams – исключение, подтверждающее правило, она - саксофонистка!

     Artist - Lennie Niehaus
     Album - Contemporary Records C3503;The Octet#2,Vol.3
     Genre - Post bop, west coast
     Label - OJC/Contemporary
     Quality: MP3@320
     Year: 1955, release - 1991
     Size: 96 Mb (rapidshare) + covers
     Total Time: 39:31

     Lennie Niehaus (born 1 June 1929) is an American alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer on the West Coast jazz scene. He has played with the Stan Kenton big band, and various other jazz bands on the West Coast of the U.S.

     Artist - James Spaulding
     Album - Down With It
     Label: Futura
     Quality: MP3@320
     Release: 2006
     Size: 160 Mb (96+64) + covers
     Total Time: 45:25

     Most reviews or discussions of the music of altoist/flutist James Spaulding have focused on his status of ”sixties sideman extraordinaire” or something similar. Of course, inherent in that is the question of why Spaulding never made a record as a leader for Blue Note, the label on which most of his appearances occurred. While certainly his work with Wayne Shorter, Tyrone Washington, Larry Young, and of course Freddie Hubbard is of a piece, giving a keen sense of Spaulding’s development as a musician, his recordings as a leader for High Note and his own Speetones label in the past two decades haven’t garnered as much notice.

     Artist - Jacky Terrasson
     Album - Mirror
     Label : Blue Note Records
     Quality: MP3@320
     Release: 2007
     Size: 111 Mb (96+15) + covers
     Total time - 50:12

     Since winning the Thelonious Monk Piano competition in 1993, Jacky Terrasson has more than validated the judges' opinions with a consistently outstanding series of CDs. Mirrors provides a rare opportunity to enjoy Terrasson in a solo piano setting. He recasts the old favorite from the Duke Ellington songbook by mixing a different vamp, adding an ominous tremolo and even taking breaks to tap on the piano's wood surface, while never losing his focus on its theme and delivering a fresh, exciting interpretation. The choppy setting of "Just a Gigolo" is an obvious nod to Thelonious Monk (who liked to toy with this standard) though Terrasson's take is even more adventurous and playful.

     The pianist's romp through "Cherokee" hints only briefly at the melody, showcasing his improvising with a variation of its chord changes in the bass line. His touching setting of "America the Beautiful" suggests hope in a time of turmoil. Terrasson's five originals also prove to be memorable performances. His rapid-fire "Mirror" is breath-taking, while his "Tragic Mulatto Blues" blends a heartfelt theme with a bit of turmoil.
     Jacky Terrasson's Mirror leaves a lasting reflection of his immense talent. Ken Dryden, All Music Guide

     Artist: Walter Trout Band
     Album: Tellin' Stories
     Label: Jive
     Year: 1994
     Genre: Blues Rock
     Tracks: 12
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     File Size: 93 MB + 81 MB

     Walter Trout is a "Jersey-boy gone good" playing a guitar-gone-bad. "Tellin Sories" opens with a fierce riff and never stops. During each song you wait for Walter to come up for air, but he doesn't. Every song is a wild ride of utter sponteneity- the guitar is simply on fire. Every song offers different techniques usually done rapid-fire. Any person who has played a Fender Strat owes themselves a hearing of this CD. This man and his guitar belong at the head of the class. This is the Blues - and then some.

     Artists - Jan Garbarek & Ustad Fateh Ali Khan
     Album - Ragas and Sagas
     Label - ECM - 1442
     Year - 1992
     Genre - Jazz Word
     Quality - 320 Kbps
     Size - 75 MB + 69 MB
     Total time - 52:15

     Artist: Irakere
     Album: The Best of Irakere
     Year - 1979, release - 1994
     Label: Columbia Jazz
     Genre: Fusion, Cuban Jazz
     Format/Bitrate - MP3, 320 kbps (RapidShare)
     Size: 174 Mb (two files)
     Total Time - 74:44

     The great Cuban band Irakere has been underrecognized only because the United States' trade embargo on Cuba kept the mainstream jazz audience unaware of their existence until 1977. Members of Cuba's reigning big band, the Orquesta Cubana de Mйsica Moderna, formed Irakere in 1971. The new group's leaders were virtuosic pianist Chucho Valdйs, trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, and saxophonist Paquito d'Rivera. After the '77 diplomatic thaw, the band played a U.S. tour and signed with Columbia records. The material here is from the Columbia period, the bulk of which was recorded live in New York in 1979. The band's ability to play complex jazz arrangements with salsa rhythms is a revelation. --John Swenson

     Artists - VA
     Album - Music Of 30 - 40 Years
     Label - RDM
     Years: 30-40s, release - 1995
     Quality - MP3@192kbps
     Size: 53,4+50,7 (shareonall)
     Total time - 77:01

     Artist: Clora Bryant
     Album:...Gal With a Horn
     Year: 1957, Release Date: 1995
     Genre: Jazz/Style: Bop
     Label: V.S.O.P.
     Format: MP3 @320 kbps + Flac
     Size: MP 3 (46 Mb) + Flac (100+77 Mb)
     Rating AMG: 4 

Artist: J.J. Johnson Sextet
Album: J.J. Inc
Rating AMG: 4 1/2
Recording Date: Aug 1, 1960,Aug 3, 1960
Label: Columbia/Legacy
Genre: Jazz, Styles: Hard Bop
Time: 70:16
Format/Bitrate - mp3, 320 kbps (RapidShare)
Size: 100+63 Mb

     Вашему вниманию предлагается запись секстета J.J. Johnson'а. Публикация подготовлена на основе японского издания альбома, включающего три бонусных трека.
     Приятного прослушивания.

     Artist: Bud Powell
     Album: The Scene Changes (The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 5)
     Label: Blue Note records/Japan
     Year: rec.Dec 28, 1958/rel.2006
     Format; MP3@320 Kb/s
     Time: 45:24
     Size: 99.3 Mb
     AMG rating:

     Artist: Bobby ”Blue” Bland
     Album: Touch Of The Blues
     Label: Duke Records
     Genre: Blues
     Styles: Blues, Modern Electric Blues
     Original Release Date: 1967
     Quality/Bitrate: MP3/320kb/s/44.1Khz/Stereo
     Cover: No
     Size: 66.4 MB



     Биография исполнителя



Продолжаем осваивать дискографию замечательного исполнителя. Приятного прослушивания.

     Artist: Bud Powell
     Label:Blue Note
     Year: rec. 1947-1958/rel.1997
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 43:12
     Size: 88.2 Mb

     Artist: Eliane Elias
     Album: Cross Currents
     Year: 1987
     Label: Denon
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 55 MB + 51MB (RS)
     Time: 51:30

     Pianist Eliane Elias' second of two Denon CDs recorded before she hooked up with Blue Note is a lesser-known but worthy session. Elias is mostly featured in a trio with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Jack DeJohnette performing originals, a Charles Mingus composition ("East Coastin'"), "Beautiful Love," "When You Wish Upon a Star" and Bud Powell's "Hallucinations."

     Artist: Lee Konitz
     Album: Subconscious-Lee
     Label: Original Jazz Classics
     Year: 1949
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.40:00
     Size: 68.7 MB
     AMG rating:



     A debut for both Lee Konitz and the Prestige label.

     Artists: The Modern Jazz Quartet
     Album: The Sheriff
     Year: 1963, release 2001
     Label: Atlantic / Warner Bros.
     Genre: Jazz, Third Stream, Cool
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 Kbps
     Time: 0.30:22
     Size: 69,6 Mb


     Очередной образец творчества прославленного квартета...

     Artist: Art Tatum
     Album: Tea For Two (Compilation)
     Label: Le Chant Du Monde
     Release: 2005
     Format, bitrate: MP3@192 kbit/s VBR
     Time: 2:38:02
     Size: 178.2 MB


     Я знаю, что альбом с одноимённым названием в Клубе уже представлен. Это другое. Это очень приятная, на мой взгляд, компиляция великолепного Арта.