Artists - VA
     Album - Dance To The Bands - Volume 1
     Label - Capitol
     Year - 1956
     Quality - MP3@256kbps (LP-rip)
     Total time - 33:00



     Cheery incendiary music performed by the best

     Artist: Lisa Ekdahl
     Album: Heaven, Earth & Beyond
     Year: 2002
     Label: BMG / Catalyst
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 81 + 60 MB



 

     Artist: Nina Simone
     Album: Folksy Nina / Nina with Strings
     Release: 07/28/1998
     Label: Collectables
     Genre: Blues, Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Total Time: 67:14
     Size: 93,8+63,7 MB

     This reissue combines two of Simone's Colpix albums, Folksy Nina (1964) and Nina with Strings (1966), onto a single CD. Though it was taken from the same performance as 1963's Nina Simone at Carnegie Hall, Folksy Nina duplicates little of the material found on that prior album. It isn't just unworthy leftovers, but a strong set in its own right, concentrating on material that could be seen as traditional or folk in orientation. It's not exactly strictly folk music, in repertoire or arrangement. However, there was an uptempo piano blues (Leadbelly's "Silver City Bound") and covers of the Israeli "Erets Zavat Chalav" and "Vanetihu" which served as further proof that Simone's eclecticism knew no bounds. There are also the kind of stark, moody, spiritually shaded ballads at which she excelled, like "When I Was a Young Girl," "Hush Little Baby," and "Lass of the Low Country," the last of which is as exquisitely sad-yet-beautiful as it gets. Simone had long since departed the Colpix label by the time of the 1966 release of Nina with Strings. That accounts for its pasted-together contents, which combined some previously unreleased material with tracks with strings. This is not the Nina Simone record to start with, but if you like Simone enough to seek out a lot of her albums, there's some worthwhile music here, even if the programming isn't so smooth. Although Simone sings well on every take, the standards are outshone by the earthier tunes, like "Chain Gang (The Work Song)." Certainly the best number is "Blackbird," with its creepy bass and percussive slaps the only accompaniment for Simone's magnificent spiritual vocal, although those apt to be considering buying this in the first place are likely to already have it on Rhino's Anthology: The Colpix Years.
Richie Unterberger. AMG

     Artist: Lou Donaldson
     Album: Swing and Soul
     Label: Blue Note
     Quality: FLAC
     Size: 243 MB
     Time: 37:38



     Lou Donaldson has long been an excellent bop altoist influenced by Charlie Parker, but with a more blues-based style of his own.

     Artist: Tinsley Ellis
     Album: Trouble Time
     Label: Alligator Records & Artist Managment Inc.
     Year: 1992
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 12
     Format: MP3, 320 VBR
     File Size: 127 MB

     Качественный блюз от Тинслей Эллис шестнадцатилетней давности...

     Artist: Tinsley Ellis & The Heartfixers
     Album: Cool On It
     Label: Alligator Records
     Year: 1986
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 10
     Total Time: 38:54
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     File Size: 95 MB

     Tinsley Ellis effortlessly blends gritty urban blues with edgy rock and roll. This album was originally released in 1986 on Landslide Records. The recording brought Ellis to the attention of Alligator Records, who originally signed him in 1988. In 1991, Alligator re-released it "so more people could discover Tinsley Ellis and this terrific band". You can use it to relive the explosion of the birth of modern blues/rock.

     Artists: David Murray & The Gwo-Ka Masters
     Album: Gwotet
     Year: 2004
     Format: bitrate: MP3@320 kbps (+ front, back)

     The latest cross-cultural exploration from David Murray, and unquestionably one of his finest, reunites him with the legendary Pharoah Sanders, with whom he last collaborated on the Grammy Award-winning recording Blues For Coltrane in 1987 - a record that also featured jazz heavyweights McCoy Tyner, Roy Haynes and Cecil McBee. While that recording was, as its title promises, a tribute to the late saxophone legend, this one couldn't be more different. Gwotet is, from the moment the "needle" hits the record, a big party: propulsive percussion, driving bass (acoustic and electric) and a masterful, mostly Cuban horn section (three trumpets, alto sax, trombone and baritone sax, in addition to Murray and Sanders!) are fused with Gwo-Ka singer / percussionists (Guadeloupean gwo-ka drums are hand instruments that date back to slave days) to make for a record that will move your spirit and your body.

     Artist: Lou Donaldson
     Album: Wailing with Lou
     Label: Blue Note
     Quality: FLAC
     Size: 177 MB
     Time: 37:24

     Wailing With Lou is an appropriate title for this enjoyable set of straight-ahead bop. Whether he's riding the propulsive rhythms of "Caravan" or settling down into a ballad, Donaldson takes the center stage with his surprisingly full alto tone. He still displays a clear Charlie Parker influence, but he is beginning to break free and develop his own style. In particular, he relies on bluesy runs more than Bird, which give his music a soulful edge. But what makes Wailing With Lou so enjoyable is the hot interplay between Donaldson, trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Herman Foster, bassist Peck Morrison and drummer Art Taylor. All five musicians give enthusiastic, infectious performances. There's nothing out of the ordinary here -- just hard-driving bop and sensitive ballads, which are sure to please fans of the style. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

   Artist: VA
   Album: Carnegie Hall Salutes The Jazz Masters - Verve 50th Anniversary
   Year: 1994
   Label: Verve
   Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
   Time: 76:25
   Size: 176 MB

   Don Alias, Tom Barney, Ray Brown, Kenny Burrell, Betty Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Peter Delano, Ai Foster, Charlie Haden, Omar Hakim, Herbie Hancock, Roy Hargrove, Joe Henderson, Bruce Hornsby, Antonio Carlos Jobim, J.J. Johnson, Hank Jones, Abbey Lincoln, Jeff Lorber, Christian McBride, John McLaughlin, Jackie McLean, Pat Metheny, Art Porter, Renee Rosnes, Stephen Scott, Jimmy Smith, Gary Thomas, Steve Turre, Kenny Washington, Vanessa Williams, Yosuke Yamashita, and The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band conducted by Don Sickler had gathered in one hall, one of the greatest halls on this planet, all at once celebrating Verve's 50th Anniversary, and had spent more than an hour together, talking with the help of music only... Let's go back to that awesome commemoration and listen to their fascinating conversations and toasts!