Artist: Gidon Kremer
     Title: Ysaye: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin
     Year: 1992
     Genre: Classica
     Label: Mobile Fidelity
     Playtime: 00:54:49
     Format: FLAC + CUE (Cover Included)
     Size: rar 95,3 x 2 + 67,9 MB



     Gidon Kremer's technical brilliance, inward but passionate playing, and commitment to both new works and new interpretations of old works have made him one of the most respected violinists in the world today.

     Artist: The Ray Brown Trio with Ralph Moore
     Album: Moore Makes 4
     Year: 1990
     Label: Concord Records
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
     Time: 0:57:54
     Size: 135,75 MB



     The members of the Ray Brown Trio (the bassist-leader, pianist Gene Harris and drummer Jeff Hamilton) all grew to love the playing of tenor-saxophonist Ralph Moore when the four were traveling as members of Gene Harris' big band. On this Ray Brown CD, the veteran bassist virtually turned over the entire session to Moore. The quartet performs a variety of veteran standards (including some from the bop era such as Charlie Parker's "Quasimodo" and Dizzy Gillespie's "The Champ") plus Wes Montgomery's "SOS" and Brown's "Ralph's Boogie." Ralph Moore rises to the occasion and shows that, even though his sound is inspired by John Coltrane, he was fully capable of playing tunes from the swing and bop era; Moore sounds delighted to have the Ray Brown Trio as his backup group. This is a fine collaboration that works quite well.
~ Scott Yanow allmusic.com

     Artist: Cassandra Wilson
     Album: Belly of the Sun
     Year: 2002
     Label: Blue Note Records
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 76,6+62,1 MB

     Cassandra Wilson continues to move down a highly eclectic path on Belly of the Sun, the somewhat belated follow-up to Traveling Miles. While displaying a jazz singer's mastery of melodic nuance and improvisatory phrasing, Wilson draws on a variety of non-jazz idioms -- roots music, rock, Delta blues, country, soul -- to create a kind of earthy, intelligent pop with obvious crossover appeal. Her core band includes guitarists Marvin Sewell and Kevin Breit, who blend marvelously, Sewell mostly on mellow acoustic and Breit adding atmospheric touches on electric, 12-string, and slide guitars, as well as mandolin, banjo, and even bouzouki. Bassist Mark Peterson and percussionists Jeffrey Haynes and Cyro Baptista provide a superbly sensitive rhythmic foundation. But because Wilson returned to her home state of Mississippi to record most of this album, she made sure to book some time with local musicians. Thus guitarist Jesse Robinson guests on (and co-writes) the funky "Show Me a Love," and the octogenarian pianist "Boogaloo" Ames plays an unpolished yet utterly heartfelt duet with Wilson on the classic "Darkness on the Delta." Other guests include drummer Xavyon Jamison, trumpeter Olu Dara, pianist and vocalist Rhonda Richmond (who penned the slowly swaying "Road So Clear"), guitarist Richard Johnston, backup vocalists Patrice Monell, Jewell Bass, Henry Rhodes, and Vasti Jackson, and the children of New York's Middle School 44. Wilson delves into vintage blues with Mississippi Fred McDowell's "You Gotta Move" and a brief yet dynamic rendition of Robert Johnson's "Hot Tamales." But the best tracks are the rock/pop covers: the Band's "The Weight," Bob Dylan's "Shelter From the Storm," James Taylor's "Only a Dream in Rio," Jobim's "Waters of March," and Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman" (a 1968 hit for Glen Campbell). Wilson and band are in peak interpretive form on these ethereal reinventions. While her own lyrics may not rise to the level of a Robbie Robertson or a Bob Dylan, her versatility and focus come through clearly on the originals "Justice," "Just a Parade" (a collaboration with neo-soul rookie India.Arie), and the Caribbean-tinged "Cooter Brown." ~ David R. Adler, All Music Guide

   Artist: Various Artists
   Album: Lady Sings The Blues. Volume 2
   Year: 2004
   Label: EMI
   Genre: Compilations, Jazz
   Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
   Size: cd1:61,8+71,8MB
           cd2:66,5+57,4MB


   Following on from the highly successful (and very good) 'Lady Sings The Blues' 2 CD compilation comes 'Lady Sings The Blues Volume 2', again capturing a stellar cast of jazz, blues and soul divas interpreting their version of the blues. Actually the makers of this series have hit upon a real goldmine here - there is just so much criminally ignored and essential material in this vein, particularly from the 1950's and 1960's, that anyone with a good ear could create a number of quality collections. So with a selection that includes works from Aretha Franklin, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Julie London, Billie Holiday, Dusty Springfield, P.P. Arnold, Ann Peebles, Bobbie Gentry, Irma Thomas, Dinah Washington, Gladys Knight, plus the late Eva Cassidy and new discovery, sixteen year old diva, Joss Stone (whose very good debut is due in the next couple of weeks), enjoyable listening is guaranteed, especially if you are enjoy music of the jazz-blues-soul tradition.

   Artist: Steve Tyrell
   Album: Back to Bacharach
   Year: 2008
   Label: Koch Records
   Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
   Size: 122 MB

   Это последний альбом Steve Tyrell и как и другие его альбомы - просто удивительный, особенно потому, что исполнять произведения Burt Bacharach так, как Tyrell исполняет их в этом альбоме - очень трудно!
Внизу - комментарий об этом, написанный на сайте www.amazon.com:

   Steve Tyrell, whose appearances in the two "Father Of The Bride" movies, and whose albums "A New Standard" and "Standard Time" established him as a premier contemporary interpreter of the Great American Songbook, now turns his attention to one of the legendary composers in all of pop music: Burt Bacharach.
   Steve has a personal stake in these classic songs. As a young man breaking into the record business in the 1960s, he became head of A&R and Promotion at Scepter Records, the history-making independent label that released the famous hits written by Bacharach and his lyricist partner Hal David, and recorded by the great Dionne Warwick. Tyrell was present at the creation of standards like "Walk On By," "Alfie," "I Say A Little Prayer," and many others. Moreover, he produced B.J. Thomas' Oscar-winning recording of Bacharach-David's "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head."