Artist: Sidney Bechet
   Album: Petite Fleur
   Year: VA, release - 2000
   Label: Vogue/BMG
   Genre: Jazz
   Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
   Time: 1:18:24
   Size: 183,78 MB

   Представляю компиляцию одного из самых известных джазменов. К сожалению, не нашёл больше информации об этом диске. Даже обложки нет, но это не помеха, чтобы прослушать его и высказать своё мнение о Сиднее Беше.

     Artist: Mindi Abair
     Album: Stars
     Label: Concord
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Tracks: 11
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     File Size: 50 MB + 52 MB

     Singer, songwriter and saxophonist, Mindi Abair follows up her 2006 release, Life Less Ordinary, which debuted on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Chart at # 1, with Stars, a fresh blast of innovative vocals and modern instrumentals. Abair adds a refreshingly unique voice to an exciting new generation of crossover artists who are, like her, powerful instrumentalists as well as thought-provoking singer/songwriters. Her singles have hit number one over and over again on the Radio & Records charts (including "Lucy's", from the album, It Just Happens That Way, one of the longest running # 1 singles ever for a debut artist) and she continues to sell out everywhere on tour. Abair is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Chill With Mindi Abair featuring cutting edge music by artists such as Air, Moby, Zero 7 and remixes of classic jazz titles. She has toured and/or recorded with a wide range of artists including: MANDY MOORE, KEB MO, LEE RITENOUR, BOBBY LYLE, THE BACKSTREET BOYS, and DURAN DURAN. She also opened for JOSH GROBAN on his 2004 sold out fall tour.
     Balancing bluesy, knowing ballads, uptempo saxophone instrumentals, and straight-up pop tuneage, Mindy Abair's 2008 album is a glossy, cross-genre treat. While jazz purists may take exception to her overly sweet sax technique, pop fans will revel in the gritty tone of her vocals and songwriting smarts.

     Artist: Derek & the Dominos
     Album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
     Label: Polydor / Umgd
     Original Release: 1970
     Release Date: 08/20/1996
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 93,1+89,2 MB

     Wishing to escape the superstar expectations that sank Blind Faith before it was launched, Eric Clapton retreated with several sidemen from Delaney & Bonnie to record the material that would form Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. From these meager beginnings grew his greatest album. Duane Allman joined the band shortly after recording began, and his spectacular slide guitar pushed Clapton to new heights. Then again, Clapton may have gotten there without him, considering the emotional turmoil he was in during the recording. He was in hopeless, unrequited love with Patti Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison, and that pain surges throughout Layla, especially on its epic title track. But what really makes Layla such a powerful record is that Clapton, ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" into his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Any Day" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion. And, considering what a personal album Layla is, it's somewhat ironic that the lovely coda "Thorn Tree in the Garden" is a solo performance by Whitlock, and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide.

     Artist: Phineas Newborn Jr.
     Album: C Jam Blues
     Label: Paddle Wheel / King Records
     Year: 1986, release 2004
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.39:04
     Size: 90 MB


     Я поздравляю с Днём Рождения милую госпожу Aelia и преподношу скромный подарок.
     Счастья Вам и удачи, дорогая Aelia! А хорошей музыки для Вас у нас ещё много найдётся...

     Artist: Mike Nock
     Album: Ondas
     Label: ECM
     Year: 1982
     Format: APE (226 MB), MP3@320 Kbps (120 MB) + scans
     Total time: 51:10
     AMG Rating:

     At the time of this recording, New Zealand's Mike Nock was one of the great, unsung pianists in European stlyed jazz. His elegant phrasing and wildly inventive melodicism fly in the face of all notions that claim improvisation must be outside Western musical parameters and structures. On Ondas, Nock has assembled a rhythm section that, while never having played together before shared the ability to create the bedrock, however flexible, for the artist's crystalline compositions and solos. Eddie Gomez was a wise choice for this session because of his experience with Bill Evans, who is an obvious influence on Nock's own composing -- as is Keith Jarrett. His pizzicato flourishes and shifting timbres on "Forgotten Love" and "Visionary," while retaining an elemental sense of meter, are remarkable. Christensen is the greatest of all the drummers in the ECM stable. His style is one of paucity and sparse riffs, but his cymbal "dancing" is a trademark favorite of pianists and saxophonists everywhere. He has the ability to open up time, creating a window for improvisers to stretch each note, each interval, each mode, for all it's worth, suspending notions of time and space for the listener. Evidence is on the title track and "Land of the Long White Clouds." For his part, Nock is a magician of lyrical invention. His compositional architecture is created of minor modes and subtle textures. His chords are small enough to be their own rhythm section and large enough to fit all the notes in between them and the next octave in combinatory gestures of shimmering beauty. He does all of this in a manner in which tension and its resolution are in constant flux, never out of balance with one another. His solo on "Forgotten Love," that is based upon Gomez', is a case in point: towering ivy clusters of notes flex over darkened minor chords, up and through the middle and then upper registers of the instrument before inviting Gomez back in. In all, this is a glorious recording by a crack batch of musicians. It is also a stellar example of what Manfred Eicher's label and production offer to the world. - by Thom Jurek, AMG

     Artists: SCOTT JOPLIN
     Album: The Ultimate Jazz Archive Set 01 CD 1
     Years: 1899-1912
     Format, bitrate: MP3@ 320 kbit/s
     Time: 60:56
     Size: 139 MB


     Особенное спасибо! (Special Thanks!)
     lex, BlackB, Teds, tednewman, hungaropitecus, nikulius. И всем всем всем....
     Ну и конечно всеми любимой, замечательной, милой и доброй zuziki

     Artist: Pierre-Laurent Aimard
     Album: J S Bach Art of Fugue
     Genre: Clasic
     Label: Deutsche Grammophon
     Year: 2008
     Format: APE
     Size: 273 MB

     New York Times:
     "Staggering technique, searching intellect and fantastical imagination"
     Pierre-Laurent Aimard's debut on Deutsche Grammophon is the first recording of the mystical The Art of Fugue by a world-renowned pianist in 25 years. As a pre-eminent performer of modern music, Aimard brings a unique and exciting approach to his first ever Bach recording also serving as his first recording of Baroque repertoire.
     Given his links to many of the great contemporary composers, the high-profile Aimard is certain to generate much interest in the musical press with his first Bach recording. Aimard will perform The Art of Fugue in many musical venues around the world, in cities including New York, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Tokyo.

     Artist: Kenny Burrell
     Album:75th Birthday Bash Live!
     Genre: post-bop
     Label: Blue Note
     Year: May, 2007
     Format: MP3 @ 320 kbps
     Time: 65:13
     Size: 71.5 + 71.4 Mb

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     Artist - Eddie Condon
     Album - The Town Hall Concerts Vol. 8
     Label: Jazzology
     Years: 1944 - 1945, release - 1999
     Quality: MP3@256 kbps
     Size: 93,8+92,5 mb




     The eighth double CD in this essential series has four more half-hour shows that were billed as The Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts. Condon, who was always more important as an instigator than as a guitarist, was a perfect host for the program, not only offering witty and sometimes sarcastic commentary but designing the shows so all of the all-stars were properly featured, both individually and collectively. The eighth volume has the usual incredible roster: trumpeters Billy Butterfield, Bobby Hackett, Max Kaminsky and Wingy Manone, trombonists Tommy Dorsey, Benny Morton and Jack Teagarden, Sidney Bechet on soprano, baritonist Ernie Caceres, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, pianists Dick Cary, Gene Schroeder and Jess Stacy, bassists Bob Casey, Jack Lesberg and Sid Weiss, drummers Johnny Blowers and George Wettling and vocalist Lee Wiley. As usual there are dozens of highlights from these spontaneous yet logical jam sessions, easily recommended to Dixieland and Chicago jazz fans. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide