Artist: Tom Waits
     Album: Swordfishtrombones
     Label: Island Records (USA)
     Original Release: 1983
     Release Date: 06/15/1990
     Genre: Blues, Rock
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 60+44 MB
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     Between the release of Heartattack and Vine in 1980 and Swordfishtrombones in 1983, Tom Waits got rid of his manager, his producer, and his record company. And he drastically altered a musical approach that had become as dependable as it was unexciting. Swordfishtrombones has none of the strings and much less of the piano work that Waits' previous albums had employed; instead, the dominant sounds on the record were low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-miked arrangements (most of them by Waits) that sometimes were better described as "soundscapes." Lyrically, Waits' tales of the drunken and the lovelorn have been replaced by surreal accounts of people who burned down their homes and of Australian towns bypassed by the railroad -- a world (not just a neighborhood) of misfits now have his attention. The music can be primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice. He seems to have moved on from Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong to Kurt Weill and Howlin' Wolf (as impersonated by Captain Beefheart). Waits seems to have had trouble interesting a record label in the album, which was cut 13 months before it was released, but when it appeared, rock critics predictably raved: after all, it sounded weird and it didn't have a chance of selling. Actually, it did make the bottom of the best-seller charts, like most of Waits' albums, and now that he was with a label based in Europe, even charted there. Artistically, Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of which Waits had not seemed capable (though there were hints of this sound on his last two Asylum albums), and in career terms it reinvented him.

     Artist:The Modern Jazz Quartet & The Oscar Peterson Trio
     Album:At the Opera House
     Label: Verve (LP)
     Release:1957
     Format/Bitrate:MP3/320
     Size:59.8MB



     Эти редкие записи посвящаю госпоже nomparel (лучше поздно, чем никогда ... )

     Приятного прослушивания...

     Artists - VA
     Album - Jazz At The Philharmonic 1945-1946 Vol.1
     Label - Centurion/Jazz & Blues
     Years: 1945-1946, release - 2005
     Quality - MP3@256 kbps
     Size - 96,9 mb
     Total time - 53:21

     Artist: Ralph Towner, Gary Burton
     Album: Matchbook
     Label: ECM
     Year: 1975
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320Kbps
     Time: 38:58
     Size: 86 Mb

     Люблю вибрафон. Люблю акустическую гитару в джазе. И то, и другое на диске присутствует. Собственно говоря, только эти два инструмента и присутствуют. Два мастера ведут диалог друг с другом с помощью инструментов, которыми владеют в совершенстве. 1975 год. Золотое время ЕСМ рекордс. Все нынешние престарелые мастера еще молоды, полны идей и способностей к их воплощению. Именно этого периода релизы ЕСМ мне нравится больше всего. Хотя общее отношение этому монстру джазовой звукозаписи у меня неоднозначное. По разным причинам. Как нибудь упомяну и их. А еще я очень люблю малые составы. Именно в них, как мне кажется, музыканты имеют возможность полностью раскрыться, показать на что они способны, сыграть так, после чего мы в них влюбляемся надолго. В некоторых навсегда.

This is considered a classic encounter, a duet set featuring Ralph Towner on acoustic guitars and vibraphonist Gary Burton. The guitar/vibes blend is both unusual and quite logical, for Burton and Towner always had similarly introverted but exploratory styles. Highlights of the date include "Icarus" (one of six Towner originals), "Some Other Time" and "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: John Coltrane
     Album: Dear Old Stockholm
     Label: Impulse!
     Years: 1963 - 1965, release 1993
     Format, bitrate: MP@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.49:03
     Size: 57 + 56 MB
    

     Dear Old Stockholm is the definitive model of the John Coltrane Quartet with the development of the music being powered by the rhythmic furnace-stoking of Roy Haynes. We are fortunate to hear these alternative views of the historic group, which originally featured Elvin Jones, moving with subtle variations to the beat of a different drummer.(vervemusicgroup.com)

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    Artist: The Manhattan Transfer
    Album: Vibrate
    Year: 2004
    Label: Telarc
    Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
    Time: 53:05
    Size: 125 MB

   One of the latest The Manhattan Transfer's albums, which includes 11 songs, where singers have been exploring different musical styles, at the same time transfering each of them in jazz with the help of various intricate arrangements. Interestingly, some of these tunes the group had been recording for more then 10 years. What is more, each song in this album is accompanied below by singers' commentraies...
   Один из самых поздних альбомов The Manhattan Transfer, включающий в себя 11 песен, в которых вокалисты исследовали разные музыкальные стили, в то же время трансформируя их в джаз при помощи различных замысловатых аранжировок. Что интересно, некоторые из этих композиций записывались более 10 лет. Более того, каждая песня в представленном альбоме сопровождается ниже комментариями вокалистов.

   Vibrate is The Manhattan Transfer's second album on the Telarc label. Since the early 1970s, The Manhattan Transfer have been pushing and redefining the boundaries of vocal music in the context of jazz, pop and numerous other styles. Along the way, the collective efforts of vocalists Cheryl Bentyne, Tim Hauser, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel have earned The Transfer a healthy collection of Grammy Awards and a loyal fan base that spans the entire globe.

     Artist: Johnny "Hammond" Smith
     Album: Legends Of Acid Jazz
     Label: Prestige
     Year: 1969, release: 1996
     Genre: Soul Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3/320
     Time: 69:44
     Size: 152 Mb
     Total time: 69:14

     Legends of Acid Jazz: Johnny "Hammond" Smith compiles under a single cover two albums Smith recorded in 1969, Soul Talk and Black Feeling! (complete with the liner notes from both original issues).

     On Legends, Smith gets down in the heady company of, among others, tenor saxophonist Rusty Bryant, funky drummer Bernard Purdie and guitarist Wally Richardson; Richardson here pays tribute to his bandmates with his compositions "Purdie Dirty" and "Johnny Hammond Boogaloo." Legends includes the pop covers "When Sunny Gets Blue" and "This Guy's In Love With You," opens with the original version of Smith's hit "Soul Talk," and concludes with the updated version he later recorded for Black Feeling. Not groundbreaking, but solid and a funky good time. ~ Chris Slawecki, All Music Guide