Artist: Houston Person
Album: Just Between Friends
Year: 2005
Label: Highnote
Genre: Jazz
Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
Time: 0:53:54
Size: 126,33 MB

И ещё один альбом Хьюстона Персона с Роном Картером. По-моему весьма неплохо, а как считаете вы?

When you have jazz legends, Houston Person, among the last of the old school big toned tenors, teamed with bass titan, Ron Carter, whose impeccable bass lines have graced five decades of jazz history - and you record these masters in the legendary Van Gelder Studio with Rudy handling all the engineering, recording and mastering duties - then you have the recipe for success. More aptly, you have the guarantee of a classic duo recording. You cap your investment by choosing classic standards by the likes of Irving Berlin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Antonio Jobim, and Oscar Hammerstein.

What would be a pedestrian session in less capable hands becomes sonic pleasure. Person gives soulful renditions of these chestnuts and Carter’s walking bass lines and spot-perfect accompaniment lifts each track to a blissful listening experience. Last year’s Houston Person and Bill Charlap High Note duo recording was high on my “best of “ list. Now Houston is back with another masterpiece, taking a more central role backed by the perfect bassist for a duo recording. Rudy Van Gelder’s recording expertise allows for an “in the studio” ambience. Bravo! ~ Jeff Krow

Artist: Ike Quebec
Album: Blue & Sentimental
Rating AMG:5
Recording Date: Dec 16, 1961,Dec 23, 1961
Label: Blue Note
Genre: Jazz, Styles: Swing, Soul-Jazz, Jump Blues, Hard Bop
Time: 50:16
Format/Bitrate - mp3, 320 kbps
Size: 70+45 Mb

В Клубе уже был представлен один альбом тенор-саксофониста Ike Quebec "Bossa Nova Soul Samba".
На этот раз хочу предложить Вашему вниманию "Blue & Sentimental" - один из лучших в творчестве музыканта.
Приятного прослушивания.

Repost! Ike Quebec - he was Blue Note producer and musical director before Duke Pearson - also was born today, 17 August!

      Artist: Duke Pearson
      Album: Wahoo!
      Label: Blue Note
      Release Date: 1964, CD 2004
      Format: MP3@320
      Size: 99.1 MB
      Time: 43:30

REPOST! Today's mr. Pearson's Birthday!
Duke Pearson - an American jazz pianist and composer was Blue Note producer and took a big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction

    Artist: Jimmy Rip
    Album: Way Past Blue
    Year: 1996
    Label: House of Blues
    Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
    Time: 55:58
    Size: 132 MB

   Посто чума какая-то! Оголтелый и яростный. бескомпрописсный и убирающий напрочь, все это - мистер Рип. Говорят, он продюссировал Television, что, по крайней мере, странно: совсем не той формации человечище.
   Можно записать такой альбом и уходить на покой. А иным (даже не белым) приходится тужиться, выдавая на гора, по альбому в год - но тщетно.

   Artist: Mark Isham
   Album: Afterglow
   Year: 1998
   Label: Columbia
   Genre/Styles: New Age,Original Score,Crossover Jazz,Soundtracks
   Quality: APE(tracks)
   Size: 296.24 MB
   Time: 59:41

   Isham's soundtrack to the Alan Rudolph drama Afterglow is typical of his film work, a moody and frequently moving record distinguished by his signature trumpet sound; his support unit includes saxophonist Charles Lloyd, vibist Gary Burton, violinist Sid Page, bassist Jeff Littleton, pianist Geri Allen and drummer Billy Higgins.
   -- by Jason Ankeny,AMG

     Artist: Roy Buchanan
     Album: ROCKPALAST 1985
     Format : DivX
     Video : 720x576, 1088 kb/s, 25 fps
     Audio : MP3 48 kb/s, 2CH, 24HZ
     Time : 1:16:08
     Size : 623 MB

Artist: Clifford Jordan
Album: Spellbound
Label: Riverside
Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
Size: 243 MB & 90 MB
Time: 40:30

Tenor-saxophonist Clifford Jordan was sponsored by Cannonball Adderley on this set for Riverside which has been reissued on CD in the OJC series. Jordan did not at this point quite have the distinctive sound that he would develop by his period with Charles Mingus but he was already a strong hard bop stylist. Assisted by pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Spanky DeBrest and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath, Jordan performs four originals ("Toy" is best known), an unusual waltz version of "Lush Life," the ballad "Last Night When We Were Young" and the romping Charlie Parker blues "Au Privave." It's an excellent straightahead outing. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

Artistc: Ketil Björnstad & David Darling
Album: The River
Label: ECM
Year: 1997
Tracks: 12
mp3@320 Kbps
Size:96 Mb

An untypically calm duo sequence, emerging in the course of the recording of Ketil Bjørnstad's The Sea - a quartet album on the whole more given to tempestuous intensities - provided the impetus for The River. As the title implies, its flow is steadier than that of its predecessor, its scale more intimate. Ideas ferried between cello and piano in the 1994 session had suggested echoes in older music and Bjørnstad set about following these echoes to their source:

Artist - Julian Sas
Album - Light in the Dark
Label - Corazong Records
Quality - 320 kbps - covers
Size: 84,9+82,6mb

Asked about influences, Sas replies; when I hear Jeff Beck play it starts to itch. He plays with such simplicity and at the same time with such fanaticism. Unbelieveable. I am a real Jimi Hendrix fan too. He has not yet been surpassed. Stevie Ray Vaughan I think is fantastic, but the difference between him and Jimi is that if you were to hear him every night you will notice there are only minor differences in his playing. Whilst Jimi could be stumbling over his strings one night and the next night be so brilliant that you would seriously consider selling all your gear. Jimi knew no boundaries. When he was doing Hey Joe, his mind was already busy with totally different things. What he wanted to do with Miles Davis I think is fascinating. I am a real Miles Davis fan. He is the Jimi of the Jazz world. When I was just 16 I saw Buddy Guy. He played with great dynamics. Dynamics, in my opinion, are one of the most important tools in music; a quiet song with a strong bridge or a loud song with a very quiet bridge. And of course Rory Gallagher, my greatest hero. I had the privilege and honour of playing with his band 3 times. The Allman Brothers Band is fantastic too. Once they get started, there is no stopping them. Just like us.

Artists: Peter Beets Quartet with Curtis Fuller
Album - Live in Amersfoort
Year - 1999
Label - Maxanter
Quality - MP3@320 kbps
Size: 73,4+54 mb (with covers and autographs)

Peter Beets: a world class jazz pianist.
He has shared the stage with jazz greats like Chick Corea, Elvin Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter and John Clayton. He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 his recording "New York Trio" was released, which brought him international acclaim.
With trombone and jazzlegend Curtis Fuller, Peter made a live recording in 1999 and won in that same year another award: the Concours de Solistes de Jazz in Monaco.

Artist: Eddie Harris
Album:The Last Concert
Year: 1996, release - 1997
Label:Act Music
Quality:320 kbps
Size: 78,6+76,7 mb (with frontcover)

Unless something unauthorized turns up, this appears to be Eddie Harris' last recording. The concert was taped in Europe -- where Harris was far more respected in his last years than in America -- eight months before his death. The occasion would be an atypical affair for him, appearing as a featured soloist (along with the fine trombonist Nils Landgren and, on one track, trumpeter John Marshall) in front of the WDR Big Band in Cologne. At first, the program consists of a series of straight-ahead Gil Goldstein charts on well-worn soul-jazz classics like "Sidewinder," "Moanin'," "Wade in the Water," and "Work Song," and then takes a decided, somewhat less successful turn toward '60s soul on "When a Man Loves a Woman" and "Gimme Some Lovin'" (with idiomatic vocals by Haywood J. Gregory). Of Harris' own corpus of tunes, only the inevitable "Freedom Jazz Dance" appears here (in an Arif Mardin chart), with Eddie offering probably the last of his fascinating run of solos over the previous three decades on his bewildering tune. Though ailing at the time (the inside photo shows that he doesn't look well at all), Harris is still in undiminished, swinging, highly individual form through the concert, gliding easily over the rhythm section on tenor sax and switching on some of his electronic octave doubling and harmonizing effects. By now, his vocabulary of funky licks had long been set in stone, so there are no revelations, just an assured apotheosis of his distinctive style. The day after the concert, Harris and Goldstein went into WDR Studio 4 to record a long, poignant duo encore, "You Stole My Heart," which features an unexpectedly deep, soulful vocal by Eddie and a pair of lingering, pithy, affectionate tenor solos that seem to bid farewell in a most touching way. Whether he knew it or not, that last tune is a marvelous epitaph. ~ Richard Ginell, All Music Guide

     Artist: Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy
     Album:Southside Reunion
     Year: Rec. 1970/Rel. 2004
     Label:SunnySide Records, France
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 45:58
     Size: 71.5+30.7 Mb

     Artist: Jimmy Forrest
     Album:Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest
     Year: rec.September 1, 1961/Rel. 1998
     Label: Prestige
     Format: MP3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time:41:47
     Size: 57.2 +34.2 Mb

     Artist:Eddie Boyd with Buddy Guy
     Album:Five Long Year
     Label:EVIDENCE MUSIC
     Year:rec. October, 1965 in Hamburg and London/rel.1994/Limit edition
     Format:MP3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time:46:02
     Size:71.5+29.9 Mb

     Artist: Rolling Stones
     Album: Martin Scorsese: Shine A Light
     Year: 2008
     Label: Polydor/rollingstones.com
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time:75:10
     Size:90.5+77.1 Mb

   Artist: Milt Jackson Quintet
   Album: That's the Way It Is
   Label: Impulse
   Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
   Size :222 MB & 96 MB
   Time: 42:21

    An awesome live date with Jackson and Brown at their grooving best. Great for cloudy days or bright Sunday mornings.
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