Genre: Jazz
Source: CDDA
Type: Album
Label: Universal
Catalog: UCCU 9188
Year: 2006
Time: 369:20 min
Size: 460,9 MB
Encoder: Lame 3.97
Quality: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo
RlsDate: 14-06-2008





My gift to members of the club - a set for mobile jazz music fans!
Bonus: Jazz Encyclopedia (pdf).

     Artist: Blossom Dearie with Russel Garcia's Orchestra
     Album: Sings Broadway Hit Songs
     Label: Verve
     Recorded: 19 & 22 Feb 1960
     Time: 36:46
     Format: mp3 320 Kbps
     Size: 80,91 Mb

     To hear Blossom Dearie's early records for Verve is to think that she would excel singing any song in any circumstance; to hear Sings Broadway Hit Songs is to realize that even she has limitations. Dearie, cast as the soubrette ("the saucy-serving-maid" or "the heroine's confidante," from the liner notes), is certainly a perfect fit for the role, which draws upon her skill at delivering witty material with a wink and a smile. This record fails nevertheless for two reasons -- it's her first record with full orchestral arrangements, and she doesn't impress when she's singing a comic song straight (comparatively speaking), which she does here. The arrangements of Russ Garcia are inventive but burdensome, and overly close for a Blossom Dearie date; instead of following every one of her humorous lines with its auditory equivalent (usually brass or vibraphone), far better to let the soubrette speak for herself. And Dearie herself missteps when singing a few of these ("Guys and Dolls" and "Life Upon the Wicked Stage") with no trace of her jazz smarts and unfailing interpretive sense. A few songs allow her to float the punch lines without undue intrusion, such as "To Keep My Love Alive" (in which a female serial killer explains her actions) and the eccentric, playful state-naming "Rhode Island Is Famous for You." -- Review by John Bush, AMG.

     ПУРИМ ФЛОРА (Purim Flora) (р. 6 марта 1942, Рио-де-Жанейро, Бразилия), бразильская вокалистка, одна из ведущих представительниц инструментального вокала (диапазон — 6 октав).

Artist: Flora Purim
Album: Flora Purim Sings Milton Nascimento
Release Date - 2001
Genre - Latin
Quality - mp3 (320kbs/s) + CUE
Size - 68.6 Mb, scans

“I’d like to call this album The Two Of Us, because Milton has been and will always be a very big part of my life story. After going through literally hundreds of songs, either written or sung by him, and with the help of arranger/keyboardist Luiz Avellar, I selected the songs that make up this record. The song Nós Dois, which means ‘the two of us’, was co-written by Milton and Luiz Avellar and has a special guitar appearance by George Duke on piano and synthesizer.

This album is not a tribute to Milton, but a declaration of unconditional love.”
– Flora Purim

Artist: Lee Konitz
Album: Another Shade of Blue
Quality: mp3@320Kbps (160 MB) (scans)
Year: 1999
Label: Blue Note
Recorded: 21 December 1997 (in Jazz Bakery, Culver City, California)
Total time: 67:51

This follow up to an earlier CD (Alone Together) with Brad Mehldau and Charlie Haden took place exactly one year later at the same venue, L.A.'s Jazz Bakery. Like the first release, the trio takes their time exploring each tune, whether it's the leader's opening blues or a favorite ballad like "What's New" or "Body and Soul." This stimulating set is highly recommended! - by Ken Dryden, AMG

     Artist: Little Axe
     Album: Stone Cold Ohio
     Release: Date Aug 14, 2006
     Recording Date: 2005
     Label: Realworld
     Format/Bitrate:MP3 192 kb/sec
     Size: 64,7Mb

     Новое имя в клубе: Little Axe (Skip McDonald)
     Весьма специфичный альбом: всем рекомендую послушать, но думаю не всем понравится. Есть в этой музыке что-то холодное, как-будто мрачным осенним днем дует ледяной ветер...
     Интересно узнать Ваше мнение...

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Artist: Baluji Shrivastav & Re-Orient
Album: Re-Orient
Label: Arc Music
Year: 2006
Genre: Fusion
Format, bitrate: MP3 Lame Insane 320 kbs
Time: 59:37 min
Size: 145 MB

Another feast from Re-Orient with Baluji Shrivastav, this time featuring as very special guests the legendary musicians Andy Sheppard, Guy Barker and Hossam Ramzy.
This album features some of Baluji's longer and more complex pieces plus the usual exotic pieces from the band.

     Artists: Return To Forever
     Album: The Anthology
     Label: Concord Records
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Jazz, Fusion
     Tracks: 20
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320 kbit/s
     Size: 85 MB + 85 MB + 84 MB + 81 MB

      A brand new two cd anthology of the seminal classic jazz-rock fusion band. Features essential music from their chart-topping albums "Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy," "Where Have I Known You Before," "No Mystery," and "Romantic Warrior". Completely Remixed & Remastered. Best of the 4 classic albums together for the first time. Commemorates RTF's 2008 World Tour - Their first in 25 years featuring the iconic lineup of CHICK COREA, STANLEY CLARKE, AL DiMEOLA, and LENNY WHITE.

     Read more about The Anthology HERE

     Artist:Milt Buckner
     Album:Locked Hands
     Release:1968
     Label:MPS
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size:85MB




     To my friend Lex
     Enjoy....

Artist: Paul Chambers
Album: Paul Chambers Quintet
Label: Blue Note
Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
Size: 185 MB & 80 MB
Time: 36:33

This Blue Note CD reissues one of bassist Paul Chambers' rare outings as a leader. Chambers heads a group of up-and-coming all-stars (including trumpeter Donald Byrd, tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan, pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Elvin Jones) on a program consisting of four originals by either the leader or Benny Golson plus a pair of standards; an alternate version of "Four Strings" was previously unissued. Chambers (who has "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" as his feature) and Byrd are the most impressive soloists while Jordan (who here mostly recalls Sonny Rollins with touches of John Coltrane) consistently swings although he had not yet found his own sound. The uncomplicated straightahead music falls securely into the modern mainstream of the period. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide