Artist: Eric Bibb
     Album: An Evening with Eric Bibb
     Year: rel. 2007
     Label: M.C. Records
     Format: MP3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 64:50
     Size:90.5 + 53.9 Mb

Artist: Richard Leo Johnson
Album: Language
Label: Blue Note
Quality: Ape (281 MB) + mp3@320Kbps (117 MB) with scans
Total time: 49:26

Johnson assembled an unlikely cast of guest musicians: from electric bassist Reggie Washington of the M-Base Collective to Warren Haynes of the reformed Allman Brothers Band. Paul McCandless's oboe and soprano sax and Andy Reinhardt's accordion also create arresting musical colors. Those who don't care for the old-world quality of the accordion ought to hear what Reinhardt is capable of making the instrument become. Upright bassist Glen Moore, drummer Matt Wilson, and percussionist Cyro Baptista also join Johnson, bringing influences from their diverse musical worlds to the project. Johnson strums, picks, and bangs on an assortment of six- and 12-string guitars, as well as pedal steel on the beguiling "Sweet Jane Thyme." The 12-string/accordion duo "Music Roe" and the slide guitar/udu drum juxtaposition on "Freestone Peach" are particularly brilliant. And for fans of Johnson's solo guitar work on the previous album, there's the stunning "New West Helena Blues," played on a McCollum double-neck acoustic guitar. In addition to the ten originals, there are also curious renditions of Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" and Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Happy Talk," as well as the 24-second "Daddydaughterduo," featuring Johnson with his ten-year-old daughter Tess on cello. Some of the music may get a little flowery, but Johnson's highly idiosyncratic slice of Americana will likely become more and more interesting as his career continues. ~ David R. Adler, AMG

Artist: WALTER TROUT
Album: Hardcore
Labels: 2000's Blues Rock
Year: 2007
Format, bitrate: 320
Size: 137 mb

People ask me if they should call my music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it Fred if they must have a label. That remark, along with the exclamation that the blues shouldnt be a museum... the music ought to constantly expand and be alive, have been expressed again and again by Walter Trout during his 35+ year career. Born in 1951 and raised in a music-loving home in Ocean City, New Jersey, Walter Trout felt the calling to music at a young age. His first instrument was trumpet, playing in the school band. A chance meeting with the mighty Duke Ellington catapulted Trouts pursuit of a music career  what Walter terms a turning point in his life  when the Walters mother orchestrated a meeting with jazz legends Ellington, Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves for the youngsters tenth birthday. The seed was planted. In the mid-1960s Trouts instrument of choice switched to electric guitar after hearing an album which was to change his whole appreciation of music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring Mike Bloomfield cemented Walters musical ambitions towards the blues genre and the electric guitar. In those vinyl grooves, Walter heard the guitar speaking to his soul, expressing what words could not. Walter Trout promised himself to learn this musical language and dedicate his life to the guitar. For hours, days, weeks, months he was locked in his bedroom practicing until his fingers bled - the obsession unfortunately turning the A-student into a high school dropout. As a shy teenager growing up in a turbulent household, his singular solace became his rapidly developing ability to express his feelings playing the guitar and his vision of becoming a professional musician. 1 Gotta Leave This Town 2 Tellin Stories 3 Finally Gotten Over You 4 Give Me Back My Wig 5 The Reason I'm Gone 6 Not Fade Away 7 Channeling Neil Young 8 Sittin On Top Of The World 9 Tribute To Muddy Waters ~ Amazon.com

Artist - Cassandra Wilson
Album: Sings Standards
Year: 2002
Label: Verve
Genre: Jazz Vocal
Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kb/s
Time: 00:59:27
Size: 136.00 MB
Пластинка "Cassandra Willson Sing Standards" вновь дает возможность насладиться незабываемым, глубоким и чувственным голосом обладательницы премии Grammy. Альбом содержит такие хиты певицы как "Round Midnight", "I`ve Grown Accustomed To His Face" и "Chelsea Bridge".

Artist: Serge Gainsbourg
Album: Serge Gainsbourg
Label: Mercury France/PHILIPS
Year: 2000
Genre: Pop
Format, bitrate: mp3@320Kbps
Time: 78:14 min
Size: 171 Mb

Для меня самого, возникшее вдруг желание выставить этот альбом, стало довольно неожиданным. Все-таки имя Гинзбура с джазом, а уж тем более с блюзом, никак не выстраивается в ассоциативную цепочку. Но так как музыка им исполнявшаяся, безусловно, интересна, а местами, правда довольно редкими, очень даже в формате клуба, то милости прошу – замечательная компиляция артиста. Рассказывать, кто такой Гинзбур здешним жителям было бы, уверен, дурным тоном, а комментировать этот сборник тоже нет никакого смысла. Классика жанра. Визитная карточка артиста.

Artist: Erik Truffaz
Album: Arkhangelsk
Quality: mp3@320Kbps
Size: 137 MB (scans)
Label: Blue Note
Total time: 57:56

Here, French trumpeter Truffaz is wandering into an introverted landscape, taking his three regular playing partners on a journey that will involve collaborations with a trio of vocalists. The album's ten tracks are divided equally between these instrumental and vocal pieces. The opening "Miss Kaba" sets up a travellin' pulse, with which Truffaz acolytes will be familiar. Truffaz has been marinated in the deep romanticism of Chet Baker and Miles Davis, but he also shares a granulated whisper with Jon Hassell and Arve Henriksen. Veering away from overt funkiness, the emphasis here is on balladry, or at least softly ruminating soundtracks for non-existent movies. It's the three tracks penned with British singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt that cause the most unpleasantness. "Red Cloud" features the kind of vocal employed by a pompadoured metal band for their token ballad number; "Snake Charmer Man" could be from the blander end of Canterbury prog and "Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner" is the best of the three, making a clunky, old-timey stumble. "Trippin' The Lovelight Fantastic" fares better, with the oleaginous rap-poetic intonations of Nya feeling more appropriate to the band's sound. "Les Nuits De Monsieur Naj" and the title cut keep things instrumental, the first a soft ballad that edges into a proggy theme. Again, this is courtesy of Patrick Muller, whose Hammond organ work adds much appealing texture, prompting Truffaz to discover some exceptionally low notes on his horn. Then, "Arkhangelsk" remains in slow mode, also awash with organ, feeding Erik a soulful Ann Peebles "I Can't Stand The Rain" vibe to coax out some delicate solos. Singer Christophe goes for some old-fashioned Parisian smooching on "L'un Dans L'Autre", but it's "Akiko" that makes the listener yearn for an outbreak of uptempo funking. It's a rubbery stepper that benefits from Muller's Fender Rhodes jabbing, flying over a light-touch bassline and skipping drums. The closing "Entre Le Ciel Et L'eau" is another slowie, with a very melancholic charge, a different kind of introversion. There's a vague attempt at conceptuality with the album title, named after the Russian city, just north of Moscow. Truffaz attempts to link the experience of waking to a panoramic vision of rickety houses with the later discovery of 'anarchitect' Richard Greaves' patchwork huts. This unconvincing attempt to explain his music is in keeping with the album's own confused orientation. Not so much an involving variety as a confusion of stylistic droppings. - by Marton Lonley, BBC-Jazz

     Artist - Yma Sumac
     Album - Live In Russia 1961
     Label - Elect Record
     Year - 1961
     Quality - MP3@192kbps (LP- rip)
     Size - 63,8mb (sharebee)
     Total time - app.45:00

     Этот, довольно редкий альбом, предлагаю прослушать поклонникам таланта этой необыкновенной певицы. Подробнее о подробнростях её гастролей в СССР можно прочитать ЗДЕСЬ, а увидеть её ЗДЕСЬ...
     In 1961, she toured the Soviet Union for six months singing to sell-out crowds and an album, called "Recital" was produced in Romania of the show in Bucharest.
     The album is called: Yma Sumac - Live in Concert 1961 - The Russian Tour - her only 'live in concert' record ever issued. Featured in the tour were the original "Inca Taki Trio" which was composed of Yma Sumac, Cholita Rivero (who provided backup vocals and dancing) and Moises Vivanco on guitar. ...

Artist - Si Zentner
Album - Rhythm Plus Blues
Label - Liberty
Year - 1963
Quality - MP3@256 kbps (LP-rip)
Size - 57,0 mb
Total time - 32:37

Artist: Albert King
Album: The Blues Don't Change
Label: Stax
Year: 1974
Release Date:1992
Genre: Blues
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
Time: 42:53
Size: 94,3+9,5MB

Previously titled The Pinch when it was issued on LP in 1977, this material was actually recorded in 1973 and 1974. These are some of King's most soul-oriented sessions, with contributions from the Memphis Horns and a couple of the MG's. Blues-oriented fans may find this one of his lesser efforts, putting less emphasis on King's guitar work than usual, and more on the vocals and arrangements. This approach has its merits, though, as it's one of the more relaxed items in the King catalog, with none of the occasional excess that creeped into his blues guitar solos. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

     Artist: Carmen McRae & Ray Bryant
     Album: Complete Recordings
     Release Date: Aug 2, 2005
     Recording Date: Mar 6, 1957-Apr 5, 1958
     Label: Gambit
     Type: Compilation
     Format, bitrate: mp3 224Kbps
     Size: 128.73 Mb
     Time: 1:19:46

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Album: Boom Boom
Label: Point Blank
Year: 1992
Genre: Blues
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
Time: 41:52
Size: 86,3+15,1MB

John Lee Hooker won many new listeners with his 1989 star-studded comeback album, The Healer, and his 1992 studio album, Boom Boom, was designed as introduction to his classic songs for this new audience. It wasn't that The Healer or its 1991 follow-up, Mr. Lucky, avoided either Hooker's signature boogie or several of his signature tunes, but they were tempered by both a slicker production and newly written tunes. In contrast, Boom Boom was lean and direct, relying on such staples as "Boom Boom," "I'm Bad Like Jesse James," "Bottle Up and Go," and "I Ain't Gonna Suffer No More." This leanness is in comparison to its two immediate predecessors, of course, because Boom Boom is hardly as gritty as the original versions of these tunes. It might not feel as slick as The Healer, but it's polished and professional and filled with cameos -- but this time, the professional sound comes from the seasoned sidemen offering support and the stars here are all guitarists (or in the case of Charlie Musselwhite, a harpist) who never overshadow Hooker. Jimmie Vaughan and Robert Cray have never been known for their flashiness and they give their respective numbers -- "Boom Boom" and "Same Old Blues Again" -- sharp, typically tasteful leads, but even Albert Collins seems a bit restrained on "Boogie at Russian Hill" -- it's as if all involved decided to lay back and give Hook the center stage. However, he's not in a particularly energetic mood here. He's hardly lazy, but he's not inspired either, which leaves Boom Boom as a rather curious entry in his latter-day comeback catalog. The feel is better than The Healer (and certainly the subsequent Chill Out), but it's not as memorable as some of the other albums that may not have been as consistent but at least had distinguishing characteristics. Boom Boom just captures Hooker the professional -- which is good enough to modestly entertain as it plays but it leaves no real impression behind. Stephen Thomas Erlewin.AMG.

Artist: Tom Principato
Album: Play It Cool
Label: Voodoo Records
Genre: Blues
Styles: Blues, Modern Electric Blues
Original Release Date: 23/04/2001
Quality/Bitrate: MP3/224kb/s/44.1Khz/Stereo
Cover: Yes
Size: 91.3 MB



Tom Principato is a guitar master but his very sophisticated technique never fights against his inspiration. Plus, Tom is a blues guitarist who is never limited by the usual fences of the style.

Tom Principato took up the guitar full time at age 15 while in high school. It has led him to a career with over 20 years of experience in bands from Boston to Washington DC. In between, Tom has backed some blues and R & B artists as John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Sunnyland Slim & Delbert McClinton. He was part of a band with Danny Gatton (The Blazing Telecasters), and with Jimmy Thackery (The Assassins). Tom and his band won nine Washington Area Music Awards (WAMMIES) yet.

Artist: Red Garland
Album: When There Are Grey Skies
Label: Prestige
Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
Size: 180 MB & 80 MB
Time: 35:41

This set was pianist Red Garland's 25th session as a leader since 1956, but it would be eight years before his next record. Garland's influential style had been fully formed since the mid-'50s and his chord voicings were immediately recognizable. With the assistance of bassist Wendell Marshall and drummer Charlie Persip, Garland explores and updates seven veteran songs (including a previously unreleased "My Blue Heaven") dating from the '20s era. This fine CD is highlighted by such unlikely material as "Sonny Boy," "St. James Infirmary," "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," and a 12-minute "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist – Johnny Hodges
     Album – Blue Pyramid
     Yeas – 1965
     Genre – Jazz, Swing
     Label – Verve Records
     Quality – MP3@320 kb/s
     Size – 81 + 41 mb
     Total time – 67:02

     Еще один диск Johnny Hodges. Диск сам по себе очень неплохой. Но есть еще одно: он был выпущен "по лицензии" на виниле в СССР.