Artist: Nat King Cole
     Album: 10th Anniversary
     Label: Capitol / Collectors' Choice
     Year: 1955; release 2008
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.43:46
     Size: 100 MB
     AMG Rating:

     Эта компиляция ранее неиздававшихся работ Nat King Cole впервые вышла в свет в 1955 году и посвящена 10-летию сотрудничества этого вокалиста и пианиста со звукозаписывающей компанией Capitol...

     Artists: VA
     Album: Primer Festival Hispano-Ruso de Jazz (2004)
                   El Alimento de los Dioses
     Label: Manas Records
     Year: 2004
     Genre: mainstream
     Format, bitrate: flac
     Size: 478 MB

     Primer Festival Hispano-Ruso de Jazz (2004) - El Alimento de los Dioses
     Первый испано-российский джазовый фестиваль (2004) - "Пища богов"

     Artist: B.B. King
     Album: Blues on the Bayou
     Label: MCA
     Year: 1998
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 146 MB

     B.B. King made his debut as producer with Blues on the Bayou, released in October 1998. He employs the most basic of ideas for this project: record an album of B.B. King tunes, with B.B. King's regular road band, under B.B. King's supervision. Keeping it loose, relaxed, and focused, King cut this album in four days down at a secluded studio in Louisiana and came up with one of his strongest, modern-day albums in many years. No duets, no special guests, just King and his road warrior band, playing his songs with him producing the results -- no overdubs, just simple, no-nonsense blues done like he would do them on-stage. The result is a no-frills, straight-ahead session that shows that King might be have been 73 at the time of this date, but he still had plenty of gas left in the tank. Tracks like "I'll Survive," and the jumping "Shake It Up and Go," "Darlin' What Happened," the minor keyed "Blues Boy Tune," the instrumental "Blues We Like," and the closing "If That's It I Quit" show him stretching out in a way he has seldom done in a studio environment, and the result is one of his best albums in recent memory. Cub Koda.AMG.

     Artists - Helen Forrest & Artie Shaw
     Album - Sweeter As The Years Go By
     Label - Jasmine Records
     Years: 1938-1939, release - 2002
     Quality MP3@256 kbps
     Size - 132 mb
     Total time - 73:19




     One of the more popular big-band-era singers, a performer that some might not consider a jazz vocalist, but one with exceptional ability to project lyrics and also an excellent interpreter. Forrest used several names early in her career, among them the Blue Lady and Bonnie Blue.

     Artist: Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
     Album: Anyway The Wind Blows
     Year: 1998 (5 Oct)
     Label: RCA Victor
     Genre: Blues,Jazz
     Format: MP3, Bitrate: 320 js
     Time: 49:48
     Tracks: 14
     Size: 90.5+28.4 MB

     Artist: Oscar Peterson Quartet
     Album: A Night In Vienna
     Label: Regal Recordings Limited / Universal/ Verve
     Year: 2003, release 2004
     Genre: Jazz, Piano
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 Kbps
     Time: 77:42 min
     Size: 169 Mb

     Очень люблю живые выступления. И очень люблю записи оных. И очень не просто комментировать музыку, которую играл Петерсон вообще и которая звучит на этом диске. Все положительные эпитеты в адрес великого пианиста, а других он не заслужил, здесь уже неоднократно прозвучали. Дифирамбы спеты. Оды написаны. Посвящения опубликованы. Добавить нечего. Когда снимал с полки этот диск, уверенности в том, что его нет в клубе, не было никакой. Оказалось, что не ошибся, выбирая именно его. В заключение, добавлю лишь, что это последний прижизненный релиз великого музыканта. Если я не ошибаюсь. Мэтры меня поправят.

     Artist: Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
     Album: Struttin' Our Stuff
     Year: 1998
     Label: Velvel Records
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 44:14
     Size: 96.1 Mb

     Artist: Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
     Album: Groovin'
     Year: rec.2000/rel. 2001
     Label:Velvel Records
     Format:MP3@ 320 kbps
     Time: 53:49
     Size: 71.5 + 44.4 Mb

     Artist:Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
     Album:Just For A Thrill
     Year:2005
     Label: True North FUEL
     Format: Mp3 @ 320 kbps
     Time: 73:41
     Size: 90.5 + 63.1 Mb

     Artist: Chick Corea
     Album: Akoustic Band
     Label: GRP Records
     Year: 1989
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 1.03:48
     Size: 149 MB


     Великий маэстро Chick Corea играет в составе акустического трио...

   Artist: Patricia Barber
   Album: Live: A Fortnight In France
   Label: Blue Note Records
   Orig Year: 2004
   Type: Live
   Mono/Stereo: Stereo
   Format/Bitrate: MP3/320 kbit/s
   Size: 147 MB

   Since her beguiling 1991 debut, Distortion of Love, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist Patricia Barber has steadfastly remained true to her quirky, left-of-center jazz vision, which includes equal parts edgy pop and rock. Barber has a fluid, restlessly individualistic style on the piano; she can hold her own with anybody. Her songwriting comes from that particular space where the notes and rhythms begin to bleed into one another and come out jagged, sophisticated, and full of razored poetic wit and steely philosophical insight about the ironies of modern life. This set was recorded in three French cities, Paris, Metz, and La Rochelle. Utilizing her longstanding band (bassist Michael Arnopol, drummer Eric Montzka, and guitarist Neal Alger), Barber displays in spades the skill of this band to improvise, swing, and cut across musical lines on five originals and five covers.

     Artist: Acoustic Mania
     Album: Talking Hands
     Label: Naim
     Recorded: 1997; Released: 1999
     Genre: Jazz; Acoustic guitar
     Format/Bitrate: Flac
     Size: 95 MB + 66 MB

     Described by Guitarist magazine as "Two players intent on redefining all known laws concerning what is possible with two acoustic guitars," Antonio Forcione and Neil Stacey celebrate their five-year partnership with their first studio recording.
     Talking Hands demonstrates why these two players work together so successfully, their individual styles of adventure, humour and improvisation combining and contrasting to produce music that is lucid, flamboyant and exciting.