Artist: Buddy DeFranco
     Album: Mr. Clarinet
     Label: Norgran / Verve
     Year: 1953, release 2004
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.44:41
     Size: 102 MB

     С замечательным кларнетистом Бадди де Франко постоянные посетители Клуба уже знакомы и помнят его дуэты с Оскаром Питерсоном.
     Сегодня мы послушаем его работу с пианистом Кенни Дрю и барабанщиком Артом Блейки...

     Artists & Band: Jo Jones, Cozy Cole, JC Heard, Panama Francis, Oliver Jackson, Michael Silva, Ed Thigpen
     Title Of Album: Explosive Drums
     Year Of Release: 1998
     Label: Black & Blue
     Genre, Style: Jazz, Traditional Jazz
     Type, Quality: FLAC+CUE, lossless; mp3, 224 kbps
     Total Time: 59:58
     Total Size: FLAC - 323.11 Mb; mp3 - 96.13 Мб; Covers - 6.99 MB

     Artist: Horace Silver
     Album: Silver's Blues
     Year: 1956
     Label: Portrait
     Format:MP3 @320kbps (LP rip)
     Size:110mb (RS.com)
     Cover

     Silver's Blue, freshly re-released on Columbia, is one the earliest albums from a Silver-without- Blakey edition of the Messenger band, and the only one on this label. Featuring saxophonist Hank Mobley most prominently, this band exudes the kind of precise relaxation that is the essence of the Silver style. Without Blakey setting up Niagara Falls behind every soloist, the band strolls with a smile on its face through a thoughtful set of both originals and clever arrangements of standards. It may be the first full-faced glimpse of what would make records like Song for My Father and Blowin' the Blues Away such upbeat pleasures in the years to come

     Artist: Ali Akbar Khan
     Album: Garden of Dreams
     Genre:Indian Folk, Indian Classical, Raga
     Format: FLAC & mp3 (320k/s)
     Size: 315 & 108 Mb (scans)
     Label: Triloka
     Total time: 64:37


     Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and a thirteen-piece East/West orchestra follow up his critically acclaimed Journey, performing classical ragas and Rajasthani folk songs. Combining sarod with Western classical instruments such as the cello, violin, bassoon and oboe, Khansahb brilliantly merges Eastern and Western musical traditions to produce an album of astounding beauty. The title song, "Garden of Dreams," explores memories of paradise and is an original raga composed by Khansahb. "Dhani," with guest artist Zakir Hussain, features a wind section of oboe, bassoon and native Australian didgeridoo. Also featured (and produced by) Jai Uttal. ~ MusD, All Music Guide

     Artist - Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
     Album - Continental
     Label - Hindsight
     Year - 1935, release - 1995
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 70,85 mb
     Total time - 42:25
     


This 1995 Hindsight CD has a previously unreleased set of radio transcriptions by the 1935 Casa Loma Orchestra. At the time, the band's key members included clarinetist Clarence Hutchenrider, trumpeters Sonny Dunham and Grady Watts and Bill Rausch, and Pee Wee Hunt on trombones. Although Gene Gifford had recently departed, all 16 arrangements are his, including reworkings of such numbers as "Who's Sorry Now," "Should I," "Blue Room" and "Chinatown, My Chinatown." There are only two vocals on the set (one apiece by Kenny Sargent and Pee Wee Hunt) so the emphasis is very much on the jazz side of this important, if underrated, early swing band. A good sampling of the Casa Loma's music from the period even if the CD (at just 43 minutes) is rather brief. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist - Andre Previn
     Album - Andre Previn Plays Music
of the Young Hollywood Composers
     Label - RCA Victor
     Year - 1962
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps (LP-rip)
     Size - 62,62 mb
     Total time - 30:50

     Artist: Lester Young
     Album: Lester Young & The Piano Giants
     Label: Compact Jazz
     Year: 1946-1956, release 1998
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320kbps
     Time: 57:11
     Size: 139,2 MB

     Lester Young, the President of the tenor Saxophone, was the quintessence of cool. Almost three decades alter his death (at 49, in 1959), his image remains as striking as Van Gogh's self-portrait: park pie hat, half-shut lids, horn shrouded in cigarette smoke and tilted at a 45 degree angle. From the bell of his tenor, there floated an entirely new, ethereal sound, informed by a conception that would prove visionary. Before Young arrived in 1936, only the fabled cornetist Bix Beiderbecke had as poetically translated the feeling of loneliness into the language of jazz. After Lester, a small army of tenor saxophonists (most notably Stan Getz and Zoot Sims) adopted a lighter, vibrato-less tone and languid, behind-the-beat phrasing. Miles Davis's benchmark LP Birth Of The Cool and the movement called "West Coast jazz" would soon follow.
Having made his definitive statements between 1936 and 1944 with Count Basie, Billie Holiday (who singlehandedly elected him "Pres"), and his own small groups. Lester Young's place in the American musical firmament was fixed. But if the President's post-war platform, following a hellish Army stint, was no longer quite so ambitious or widely influential, it was nevertheless marked by many a memorable address. Eleven of them are collected here.

     Artist: Laverne Butler
     Album: No looking back
     Label: Chesky Records
     Quality: mp3@256 kbps
     Release Date: January 17, 1994

     The fact that No Looking Back is the debut recording from vocalist LaVerne Butler is somewhat misleading because she is a veteran performer who has been creating the sounds of jazz for over a decade. She is a seasoned artist and a consummate professional, LaVerne Butler has waited a long time for the opportunity to make this recording. Like her "foremothers", she has paid her dues but what No Looking Back makes perfectly clear is that the tradition of these women with all of its magical creativity, soulful emotion and technical facility is alive and well and continuing to grow in the singing of LaVerne Butler. "When I hear the word 'jazz,' I think immediately 'sophistication.' I also think of 'personal'--very, very personal--that which is of the person and of no one else."

     Artist & Band: Akiko
     Title Of Album: Collage
     Year Of Release: April 10, 2006 (Audio CD (April 17, 2006))
     Country: Japan
     Label: Universal Japan
     Studio/Live: Studio
     Genre, Style: Vocal Jazz
     Type, Quality: mp3, CBR 320 kbps
     Total Time: 01:15:04
     Total Size: mp3 - 171.89 MB

     First greatest hits album from J-Jazz vocalist Akiko selected from her complete releases to date. Covers all 5 years of content since akiko became the first female Japanese vocalist on the verve label in 2001.

     Artist & Band: The Glendon Smith Quintet
     Title Of Album: Gourmet Jazz
     Year Of Release: March 4, 2003
     Label: Avalon Music
     Genre, Style: Jazz / Easy Listening
     Type, Quality: MP3 CBR 320K/s (LAME 3.98), Full Covers
     Total Time: 57:30
     Total Size: mp3 - 134.43 MB

If you are looking for a jazz CD for entertaining or just relaxing, this is it. A well balanced collection of tunes that doesn't dominate dinner conversation, but still catches your ear. If there is a better all around disc of this style, I have yet to hear it. Highly recommended

     Artist: Leonid Chizhik
     Album: George Gershwin and Others
     Label: Boheme Music
     Year: 1977, release 2000
     Genre: mainstream jazz
     Format, bitrate: vinyl rip, mp3, VBR ~200 kb/s
     Time: ~40 мин.
     Size: 60M

     Artist: Illinois Jacquet
     Album: Memories of you
     Label: Membran (Quadromenia Jazz Edition)
     Year: 2005
     Quality: vbr v0 (extreme) + covers
     Size: 220 mb



     One of the great tenors, Illinois Jacquet‘s 1942 "Flying Home" solo is considered the first R & B sax solo, and inspired a full generation of younger artists. This 4 CD collection from the "Quadromania Jazz" series includes a huge amount of great tracks, for example: Uptown Boogie - Throw It Out Of Your Mind Baby - Bottoms Up - Big Foot

     Artist: УРАЛЬСКИЙ ДИКСИЛЕНД
     Album: Вернись домой Билл Бейли
     Label: Мелодия (LP)
     Years: 1987. Release: 1988
     Resoration: 2003 LP
     Quality: MP3@240 kbps
     Size: 62.1 Мб
     Total time: 33:39

     Муниципальный джаз-оркестр, работающий в традиционной стилистике, был создан в Челябинске в 1969 г. Руководителем коллектива стал заслуженный артист России И. В. Бурко. За время своей деятельности оркестр объездил с гастролями всю Россию, республики бывшего Советского Союза и большинство стран Европы. "Уральский Диксиленд" -- лауреат Всесоюзного конкурса артистов эстрады (Москва, 1979); международных джазовых фестивалей в Тбилиси (1978), Москве (1984), Баку (1985), Дрездене (1984, 1990, 1999), Голландии, Бельгии, Франции, Германии, Швеции, Англии, Ирландии, Дании, Шотландии, Польше, Чехословакии, Югославии, на острове Мэн (1989-1999).

     Во время гастролей в Западной Европе с "Уральским Диксилендом" выступали известные джазовые вокалисты Нат Гонелла и Бэрил Брайден (Великобритания).

     В составе оркестра: Игорь Бурко (труба), Борис Савин (барабаны, вокал), Владимир Риккер (контрабас, туба), Валерий Сундарев (гитара, банджо, вокал), Наиль Загидуллин (тромбон), Алексей Тимшин (саксофон, кларнет). В последнее время в коллектив входит дуэт "Маэстро аккордеон" -- лауреат международного конкурса в Италии -- в составе Ольги Парфентьевой и Елены Омельницкой.

     Дискография: "Вернись домой, Билл-Бэйли" (Москва, LP, 1987); "Русская рулетка" (Голландия, CD, 1990); "Уральские звезды" (Голландия, CD, 1991); "От России до Америки" -- "Russia Meets America" (Голландия, CD, 1995); "От Америки до России" -- "America Meets Russia" (Голландия, CD, 1995); "Уральский Диксиленд с Натом Гонеллой и Бэрил Брайден" -- "Oh Mo'nah" (Голландия, CD, 1997).

     Artist: VARIOUS ARTISTS
     Album: Джаз 67
     Label: Мелодия (LP)
     Year: rec. 1967
     Restoration: 2008 LP
     Format: MP3@256 Kb/s
     Time: 1:22:58
     Size: 148 Mb

     Весной 1967 года по инициативе Московскою городского комитета комсомола и Московского отделения Союза советских композиторов был проведен очередной — Четвертый фестиваль молодежных джазовых ансамблей «ДЖАЗ 67» В фестивале участвовали 26 малых ансамблей и больших оркестров, в основном — из Москвы, Ленинграда, Тбилиси и Калинина. В составе ряда коллективов выступали также музыканты из Казани, Риги, Тулы и других городов.
Многие из этих коллективов еще на прошлых фестивалях утвердили свое право на существование. А на фестивале «Джаз 67» с успехом выступили не только уже известные (хотя и молодые) музыканты, участники зарубежных и отечественных фестивалей, но и многие другие, как профессиональные, так и самодеятельные исполнители. Ряд ансамблей явился объединением не только музыкантов-профессионалов, но и музыкантов-любителей, для которых джаз стал фактически второй профессией.

     Artist:Bing Crosby
     Album:Gold Records
     Release Date: Nov 4, 1997
     Recording Date:Feb 23, 1937-Jun 23, 1950
     Label: MCA
     Type : Compilation
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Size: 142 Mb
     Total Time: 1:01:53

     Artist: Gene Harris
     Album: It's The Real Soul
     Year: 1996
     Label: Concord
     Format: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 139 MB (rapidshare.com)

     Artist: Julian Sas
     Album: Resurrection
     Year: Jan 29, 2007
     Label: Provogue
     Quality: mp3@vbr V2

     Artist: Sonny Landreth
     Album: Grant Street
     Label: Sugar Hill Records Inc.
     Year: 2005
     Genre: Blues
     Format MP3, bitrate:320kb/s
     Size: 66.76 MB+52.99 MB

     Artist: Otis Redding
     Album: The Otis Redding Story (3 Cds)
     Label: Atlantic
     Year: 1987
     Genre: Soul
     Format, bitrate: EAC/CD Image | Flac+Cue | Covers
     Size: 919Mb

     Otis Redding packed a whole lot of get-down and a lifetime's worth of testifyin' into the five short years that he recorded for Stax/Volt Records, and now the legacy is given its first serious reissue treatment in this generous four-record box (sixty tracks in chronological order, complete with in-depth annotation). Huge chunks of his brilliant '65 albums, Sings Soul Ballads and Otis Blue, are included, along with five Carla Thomas duets from the 1967 LP King and Queen. Among the obscure jewels rescued from oblivion are Redding's previously unissued '66 recording of "You Left the Water Running" -- originally cut as a demo for Wilson Pickett, with Otis on acoustic guitar -- and a recording of "I've Been Loving You Too Long" that eclipses the hit-single version with its slower, bluesy tension and heartbreaking vocal. Sides seven and eight are a revelation in themselves, featuring late '67 tracks (the great swamp-pop stomp "Love Man" and the finger-poppin' "Hard to Handle") and ending appropriately with the masterful "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," the last song Otis Redding ever recorded.

     Artist: Azymuth
     Album: Crazy Rhythm
     Format: Flac & mp3 (320k/s)
     Size: 260 & 96 MB (scans)
     Label: Milestone
     Total time: 40:39


     With Crazy Rhythm, Azymuth may well have recorded its best album ever by rejecting gimmickry and focusing on what it does best -- sensuous, understated yet rhythmically exciting Brazilian jazz/pop/R&B. Brazilian artists have often been quite adept at creating music that has light and delicate qualities, but never degenerates into "elevator muzak." Like the bossa nova of the '60s, Crazy Rhythm is "easy listening" music with a difference -- some of it was soft enough for airplay on "quiet storm" and "smooth jazz" radio, but nothing on this CD comes across as contrived or calculated. Jose Roberto Bertrami delivers one of the finest solos of his career on the beautiful and enchanting "Diza," and special guest Joe Pass (guitar) is in fine form on "Tropical Horizon" and "Hobalala." ~ Alex Henderson, AMG