Artist: Ansgar Specht
     Album: Who Cares
     Label: Dmg
     Year: 2004
     Genre: Jazz / Fusion
     Format: MP3@256 kbit/s (ABR)
     Time: 1:00:25
     Size: 109 MB

Второй сольный альбом немецкого джазового гитариста Ансгара Шпехта.


От себя добавлю, что альбом мне очень нравится, действительно классная и качественная музыка. Надеюсь, что понравится и вам!

     Artist:Count Basie
     Album:Atomic Swing
     Release:1999
     Label:Blue Note
     Format/Bitrate:MP3/320
     Size:108MB
     Time:48:07
     
 

     Great charts, great performances, and high quality recordings make this a good starter for someone interested in the later Basie band.
     It is very easy to listen to and gets you jumpin'. It is truely the Count at his best.

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     Artist: Lena Horne
     Album: At M-G-M: Ain't It the Truth
     Label: TCM, Rino
     Year:Recording Date 1942-1956
     Format: MP 3 @320 Kb/s
     Time:70:12
     Size: 95.4+25.1 Mb

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     Artist: Curtis Stigers
     Album: I Think It's Going To Rain Today
     Label: Concord
     Year: 2004
     Format, bitrate: mp3 320 kBit
     Time: 0:57
     Size: 130 mb

Since signing to Concord and releasing Baby Plays Around, an album of jazz standards, in 2001, Curtis Stigers has really found his footing, and with I Think It's Going to Rain Today, he continues to recast pop and rock ballads in easy, elegant jazz settings, an approach that allows his expressive, slightly raspy voice to work its wonders. It is an encouraging synthesis, and much like Cassandra Wilson, Stigers has an unerring eye for pop material that gains depth and emotional range when transferred to the jazz arena. Here he hits right out of the box with a wonderful restructuring of Willie Dixon's "My Babe," resurrects Mose Allison's Vietnam-era "Everybody Cryin' Mercy," and delivers an urbane reading of an early Tom Waits' song, "In Between Love" that reveals the impossible romantic that lurks under Waits' hipster growl. Stigers has also developed into an impressive writer, as well, and the two originals here, "Lullaby on the Hudson" and "Columbus Avenue," are both well configured, literate vignettes that more than hold their own along side such gems as Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," a classic ballad of conflicted emotions edging gracefully into ennui. This is an album of jazz-pop in the best sense, meaning it isn't pop done jazzy, but pop actually done as jazz, which is an entirely different horse, even if some radio programmers will fail to grasp it. The only misstep here is the bonus track that closes the album, a less than striking version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (featuring Stigers' ridiculous attempt at a scat vocal) that originally appeared on the soundtrack to the movie Game Six. Baseball songs aside, I Think It's Going to Rain Today is a fine and nuanced album, and Stigers is on to something here. He's an artist worth following closely, particularly if his writing continues to develop.
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     Artist: George Shearing
     Album: On A Clear Day
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Year: 1980
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 109MB
     Time: 44:29

George Shearing's second Concord album, a set of duets with bassist Brian Torff like the previous Blues Alley Jazz, is the equal of the first. The close communication between the duo, and their ability to think fast and react to each other immediately, makes it possible for them to uplift such songs as "Love for Sale," "On a Clear Day," "Lullaby of Birdland" and even "Happy Days Are Here Again." Brilliant music. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: George Shearing
     Album: Blues Alley Jazz
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Year: 1979
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 105MB
     Time: 42:48

Pianist George Shearing started a productive ten-year association with the Concord label with this live set, a duo outing matching him with the brilliant bassist Brian Torff. Their performances are virtuosic, intuitive, full of sly wit and always swinging; it is surprising that Torff did not become more famous. The close interaction between the two masterful musicians on such numbers as Billy Taylor's "One for the Woofer," "The Masquerade Is Over" and a humorous "Lazy River" are quite impressive as is Shearing's surprisingly effective vocal on "This Couldn't Be the Real Thing." This CD is recommended. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Tito Rodriguez
     Album: From Tito Rodriguez With Love
     Label: WS Latino
     Year: 1992
     Format: mp3 320 kbps
     Size: 78 MB

Multi-instrumentalist Tito Rodriguez played an important role in New York's thriving Latin dance scene of the 1950s and '60s. His expressive playing was an important factor in the success of his brother Johnny Rodriguez's band. A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Rodriguez displayed his talents at a very young age. Accomplished on a variety of instruments, he could interpret popular tunes while still in his childhood.

     Artist: Oscar Peterson
     Album: The Sound of the Trio (+ The London House Sessions)
     Year: 1961
     Release: 2000
     Label: Verve
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps + flac (from Mr. hungaropitecus)
     Time: 74:48
     Size: 177 MB + 534 MB


  In the early 1950s, most Americans found entertainment outside their homes, not on television screens. In 1951, when the London House opened as an elegant Chicago dinner club, television was growing fast. Nonetheless, according to the A. C. Nielsen Company, only 10,320,000 homes in the United States, fewer than 25 percent of the total, had TV sets at the time. The smallest towns and most city neighborhoods had motion picture theaters, and people flocked to them. Baseball fans packed the parks in major league cities. Many towns of 10,000 or 15,000 people had minor league teams that filled the stands. Nightclubs flourished. The habit of going out in the evening was so strong that its momentum continued through the 1950s and well into the 1960s, even as television became ubiquitous. People regularly dined out. Often, particularly in the cities, they went to restaurants that featured entertainment.

     Artist: Gene Harris Quartet
     Album: Like A Lover
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Release: 1992
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 135 MB





     Прелестный альбом Gene Harris Quartet. Содержание альбома полностью отражается в названии и в обложке



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     Artist: Kenny Drew Trio
     Album: If You Could See Me Now
     Label: Steeple Chase
     Release: 1994
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Time: 62:35

     Великолепный альбом!

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