Artist: Count Basie
     Album: Count Basie Featuring Tony Bennett
     Label: Pickwick
     Year: 1987
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Time: 46:08
     Size: 96+15MB

     Artist: Donald Byrd
     Album: Slow Drag
     Label: Blue Note
     Year: rec May 12, 1967/rel.2002
     Format: MP3 @ 320 KB/s
     Time:38:47
     Size:89.5 Mb

REPOST! Today's Byrd's Birthday!

     Artists: Simon Baisley
     Album: Urban Jazz[
     Label: de Wolfe
     Year: 1999
     Quality: MP3@320 Kbit/s
     Size : 162 Mb
     Time: 01:12:06

SIMON BAISLEY
De Wolfe is delighted to bring to you Simon Baisley's first production music album. Bringing together the talents of musicians from bands such as JTQ, US3, Primal Scream and SImply Red, Urban Jazz is unique fusion between jazz, funk, hip-hop and drum' n bass. As a session guitarist/producer and writer, Simon Baisley has worked with Joan Armatrading, David A. Stewart, Janet Jackson and Bobby Brown to name but a few. His recent album projects include Jhelisa Anderson's Galactica Rush (Dorado) and Mike Pato's Time To Right (BMG).

     Artist: Bob James & Hilary James
     Album: Christmas Eyes
     Label: Koch Records
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Jazz, Christmas, Holiday
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 51:27
     Size: 116 Mb

     It's a family affair for Bob James, one of the elder statesmen of Contemporary Jazz, as he teams up with daughter Hilary for an album of Holiday fare. And, keeping it in the family, the forthcoming CD is produced by Kevin DiSimone, Hilary's husband (Bob's son-in-law).
     James has been providing solid albums since the 60s, with landmarks such as "Touchdown" along the way. If you think you've never heard James play, watch an episode of "Taxi"; yep, that theme song, "Angela," is from James.
     Bob James has a few Christmas songs floating around out there featuring his distinctive keyboard playing, including two appearing on the 1997 compilation Warner Bros. Jazz Christmas Party (one with the Bob James Trio and one with Bela Fleck), as well as an entire holiday CD with the jazz supergroup Fourplay.

     Artist: Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey
     Album: It's All So New!
     Label: Buddha Records/BMG
     Year: rec. 1940-42/1999
     Format: MP 3 @320 Kb/s
     Time: 59:22
     Size: 95.4+28.9 Mb

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     Artist: Nicole Henry
     Album: The Nearness of You
     Label: Banister Records, Inc.
     Original Year: June 1, 2004
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 98mb+18mb

     Artist: Anita Baker
     Album: My Everything
     Label: Blue Note Records
     Year: 2004
     Release Date: 2004
     Genre: R&B
     Format, bitrate: mp3
     Size: 63.41MB

     Artist: Oscar Peterson & Coleman Hawkins
     Album: Live in Hannover
     Label: Gambit
     Quality : MP3@320
     Release Date : 2006
     Size : 95.4+9.7 Mb + Covers

     Дискография
     дополнение к биографии выдающегося джаз-гитариста

     Artist: Jimmy Raney And Doug Raney
     Album: Stolen Moments
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Release Date: 1979
     Label: SteepleChase.
     Quality: MP3@256 kbps
     Size: 72.4 MB

Review by Scott Yanow

     Artist: Chico Hamilton,
     Album: Gongs East!
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Release Date: 1958
     Label: Discovery
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 78.5 MB

Both feature essentially the same quintet but highlight different ”concepts” a la Sinatra’s 50s albums (Ol’ Blue Eyes pretty much ”invented” the ”concept album”). Three Faces is just that. Mr. H as bandleader, solo instrumentalist, and singer. You read right: he sings on about a third of the album. While he’s no Nat Cole or Johnny Hartman, he is a very decent, coolly/drolly effective crooner in a Chet Baker/Dean Martin manner. (The vocal tracks also feature some rather nicely arranged albeit uncredited big-band accompaniment.) His drums solos are concise gems. They are nifty short compositions, not merely hey-looka-me showoff exercises. The quintet pieces are swell, swinging, vigorously arranged, cool-accented hard-bop. Eric Dolphy hadn’t quite developed his ”vocal” style on the alto, but he was close, and his flute is as sublime as it ever was.

     Artist: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
     Album: Dance of Fire
     Release: 1995
     Time: 01:09:42
     Genre: Jazz
     Format: MP3@320/kbs

Aziza Mustafa is singer / pianist and jazz, was born in Baku capital of Azerbaijan - that's what caught my attention. Her father - Vagif Mustafa Zadeh - was pianist and composer, famous for mixing mugam - traditional music from there - with the Jazz. His mother was a singer who left the lyric stage to open a career of her daughter, who won the first prize of the prestigious piano competition of "Thelonius Monk" in the U.S. with his own style, influences directly inherited from the father.

"Dance of Fire" (1995) is the third album of his career (which currently account for 9). I confess that in my little knowledge I have not heard anything like it. Aziza Mustafa followed his father is a merger between the jazz / mugam so surprising. Accompanied by musicians from the first line as, Al Di Meola (guitars), Stanley Clarke (bass), Bill Evans (sax) and Omar Hakim (drums). With 11 tracks of authorship itself and the feeling of softness in each song, Aziza blend of the styles so fantastic. How can I quote a few tracks, for example, "Sheherezadeh" with a start toward the Arab music, rather than later turns into a romantic ballad. In "aspiration", Al Di Meola simply destroy with a performance of land in the midst of piano played by Aziza. And in my opinion the most surprising track "Bana Bana Gel" begins with a demonstration of Aziza in piano and soon after that she begins to sing in a beautiful improvisation, with the passage of the music (which lasts 12 minutes), Evans begins the show particularly in duet with sax and the piano / voice follows up on a sensational than the other players enter the game and get the best jazz, the improvisation. "Shadow" is a romantic ballad only on piano and sax. "Father" releasing any comment on a track nearly a piano solo, Aziza concludes in sensational form this work

     Artist: Duke Ellington Orchestra & Count Basie Orchestra
     Album: First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
     Year; Release: 1961
     Label: Columbia
     Genre: Classic Jazz
     Format: Mp3-320kb/s
     Rating

     The two greatest big bands in jazz history side by side on your headphones: What can be more glorious? If, as Billy Strayhorn said, Duke Ellington's band was his instrument, then this 1961 session finds Ellington and Count Basie "trading fours," as it were. The composer credits and solo space are divided democratically, to say the least--four songs from Duke's camp, four from Basie's. The sparring between soloists of both bands is a pure delight, especially the gentle conversations between the two leaders-pianists, who finish each other's thoughts as if all four hands were attached to one unified torso. Highlights include two engaging new Duke compositions--the blistering opener "Battle Royal" and the impulsive "Wild Man"--and the closing Basie chestnut "Jumpin' at the Woodside," on which the lead tenors Frank Foster and Paul Gonsalves engage in ferocious dueling. Amazingly, there is no toe-stepping amid the rousing interplay. Marc Greilsamer

     Artist: Chico Hamilton,
     Album: The Three Faces Of Chico
     Label: Concord Jazz
     Release Date: 1959
     Label: Warner Bros.
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 74.2 MB

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: Ziegfeld Follies: MGM Original Soundtrack Recording
     Label: Rhino
     Year: 1946
     Release: 1995
     Genre: Jazz, Standards
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Time: 70:49
     Size: 98+73MB

Ziegfeld Follies; MGM, 1946 (Color, 109 minutes, Production No. 1325)

In Hollywood where novelty is the spice of life, MGM's Ziegfeld Follies is the most novel of all - it's a musical WITHOUT a story! Flo Ziegfeld, the showman who made an American institution out of beautiful girls and gave the world its most magnificent reviews now has his immortal "follies" brought to the screen as they were originally conceived by him. In addition to the Ziegfeld Girls, America's most glamorous beauties, the show has the greatest constellation of star names ever to reach the screen.
[MGM press sheet]
Production began in January 1944, and the 273-minute film was previewed at the Westwood Village Theater on November 1, 1944. Reaction was very mixed, so the film was withdrawn for major editing and retakes. The picture was finally released on April 8, 1946 at a cost of over three million dollars.
Critical reviews were mixed, but the crowd-pleasers were Esther Williams' ballet, Skelton's drunk routine, Garland's send-up of the big star, and the unique "Limehouse Blues" number.
Judy's number "The Interview" was originally intended for Greer Garson. Garson declined to do the number, and it ended up becoming a spoof of her. It has since become a classic favorite of Garland fans.

     Artist: Chico Hamilton,
     Album: With Strings Attached
     Lable:Warner Bros.
     Year: 1958, release:2007
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 78.2 MB


Other than two selections put out on a sampler and the soundtrack from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this LP is quite significant for having the first recordings of Eric Dolphy with the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Dolphy's solos (on alto, flute and bass clarinet) are brief, but he already sounded fairly distinctive. The third version of Hamilton's popular Quintet also included the drummer/leader, cellist Nate Gershman, guitarist Dennis Budimir and bassist Wyatt Ruther. On this album, half of the tunes are played by the basic quintet, while the remaining five songs have an added string section. The West Coast jazz chamber music generally holds one's interest, but has been out of print for some time. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

     Artist - Miles Davis
     Album - Bags' Groove
     Label - OJC/Prestige
     Year - 1954
     Quality - MP3@320 kbs/s
     Size - 100,75 mb
     Total time - 46:17

AMG Rating:

     There are a multitude of reasons why Bags' Groove remains a cornerstone of the post-bop genre. Of course there will always be the lure of the urban myth surrounding the Christmas Eve 1954 session featuring Thelonious Monk -- which is documented on the two takes of the title track. There are obviously more tangible elements, such as Davis' practically telepathic runs with Sonny Rollins (tenor sax). Or Horace Silver's (piano) uncanny ability to provide a stream of chord progressions that supply a second inconspicuous lead without ever overpowering. Indeed, Davis' choice of former Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and concurrent Modern Jazz Quartet members Milt Jackson (vibes), Kenny Clarke (drums), and Percy Heath (bass) is obviously well-informed. This combo became synonymous with the ability to tastefully improvise and provide bluesy bop lines in varied settings. The up-tempo and Latin-infused syncopation featured during the opening of "Airegin" flows into lines and minor-chord phrasings that would reappear several years later throughout Davis' Sketches of Spain epic. The fun and slightly maniacally toned "Oleo" features one of Heath's most impressive displays on Bags' Groove. His staccato accompaniment exhibits the effortless nature with which these jazz giants are able to incorporate round after round of solos onto the larger unit. Bags' Groove belongs as a cornerstone of all jazz collections. Likewise, the neophyte as well as the seasoned jazz enthusiast will find much to discover and rediscover throughout the disc. The remastered CD includes both historic takes of "Bags' Groove" as well as one additional rendering of the pop standard "But Not for Me." ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide

     Artist: George Thorogood & The Destroyers
     Album: Half A Boy, Half A Man
     Label: Sanctuary Records
     Year: 1999
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 11
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     Size: 96 MB

Capitol/EMI finally dropped George Thorogood after 1997's Rockin' My Life Away stiffed, so where else was there for him to go than CMC International, the label that doesn't care if their artists keep remaking the same record for years on end? That's exactly where Thorogood and his Destroyers landed in 1998 and they released their first record for the label, Half a Boy, Half a Man, the following spring. Not surprisingly, there are no surprises anywhere on the album, unless you count the fact that it was a good idea for him to tackle Nick Lowe's great rocker "Half a Boy, Half a Man." No, the album serves up the blooze-n-boogie that Thorogood fans love and his detractors have come to despise. The difference is, Terry Manning's production keeps things moving, resulting in his liveliest record in nearly a decade. Unfortunately, the album isn't blessed with the strong material that characterized Rockin' My Life Away, but that album didn't have the raw, visceral edge that this album does. And when it comes to rockin' blues, sometimes it's better to have better sound than better songs.

     Artist: George Thorogood & The Destroyers
     Album: Haircut
     Label: Capitol
     Year: 1993
     Genre: Blues
     Tracks: 10
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: @ CBR 320
     Size: 96 MB

You wouldn't expect any changes from George Thorogood, whose pile-driving rocking-blues and boogie have maintained their appeal despite the emergence of numerous similar-sounding ensembles. Thorogood's rough-hewn singing and always tantalizing playing are on target through the usual mix of originals and covers (this time including Bo Diddley and Willie Dixon). Besides the bonus of major label engineering and production, Thorogood's work has never lost its edge because he avoids becoming indulgent or a parody, and continues to sound genuinely interested in and a fan of the tunes he's doing.