Artist: Dodo Greene
          Album: My Hour Of Need
          Label: Blue Note
          Year: 1976
          Release Date: 1962
          Format, bitrate: mp3, 320
          Size: 107 MB

     This set (reissued on CD) was a very unusual release for Blue Note. Greene's mixture of R&B and soulful blues in a voice very reminiscent of late-period Dinah Washington is much more pop and blues-oriented than the music on any other Blue Note release from the period. What other Blue Note album has a full program of soul ballads clocking in between three to five minutes apiece? Although Dodo Greene (who had recorded one slightly earlier record for Time) was apparently signed to an exclusive contract, her only other Blue Note session (six of its nine numbers conclude this CD) had never been previously released. In reality, the main reason to acquire the relaxed set is for the warm tenor of Ike Quebec (who is perfect in this setting) and the occasional guitar of Grant Green. A true obscurity. ~ Scott Yanow, [b]AMG[/n]

     Artist: Jeri Southern
     Album: Jeri Southern Meets Johnny Smith
     Label: Roulette
     Year: 1958
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 192 kbps
     Size: 54.2 MB

Jeri Southern began her career as a singing pianist before eventually choosing to focus exclusively on vocals. This release, recorded for the long defunct Forum label, pairs her with the masterful guitarist Johnny Smith, along with pianist Bob Panacost, bassist George Roumanis and drummer Mousie Alexander. Southern's deep, slightly smoky alto swings on up-tempo numbers, while she is also a gifted ballad interpreter. Smith's accompaniment is never less than superb, as are his occasional (but all too brief) solos. The songs that have best stood the test of time include her subtle treatment of "Music, Maestro, Please" (with Panacost doubling on celeste), along with the deliberate interpretations of "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" and "Two Sleepy People." Recommended. ~ Ken Dryden, AMG

     Artists: Shirley Scott, Clark Terry
     Album: Soul Duo
     Label: Impulse!
     Release Date: 1966
     Format: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Size: 86.0 MB
     Time: 37:52
     AMG Rating:

     This is one of organist Shirley Scott's lesser-known Impulse LPs (not yet reissued on CD), a quartet outing with flugelhornist Clark Terry, drummer Mickey Roker and either George Duvivier or Bob Cranshaw on bass. Together they perform four Scott originals, a pair of C.T.'s compositions, the swinging "Until I Met You" and the standard "Heat Wave." Although not playing with the force that Stanley Turrentine exhibited when jamming with the organist, Clark Terry adds humor and a wistfulness to the date that easily compensates.

REPOST! Clark Terry - American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz

     Artist: Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington
     Album:The Great Reunion
     AMG Rating:
     Label:Roulette
     Release:1963
     Format/Biitrate: MP3/320
     Size:71.2MB




     To My Friend, lex

     Enjoy...

Artist:Eric Clapton
Album: Sessions For Robert J
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Year: , release 2004
Format, bitrate: 320 kbps
Size: 65 m.


It appears that Eric Clapton had more Robert Johnson in his blood than he thought -- or perhaps it was planned this way. This DVD/CD set (and really, it's not the other way around despite the packaging), showcases Clapton mining the Robert Johnson vein ever more deeply in no less than four different settings. The DVD features 19 acoustic and electric performances recorded in rehearsal spaces in Dallas and in England, as well as in the 508 Park Ave. in Dallas, a studio Johnson himself recorded in, in 1937. There is one more segment, a recorded solo acoustic in a hotel room in California. The band that joins Clapton in the rehearsal studios is comprised of guitar master Doyle Bramhall, organist Billy Preston, Steve Gadd on drums, pianist Chris Stainton and Nathan East on bass. The electric performances, particularly "Milkcow's Calf 's Blues," "Stop Breakin' Down Blues," and especially "I Wish I Had Possession Over Judgment Day," have some real life and stomp in them. Of the acoustic tracks, "Terraplane Blues" works best. The DVD also contains a selection of behind-the-scenes footage that will be of interest only to those fans who need to see everything. The CD contains 11 cuts culled from the DVD and the sequencing is in some ways preferable. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

     Artist - Ike Quebec
     Album - Ballads
     Label - Blue Note
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 119 mb
     Total time - 52:46



Tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec always had a big, warm sound, and he was particularly expert on ballads. This 1997 sampler CD surprisingly does not have any examples of his early work on Blue Note in the mid- to late 1940s, instead concentrating on selections from four of Quebec's seven late-period Blue Note albums, a few songs originally issued as 45s, and "Born to Be Blue," which is taken from an album by guitarist Grant Green. The eight ballads are all standards and put the focus very much on Quebec, making for a fine mood album even if acquiring the full sessions (all but "It Might As Well Be Spring" are currently available on CD) is preferable. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Claude Williamson
     Album: Cleopatra's Dream
     Label: InterPlay Records/Japan
     Year: rec. 1978/rel.Oct 15, 2008
     Format: Mp 3 @320 Kb/s
     Time: 54:36
     Size: 90.6+29.7 Mb

Этого пианиста уже нет необходимости представлять в нашем Клубе. Он многим полюбился. Вашему вниманию, довольно редкий альбом.
Записанный в 1978 году, только сейчас увидивший свет, благодаря японской компании "InterPlay". Слушаем и получаем удовольствие.
Восхитительный альбом.
Приятного прослушивания

     Artist: Wes Montgomery
     Album:'Round Midnight
     Year: 1965
     Label: Charly
     Quality: .flac
     Time: 53'44"
     Size: 193 Mb

One of the greatest recordings Wes ever made.

Six selections of small-group Montgomery taken from the two albums, Impressions and Solitude. ~ Michael Erlewine, All Music Guide

          Format: XVID
          Video: 640x368, 29 fps, 139 Kb/s
          Audio: MP3 120 Kb/s, CH, 12bit
          Time: 1:25:43
          Size: 717 MB

          Artist: Oleg Lundstrem
          Album: In Swing Time
          Label: MFSL (Mobile Fidelity sound lab) under license of Мелодия
          Year: 1986
          Format: Mp3 @320 Kb/s
          Time: 40:54
          Size: 91.0 Mb


Since Russian bandleader Oleg Lundstrem was around 70 when he recorded this CD, one might expect the music to be Russian versions of swing standards, but actually the music is quite modern, sort of an updated Thad Jones/Mel Lewis-type orchestra. No personnel listing is given although the liner notes refer to pianist Mikhail Okun, trumpeter Yuri Parfenov and tenorman Vyacheslav Preobrazhenski. The charts make liberal use of brass choirs and expertly set up the soloists, of which the tenor is the most talented. Overall this is a professional and rather enjoyable big-band outing from a Russian legend who led his first orchestra in 1934. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide