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."