Artist: Norm Douglas
     Album: Holding Back The Years
     Label: Carpet Cat Records
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Smooth Jazz
     Format: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 51 min.
     Size: 117 MB.

     Norm Douglas is a member of the West Coast Jazz Fraternity who has not forgotten the art of a great melody. He moves easily from the soprano lyricism of Kenny G. to the warmth of Warren Hill, to the edgy brilliance of Richard Elliot's tenor. His repertoire extends from a tasteful blend of smooth jazz and light pop to intricate and playful improvs and exciting rhythms.

     Artist: Freddie King
     Album: Live In Nancy, 1975
     Label: Esoldun INA
     Year: 1989 [ Orig. recording 1975]
     Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 129:03
     Size: 187.1 Mb

     "Of all the people I've played with, the most stimulating in an onstage situation was Freddie King. He could be pretty mean but subtle with it. He'd make you feel at home and then tear you to pieces... He taught me just about everything I needed to know... when and when not to make a stand... when and when not to show your hand. . . and most important of all... how to make love to a guitar." ERIC CLAPTON

     FREDDIE KING: Live In Nancy, 1975 - fantastic 1989 French only 12-track set of volumes 1 & 2 of the series recorded live just a year before his untimely death. His performances were powerful and filled with emotional singing coupled with burning soulful licks played on his Gibson 355.

   Artists: Chet Baker & Stan Getz
   Album: West Coast Live
   Year: 1954
   Label: Blue Note
   Time: 123:14
   Quality: MP3 @ 256 kbps
   Size: 251 mb (RS.com) with 5% file recovery


   One of the most infamously acrimonious musical unions transpired between two of the leading purveyors of West Coast cool jazz: Chet Baker (trumpet) and Stan Getz (tenor sax). Their paths crossed only a handful of times and West Coast Live captures two of their earliest encounters in Los Angeles at the Haig on June 12, 1953, and the Tiffany Club on August 17, 1953. These recordings have been issued in Europe and Japan ad infinitum in varying degrees of quality, completeness, and often sporting erroneous data. However, enthusiasts should note that West Coast Live is the only release derived from producer/engineer Dick Bock's own master reels. For two men who purportedly would rather not be in the same room at the same time, Baker and Getz are able to create some legitimately brilliant improvisation... AMG (continued)

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: JFC Jazz Club 10 лет
     Label: JFC Jazz Club
     Year: 2004
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 70:09
     Size: 156 Mb

     Просматривая книгу Владимира Фейертага "Джаз в Петербурге Who is Who" обратил внимание, что в биографиях музыкантов часто встречается название одного альбома - JFC 10 лет. Этот live альбом, выпущен по случаю десятилетия культового джаз клуба Питера. Надо послушать и книжку просматривать интересней! Тем болеe, что в этом году клубу будет 15 лет и надеюсь, Андрей Кондаков (арт-директор клуба) и компания нас порадуют новым альбомом. Ждем! Будет, что сравнивать.

     Artist: Sam Reider & Marian McPartland
     Album: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Sam Reider
     Label: Manhattan Beach Studios
     Year: 2008 [Broadcast date: 2008-12-12]
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 57:08
     Size: 125.6 Mb

     Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, December 12, 2008 - Pianist Sam Reider was born in New York, but raised in San Francisco since he was a year old. He began studying classical piano at age 5 and became interested in jazz several years later. By age 11, he'd begun studying and playing jazz primarily, preferring the freedom of improvisation to the constraints of classical study.
     In high school, Reider studied piano vigorously. By his senior year, he'd racked up several impressive awards, including Outstanding Soloist at the North Texas Jazz Festival. He'd also been made a member of the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra. Along with the members of his Uptown Trio - with bassist Jeff Picker and drummer Jake Goldbas - Reider was selected in 2007 by the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts to be the rhythm section of the Clifford Brown/Stan Getz All-Stars.
     Reider is currently attending Columbia University, where he majors in English. He's just released an album with his Uptown Trio titled Without Strings. The group spent the summer of 2008 on a West Coast tour in support of the album, which took it to Yoshi's and Catalina's, among other venues from Washington to L.A.

     Artists - VA
     Album - The Roots Of Modern Jazz: 1948 Sensation Sessions
     Label - Boplicity
     Year - 1948, release - 1995
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 92, 7mb
     Total time - 64:58

     Bernie Besman's Detroit based Sensation records is better known for its blues recordings. But in three months mid 1948 the label cut five sessions that go right to the roots of modern jazz. Milt Jackson, Sonny Stitt, Russell Jacquet and Sir Charles Thompson led these groundbreaking sessions.
     The 1948 Sensation sessions w. Sonny Stitt, Milt Jackson, Sir Charles Thompson, Russell Jacquet, Leo Parker, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, Kenny Clarke, John Lewis, Ray Brown. Detroit's Sensation Records material belonged to either the blues or R&B fields, but in three months in mid 1948 Sensation recorded five sessions that go right to the roots of modern jazz.
     The music the musicans played wa at the heart of the organic changes happening in jazz, as it progressed from swing to both bop and the R&B flavoured modernism.

     Artist: The Duke Ellington Orchestra
     Album: Take the Holiday Train
     Release: 1992      
     Label: Special Music
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 73 MB

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

     Artists: VA
     Album: 1940's Hit Songs USA
     Label: Sony Music Special Products
     Years: 1939 - 1947;Release:2001
     Quality: mp3;160 kbps
     Размер: 453 mb



     The 40's Hits category includes musicians who play your favourite songs from the 1940's. Sending you back to a bygone era, these groups cover the hits, taking you back to the great sound of these early decades. Including jazz, swing and many more styles.

     Artist: Nat King Cole / Dean Martin
     Album: Christmas With Nat and Dean
     Release Date: Oct 1, 1998
     Label: EMI Gold
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 116 MB




     Have a nice Christmas and a happy New Year - With Nat King Cole & Dean Martin

     Artist: Lonnie Johnson
     Album: Steppin' on the Blues
     Release Date: 1990
     Recording Date: Nov 4, 1925 - Aug 12, 1932
     Label: Columbia/Legacy
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
     Time: 57:32
     Size: 133 MB

     Groundbreaking guitar work of dazzling complexity that never fails to amaze — and this stuff was cut in the 1920s! Lonnie Johnson's astonishingly fluid guitar work was massively influential (Robert Johnson, for one, was greatly swayed by his waxings), and his nononsense vocals (frequently laced with threats of violence — "Got the Blues for Murder Only" and "She's Making Whoopee in Hell Tonight" are prime examples on this 19-cut collection) are scarcely less impressive. Johnson's torrid guitar duets with jazzman Eddie Lang retain their sense of legend over seven decades after they were cut.

     Artists: Ray Brown Trio with...
     Album: Christmas Songs with the Ray Brown Trio
     Label: Telarc
     Release: 1999
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.52:27
     Size: 120 MB

     Прекрасная рождественская встреча Рея Брауна с замечательными музыкантами и вокалистами...

     Ray Brown's got the right idea about making Christmas music: swing it, shout it, blues it up and down, riff with it, and, above all, never let it become boring. With a handful of top-line jazz vocalists on board, and a sax and guitar sitting in with the trio, he and his cool company can't miss the mirth of improvising or the mistletoe magic of rejuvenating a baker's dozen seasonal standards. Dee Dee Bridgewater demonstrates her versatility on "Away in a Manager" while the sublime Diana Krall scats with the creeping bass line on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." With Nancy King, Etta Jones, Marlena Shaw, Vanessa Rubin, and Kevin Mahogany singing, Brown delivers the goods musically (just check out his lyrical work on "Rudolph."). -- Martin Keller, Amazon.com

    Artist: The Manhattan Transfer
    Album: The Christmas Album
    Year: 1992
    Label: Columbia
    Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
    Time: 47:34
    Size: 106 MB

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

   For their set of Christmas related material, the Manhattan Transfer welcome such guests as trumpeter Jack Sheldon (on "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"), Tony Bennett ("The Christmas Song"), trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb. With arrangements provided for the backing orchestra by Johnny Mandel on a few numbers, highlights of this disc include "Snowfall," a Santa medley and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." A pleasing set of jazz-influenced Christmas music.
   Scott Yanow, AMG