Artist: Mel Torme
     Album: With The Marty Paich Dek-tette
     Label: Bethlehem BCP52
     Release: 1956
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kBit/s
     Size: 57 mb - 7z
     Total time: 38:58

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     The material, as well, is pure gold: Tormй is as buoyant and exuberant as he's ever been, resulting in fantastic, definitive versions of inimitable standards like "Lullaby of Birdland," "Fascinating Rhythm," and "The Lady Is a Tramp." There... are a few down-tempo numbers ("The Blues," "Keeping Myself for You"), but even on these Tormй sounds like he can't wait to get to the next song and really stretch out. After its first release in 1956 as "Mel Tormй With The Marty Paich Dek-tette", the album was reissued many times under various titles (Lulu's Back in Town, The Tormй Touch), but surprisingly never on CD. Rhino finally rectified the situation with the album's first CD release (as Lulu's Back in Town) in 1999. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

     Artist: Elmore James
     Album: I Need You
     Label: Sphere Sound
     Year: 1967
     Genre: blues
     Format, mp 3 bitrate: 256
     Time: 31:00
     Size: 59,3 mb

     No two ways about it, the most influential slide guitarist of the postwar period was Elmore James, hands down. Although his early demise from heart failure kept him from enjoying the fruits of the '60s blues revival as his contemporaries Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf did, James left a wide influential trail behind him. And that influence continues to the present time — in approach, attitude and tone — in just about every guitar player who puts a slide on his finger and wails the blues. As a guitarist, he wrote the book, his slide style influencing the likes of Hound Dog Taylor, Joe Carter, his cousin Homesick James and J.B. Hutto, while his seldom-heard single-string work had an equally profound effect on B.B. King and Chuck Berry. His signature lick — an electric updating of Robert Johnson's "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and one that Elmore recorded in infinite variations from day one to his last session — is so much a part of the essential blues fabric of guitar licks that no one attempting to play slide guitar can do it without being compared to Elmore James. Others may have had more technique — Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker immediately come to mind — but Elmore had the sound and all the feeling.

     Artist: Капелла Дикси
     Album: Lev Lebedev and His "Capella Dixie" in Finland
     Label: Storm
     Year: 2006
     Release: 2007
     Genre: dixieland, диксиленд
     Quality: mp3@192kb/s
     Size: 85,9 MB
     Total time:: 61:30 min


     Содержание данного альбома составляют записи с концертов, состоявшихся в Финляндии в июле 2006 года. Выступления проходили на сцене известного джаз-клуба "VAAKAHUONE", а также на международном джаз-фестивале "PORI JAZZ"
За основу звучания музыкантами была взята манера свободного исполнения (без предварительной аранжировки), что характерно для новоорлеанского джаза раннего периода.

     Artist: Капелла Дикси
     Album: Капелла Дикси - 1983
     Label: Мелодия LP
     Year: 1982, release: 1983
     Restoration: SACh 2003
     Genre: dixieland, диксиленд
     Quality: MP3@256 kbps
     Size: 71.1 Мб
     Total time: 33:44

     По Москве уже гремела слава диксилендов Грачева и Мелконова, когда их сподвижником кларнетистом Львом Лебедевым, одним из лучших в стране мастеров традиционного стиля, завладела мысль собрать классный концертный ансамбль, музыкантов которого нельзя было бы упрекнуть ни в недостатке знания тонкостей стилистики диксиленда, ни в пренебрежении гармонией, ни в недостатке владения инструментами. Московская джазовая студия стала в 1979 году колыбелью нового диксиленда "Капелла Дикси"

     Artist: Elements
     Album: Forward Motion
     Label: Island
     Year: 1984
     Length: 42 mins.
     Genre: Fusion
     Format: FLAC, my rip from my collection
     Size: 2 rar's, 150 & 131 MB

Hello my friends around the globe!

To finish the "Elements Saga", this is their second CD, pretty difficult to find
as it should be OOP, like the first one. Definitely a must-to-have in your collections,
if you don't already own it. I've bought these CD's in Amsterdam many years ago
(for NL friends, 39.95 was the "prijs" at that time, can't remember when, but it was
at least 14-15 years ago).

     Artist: Капелла Дикси
     Album: В традиционном стиле
     Label: Мелодия LP
     Year: 1986, release: 1987
     Restoration: SACh 2003
     Genre: dixieland, диксиленд
     Quality: MP3@256 kbps
     Size: 70,6 Мб
     Total time: 39:19


     Нет нужды доказывать, что традиционный джаз сохраняет у нас стабильную популярность. Он имеет более чем полувековые традиции (еще со времен "Московских ребят" Александра Цфасмана). И классных мастеров этого стиля у нас немало, и музыки такой много, и слушают ее люди с удовольствием. Тем не менее, на профессиональной концертной сцене существуют лишь два диксиленда - ленинградский и уральский, а их поразительное долголетие (первому двадцать пять, второму восемнадцать) должно бы подсказать необходимость расширения этого жанра в концертной практике, привлечения к ней лучших коллективов.
"Капелла Дикси" - ансамбль известный. Вот уже десять лет ему горячо аплодируют на джазовых фестивалях, приглашают участвовать в телевизионных передачах, выступать на фестивалях "Московская осень". Очень приятно, что коллектив, как говорится, не стоит на месте, в нем не прекращается творческая работа, что и подтверждает содержание его второй пластинки. ~ Алексей Баташев

     Artist: Капелла Дикси
     Album: Капелла Дикси'05
     Years: 2005
     Genre: dixieland, диксиленд
     Quality: MP3@192 kbps
     Size: 107 Мб
     Total time: 51:31

     Artist: Капелла Дикси
     Album: Live In Souzdal
     Years: 2006
     Restoration: SACh 2006
     Genre: dixieland, диксиленд
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 107 Мб
     Total time: 46:40

     Artist: Les Doigts de L'Homme
     Album: Les Dogts de L'Homme
     Genre: Jazz-Swing/Manouche
     Release: 2005
     Quality: MP3 256 Kbps
     Tracks: 14
     Time: 44:52
     Label: Lamasrock
     Size: 77 MB

've seen Les Doigts de l'homme for the first time at the Django Festival 2008 at Liberchies(hometown of Django Reinhardt in Belgium)and I was completely blown away from their fresh and original gipsy jazz. Lead guitar player, Olivier Kikteff,
demonstrates an extraordinary virtuosity, rarely seen, but the songs are very original and beautiful as well. The mix of Selmer guitars, banjo's, ouds and cajon and the different tempi are the trademark of Les Doigts de l'homme. I can highly recommend this most recent CD from Les Doigts de l'homme to everyone who loves the guitar, loves manousch jazz, cross-over
music,etc... Buy this, you won't regret it!!!

     Artist: Michel Petrucciani
     Album: Power of Three
     Label: Capitol
     Year of Release: 1987
     Genre: Jazz
     Quality: MP3 @320 Kbps
     Size: 139 MB+All Covers

     Artist: Lou Rawls
     Album: I'm Blessed
     Label: Malaco
     Year: 2001
     Genre: Jazz Vocal, Soul
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 102MB

     Artist - Don Byas
     Album - Autumn Leaves
     Label - Ronnie Scott's Jazz House
     Year - 1965, release - 1996
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 154 mb
     Total time - 74:08


Don Byas, believing he was never going to get the recognition he deserved in the United States because of racial bias, left the U.S. for Europe and
never looked back. Virtually all of his good work was done on the Continent. Usually cited as one of the first tenor sax players to take up the "new
music" that had exploded on the scene through Charlie Parker's alto, Byas never let go of his romantic and swinging roots.

     Artist: Frank Sinatra
     Album: Forever
     Label: Musisom
     Year: 1997
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 75MB

                    Artist: Lee Morgan
                    Album:Candy
                    Year:rec. on November 18, 1957 & February 2, 1958./rel. 1958
                    Label: Blue Note
                    Format: MP3@ 320Kb/s
                    Time: 41:58
                    Size: 90.3 Mb

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     Artist: Stan Getz & Dexter Gordon
     Album: The Savoy Jazz Collection 2 (part 2)
     Label: Brilliant Jazz
     Year: 2007
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 127MB

     Artist: Stan Getz & Dexter Gordon
     Album: The Savoy Jazz Collection 2 (part 1)
     Label: Brilliant Jazz
     Year: 2007
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 120MB

     Composed: Sergei Rachmaninov
     Choir: The State Academic Russian Choir conducted by Alexander V. Sveshnikov
     Title Of Album: All-Night Vigil for mixed choir, op.37
     Year Of Release: 1997
     Label: в Украине: Мелодия Украина
     Studio/Live: Studio
     Genre, Style: choral music, choir, Classical
     Type, Quality: APE, lossless; Covers
     Total Time: 66.32
     Total Size: APE - 289.28 MB; Covers - 43.39 MB

     Artist: Louis Hayes Group
     Album: Variety Is The Spice
     Date: October 9-12, 1978
     Location: RCA Studios, New York City
     Label: Gryphon (LP)
     Format: Flac
     Size: 325 MB
     Time: 52:05


     Although best known for his work as a valuable sideman, drummer Louis Hayes has led some stimulating sessions of his own through the years. This somewhat obscure but valuable LP is most notable for featuring the unique singer Leon Thomas on "Little Sunflower" and "Nisha" and for giving ample solo space to underrated altoist Frank Strozier, who doubles here on flute. With keyboardist Harold Mabern, bassist Cecil McBee and a couple of percussionists rounding out the group, Hayes leads his band through a diverse set that includes "Stardust," "What's Goin' On," "Invitation" and "My Favorite Things." Excellent, advanced straight-ahead music. ~ Scott Yanow, AMG

     Artist: Lonnie Johnson
     Album:Me and My Crazy Self
     Label: Charly Records
     Year:Recording Date, 1925-1932/Release: 1991
     Format: mp3, Bitrate: 320 kbps
     Size: 84,6 MB, Incl. Cover Art

     Lonnie Johnson was the first great modern blues guitarist. His harmonically advanced and fluid style influenced everyone from Robert Johnson and Charlie Christian to T-Bone Walker an B.B. King. A prolific recording artist, Johnson's career extended from the mid-1920' to the late 1960s.
He recorded hundreds of songs along the way as both featured artist and an accompanist. Many of his recordings transcended the blues idiom and incorporated everything from jazz to pop; such was Johnson's amazing versality. In terms of the blues, his most productive period was from 1925, the year he began his recording career, to approximately 1932. It was during this time that Johnson's influence as a guitar master was most felt and that the bulk of his best blues and blues-flavored recordings were released.