Artist: Milt Jackson
     Album: Sings And Plays -Soul Believer
     Label: Pablo
     Release: 1978
     Format/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Time: 40:20
     Size: 93.8 mb


     As vibraphonist Milt Jackson relates in the liner notes of this album, he was a singer before he ever played vibes. This is one of his very few vocal albums and Jackson (who also takes some solos) is reasonably effective, displaying a personable voice and a gentle swing in his style...

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     Artists: Milt Jackson and Strings
     Album: Feelings
     Label: Pablo / OJC
     Year: 1976
     Format,bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.46:10
     Size: 106 MB

     1976's Feelings is an atypical set for Milt Jackson. Usually the epitome of cool jazz hipness, the title track finds the music's pre-eminent vibraphonist squandering his talents on Morris Albert's gloppy pop hit to the accompaniment of an uninspired, violin-heavy string section. Both concept and execution are dire, although Jackson does perk up briefly towards the end when he finally breaks away from the insipid melody into a fun duet with flutist Jerome Richardson. The remainder of the album picks up significantly from that abysmal beginning; producer Norman Granz and arranger Jimmy Jones wisely keep the orchestra well in the background, adding the occasional lush, Ellington-like flourish at the beginnings and endings of the tunes but otherwise staying out of the way of Jackson's sublimely melodic vibes. A pair of Brazilian tunes, Antonio Carlos Jobim's relatively rare ballad "If You Never Come to Me" and Abel Ferreira's "The Day It Rained," are among the highlights, putting the flutes of Richardson and Hubert Laws, as well as Tommy Flanagan's skillful piano, in their best settings. It's not the average Milt Jackson album, but after a potentially devastating start, Feelings turns out not to be half bad. ~ Review by Stewart Mason, AMG.

     Artists: John Lee Hooker
     Album: Best Of
     Year: 2007
     Original Release Date: 2007
     Label: Mca UK
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: MP3/192 kb
     Size: Part1 - 95.8 MB Part2 – 11.5 MB

     Budget-price compilation for the blues living legend known as, 'the king of the endless boogie'. Features 19 classic tracks spanning his long and diverse career from the early 50's sessions throught to his mid-70's recordings. Notable tracks include 'Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive', recorded with Van Morrison and exclusive to this collection. 'The Best Of' also includes several of his tracks from his legendary 1966 session with Lafayette Leake, Eddie Burns and Fred Below, amongst them 'Stella Mae', 'Peace Loving Man' and 'I Can'tQuit You Baby'. 1994 release.

     Artists:Dusko Gojkovic & Kenny Clarke
     Album:International Jazz Octet (1961)
     Label: RTB
     Year: 1961
     CBR 128 kbps (LP-rip)
     Size:29,5 mb



     Recorded 1961 in Germany and released on Yugoslavian label RTB as a 10" EP. One of the first collaborations between Dusko and Clarke-Boland when Dusko was in his late 20's. This is the first Dusko Gojkovic’s album as leader. Record was produced by Alexander Zhivkovich.

     Artists: John Lee Hooker
     Album: That's My Story
     Label: Original Blues Classics
     Year: 1960
     Original Released: 1960
     Quality: mp3; 128 kb/s
     Genre: Blues
     Size: 50.6 MB

     An acoustic date cut on February 9, 1960, this finds Hooker in top-notch form, running through a dozen performances in his instantly identifiable style. Except for three solo turns, Hooker is ably backed by bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes, both wisely following John Lee's idiosyncratic timing and changes. All the tunes are stretched out to comfortable lengths, and his interpretations of then-R&B hits like "Money" and Rosco Gordon's "No More Doggin'" are so vastly reworked that they sound like totally original compositions. A good choice to pick up if you run across a copy. ~ Cub Koda, All Music Guide

     Artists - VA
     Album - Gold Hits Russian Romans
     Label - M-Classic Records
     Year - 1994
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 154 mb
     Total time - 69:02

     Artist: Milt Jackson
     Album: A London Bridge
     Label: Pablo
     Year: 1982
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 0.51:46
     Size: 119 MB
     AMG rating:


     One of three albums of material recorded by the Milt Jackson Quartet (which consisted of pianist Monty Alexander, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Mickey Roker) during a stay at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, this excellent set features the veterans playing in their usual style (bop, blues and ballad) but with a fresher repertoire than usual including "Impressions," "Good Bait" and Alexander's "Reggae/Later." The pianist often steals the show on this fine set; all three records from this gig are easily recommended. ~ Review by Scott Yanow, AMG

     Artist: Patricia Barber
     Album: The Cole Porter Mix
     Label: Blue Note Records B001CAPDUY
     Year: 2008
     Genre: vocal jazz
     Format, bitrate: Mp3 320 kbs
     Time: 56:04
     Size: 88,3 + 45,0 MB

     For her latest album on Blue Note Records, singer/pianist Barber applies that ”natural form of expressiveness” to breath stimulating and intimate new life into the music of one of the Great American Songbook composers. A 13-tune collection that exhibits her austere power of singing, The Cole Porter Mix not only spotlights her artful interpretations of Porter’s songs but also features her modern-cool compositional prowess on three Porter-inspired originals that seamlessly fit into the set list. ”Cole Porter has always been my songwriting idol,” says Barber. ”I love his music and I’ve been singing his songs for so many years.” >>more>>

     Artist: Dusko Goykovich
     Album: After Hours
     Label: Enja
     Year: 1971
     Format, bitrate: MP3 CBR 192 kbps
     Time: 42:04
     Size: ~ 58 MB


     Yugoslavian trumpeter Dusko Goykovich is in excellent form on this hard bop-oriented quartet set. With pianist Tete Montoliu playing up to his usual level and fine support contributed by bassist Rob Langereis and drummer Joe Nay, Goykovich takes stimulating solos on two standards ("A Child Is Born" and "I Love You"), Slide Hampton's "Last Minute Blues," and three basic originals. Easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz fans. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: King Oliver and His Orchestra
     Album: 1930-1931
     Label: Classics
     Year: 1930-1931, release: 1991
     Genre: Classic Jazz, Dixieland, Swing
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps
     Time: 1:06:30
     Size: 155 MB

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: JAZZ GUITAR from Russia & Ukraine
     Year: 2009
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 1:33:33
     Size: 210.5 Mb



     Перед Вами компиляция гитарных джазовых композиций. Исполнители из России и Украины в представлении не нуждаются. Их имена хорошо известны, поэтому ограничусь их перечислением: Алексей Кузнецов, Ильдар Казаханов, Алексей Дегусаров, Гасан Багиров, Владимир Лихошва, Сергей Овсяников, Энвер Измайлов.

Приятного прослушивания!

     Artist: Mimi Fox & Marian McPartland
     Album: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz: Mimi Fox
     Label: Manhattan Beach Studios
     Year: 2008 [Broadcast date: 2008-11-21]
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 54:55
     Size: 123.7 Mb

     Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, November 21, 2008 - San Francisco-based guitarist Mimi Fox was born in 1956 in New York City. Growing up, Fox recalls an eclectic mix of music in her home: Her father, an amateur drummer, enjoyed early jazz and had a collection of Dixieland albums. Her mother was a professional singer until Fox was 12, so the music of the American songbook was also present. Meanwhile, her older brother and sister were taken with the rock and pop sounds of the late '60s and early '70s.
     Fox began playing the drums in the school band at age 9. A year later, she picked up the guitar and began picking out Beatles and Monkees tunes. She would continue playing guitar throughout her teenage years, but with a focus on funk, R&B and Top 40 music. As a drummer, though, Fox remained connected to jazz, playing in several groups through junior high and high school. At age 14, Fox was encouraged by her friends and bandmates to check out John Coltrane, which she recalls as a seminal moment in her musical development.
     In 1979, Fox moved out to San Francisco, where she became an in-demand musician playing in diverse groups in and around the Bay Area. There, she also met guitarist Bruce Forman, who encouraged her to focus on jazz guitar full-time. Fox has since been recording and touring fiendishly, playing jazz clubs and festivals around the world and garnering accolades from fans and critics along the way. She has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Branford Marsalis, Abbey Lincoln, Diana Krall and Dr. Lonnie Smith, as well as fellow guitarists Charlie Hunter and Stanley Jordan.
     Fox continues a grueling touring schedule, and also finds time for jazz education. She serves as an advisor to the guitar department at the Jazz School in Berkeley, Calif., and has served as an adjunct professor at New York University. In addition, she has written a book about guitar methods for Mel Bay publishing, and has also created a CD-ROM-based jazz course called Jazz Anatomy.
     Her latest CD, 2006's Perpetually Hip, is her seventh release as a bandleader. The two-disc set features a guitar quartet on one disc and her solo work on the other.

     Artists: VA
     Album: British Top Charts (1963 - 1968)
     Quality: VBR kbps
     Size: 547 mb


     CHUM had a year-end countdown through out the decade. It was broadcast on New Years Day begining at noon. The first year it was published on the back of the chart was 1963, and this would continue for the next few years and would then be published in differnt formats that are listed under the years below. For '63 - '65 the some of the longer song titles were edited on the list becase of lack of space - for example a certain 1964 Gerry & the Pacemakers song that was at #47 for the year is listed as "Sun Catch You Crying" on all the lists

     Artist: Jimmy Smith
     Album: Open House/Plain Talk
     Label: Blue Note 84269
     Year: rec.Mar 22,1960/rel. 1992
     Format: MP 3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 76:18
     Size: Mb 169.64 Mb
     AMG rating:

     Artist: Patricia Barber
     Album: A Distortion of Love
     Label: Polygram Records B0000046KX
     Year: May 19, 1992
     Genre: vocal jazz
     Format, bitrate: Mp3 224 kbs vbr
     Time: 56:47
     Size: 93,9 MB

     Pianist and singer Patricia Barber's second album (and major-label debut) is a consistently interesting, but not always completely rewarding, array of original instrumentals, vocal standards, and surprise cover versions. The arrangement of "Summertime" that opens the program is eerie almost to the point of creepiness, and all the more effective for it: after a long instrumental prelude, Barber sings the lyrics over the most minimal bass-and-piano unison pedal point, her voice goosed with reverb and wailing softly like a ghost. "Subway Station #5," the original composition that follows, is nervous, jumpy, barely tonal, and moves niftily from a contrapuntal and polyrhythmic introduction into a straight swing section. The problem is that it lasts almost ten minutes, and by the seventh or eighth minute, its ideas seem pretty well played out. "Or Not to Be" and "Yet Another in a Long Series of Yellow Cars" suffer from similar treatment. But her singing on "You Stepped Out of a Dream" and, especially, her sweet and touching rendition of the soul classic "My Girl" are quietly spectacular. There's every reason to expect great things of her in the future. ~ AMG

     Artist: Patricia Barber
     Album: Companion (live)
     Label: Koch Records B0002IQOOG
     Year: 1999
     Genre: vocal jazz
     Format, bitrate: Mp3 224 kbps vbr
     Time: 46:25
     Size: 78,6 MB


     Companion was recorded in a special three-night series of shows in July, 1999 at Chicago's famed Green Mill jazz club — an unusually short amount of time to produce a live album. To mine as much material as possible from those nights the performances were run more like recording sessions than live shows, with the crowd reverently hushed. Patricia Barber is in her element and the only thing that seems to have suffered for the recording circumstances is the album's length — at seven songs and 40 minutes, it walks the line between standard EP and full-length size.

     Artist: Claude Williamson
     Album: Standards
     Year: rec. April 29, 1988
     Format: MP3@320Kb/s
     Label: InterPlay, Japan
     Time: 51:23
     Size: 114.7 Mb

     Artists: VA
     Album: Pioneers Of The Jazz Guitar
     Label: Yazoo /Shanachie
     Years: 1928 - 1937, release - 1992
     Quality: MP3@192 kbps
     Size: 54,4 mb
     Total time: 37:00

     Other than Django Reinhardt, the who's who of jazz guitar (all acoustic players) are heard on this sampler album from Yazoo. There are guitar duets by Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang, Lang and Carl Kress (the memorable "Feeling My Way"), Kress and Dick McDonough, and the team of John Cali and Tony Guttuso.In addition there are solo performances by McDonough and Nick Lucas. Although it would have been preferable to have this music with the complete sessions and in chronological order (the recording dates are unfortunately not included on the LP), this album has more than its share of classic performances and is worth a search. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Patricia Barber
     Album: Modern Cool
     Label: Koch Records B00026WTVA
     Year: 1998
     Genre: vocal jazz
     Format, bitrate: Mp3 192 kbps
     Time: 1:07:42
     Size: 93,4 MB

     The dark, smoky voice of Patricia Barber is quite haunting. On Modern Cool, she mostly sings downbeat songs at slow tempos. All but three songs are her own originals, and they deal with such subject matter as an "homage to beauty" that seems to connect painting one's face with prostitution, loneliness, mindless conformity, the "Postmodern Blues," and other such topics. Barber, whose piano playing is mostly very much in the background, comes across on this set as a pop/folk singer. Most of the jazz moments are provided by trumpeter Dave Douglas, who is on half of the selections and adds some excitement; guitarist John McLean, bassist Michael Arnopol, and drummer/percussionist Mark Walker complete the group. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide