Artist - Oscar Peterson
     Album - The Oscar Peterson Trio In Tokyo: Live At The Palace Hotel
     Genre - swing, post-bop
     Label - Columbia
     Year - 1972
     Quality - MP3@320kbs/s (LP rip.)
     Size: 71,5+55,0 mb
     Total time - 55:32

   Artist: Jimmy Smith
   Album: A Date With Jimmy Smith 2LP
   Label: Blue Note
   Year: 1957
   Format, bitrate: Mp3 320kb/s
   Time: 1:06:49
   Size: 153 MB

   After cutting five albums with his trio, organist Jimmy Smith on Feb. 11, 1957, recorded with trumpeter Donald Byrd, altoist Lou Donaldson and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley in a sextet that also included guitarist Eddie McFadden and drummer Art Blakey. Among the five songs recorded that day, two (lengthy versions of "Falling in Love with Love" and "Funk's Oats") are included on this LP along with a shorter trio rendition of "How High the Moon" from two days later with McFadden and drummer Donald Bailey in a trio. For the jam session date altoist Lou Donaldson has a duet with organist Jimmy Smith on "I'm Getting Sentimental over You," and together they match up forces in a sextet with trumpeter Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley on tenor, guitarist Eddie McFadden and drummer Art Blakey, playing lengthy versions of Mobley's "Groovy Date" and Duke Ellington's "I Let a Song Go out of My Heart." All of the Jimmy Smith jam sessions are easily recommended to fans of straightahead jazz;
   All of this music has been reissued by Mosaic on a definitive CD box set.
      by Scott Yanow at All Music Guide

     Artist: Jimmy Smith
     Album: Groove Drops
     Label: Verve Records
     Year: 1969
     Genre: jazz
     Format, bitrate: Mp3 320kb/s
     Time: 30:16
     Size: 72,1 MB

     Artist: Oscar Peterson & Benny Green
     Album: Oscar and Benny
     Release Date: Apr 28, 1998
     Label: Telarc
     Fpormat/Bitrate: MP3/320
     Size: 96 + 93 MB
     Time: 68:11



     Приятнейший и очень красивый альбом Великого Oscar Peterson и его протеже - молодого талантливого пианиста Benny Green
     Enjoy...

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: The Greatest Jazz Hits
     Label: Verve
     Year: 2006
     Genre: Jazz
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: 160MB

     Artist: Lee Konitz and the Brazilian Band
     Album: Brazilian Serenade
     Label: Venus Records
     Year: 1995, release: 1999
     Quality: Mp3@320 kbps
     Size: 116 mb



     Rather hard to find Japanese only release, not to be confused with it’s companion release, Brazilian Rhapsody, with Lee delving into the Brazilian Jazz vein, of which his sound and style seem to be a perfect fit for. Lee and the group perform well known and not so well known Brazilian tunes. This is not sleepy Bossa Nova. It's more like Jobim after a couple of cafezinhos. The sound quality, as on all the Venus releases, is superb.

     Artist: Alex Schultz
     Album: Think About It
     Label: Severn
     Year: 2004
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbps
     Time: 53:16
     Size:122 mb

     Artist: Herbie Hancock
     Album: Sextant
     Label: Columbia/Legacy (1998)
     Format: FLAC & mp3 (320k/s)
     Size: 280 & 91 MB (scans)
     Total time: 39:02

     When Herbie Hancock left Warner Bros. in 1971 after releasing three musically sound but critically and commercially underappreciated albums -- The Crossing, Mwandishi, and Fat Albert's Groove -- he was struggling. At odds with a jazz establishment that longed for his return to his Blue Note sound and a fierce consciousness struggle with free music and the full-on embrace of electricity since his tenure with Miles Davis, Hancock was clearly looking for a voice. Before diving into the commercial waters that would become Headhunters in 1973, Hancock and his tough group (including Billy Hart, Julian Priester, Dr. Eddie Henderson, Bennie Maupin, and Buster Williams) cut this gem for their new label, Columbia. Like its Warner predecessors, the album features a kind of post-modal, free impressionism while gracing the edges of funk. The three long tracks are exploratory investigations into the nature of how mode and interval can be boiled down into a minimal stew and then extrapolated upon for soloing and "riffing." In fact, in many cases, the interval becomes the riff, as is evidenced by "Rain Dance." The piece that revealed the true funk direction, however, was "Hidden Shadows," with its choppy basslines and heavy percussion -- aided by the inclusion of Dr. Patrick Gleeson and Buck Clarke. Dave Rubinson's production brought Hancock's piano more into line with the rhythm section, allowing for a unified front in the more abstract sections of these tunes. The true masterpiece on the album, though, is "Hornets," an eclectic, electric ride through both the dark modal ambience of Miles' In a Silent Way and post-Coltrane harmonic aesthetics. The groove is in place, but it gets turned inside out by Priester and Maupin on more than one occasion and Hancock just bleats with the synth in sections. Over 19 minutes in length, it can be brutally intense, but is more often than not stunningly beautiful. It provides a glimpse into the music that became Headhunters, but doesn't fully explain it, making this disc, like its Warner predecessors, true and welcome mysteries in Hancock's long career. - by Thom Yurek, AMG

     Artisis: SaxEmble
     Album: Saxemble
     Label: Qwest/Warner bros
     Year: 1995
     Quality: FLAC - own cd.rip
     Time: 0.50:10


     Saxemble is the first major-label release by a quintet that includes drummer Cindy Blackman and four reed players including James Carter. This quintet inevitably reminds one of the World Saxophone Quartet, for Saxemble also capitalizes on the resemblances between a four-horn combo and a vocal quartet to emphasize the doo-wop and gospel flavors in modern jazz. And like the WSQ, Saxemble attacks the middlebrow stolidity of mainstream jazz both from the low-brow perspective of '50s R&B and from the highbrow angle of '60s free jazz. It's a measure of the album's success that Saxemble finds the common thread that ties together pieces by Monk, David "Fathead" Newman, Eddie Harris, and Albert Ayler. -- Geoffrey Himes, Amazon.com.

     Artists: Chick Corea, Joe Farrell,
                Frank Foster, Gene Perla, Elvin Jones
     Album: The John Coltrane memorial concert
     Label: Jazz Door
     Year: 1971
     Calidad/Quality: FLAC + SCANS
     Time: 47:03
     Tamano/Size: 250 Mb (.rar)

     Artist: Grant Green
     Album: First Session
     Genre: Jazz / hard bop, soul-jazz, jazz funk
     Year: 1961
     Quality: MP3 @320kbps
     Size: 117mb (RS.com) with 5% file recovery
     Covers
     Original Release Date: November 16, 1960
     Time: 55:37
     Label: Blue Note

     Grant Green's first-ever session as a leader -- recorded by Blue Note in 1960. The set features Green's guitar playing in a piano quartet, with rhythm by Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones -- about as fine a backing trio as Green could hope to find. We're not sure why Blue Note didn't issue this material at the time -- perhaps because they were trying to break Green as R&B-inflected soul jazz player, and this set had more of a straight jazz quality (like his Sunday Morning album) -- but whatever the case, it's all here now, along with 2 other tracks from a 1961 session with Sonny Clark on piano. Titles include "Seepin", "Sonnymoon For Two", "Just Friends", "Woody N You", and an early recording of "Grant's First Stand". ~ Dustygroove.com

     

Фиалки по средам (выпуск второй)

     Composers: Joaquin Rodrigo, Isaac Albeniz.
     Artist: Paco de Lucia & Orquesta de Cadaques (cond. Edmon Colomer)
     Album: Concierto de Aranjuez
     Label: Verve
     Year: , release 1991
     Genre: classical
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 39 min, 06 sec.
     Size: 92 mb.

     Итак, друзья мои, второй выпуск "Фиалок" я решил посвятить, пожалуй, самому известному произведению испанского композитора Хоакина Родриго - Аранхуэзскому концерту. Возможно, для многих эта новость окажется лишь поводом достать с полки компакт-диск, сдуть с коробочки пыль и насладиться чарующими звуками гитары одного из лучших фламенко-гитаристов - Пако де Лусии. Тем не менее, начнём.

     Artist: Jimmy Smith
     Album: Daybreak
     Label: West Wind
     Year: 2002
     Genre: jazz
     Format: Mp3 320kb/s
     Size: 102 MB

     This Jimmy Smith album (not a compilation in the real sense of the word as stated in A.M.G.) was recorded at the end of his career between 1999 and 2001 when he made his last recordings. It consists of two parts:
Tracks: 1/2/7/8 recorded at Livewire Studios, Sacramento, CA. April 2001.
Tracks 4/5/6 recorded live in The Florida Keys Islamorada's Festival by The Bay, October 1999.
Both parts live and studio are full of energy and beautiful soul-jazz bob. The sound is fresh and powerful and you can’t guess Jimmy’s age but only in the live tracks at the end by his harsh voice. The usual trio is added from time to time with nice guitar, sax and flute solos. The moods are: amiable, good-natured, energetic, exuberant, gritty, gutsy, joyous, laid-back, mellow, organic, passionate, playful, boisterous, confident, dramatic, effervescent, freewheeling, fun, greasy, lively, rambunctious, rousing, slick, sophisticated, sprawling, smart, uplifting, warm, and witty. Yet another Jimmy Smith release that worth to lean on. - Bubu Hans

     Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
     Opus: Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons)
     Year: 1720, release 1725
     Genre: classical music, concerto for violin & orchestra.
     

     Извините, друзья мои, совсем забыл, что вчера была среда. Поэтому приходится третий выпуск "фиалок" опубликовать с небольшим опозданием. Да и с новогодними каникулами два выпуска пропустил...
Но сегодня Вас ждёт просто НЕЧТО!
Итак,

ФИАЛКИ ПО СРЕДАМ (выпуск третий, внеочередной)

     Artist - Benny Goodman
     Album - The Complete RCA Victor Small Group Recordings 3 CD
     Label - RCA Victor
     Years: 1935 - 1938, release - 1997
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 143 + 156 + 145 mb
     Total time : (66:04)+(74:01)+(69:38)
      AMG Rating:

     The music of the Benny Goodman Trio and Quartets (with the clarinetist, pianist Teddy Wilson, drummer Gene Krupa and sometimes vibraphonist Lionel Hampton) has been put out many times through the years, including in other, earlier "complete" sets. This 1997 three-CD reissue not only has all of the regular recordings, but 20 alternate takes, two of which were previously unissued. Many of the performances (such as "After You've Gone," "Moonglow," "Dinah" and "Avalon") are quite famous, considered perfect examples of "chamber jazz," and veteran collectors will certainly enjoy hearing many of the alternates. Singers Helen Ward and Martha Tilton, trumpeter Ziggy Elman (on "Bei Mist Bist Du Schoen") and (after Krupa's departure) drummers Dave Tough and Buddy Schutz, bassist John Kirby and pianist Jess Stacy also make appearances. Classic music with many exciting moments from the King of Swing and his famous sidemen. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Coleman Hawkins
     Album (2): What Harlem Is To Me/ Lamentation
     Label: TIM CZ
     Years: 1934-1936, release 2001
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320
     Time: 65:13
     Size: 100 MB + 37 MB + 100 Mb + 24 Mb

     Artist: Eric Dolphy
     Album: Last Recordings
     Year: rec.1964; rel. Oct 4, 1999
     Genre: Post Bop, Hard Bop
     Label: West Wind
     Type: Compilation
     Format: MP3@320/kbs
     Size: 93,31 Mb

A gem of a record -- Eric Dolphy's last studio session, recorded in Paris with some very surprising guest stars! The work is really tremendous -- every bit as great as Dolphy's monumental studio albums for Prestige, and written and performed with a similar blend of the free, the lyrical, the avant, and the soulful! Of course, the players help a lot -- as the group includes Donald Byrd on trumpet, Nathan Davis on tenor, and the great Jack Dieval on piano. Titles include "245", "GW", "Serene", and "Springtime".
Вношу свою лепту в архив Эрика Долфи. У меня нет и не было этого диска, я скачала его на торрентсе, точных сведений относительно состава музыкантов найти не удалось, но музыка от этого хуже не становится. Особенно хороша первая композиция "Springtime". Рука не поднялась обозначить стиль авангардом, т.к. хотя Долфи и играет в присущей ему манере последних лет, всё же общее впечатление от альбома, что он не выходит за рамки основных течений джаза того времени.

     Artist: Osie Johnson
     Album: Osie's Oasis
     Year: 1955
     Release: 1999
     Label: OJC
     Format, bitrate: MP3, VBR 195 kbps
     Time Approx 40 min
     Size: 69,80 MB

     In the 1950s and the first half of the 1960s, Osie Johnson was one of the most in-demand drummers in New York, making a countless number of recordings and working steadily in the studios. He started working professionally in 1941, was with Sabby Lewis' band in Boston (1942-1943), and then was in the military where he played in a Navy band (1944-1945). After five years freelancing in Chicago, Johnson was a member of Earl Hines' band during 1951-1953. Stints with Dorothy Donegan and Illinois Jacquet followed before he became a busy session musician, playing and recording with a who's who of mainstream (including Coleman Hawkins, Dinah Washington, Wes Montgomery, and Sonny Stitt). In addition to contributing tasteful and supportive drums, Osie Johnson was an occasional composer, arranger, and singer, leading sessions for Jazztone (1955) and RCA (1956). ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Mynta
     Album: Indian Times
     Format: FLAC & mp3 (320k/s)
     Size: 298 & 121 MB (scans)
     Label: verBra (1999)
     Total time: 51:15



     The musical traditions of Sweden and India come together with a global range of influences to create the unique music of Mynta. A true cultural exchange between Indian tabla player Fazal Qureshi and classical vocalist Shankar Mohadevan and Swedish musicians. Mix in Swedish hammered dulcimer, the Indian santoor and tanpura, and the North African saz and this becomes an exotic sort of orchestra. With groups like Mynta, it's clear that Scandanavia is turning out the most fascinating and enjoyable world fusion around. ~ Craig Harris, AMG