Artist: Robben Ford & The Blue Line
     Album: Mystic Mile
     Release: 14.09.1993
     Label: GRP Records (USA)
     Genre: Blues, Contemporary Blues, Modern Electric Blues
     Tracks: 11 (10 + bonus track)
     Total Time: 55:57
     Format: mp3@320/kbs
     Archive Size: 124Mb

     Artist:Roy Buchanan
     Album: A Street Called Straight
     Year: rec. 1976 rel. 2002
     Label: Wounded Bird
     Genre: Modern Electric Blues
     Format Bitrate: MP3@320/Kbps
     Size: 92 mb





     Roy Buchanan was a guitar blues/rock virtuoso who put out numerous albums in the 70's & 80's. Tragically he took his own life in 1988. Between 1976 & 1978 Roy recorded three albums for Atlantic Records. A Street Called Straight hit the Billboard charts in 1976 and features his unique interpretation of the Hendrix classic 'If Six Was Nine'. This album is making its worldwide CD debut! Wounded Bird release. 2002.

   Artist: Shakatak
   Album: Afterglow
   Label: Shakatak Masters
   Year: 2009
   Quality: VBRkbps /44.1Khz / Joint-Stereo
   Size:92.9 MB

     Artist: Spyro Gyra
     Album: Down The Wire
     Label: Heads Up International
     Genre: Smooth Jazz, jazz fusion
     Year: 2009
     Time: 65:11 min
     Quality: VBR 196 kbps
     Size: 92,2 mb

     Today's Spyro Gyra are alto saxophonist, songwriter & founding bandleader Jay Beckenstein, keyboardist Tom Schuman, guitarist Julio Fernandez, bassist Scott Ambush, and since 2007 drummer and percussionist Bonny B. Jay Beckenstein considers his work as something special: "When I’m making music with the band and things are going well, I leave the anxiety behind. I escape that part of me that’s just trying to survive in the world and I’m able to get in touch with that part of me that has nothing to do with practicality. It’s something that’s kind of divine, and I don’t normally think in those terms, but it’s as close as I can get to that ideal. I really do get swept away in it and it’s a marvelous, spiritual, therapeutic thing.” http://www.smooth-jazz.de/firstview/SpyroGyra/Downthewire.htm

   Artist: John Frigo
   Album: I Love John Frigo...He Swings
   Label: Verve
   Year: 1957
   Quality: FLAC
   Size: 97 mb


   Johnny Frigo spent most of his professional life as a jazz bassist, but in the mid-'80s he picked up his first instrument, the violin, and started what amounted to a second jazz career on that instrument. Frigo biographies frequently refer to an obscure album release from the 1950s that prefigured this change, and this is it, a session Frigo recorded in 1957 at Universal Recording Studios in Chicago for Mercury Records. Joined by guitarist Herb Ellis (Frigo and Ellis had previously worked together in the Soft Winds Trio with pianist Lou Carter), Norm Jeffries on drums, Dick Marx on piano, Cy Touff on trumpet, and the great Ray Brown on bass, Frigo delivers a wonderful swing/bop mixture that stands seamlessly with his 1980s releases. At times he uses the violin like a horn, punching in and blocking out solid runs, and at other times, like on the beautiful "Blue Orchids," he uses the instrument to approximate a tenor vocalist, stretching the melody into marvelous shapes. Frigo even does a call-and-response duet with himself on the self-penned "Big Me -- Little Me," answering the violin lines with his own bass runs. I Love John Frigo...He Swings somehow got lost in the shuffle when it was released, and Frigo went back to bass playing for 30 years before getting a late second chance at recording this kind of small-group sides on violin once more. The original master tapes of this session apparently suffered some degradation, and the recordings red-line occasionally in the digital transfer, but it's nothing too serious. Mercury/Verve should be commended for bringing this delightful album back to life.
   ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

     Artist: Chuck Loeb
     Album: Between 2 Worlds
     Genre: Crossover Jazz, Smooth Jazz
     Label: Heads Up
     Year: 2009
     Time: 01:04:56
     Quality: 195 kbps avg
     Size: 95.5 MB

   Artist - Adelaide Hall
   Album - Hall Of Fame
   Label - ASV/Living Era
   Years: 1927 - 1941, release - 1992
   Quality - MP3@320 kbps
   Size - 155 mb
   Total time - 60:06
   
   Блестящий альбом выдающейся вокалистки! Благодаря совместным выступлениям с ней, впервые обратил на себя внимание слушателей легендарный Art Tatum. Лучшие ранние альбомы Duke Ellington получили всеобщее признание из-за участия в них Adelaide Hall. К сожалению, в последние десятилетия она была незаслуженно забыта, но, благодаря этому великолепному альбому, у нас с вами появилась прекрасная возможность насладиться её творчеством!

   Adelaide Hall is the missing link in Harlem's Renaissance, historically the richest period of American black culture. In "Underneath a Harlem Moon, Williams takes the reader on a fascinating roller-coaster ride, from Adelaide's birth in Brooklyn through her humble childhood in Harlem; from her triumphs on Broadway to the glamour of Paris's Moulin Rouge. Adelaide Hall pushed down the barriers that had previously prevented black entertainers from reaching mass recognition. She received extraordinary media attention on both sides of the Atlantic for her starring role in "Blackbirds" in 1928 which turned her into what can only be termed the first modern-day international black female superstar."Underneath a Harlem Moon concludes with Adelaide's mysterious disappearance in November 1938, which has, until now, never been publicly explained.

   Artist: Tania Maria
   Album: Apresentamos Tania Maria
   Label: Continental
   Year: 1969
   Format, bitrate: Mp3@320kbps
   Time: 37:45
   Size: 79 Mb

   Brazilian jazz vocalist and pianist Tania Maria's career has spanned over three decades, starting when she was just 13 and she fronted a band of professional musicians organized by her father, who was a metal worker and gifted amateur musician. He had encouraged her to study piano so that she could accompany him on his weekend jam sessions, but her musical talent grew beyond those small performances. Maria's four sisters also had musical talents, but they eventually grew from their impoverished roots to become professionals, a path that Maria was on herself as well. She attended law school for two years, then married and had a family. The pull of music was too strong, however, and in 1971 she released her first album in Brazil, Olha Quem Chega. In the late '70s she moved to Paris and expanded her career, touring internationally. A date in Australia brought her to the attention of guitarist Charlie Byrd, who hooked her up with Carl Jefferson, head of Concord Records. The label provided her with her first international commercial success with her 1984 album Come With Me, and continued to record her music and issue it to an international audience. Based in New York since the '80s, Maria still sings the pop and blues-influenced music that brought her fame, releasing several albums in the '90s. Her first album of the new millennium, Viva Brazil, was also released by Concord Records.
   ~ Stacia Proefrock, AMG

   Artist: Roland Kirk
   Album: Quartets: Rip, Rig, and Panic + Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith
   Year: 1965-1967
   Label: Emarcy
   Time: 67:25
   Size: 158mb (RS.com) with Covers & Scans
   Quality: MP3 @ 320kbps


   Combining the short yet solid 1965 release, Rip, Rig and Panic with Rahsaan Roland Kirk's 1967 release Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith, this two-fer presents a perfect portrait of Kirk's mid-'60s sound. While the albums are very different stylistically, Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith's mix of avant-garde and groove sounds seems like a logical next step to Rip, Rig and Panic's solid hard bop. Either of these albums would be great acquisitions on their own; getting them together is pure gravy.
   Allmusic.com

   Artist: Solomon Burke
   Album: Live at North Sea Jazz Festival
   Year: 2003
   Format Bitrate: DVD-rip | AVI/XVID, 2612Kbps, 720 x 540 |
   Audio: Mp3, 320 kbps
   Size: 1.58 Gb

   This may have been billed as a Jazz festival, but the dish served up by Solomon is one of pure Soul. The concert footage was taken in 2003 which has both its advantages and its drawbacks. On the positive side it means that we are treated to numbers from his excellent "Don't Give Up On Me" album which was released last year, on the negative side it means we are not seeing Solomon at his youthful best. Always a big man, Solomon looks portlier and less mobile than ever, and needed some help to reach his 'throne' on stage. The "King of Rock and Soul" delivers the bulk of the concert from this sitting position, so anybody expecting slick choreography would be sorely disappointed. The man can barely walk let alone dance. Despite a rather splendid red costume on his main trumpeter along with some energetic instrumental solos Solomon's immobility means the show is visually weak. Thankfully, as the rest of his body capitulates to the ravages of time Solomon's vocal chords sound still as fresh as they would have done twenty years ago and his delivery is nothing short of excellent.

     Album - Swedish Schnapps +
     Artist - Charlie Parker
     Label - Verve
     Years - 1949, 1951; release - 1991
     Quality - MP3@320kb/s
     Size - 115 mb
     Total time - 52:17

Charlie Parker Is one of a handful of musicians who can be said to have permanently changed jazz, Charlie Parker was arguably the greatest saxophonist of all time. It is an extraordinary Record!
     Биографии: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis,John Lewis

A late 50s album that issues some killer combo material by Bird! One half of the album features work by a group that includes Red Rodney, John Lewis, Ray Brown, and Kenny Clarke and the other features Parker with Miles Davis, Walter Bishop Jr, Max Roach, and Teddy Kotick. Tracks are short, and include some classics and the album includes alternate takes of 4 numbers. Titles include "Si Si", "Swedish Schnapps", "Back Home Blues", "Lover Man", "Au Privave", "She Rote", and "Star Eyes". (80s Japanese pressing, with the obi & insert. Cover has a cutout notch.) © 1996-2009, Dusty Groove America, Inc.

     Artist: Booker T. Laury
     Album: Nothin´but The Blues
     Label:Bullseye Blues BEYE9542
     Year: , release 1994
     Genre: Memphis Blues, Boogie-Woogie
     Format, bitrate: MP3@256/kbps
     Time: 49:40
     Size:104,49 MB
  
     Booker T. Laury was born in Memphis in 1914, and was a monster of a piano player. His style at times recalls Memphis Slim--this isn't surprising, since they were lifelong friends. Slim left Memphis and urged Booker to do the same, but Booker chose to stay and work the juke joints along Beale Street, something he does to this day. Now in his eighties, this is his U.S. recording debut. All of Booker's songs are in the classic barrelhouse tradition. Sadly Booker passed away in 1995 after this was published...

     Artist: Horace Silver
     Album: The Stylings of Silver
     Label: Blue Note BST 81562
     Year: 1957
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s (LP Rip)
                        + CD Rip (MP3@320 & Flac)
     Playing time: 38.7 mins
     Size: 87.2 Mb (Cover included)
                        + 92 MB & 311 MB (+scans)

REPOST with new links for CD Rip from Mr. hungaropitecus

     The 1957 Horace Silver Quintet (featuring trumpeter Art Farmer and tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley) is in top form on this date, particularly on "My One and Only Love" and their famous version of "Home Cookin'." All of Silver's Blue Note quintet recordings are consistently superb and swinging and, although not essential, this is a very enjoyable set. --Review by Scott Yanow, AMG.

     Artist: John Coltrane
     Album: Settin' The Pace
     Label: Original Jazz Classics
     Year: 1958 (release 1991)
     Format, bitrate: Flac
     Time: 0.40:47
     Size: 290 MB

     Биография John Coltrane

REPOST with a new link for Fantasy XRCD2 edition in lossless from Mr. hungaropitecus

     Этот альбом не занимает первые места в рейтингах и не входит ни в какие списки. Но я люблю его слушать. Он какой-то... просто красивый. Или всё дело в том, что у Колтрейна не было плохих дисков?

     Artist: Roy Haynes
     Album: Out of the Afternoon
     Label: Impulse
     Quality: FLAC & MP3@320
     Size: 249 MB & 84 MB
     Time: 37:41


     This splendid-sounding CD reissues a 1962 set from the Roy Haynes Quartet -- which, at the time, consisted of Haynes, Henry Grimes on bass, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Roland Kirk on saxes, manzello, stritch, and flutes. The album is a delightful mix of techniques in arrangement and performance, with all of the musicians delivering terrific work -- Haynes' drumming is absolutely wonderful here, lightly dancing around the other instruments, Flanagan's piano playing is equally light and delicate, Grimes' bass work is outstanding (during "Raoul" you have a chance to hear one of the few bowed bass solos on records of that era), and there's not much that can be said about Kirk's sax and flute work that hasn't already been said a hundred times, apart from the fact that the flute solos on "Snap Crackle" help this cut emerge as particularly outstanding.

   Artist: Joe Bonner
   Album: Impressions of Copenhagen
   Label: Evidence
   Year: 1981
   Release 1993
   Format Mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s
   Time: 43:54
   Size: 101 Mb
   



   Originally released by Theresa and reissued on CD by Evidence in 1992, this frequently exquisite set features the McCoy Tyner-inspired piano of Joe Bonner on four originals, Cal Massey's "Quiet Dawn," and (released for the first time on the CD) "Lush Life." Bonner and a rhythm section are joined by a string quartet, trumpet, trombone, and flutist Holly Hofmann (the leader provided the arrangements) for music that is both lyrical and often passionate. Bonner is an underrated talent, and this is one of his finest recordings.
   Scott Yanow, AMG

   Artist: Marco Benevento
   Album: Invisible Baby
   Label: Hyena
   Year: 2008
   Format Mp3, bitrate: 224 kb/s vbr
   Time: 42:04
   Size: 61,3 Mb
   

   Invisible Baby is easily the most out-there thing Marco Benevento has ever released, and it's also the most accessible. Benevento and his piano, Mellotron, "circuit bent toys," and mountain of other keyboards in various states of disrepair blasted through Leslie speakers and a big humming amp are accompanied by Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and Tea Leaf Green) and drummers Andrew Barr (from the Slip) and Matt Chamberlain (a session ace who's played with everyone from David Bowie and Morrissey to Tori Amos and David Torn). There are eight cuts here, all of them songs in the most proper sense of the word, completely drenched in sonic wackery, psychedelic spaciness, harmonic largesse, stretched rhythmic and dynamic play, and all manner of colors and textures. Is it jazz? It depends on what your definition of that is these days. It doesn't sound like anything else out there, and has more in common with people like Kenny Werner and Charlie Hunter, the Bad Plus, and E.S.T. than the standard jazz piano trio. In fact, this resembles the latter not even a bit. There are post-rockist elements at work here in the slowed tempos with somewhat studied pulses as well as volume excess in places, but that's not even the beginning of the story. There are elements of classical wonkery at play: the Bartókian repetition in "If You Keep Asking Me," where the acoustic piano's middle and lower registers are enveloped in a kind of intervallic puzzle before they come sliding out toward the end with an entirely new melodic structure, is an example. There are gonzo electronic effects that feel more like analog than digital (even if they are) and are glitchy, dirty, sloppy, and greasy, interlocking with an expansive knowledge and studied practice of the standards book (if only for the purpose of violation), as on "Ruby."