Artist: Various Artists
   Album: Ultimate Jazz Archive
   Label: Membran Music Ltd.
   Year: 1899 - 1956
   Release: 2005
   Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
   Size: 22.6 Gb

   Обратил внимание, что в нашем клубе была попытка разместить часть альбомов из грандиозного проекта, охватывающего историю джаза с 1899 по 1956 год. Мне выпала возможность предоставить эту коллекцию из 168 CD в полном объёме.

   The archive contains of 3179 tracks from 1899 until 1956 on 168 CDs and 2 books with 180 pages of artist biographies each. High-End mastered at 24-bit and 96 kHz.
   The Archive is split into 42 Sets x 4xCD. Each CD is untitled and dedicated to one musician, who mostly appears in different collaborations.

     Artist: Bob Crosby`s Bobcats
     Album: Bob Crosby's Bobcats in Hi Fi
     Label: Coral CRL 57170
     Year: 1957
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 35:46
     Size: 84 Mb



     The Bobcats, small unit out of the Bob Crosby band, came into being shortly after the band was assembled from remnants of the Ben Pollack organization in 1934. Bobcat soundings first reached wax in 1937, and were well received. The group`s instrumentation paralleled the order established by early New Orleans bands with minor modifications. The front line - trumpet, trombone and clarinet - had a tenor added, and for these recordings, another trumpet. The climate developed was and still is well within the traditional idiom, harking back to New Orleans for basic interpretation and repertoire, i.e. marches, old-time blues, etc.

    Artist: Buddy Guy
    Album: Buddy Guy And Friends
    Label: Pulse Records
    Release: 1996
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 256 kb/s
    Time: 2:33:47
    Size: 294 Mb (cover)

   This album highlights the bare essentials of Buddy's music which make it the most powerful electric blues around. The live tone to this collection gives the one and only 'blues feeling' which make this genre of music what it is. Buddy's playing is as always, electrifying. Its powerful, hard-hitting but also very melodic and enchanting at the same time. His singing is of a similar description, and never fails to take you in. Highlights on this album for me are 'Dollar done fell', 'Ice Around My Heart' and 'I didn't know my Mama had a Son like Me'. Well worth having if an electric blues fan, a must for the Buddy Guy fan.
   Cristiano Connell, Amazon.com

   Artist: Frank Sinatra
   Album: Point Of No Return
   Label: Capitol
   Year: 1961
   Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 Kbps
   Time: 51:24
   Size: 99,3 MB

   At the time he recorded his final Capitol album, Point of No Return, Frank Sinatra was no longer interested in giving his record label first-rate material, preferring to save that for his new label, Reprise. However, someone persuaded the singer to make the album a special occasion by reuniting with Axel Stordahl, the arranger/conductor who helped Sinatra rise to stardom in the '40s; he also arranged the vocalist's first Capitol session, so his presence gave a nice sense of closure to the Capitol era. Even though the Voice gave a more heartfelt, dedicated performance than expected, the project was rushed along, necessitating the use of a ghost-arranger, Heine Beau, for several tracks. Point of No Return remains a touching farewell, consisting of moving renditions of standards like "September Song," "There Will Never Be Another You," "I'll Remember April," and "These Foolish Things," with only three charts being replications of their previous work ("I'll Be Seeing You," "September Song," "These Foolish Things"). Sinatra would never sing these standards with such detailed, ornate orchestrations, and, as such, the album has a feeling of an elegy.

   Artists - Joe Venuti & George Barnes
   Album - Live At The Concord Summer Festival
   Label - Concord Jazz
   Year - 1976, release - 1977
   Quality - MP3@320 kbps
   Size - 95,8 mb
   Total time - 43:53
   AMG rating



   Violinist Joe Venuti and guitarist George Barnes (joined by pianist Ross Tompkins, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Jake Hanna) make for a very complementary team on this live session. Tompkins is featured on "Too Close for Comfort," Barnes is showcased on "I Can't Get Started," the ensemble romps on "Sweet Georgia Brown" and the full group plays a lengthy five-song Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn medley. Few surprises occur but there are enough fireworks to justify this album's acquisition, even by those who already own 20 Joe Venuti albums.

   Artist: Manu Dibango
   Album: Afrovision
   Label: Island
   Year: 1978
   Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320kbps
   Time: 33:12
   Size: 76 MB




   Manu Dibango (born 12 December 1933 in Douala, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian saxophonist and vibraphone player. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk and traditional Cameroonian music. He is a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala. He is best remembered for his afrobeat single "Soul Makossa", often considered the first disco record.

    Artist: Buddy Guy
    Album: Southern Blues 1957-63
    Label: Paula Records
    Year: 1957 - 1963
    Release: 1994
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 192 kb/s
    Time: 34:36
    Size: 47,9 Mb

   Kind of a thrown-together hodgepodge, but still a worthwhile add to your CD collection. Guy's four indispensable 1958 sides for Cobra are here (along with alternates of "This Is the End" and the Guitar Slim-influenced "You Sure Can't Do"), while Guy provides crackling lead guitar on four 1963 outings by singer Jesse Fortune (notably the minor-key rhumba "Too Many Cooks"). Finally, there are two demos that Guy cut at a Baton Rouge radio station back in 1957 — or they're supposed to be here, anyway: the crudely engaging "The Way You Been Treatin' Me" is definitely Buddy Guy, but "I Hope You Come Back Home" isn't (no guesses from this corner on exactly who it may be, either).
   - Bill Dahl, AMG

   Artist: Santana
   Album: Supernatural
   Label: Arista
   Year: 1999
   Release: 2009
   Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
   Time: 69:04
   Size: 159MB


   Santana was still a respected rock veteran in 1999, but it had been years since he had a hit, even if he continued to fare well on the concert circuits. Clive Davis, the man who had signed Santana to Columbia in 1968, offered him the opportunity to set up shop at his label, Arista. In the tradition of comebacks and label debuts by veteran artists in the '90s, Supernatural, Santana's first effort for Arista, is designed as a star-studded event. At first listen, there doesn't seem to be a track that doesn't have a guest star, which brings up the primary problem with the album -- despite several interesting or excellent moments, it never develops a consistent voice that holds the album together. The fault doesn't lay with the guest stars or even with Santana, who continues to turn in fine performances. There's just a general directionless feeling to the record, enhanced by several songs that seem like excuses for jams, which, truth be told, isn't all that foreign on latter-day Santana records. Then again, the grooves often play better than the ploys for radio play, but that's not always the case, since Lauryn Hill's "Do You Like the Way" and the Dust Brothers-produced, Eagle-Eye Cherry-sung "Wishing It Was" are as captivating as the Eric Clapton duet, "The Calling." But that just confirms that Supernatural just doesn't have much of a direction, flipping between traditional Santana numbers and polished contemporary collaborations, with both extremes being equally likely to hit or miss. That doesn't quite constitute a triumph, but the peak moments of Supernatural are some of Santana's best music of the '90s, which does make it a successful comeback.
   

    Artist: Oscar Peterson Trio
    Album: Live 1989
    Studio: 3sat
    Year: 1989
    Format, bitrate: avi, 1411 kb/s
    Time: 27:43
    Size: 465 Mb

          EVERY DAY IS AN OSCAR PETERSON DAY!

   From the "All That Jazz" series broadcasted by the German TV 3sat channel, we have this exciting Oscar Peterson Trio short but very rewarding concert (it is only 27 minutes long). It seams that the concert took place in 1989 at Stadthalle in Leonberg, Germany. Oscar is enjoying himself very much during his playing and being in good mood he hums along his beautiful and entertaining piano interpretation. Recommended to all jazz fans.

     Artist: Roy Buchanan
     Album: Loading Zone
     Label: Sony BMG
     Release: 1977
     Format, bitrate: 320 kbps
     Size: 98,3 mb
     Total time: 40:35


     Loading Zone, Buchanan's second solo album for Atlantic, is produced by Stanley Clarke, a built-in guarantee for jazz-rock legitimacy. More importantly, Clarke's rep as the killer bass player of the decade has had a positive, prodding effect on Buchanan's playing. He shifts into overdrive on the first track, a fiery and propulsive Clarke composition entitled "The Heat of the Battle," and never looks back for the whole album. He has always been the master of the Fender Telecaster squeal, but on some of these tracks his frenzied excursions into overtones, harmonics and tight clusters of notes played largely in the upper register of the instrument move beyond traditional lead-guitar histrionics. One gets an acute physical sense of Buchanan literally shredding his way through the blues-rock clichйs to get to a higher, abstract plane. Sometimes he tries too hard—even the majestic exchange with Steve Cropper on the supersonic remake of "Green Onions" threatens to run on too long. But, like Beck, he is trying to take lead guitar into another dimension and his sparkling work on tunes like "Judy," "Hidden" and the tongue-in-cheek "Adventures of Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby" (featuring Clarke on "country-sprung" bass) augurs well for his continuing development.