Artist: Oscar Peterson
    Album: Oscar Peterson’s Easter Suite for Jazz Trio (complete)
    Studio: MEZZO Broadcast (TDK)
    Year: 1984
    Release: 2004
    Format, bitrate: mpg, 256 kbps
    Time: 48:39
    Size: 1:10 Gb

          EVERY DAY IS AN OSCAR PETERSON DAY !

   • The "Easter Suite" has remained one of the least known compositions by Oscar Peterson, even though virtually all sources mention it as one of his major works. It was commissioned by the South Bank Show, London Weekend Television's flagship arts programme, and broadcast nation-wide on Good Friday, April 24th, 1984. Its eight movements follow the events related in the gospel story. This recording of the world premiere performance also features an interview with Peterson, explaining how he went about composing the suite, his initial skepticism about interpreting such a topic in the medium of jazz and his relation to spiritual music. He also describes in detail the various motifs of the work. If the passion and resurrection seem surprising as topics for a longer jazz work, Oscar Peterson with his "Easter Suite" appears in a long line of other jazz greats, who at least in their later works created religiously inspired works.
   - Liner notes

     Artist: Kenny Drew
     Album: Nature Beauty
     Label: Key'Stone Music Inc. / Imagica Media Inc., Japan
     Years: 1978 - 1980, release 1996
     Format/Bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
     Time: 54:07
     Size: 122 MB





     Представляю ещё одну компиляцию известных джазовых хитов в исполнении замечательного трио...

    Artist - Nat King Cole
    Album - Trio Transcriptions Vol.1 1938
    Label - Naxos Jazz Legends
    Style - Jazz, swing, vocal jazz
    Year - 1938, release - 2000
    Quality - MP3@320 kbps
    Size - 83,4 mb
    Total time - 52:07


    This disc features the 21 year old Nat King Cole who was already a recording veteran of some 2 years. Here Cole performs with his recently formed classic trio made up of himself on piano, Oscar Moore on guitar and Wesley Prince on bass. The leader is the solo vocalist although the vast majority of the singing is by the trio en masse. The vocals, generally are in unison and go from the theme to rehearsed scat choruses which sometimes are harmonised.
    The material on this recording runs from standards through alternative versions of classics and folk melodies to outright comedy triunes, often with a nursery rhyme basis. To anyone who is only familiar with Cole's later, commercial style this will seem very strange fare indeed. >>>

      Artist: Joe Henderson
      Album: Our Thing
      Year: 1963
      Label: Blue Note [RVG]
      Format: MP3 @320kbps
      Size: 116 mb (RS.com, w/ 5% Winrar file recovery)
      Includes Covers + Scans
      AMG Rating: 4½ stars

      Joe Henderson and Kenny Dorham formed a remarkable partnership on several early 1960s Blue Note records, the younger tenor saxophonist's ruggedly bristling, twisting lines finding an effective foil in the veteran trumpeter's keening sound and pointed economy. Our Thing, from 1963, followed Henderson's Page One and Dorham's Una Mas in the series, and the closeness shows in the aplomb with which they navigate each other's challenging tunes. Henderson was already developing an "inside- outside" approach, moving in and out of chord changes with broad freedom, adding split-tones to his phrases with telling effect on his own "Teeter Totter" and on Dorham's beautiful "Escapade." He gets added stimulus from Andrew Hill, a highly original pianist who's making his recording debut here. Whether he's soloing or comping, Hill has a knack for abstracting the contours of a piece, adding close-voiced chords and sudden flashes of melody to point in other directions. Dorham's "Pedro's Time" is a long blues with a Latin feel that recalls his "Una Mas" or "Blue Bossa," and it highlights the fine playing of bassist Eddie Kahn and drummer Pete La Roca. - Amazon.com

    Artist: Dave Brubeck
    Album: Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective (4cd box set)
    Label: Columbia/Legacy
    Year: 1946 - 1991
    Release: 1992
    Format, bitrate: mp3, 256 kb/s
    Time: 1:09:15 + 1:06:09 + 1:07:38 + 1:11:24
    Size: 361 Mb (full covers)
    AMG Rating:

            ESPECIALLY FOR MR. LEX

   This four-CD boxed set does a near-perfect job of summing up Dave Brubeck's extensive recorded legacy. . . .