Artist: Coleman Hawkins Quartet
     Album: Today and Now
     Label: Impulse
     Release 1996
     Recording 1962
     Size: 99,2 MB
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Total time: 39'47''

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     A very nice digital reissue of a very congenial and nicely played Coleman Hawkins Quartet release. Not always the most compelling title from the Hawkins catalog, the record at least has the virtue of both being listenable and worthy of somewhat deeper inspection. ~ Steven McDonald , AMG

     Artists: Carlos Santana & Alice Coltrane
     Album: Illuminations
     Label: Sony/Columbia
     Year: 1974, release: 1998
     Format: MP3, bitrate: 320 kbit/s
     Size: 80.5 mb

     For his third duet album, Carlos Santana performed the works of John Coltrane, paired with Coltrane's widow, harpist/keyboardist Alice Coltrane, on this instrumental album. Side One includes several contemplative, string-filled numbers, while Side Two presents Santana's re-creation of John Coltrane's late free jazz style in "Angel of Sunlight." Columbia Records could not have been pleased at Santana's determined drift into esoteric jazz: Illuminations was the first of the nine Santana-related albums so far released in the U.S. not to go gold. ~ William Ruhlmann, AMG

     Artist: Jeff Healey
     Album: Mess of Blues
     Label: Ruf
     Year: 2008
     Genre: Blues-Rock/Modern Electric Blues/Rock-n-Roll
     Format: MP3, Bitrate: 320 kbps
     Size: 113 MB
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     Последний альбом гениального блюзового и джазового гитариста, который вышел в свет уже после его смерти...

     Artist - Eddie Condon All Stars
     Album - Jam Session Coast to Coast
     Label - Columbia/Philips
     Year - 1953
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 103 mb
     Total time - 48:09
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     Eddie Condon and his band including Wild Bill Davison (cornet), Cutty Cutshall (trombone), Edmond Hall (clarinet), Gene Schroeder (piano), Walter Page (bass), Dick Cary (trumpet), Lou McGarrity (trombone), Peanuts Hucko (clarinet), Cliff Leeman (drums), and George Wettling (drums) for the extended "Jam Session Blues" cut four tracks for this LP (which they shared with the Rampart Street Paraders). The four Condon numbers are extraordinary pieces, capturing a working band that played nightly at Condon's during their peak, and though they're in the studio they might as well have been playing live for all of the spirit and verve captured on these sides. "Beale Street Blues" is so spot-on perfect from its opening note that it sounds like it has to be cut into as part of a larger jam, which it was not; this band was simply so tight and swinging that they created the illusion. The band also turns to some beautiful balladry on "Emaline," which features a choice solo by trombonist Cutshall, before sliding into "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" featuring Davison and Hall. If there's a real highlight on this album, however, then it's the ten-minute-plus "Jam Session Blues"/"Ole Miss," which features solos by the entire band, jamming in a laid-back fashion to the opening blues before switching gears to the more quick-tempo W.C. Handy-authored second half.

     Artist - Oscar Peterson
     Album - Night Child
     Producer - Norman Granz
     Orig Year: 1979
     Street Date: Nov 02, 1999
     Label: OJC
     Quality: MP3@320kbit/s
     Size: 98,8 MB
     Time: 42:54

     Довольно необычный альбом в творчестве Оскара, здесь он играет на electric piano, что придает определенную направленность звучанию. Не берусь судить - плохо это или хорошо, поддерживаю общепринятое мнение, что "у Питерсона нет плохих альбомов и Питерсона не бывает много", на том и остановимся. Отмечу классный состав квартета + Norman Granz, и их мастерство.

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