Artists: Raivo Tafenau band & Neda Malunaviciute
     Album: The Snow Queen
     Country: Estonia & Lithuania
     Label: Unsigned (c) Vytas Matrosovas & Raivo Tafenau
     Year: 2004; Release: VMCD-001 hardcover eco-pack
     Genre: Jazz / Modern Jazz / Fusion
     Format, bitrate: MP3 / 320 Kbps
     Time: 50:07
     Size: 96 MB

     Bright, airy music. Neda's vocals - instrument in its own rights - accompanied with Tafenau's discreet but passionate saxophone stick out from the textures without breaking the main frame of the music. Floating, discovering, experiencing. Very well played and percepted music.

     Raivo Tafenau - one of the best sax players in Estonia has built up his reputation in Estonia, Finland and also Russia. He is a very accomplished saxophonist who has his own popular quintet recently featuring the wonderful vocals of Sergio Bastos from Brazil and Neda from Lithuania.

     Artist: Diane Schuur
     Title: Live From Seattle
     Original Release: 2006; Release Date: 06/16/2009
     Size: 90 Mb
     Label: PARADISE
     Quality: MP3/VBR

     This DVD features Diane Schuur performing 15 tunes with Big Bop Nouveau (including fan favorite Carl Fischer). The final two songs (Just Friends and It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing) are performed with Maynard. It's a delight to hear Diane and Maynard trade riffs, with Diane occasionally mimicking Maynard's exuberant sound. Diane Schuur comments, 'I had a blast working with Maynard and his power packed band. The crowd was in their element and it was so much fun sailing vocally above the brass...'
     In this Seattle concert, the inimitable jazz singer and pianist Diane Schuur performs over a dozen songs with Big Bop Nouveau and shares two magical, dynamic numbers with Maynard Ferguson.

     Artist - Dizzy Gilespie
     Album - At Newport 1957
     Label - Verve
     Year - 1957, release - 1995
     Quality - MP3/320kb/s
     Size - 162 mb
     Total time - 72:20
     AMG Rating:


This CD features Dizzy Gillespie's second great big band at the peak of its powers. On the rapid "Dizzy's Blues" and a truly blazing "Cool Breeze," the orchestra really roars; the latter performance features extraordinary solos by Gillespie, trombonist Al Grey, and tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell. In addition to fine renditions of "Manteca" and Benny Golson's then-recent composition "I Remember Clifford," the humorous "Doodlin'" is given a definitive treatment, there is a fresh version of "A Night in Tunisia," and pianist Mary Lou Williams sits in for a lengthy medley of selections from her "Zodiac Suite." This brilliant CD captures one of the high points of Dizzy Gillespie's remarkable career and is highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Автор: Харуки Мураками
     Книга: Джазовые портреты
     Формат: DJVU; PDF
     Размер: 3,69 MB (DJVU); 29 MB (PDF)




     Один из самых популярных писателей мира Харуки Мураками, помимо своих романов и рассказов, известен и коллекцией из 40 000 джазовых пластинок. В книгу "Джазовые портреты" вошли эссе о 55 исполнителях и виниловых дисках из его собрания. Этот сборник лирических миниатюр, проникнутых тонким пониманием музыки, подаренной миру ХХ веком, - незаменимое чтение для всех, кто любит джаз, и тех, кому только предстоит узнать его лучше.
     Русское издание включает в себя оба тома "Джазовых портретов" с оригинальными иллюстрациями Макото Вада.

     Artists: Edgar Winter's White Trash
     Album: Roadwork (Live)
     Label: Epic
     Year: 1972
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 Kbps
     Time: 66:18
     Size: 133 MB
     AMG Rating:

     The live follow-up to 1971's Edgar Winter's White Trash finds the group running through a handful of the tunes from their debut album, as well as rocking things up a bit with "Still Alive and Well" (a track later recorded by Edgar's brother Johnny) and "Back in the U.S.A." One of the most immortal lines for any live rock album has to be "People keep askin' me -- where's your brother?" The introduction of guest artist Johnny Winter by his brother Edgar sets the stage for a rousing rendition of Rick Derringer's "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo." The extended version of blues classic "Tobacco Road" is one of the finest moments on this album, which is itself a classic. ~ Michael B. Smith, All Music Guide

     Artist: Edgar Winter
     Album: Edgar Winter's White Trash
     Label: Epic
     Year: 1971
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 Kbps
     Time: 43:49
     Size: 88,4 MB
     AMG Rating:

     Perhaps one of his best-loved albums, Edgar Winter's White Trash combined funk, blues, R&B, and rock & roll to create one of the freshest sounds of the early '70s. Touching on gospel with "Fly Away" and "Save the Planet," Winter and his band cover all the bases, climbing into the lower end of the Top 40 with "Keep Playin' That Rock and Roll." Winter's hauntingly beautiful "Dying to Live," featuring some of his best piano work, serves as a valid anti-war statement, written at the height of the Vietnam era, and the remainder of the record is filled with genuine rock & roll/boogie-woogie/blues that will keep your head bobbing and your toes tapping. ~ Michael B. Smith AMG

     Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
     Album: Colecao Folha: Classicos Do Jazz Vol. 6
     Release date: 18 December 2007
     Label: Folha de Sгo Paulo
     Quality: MP3/VBR
     Time: 0.46:43
     Size: 79.59 Mb



     Sexto volume da "Colecao Folha Classicos do Jazz", esse livro-CD traz grandes clбssicos e conta a trajetуria de Ella Fitzgerald, a mais popular cantora do jazz e uma das melhores, ao lado de Billie Holiday e Sarah Vaughan. Conhecida como "a primeira dama da cancao", improvisava sobre temas dos Beatles, Stevie Wonder e dos musicais da Broadway, com grande alcance vocal e espantosa habilidade para o scat (canto sem palavras).

     Artist: Joe Diorio
     Album: Italy
     Year: 1989, Release Year: 1994
     Label: Inak Diver
     Format: Flac
     Time: 29 min
     Size: 87 MB

     Review:
     All of us jazz guitarists that adore the harmonized melodies of Joe Pass , Martin Taylor and other great jazz guitarists should have this cd !!!
     Joe Diorio plays a solo guitar album but there's a second chanell were he comps himself. His solos are very interesting concerning intervals and sentences and the harmony is somtimes really interesting (subtitutes).
     Very much recommended !!!
     L5 :-)

     Artist: Tuck Andress
     Album: Reckless Precision
     Label: Windham Hill Jazz
     Year: 1990
     Bitrate: mp3@320 kbps
     Size: 113 MB
     Time: 50 min

     Fingerpicking guitar virtuoso Tuck Andress tackles an eclectic bag of covers on RECKLESS PRECISION, an album recorded with "no overdubbing, punching in or fixing of mistakes." Considering Andress's prodigious chops, that's easy to believe.
     Superb playing easily recommended :-)

     Artist: Cal Tjader
     Album: Along Comes Cal
     Label: Verve
     Year: 1967
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kb/s (Vinyl Rip)
     Size: 81 MB



     Another killer session from Cal Tjader. There are two stand-out classics on this album. The first is the live recording of "Los Bandidos" which is awesome and a reworking of "Samba Do Sueсho" from the classic "Bamboleate" album with Eddie Palmieri. This version of "Samba Do Sueсho" is more uptempo with an incredibly tight and slamming rhythm section. It also has a fantastic piano solo by Al Zulacia. This version just keeps getting better and better so grab it because it's hot!

Due to the popularity of 'Samba do Suenho', this was a very sought after album by 'rare groove' DJs in the 1990s. But all tracks are great here. It's surely one of the most consistent sessions Tjader did for Verve and it's one of his purest latin jazz sessions of the '60s, too.

     Artist: Carmen McRae
     Album: Book of Ballads
     Label: Kapp
     Year: 1958
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kbp/s
     Time: 42:56
     Size: 102MB



     The Book of Ballads in question is the Great American Songbook, and Carmen McRae breathes new life into some of its most dog-eared pages on this wonderful session that heralded the close of her Kapp Records tenure. McRae tackles material like "When I Fall in Love," "Isn't It Romantic?" and "How Long Has This Been Going On?" with uncommon care and intelligence, summoning rich new meaning from the familiar lyrics. In her hands, the songs pulse with energy and life. Arranger Frank Hunter and a supporting trio led by pianist Don Abney also merit commendation for nuanced, evocative backings that afford McRae the necessary space to do her thing. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

      Artist: Yusef Lateef
      Album: Live at Pep's vol. 2
      Label: Impulse!
      Year: 1964
      Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
      Time: 0.58:39
      Size: 135 MB
      AMG Rating:

      Вторая часть легендарного концерта...

      Artist: Yusef Lateef
      Album: Live at Pep's
      Label: Impulse!
      Year: 1964
      Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbit/s
      Time: 1.00:53
      Size: 140 MB
      AMG Rating:

      Послушайте одно из лучших "живых" выступлений артиста в Pep's музыкальном баре в Филадельфии.

    Artist: Johnny Winter
    Album: Johnny Winter And
    Label: DCC
    Release: 1970
    Style: blues-rock
    Format, bitrate: Mp3 320 kb/s
    Time: 41:37
    Size: 98,1 Mb (covers)
    AMG Rating:

            WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
                    DAY THREE

After two late-'60s albums on Columbia, Johnny Winter hit his stride in 1970 working with Rick Derringer and the McCoys, now recruited as his sidemen and collaborators (and proving with just about every note here how far they'd gotten past "Hang on Sloopy"). In place of the bluesy focus on his first two albums, Winter extended himself into more of a rock-oriented mode here, in both his singing and his selection of material...

    Artist: Johnny Winter
    Album: The Progressive Blues Experiment
    Label: Capitol
    Year: 1967
    Release: 1969
    Style: blues-rock
    Format, bitrate: Mp3 256 kb/s
    Time: 43:11
    Size: 57,2 Mb (cover)
    AMG rating:

            WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
                    DAY THREE
Although his early Columbia albums brought him worldwide stardom, it was this modest little album (first released on Imperial before the Columbia sides) that first brought Johnny Winter to the attention of guitarheads in America. It's also Winter at the beginning of a long career, playing the blues as if his life depends on it, without applying a glimmer of rock commercialism...

    Artist: Johnny Winter
    Album: Second Winter [Legacy Edition 2cd]
    Label: Legacy Records
    Year: 1969
    Release: 2004
    Style: blues-rock
    Format, bitrate:
    Time: 2:07:15
    Size: 248 Mb
    AMG Rating:

            WOODSTOCK - 40 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
                    DAY THREE

Second Winter, Johnny Winter's second album for Columbia, originally had the distinction of being the only album in rock history that was a three-sided double LP. Musically, 35 years after its original release, Second Winter is still an oddity. Issued by Sony's Legacy division, the set has been painstakingly remastered, and expanded by bonus cuts and an entire disc of live material...