Artist: Sophie Milman
     Album: Live In Montreal
     Year : November 11, 2008
     Label: E1 Entertainment Distribution
     Bitrate: VBR kbit/s
     Total Size: 55,89 mb



After topping the jazz charts with her latest release Make Someone Happy , Sophie Milman has toured the world, playing night after night of sold-out performances to her adoring fans from Tokyo to New York. The sultry, smooth vocals of this young, beautiful, Russian born Israeli have characterized her concert performances bringing fans to their feet time and time again. For the first time on DVD, Sophie Milman Live in Montreal captures 2008 Juno Award winner Sophie Milman at her best, delivering a knock-out performance at the place that started it all, the world renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival. Performing songs from her chart topping album Make Someone Happy including Stevie Wonder s hit Rocket Love , The Guess Who s Undun , as well as favorites like Ochi Chornye and People Will Say We re In Love , this CD is a must have for jazz fans everywhere.

     Artists: Wilbur Harden and John Coltrane
     Album:Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene
     Label:Savoy Jazz
     Year: 1958, release: 1994
     Format, bitrate:mp3; 320kb/s
     Size:85 Mb



Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene is a 1958 album by jazz musician Wilbur Harden and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. This outstanding release features the complete collection of recordings made by Coltrane with the trumpeter & fluegelhornist Harden, an intriguing figure in the history of jazz music, whose health forced him to retire at the age of 35. The album also features some of the greatest jazz artists of the period -Tommy Flanagan, Curtis Fuller, Louis Hayes & Art Taylor. It is a record which leaves no doubt that Coltrane was an innovator of colossal dimensions. Highlights of the album include the loping 'Wells Fargo,' the exotic 'E.F.F.P.H.,' & the strutting 'Anedac'.

     Artists - Mel Powell, Joe Sullivan & Mary Lou Williams
     Album - Two Cats & A Mouse
     Years: 1944 - 1948, release - 1999
     Label - Disconforme
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 150 mb
     Total time - 71:30


Rare and little-known recordings by 'cats' Mel Powell and Joe Sullivan for Capitol label in 1944-1948, plus gems by the 'mouse' Mary Lou Williams recorded in 1944 and 1946.

In jazz lingo, if "cat" defines a pal or partner, "mouse" refers to young desirable woman. This CD gathers some obscure recordings by three pianists - two cats and a mouse - who became important figures in jazz history.

Artist: Alex Sipiagin
Album: Returning
Label: Criss Cross
Year: 2005
Genre: jazz, post-bop
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
Time: 55 min, 43 sec
Size: 130 mb.

Предлагаю Вашему вниманию ещё один альбом американского трубача русского происхождения, участника биг-бенда имени Чарльза Мингуса, биг-бенда Дейва Холланда - Алекса "Саши" Сипягина.

What is becoming a strong series of releases from Criss Cross, Returning marks Alex Sipiagin's fifth album on the label. Recorded in October, 2004, Sipiagin (or "Sasha" as his family and close friends are allowed to call him) continues to tap into his circle of like-minded musical peers, this time rounding up Adam Rogers, Scott Colley, Antonio Sanchez and Seamus Blake. The members have all forged a strong relationship, both as musicians and as friends, through various circumstances, notably with Michael Brecker's recent Quindectet album and subsequent tours, of which Sipiagin, Rogers and Sanchez were members for both the quindectet and the smaller sextet groups.
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     Artist: Earth Wind & Fire
     Album: Collection (29 albums)
     Label: Sony Music
     Format, bitrate: mp3, VBR 192-320 kbps
     Time: 01:03:04:35
     Size: 3,39 Gb.



      During the 1970s, a new brand of pop music was born - one that was steeped in African and African-American styles - particularly jazz and R&B but appealed to a broader cross-section of the listening public. As founder and leader of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, Maurice White not only embraced but also helped bring about this evolution of pop, which bridged the gap that has often separated the musical tastes of black and white America. It certainly was successful, as EWF combined high-caliber musicianship, wide-ranging musical genre eclecticism, and '70s multicultural spiritualism. "I wanted to do something that hadn't been done before," Maurice explains. "Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and dance music...which somehow ended up becoming pop. We were coming out of a decade of experimentation, mind expansion and cosmic awareness. I wanted our music to convey messages of universal love and harmony without force-feeding listeners' spiritual content."

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     Artist: Johnny Hodges
     Album: Alto Blue
     Label: Verve
     Release Date: 1954 -1958 09 10
     Format: Mp3 bitrate 256 kbps
     Time: 35:24
     Size: 60.8 MB




     This long out-of-print Verve LP has some rare performances taken from altoist Johnny Hodges' recordings for the label. There is a long excerpt from "Jam Blues" and five complete blues-oriented selections, which also feature trumpeter Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster on tenor and either Vic Dickenson or Lawrence Brown on trombone. Some of the music has since resurfaced on the CD Not So Dukish, but most of the rest unfortunately remains unavailable. This LP is therefore worth picking up by those listeners lucky enough to run across it. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Artist: Steve Kuhn
    Album: Steve Kuhn
    Label: Buddah Records
    Release: 1971
    Style: Post-Bop
    Format mp3, bitrate: 256 kb/s vbr (vinyl rip)
    Time: 31:28
    Size: 50,6 Mb

A surprisingly short and inconsistent issue the "Steve Khun" album is more an experiment than a true project. Backed up by an unknown string quartet and by famous jazz artists like Airto, Carter and Cobham, Kuhn sings vocals, plays the acoustic and electric piano and mostly lets go his fantasies and imagination.
A not very inspired set, reissued in 2007 by Columbia Japan with some additional tracks is to be avoided by the regular jazz listener but to be searched by jazz aficionados and snobs. - Bubu Hans

    Artist: Steve Kuhn
    Album: Jazz 'n (E) Motiion (Films Piano Solo)
    Label: RCA Victor
    Release: 1997
    Style: Mainstream Jazz
    Format mp3, bitrate: 224 kb/s
    Time: 1:04:02
    Size: 111 Mb (covers)

... How wonderful it is to watch a film and have great music illuminate the story as it unfolds and develops. There is a certain spiritual and haunting feeling that will emerge and linger in one's memory for a long time to come. Please enjoy the music, and thank you. - Steve Kuhn
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