Artist: VA
     Album: Blues Story, les rois du blues Vol. 01
     Label: Polygram and Odeon Label Group
     Year: 1998
     Release: 1998
     Genre: Blues
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 192 kbps
     Time: 01:08:14
     Size: 64,9 Mb

      Artist - Sonny Rollins
      Album - Freedom Suite
      Label - OJC/Riverside
      Year - 1958
      Quality - lossless
      Size - flac, scans - 214 MB
      Total time - 40:43



      Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' last Riverside album has been reissued on this Original Jazz Classics CD. Jamming in a pianoless trio with bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Max Roach, Rollins is very creative, stretching out on his lengthy "Freedom Suite," tclearly enjoying investigating the obscure Noel Coward melody "Someday I'll Find You," turning the showtune "Till There Was You" into jazz and finding beauty in "Shadow Waltz" and "Will You Still Be Mine." A near-masterpiece. — Scott Yanow

     Artist: Dusko Goykovich
     Album: Samba Do Mar
     Label: Enja
     Year: 2003
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s; Lossless (flac, cue, log, scans - 363 MB)
     Time: 60'09
     Size: 127MB



     Best known for his unmistakably melodic phrasing and his high-class ballad renditions on the trumpet, muted trumpet, and fluegelhorn, Dusko Goykovich's eventful life is like a mirror of 50 years of jazz history. Born in Bosnia, he came to prominence in Germany in the fifites, was a member of Maynard Ferguson's and Woody Herman's orchestras in the sixties and later became a pioneer of the Balkan-jazz movement. With ease and brilliance he switches from bebop to ballads, from bossa to 5/4. Goykovich's latest CD "Portrait" celebrating his 70th birthday showed his mastership developing over a course of 40 years. British "Jazz Rag" read: "From gently reflective approaches to charging tempos, the trumpeter's combination of imagination and elegance and his ever present bright tone are consistently striking. He exhibitis an arresting flow of ideas throughout. A really superb album!"
On his new album "Samba Do Mar", Dusko Goykovich shows a fresh and sparkling approach to Brazilian music. Ranging from one of Villa-Lobos' Baroque-influenced compositions and a pair of Antonio Carlos Jobim's legendary bossa nova tunes to some wonderful originals by Argentinian artist Sergio Mihanovich and trumpeter Dusko Goykovich himself, the program opens up new spaces for his and his band's ever-soulful imagination. This album displays a rare kind of Brazilness – natural and relaxed but at the same time sophisticated and original. ...

    Artist: Eugen Cicero
    Album: Balkan Rhapsodie
    Label: MPS
    Release: 1970
    Style: jazz transcription of classic and popular
    Format mp3, bitrate: 256 kb/s vbr (vinyl rip)
    Time: 36:26
    Size: 49,9 Mb
    Bubu's Rating:

A very rare recording issued on vinyl only, in Germany. The maestro is playing around with well known classical and popular themes. The popular ones are mostly Romanian. His interpretation is very lightly full of joy as if his fingers were flying on the keyboard. Definitively recommended to all jazz listeners. - Bubu Hans

    Artist: Eugen Cicero
    Album: Jazz Bach
    Label: Timeless
    Year: 1985
    Release: 2000
    Style: jazz transcription
    Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s
    Time: 47:27
    Size: 109 Mb
    Bubu's Rating :

Eugen Cicero (born in June 27, 1940, Cluj-Napoca - died December 5, 1997, Zurich), real name Eugene Ciceu (Cziczeo or Csícsó) was a Romanian jazz pianist who lived and evolved in Germany under the pseudonym Eugen Cicero.
Eugene Ciceu, son of a Romanian Orthodox priest and a choir singer of Hungarian origin, began studying piano at age 4 years. At 6 years of his first concert with Mozart Symphony Orchestra in Cluj. When he was 11 years old, his parents sent him to study with Aurelia Cionca, which in turn had studied with Alfred Reisenauer, a student of Franz Liszt. Later he studied with Ana Ciceu Pittiş, followed by instrumentation and composition at the Conservatoire in Bucharest.
Eugene Ciceu took refuge in the 60's in Germany after a concert held in Berlin.
He was the father of German jazz and pop singer Roger Cicero (Roger Marcel Cicero Cziczeo).
Most of Eugen's repertoire consists of jazz transcriptions of classical, baroque and romantic music.

   Artist: Cuong Vu
   Album: Come play with me
   Label: Knitting Factory Records
   Year: 2001
   Format: FLAC
   Time: 54:44
   Size: 314.1 Mb



Redefining the concept of a horn-led trio, trumpeter Cuong Vu uses a minimum of instruments to acheive a bounty of tonal colors on COME PLAY WITH ME. Key to Vu's success in this endeavor is bassist Stomu Takeishi, whose fretless work reveals a kaleidoscope of sounds and feels, from agressive, full-throttle attack to languid, pastel notes that drift slowly and gently across the compositions, to a percussive, rhythmic approach. Takeishi is the only member of the trio capable of playing chords, so he also takes a more harmonic role here than your average bassist.

For his part, Vu offers concise, melodic lines that are both spare and elegant, lacing his rhythmically involving, harmonically concise compositions with short bursts of eloquence and occasional fiery outpourings. This is no out-jazz free-for-all, it's a carefully crafted album of forward-looking modern jazz where construction is equally as important as expression, and both prosper in the capable hands of this unusual trio. ~ cduniverse.com

     Artist - Terry Gibbs - Dream Band Vol. 4
     Album - Main Stem
     Label - Contemporary Records
     Year - 1961, release - 1992
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 87,8 mb
     Total time - 40:19
     AMG rating



Unlike the first three CDs released by Contemporary of Terry Gibbs' early-'60s "Dream Band," the music on the fourth and fifth volumes was out previously on Mercury. And while the earlier sets focused on swing-era standards, the fourth volume mostly has less common material. Gibbs' all-star orchestra (which includes trumpeter Conte Candoli, high-note trumpeter Al Porcino, trombonist Frank Rosolino, Richie Kamuca and Bill Perkins on tenors, altoists Joe Maini and Charlie Kennedy and drummer Mel Lewis among others) swings hard on such tunes as "Day In, Day Out," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Too Close for Comfort" and "Ja-Da." It is not at all surprising that the vibraphonist-leader sounds so happy leading his short-lived band. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Title: ECM at 40
    Author: Micharl Tucker
    Publisher: Jazz Journal vol. 62
    Release: 2009
    Size: 41,9 Mb

Does ECM stand for Easy Children's Music, or Enterprise Content Management, or Espresso Coffee Machines, or maybe European Cities Marketing? None of these but
Edition of Contemporary Music. Having enjoyed 40 years of music from the German label, Michael Tucker finds that paradoxically ECM's apparent simplicity opens the door to greater riches. Let's hope that the famous motto "The Most Beautiful Sound Next To Silence" will still stand a long time from now. - Bubu Hans
'Today, the world-ranging richness, the overall quality, of the ECM catalogue speaks volumes for a company which continues simply to consider itself, in the words of Steve Lake, as a work in progress.' - Micharl Tucker