Artist: Dave Holland Big Band
     Album: What Goes Around
     Label: ECM Records
     Year: 2002
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320kbps
     Time: 01:16:09
     Size: 174mb
     AMG rating:



As he gained more and more respect and critical recognition in the early years of the 21st century, Dave Holland took a leap and expanded his music outward into a big band format. The word "expanded" is key here, for what Holland has mostly done on What Goes Around is send his quintet format through an expansion process, where there are more pieces in the puzzle, yet the same overall conception of sound remains. All but one of the pieces here are rewrites of earlier, previously recorded selections, dating from 1983 all the way to 2000. All of the charts are composed with a sureness and a grounding in tradition that belies the fact that this is Holland's first big band album. And all maintain the same intelligence in conception, spareness of texture, and crystalline detail, as Holland's small-group recordings for ECM, despite the obvious harmonic elaborations. For example, in "What Goes Around" -- which appeared on Holland's previous album, Not For Nothin' -- the ostinato-driven horizontal structure is basically the same, allowing for some fills by the ensemble, and despite the additional harmonic content, the vertical texture is similar, too. The main difference is that there is more urgency and more tension in the music now, which is most apparent in "The Razor's Edge," "Shadow Dance," and the only new composition, "Upswing." The Dave Holland Big Band includes tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, trombonist Robin Eubanks , vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and drummer Billy Kilson return to form the core of this big band -- as does flute/alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, who toured with Holland's group after these tracks were cut. These and several other players in the big band get plenty of room to solo -- and they do so with taste and occasional fire. This CD marks the addition of another fine big band to the ranks, though it does more for the evolution of Holland's music than for the big band idiom itself. ~ Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide

     Artist:Dave Burrell
     Album:High Won-High Two
     Label: Black Lion
     Year:1968, release: 1996
     Format, bitrate: mp3;320 Kb/s
     Size: 150M
     AMG rating:




Dave Burrell has long had a highly original style on piano, not quite outside but far from conventional. This CD reissues a trio set with bassist Sirone and either Bobby Kapp or Sonny Murray on drums. Most intriguing is a 19Ѕ-minute "West Side Story Medley" that features Burrell playing many of the songs from Leonard Bernstein's work in abstract fashion. There is also the lengthy "East Side Colors," five brief (around three-minutes apiece) versions of five of Burrell's originals and the "Theme Stream Medley" which has reprises of the five songs plus a sixth piece ("Inside Ouch"). This interesting set rewards repeated listenings. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Kurt Rosenwinkel
     Album: The Next Step
     Label: Verve
     Year: 2000
     Genre: Modern Jazz\Fusion
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320 kbps CBR
     Time: 01:02:01
     Size: 141mb

Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel takes The Next Step in his creative evolution on eight songs that exude several degrees of great jazz. He succeeds in topping the musical tastes presented on his debut release for the Verve label, The Enemies of Energy. Rosenwinkel is one of many young jazz musicians forging ahead into the new millennium with bold musical steps, and the compositions, all of which he wrote, represent the culmination of many life phases for him. First formed as a guitar-bass-drums trio in 1992, Rosenwinkel's band is now a quartet including Mark Turner on tenor saxophone, Ben Street on bass, and Jeff Ballard on drums, all excellent artists in their own right. All four musicians can be heard on The Enemies of Energy, and The Next Step is additional documentation of their relationship as a band. The CD opens with the melodic "Zhivago," a ballad inspired by the imagery of the motion picture Dr. Zhivago. "Minor Blues" is just that -- with an up-tempo groove and plenty of room for improvisation; it is especially memorable. Turner's saxophone workout on "A Shifting Design" is spurred on by the great drumming of Ballard and the alternate tuning of Rosenwinkel's guitar. This song opens with a pensive introduction and develops into a swinging, "shifting design" of notes, chords, and great basslines. Ballard is fascinatingly rhythmic, and uses percussive elements in a wealth of creative experiments. The title track spotlights Rosenwinkel on piano in harmony with Turner's sax and shaded by Ballard and Street's rhythmic finesse. This song has an ageless style, and Rosenwinkel's execution is filled with great improvisational ideas. This is an excellent listening experience that builds from start to finish. ~Paula Edelstein, All Music Guide

     Artist: Count Basie
     Album: E=MC2
     Label: Roulette
     Year: 1957
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320kbps
     Size: 90.3mb
     Total time: 39:28

The release of this album in late 1957 marked the beginning of a glorious new phase in Count Basie's career. Signed to Roulette Records, the newly formed label owned by Morris Levy, the New York recording entrepreneur, jukebox mogul, club owner, and quasi-underworld figure, it took Basie's core audience and a lot of other people by surprise, as a bold, forward-looking statement within the context of a big-band recording — if not as daring as what Duke Ellington had done at Newport in 1956, still a reminder that there was room for fresh, even dazzling improvisation (especially courtesy of Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis's contribution) within the framework of a big-band jazz unit. The band and its key members were all "on" for these two days of sessions, and Neal Hefti's arrangements gave all concerned a chance to show what they could do. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, stands out from the get-go with his solo on "Flight of the Foo Birds," a rewriting of "Give Me the Simple Life" on which the tenor-man shares the stage with Thad Jones's trumpet solo, but nearly knock Jones off that same stage with his pyrotechnics. Davis plunges into new territory, defining the Basie "Atomic" period with his solo on "Whirly-Birds" (originally less aptly titled "Roller Coaster"), which soars into the air on his break. Joe Newman and Thad Jones's muted trumpets are the featured instruments on "Duet." "The Kid From Red Bank" offers an unusual showcase for Basie himself at the piano, playing the least number of notes possible to surprise and bedazzle the listener, while "Li'l Darlin'" offers the Basie band's answer to Ellington's "Mood Indigo." (See also: The Complete Atomic Basie — 1994). ~Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

     Artist: Eugen Cicero
     Album: Swinging The Classics On MPS
     Label: Universal
     Years: 2002
     Genre: Classical-Jazz Hybrid
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Size: CD 1 - 156 MB; CD 2 - 169 MB


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     Artist: Gary Burton & Friends
     Album: Six Pack
     Label: GRP Records
     Year: 1992
     Genre: Modern Jazz
     Format, bitrate: MP3, 320kbps
     Time: 01:07:59
     Size: 158mb (includes scans)

ФИАЛКИ по СРЕДАМ (выпуск сорок седьмой)

     Artist: Wynton Marsalis, Raymond Leppard & English Chamber Orchestra
     Album: Baroque Music For Trumpets
     Label: Sony
     Year: 1990; Release October 25, 1990
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 47 min, 10 sec.
     Size: 114 mb.

     Ну-ка, признавайтесь, фанаты-поклонники творчества Винтона Маршалиса в клубе есть? Лично я себя к ним не причисляю, особенно после прослушивания его Standard times. Это каким гением нужно быть, чтобы сыграть знаменитый Caravan таким образом, что я переключил на следующий трек буквально на второй минуте? Но на одном из форумов наткнулся на следующую фразу:
А вы слышали, как божественно он играет классику?
     Конечно же, эта фраза меня, как любителя классической музыки очень заинтриговала. А тут ещё Malieff в частной беседе поинтересовался, нужен ли мне альбом, где Маршалис играет классику, поделился ссылкой. Долго этот альбом висел на моём винте без дела, никак прослушать не получалось. Даже сейчас выкладываю альбом, который сам ещё не слышал. Тем не менее, надеюсь, что эта музыка не разочарует меня так, как "Стандарты".
     P.S. Теперь, кажется, всё. Пропущенных букетов нет.

     Artist: Louis Prima
     Album: The Wildest !
     Label: Capitol records
     Year: rec. 1956 -57/rel.2002
     Format: Mp3 @ 320 Kb/s
     Time: 41:59
     Size: 80.46 Mb
     AMG rating:

     Artist: Louis Armstrong
     Album: Satchmo the Great
     Label: Columbia
     Recording Date: Sep 28, 1955-Jul 14, 1956
     Release: 2000
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Time: 48:39
     Size: 127MB



      In 1956 Edward R. Murrow narrated a feature film, Satchmo the Great, that contained highlights from some of Louis Armstrong's world tours. This soundtrack has some narration by Murrow between songs plus an interview with Armstrong. Musically there are renditions of "When It's Sleepy Time Down South," "Indiana," "Oh Didn't He Ramble," "Mack the Knife," "Mahogany Hall Stomp" and "Black and Blue" that add little to the more familiar versions. Most interesting is a lengthy "St. Louis Blues" that teams Armstrong and his All-Stars with Leonard Bernstein and a symphony orchestra. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: The Bad Plus
     Album: For All I Care
     Label: Heads Up
     Year/Release: 2008
     Genre: Contemporary Jazz/Jazz-Rock
     Format, bitrate: MP3 320 kbps
     Time: 40 minutes approximately
     Size: 116 MB; Full covers included

     That the Bad Plus have recorded pop covers since their inception as a piano/bass/drums trio is a given in their M.O. The Minnesota-based trio has consistently added tunes by Blondie, Queen, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, and Burt Bacharach to their albums -- in addition to their own compositions -- as they've gone about reinventing the piano trio sound and dynamic in jazz (they have become the loudest, most hard rocking acoustic trio in the music's history). Some critics have accused them of camp, but this is simply a pronouncement of ignorance and prejudicial conservative and "preservationist" paranoia. After a decade of working together, the Bad Plus, following up their brilliant 2007 album Prog, have undergone some major changes: they left Sony and now record themselves independently. >>>

     Artists: Jimmy McGriff, Junior Parker
     Album: Jimmy McGriff & Junior Parker
     Lable: United Artist Records
     Year: 1972
     Format: MP3, bitrate: 320 kbps
     Size: 73,4 MB

     Очень интересный альбом, на мой взгляд. Есть и Harp, и Hammond B-3, и вокал очень приличный...

     Jimmy McGriff might be able to compete with that – in a jazz context of course – but the organist was able to spread it out over his almost forty year career. Learning a great deal from Jimmy Smith, who after all is considered the progenitor of the B3 sound, McGriff went on to help develop what’s now considered soul jazz. But an enormous portion of what that sound is based on is simply the blues. And that’s where the connection between Jimmy McGriff and Junior Parker comes in.
     The singer and organist both came from backgrounds where music was an indispensible part of life. Perhaps McGriff came to find his talent as a result of a relentless search that saw him play not only bass, sax, but drums in addition to keys before joining the army. The odd part about his journey, though, was his brief stint as a policeman in Philadelphia. But that can obviously be forgiven after even a brief listen to one of his solos.

     Artist: Frank Sinatra
     Album: Nothing But the Best [CD/DVD]
     Label: Reprise
     Release: May 12, 2008
     Genre: Jazz Vocal
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320kb/s
     Size: CD-171MB;DVDrip-696MB


     Released to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death, Nothing But the Best is indeed one of the best single-disc compilations ever released on Sinatra. This isn't a career overview, however, since it begins with his inaugural Reprise recordings circa 1960 and surveys the rest of the '60s (including only two tracks not from the '60s). This was the age of Sinatra as the hard-swinging Chairman of the Board, illustrated perfectly by "Luck Be a Lady" and "My Kind of Town." But it was also the age of wistful, middle-aged material like "Summer Wind," "Strangers in the Night," and, of course, "It Was a Very Good Year." And it was also the age when Sinatra had the freedom to record with everyone he wanted to record with, whether it was Count Basie or Antonio Carlos Jobim or his daughter Nancy (the latter on the 1967 chart-topper "Somethin' Stupid"). All of those periods are represented on Nothing But the Best, which takes its place above the best previous Reprise collection, Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years, even though it somehow omits one of his classics, "Love and Marriage." For this compilation, Reprise also commissioned new 2008 remasters of each track, which sound better than any previous, and added a new bonus track: a version of "Body and Soul" with a vocal recorded in 1984 laid over a 2007 arrangement by Torrie Zito and Frank Sinatra, Jr. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide

     Artists: Pedro Iturralde Quintet with Paco De Lucia
     Album: Flamenco Jazz
     Label: SABA
     Year: 1967, release - 1968 (in Berlin/Germany)
     Quality: MP3@192 kb/s
     Size: 59 Mb
     Total time: 43 min.

     Artists - Johnny Frigo with Bucky & John Pizzarelli
     Album - Live from Studio A in New York City
     Label - Chesky
     Year - 1988, release - 1992
     Quality - MP3@320 kbps
     Size - 76,4 mb
     Total time - 55:30



At the age of 71, Johnny Frigo finally had his debut as a leader on record, with the exception of an obscure effort in 1957. Although he had spent much of his career as a studio bassist, Frigo successfully switched full-time to his first love, the violin, and was immediately considered one of the top swing-based violinists. Joined by both Bucky and John Pizzarelli on guitars, either Ron Carter or Michael Moore on bass, and drummer Butch Miles, Frigo is in wonderful form on 14 standards, including "Pick Yourself Up," "Detour Ahead" (which he had co-written while with the Soft Winds in the late '40s), "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "The Song Is You." This recommended CD launched the Chesky label. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Artist: Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins & Enrico Pieranuzi
    Album: First Song
    Label: Soul Note (Italy)
    Release: 1990
    Genre: jazz/hard-bop
    Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s
    Time: 1:00:10
    Size: 138 Mb

These three come together really well, and create some great sounds. They really make you think with Enrico Pieranunzi's great piano lines and Charlie Haden's bass solos. I would highly recommend this for any jazz musician, or jazz lover. This is great thinking music. - Tim Deal at Amazon.com

ФИАЛКИ по СРЕДАМ (выпуск сорок шестой)

     Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
     Artist: Lionel Rogg
     Album: Toccatas and Fugues
     Label: Harmonia Mundi
     Year: 1970; Release 1992
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 60 min, 30 sec
     Size: 145 mb

     Давно, давно не заходил я в Клуб в качестве разместителя новостей. Имелись на то различные причины - то времени, как всегда, не хватало, то настроение было абсолютно не соответствующее моменту, то файлообменники не хотели принимать свежие файлы (бывало, что на 99% выдавало сбой загрузки, которую перед этим почти сутки пыталось принять)... Тем не менее, моя цветочная лавка опять готова принять новых посетителей и предложить им свежие букеты фиалок. Сегодня мой букет будет снова посвящён немецкому композитору, которому не ручей, а море должно быть имя.
     Но сначала давайте поговорим об исполнителе.

     Artist: Jack Lemmon
     Album: Sings and Plays Music from "Some Like It Hot"
     Label: Epic BN-3551
     Year: 1959
     Format, bitrate: MP3@256 kbit/s (LP-rip)
     Time: 0.30:18
     Size: 56 MB
     AMG Rating:

     Наверное не найдётся ни одного человека, который бы не смотрел комедию "Some Like It Hot" (В джазе только девушки).
     Но не все знают, что один из исполнителей главной роли был пианистом и вокалистом.
     Через несколько месяцев после выхода фильма на экран, Джек Леммон выпускает пластинку, на которой он исполнил основные музыкальные темы фильма.
     Но это не саундтрек, звучание совсем не такое, как в фильме, но очень интересное и своеобразное...