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1948-1949: Louis Armstrong - The Nice & Philadelphia Concerts 2CD |
Jazz, Traditional Jazz |
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 Artist: Louis Armstrong Album: The Nice & Philadelphia Concerts 2CD Label: United Archives Years: 1948-1949, release: 2006 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 118+90,8 Mb Total time: 71:03+54:48 This wonderful rare album I dedicate to my friends! Ðåäêèå òðàíñëÿöèîííûå çàïèñè ëåãåíäàðíîãî ìóçûêàíòà! This double album is a strange concoction. It is called the Nice and Philadelphia concerts but four tracks were recorded elsewhere. And, as the sleeve-note points out, the tape machine used for the recordings at Nice only allowed three minutes of recording, so there are sudden endings to several tracks. In the first version of Royal Garden Blues, the recording suddenly cuts out in the middle of the bass solo but resumes with the trumpet. A further problem is that the sound quality is often poor and fuzzy. In the middle of the first CD, the sound is obscured by very audible surface noise. It is like listening to the music while someone is noisily sweeping the floor.
Nevertheless, it is good to have these recordings of Louis Armstrong's original All Stars, with Earl Hines at the piano and Sid Catlett on drums. The sleeve-notes quote some extraordinarily vituperative comments about this band but it was actually a fine ensemble which surrounded Louis with genuine stars and allowed us to enjoy his genius to the full - in a way that the earlier recordings with his big band failed to do. However often the All Stars played these tunes, they still sound fresh and inventive. Note, for instance, the glorious punctuations that Armstrong and Teagarden supply behind Velma Middleton's vocals on Velma's Blues. And the flirtatious duet between Louis and Velma on That's My Desire is a classic.
Earl Hines's piano is not always clearly audible but he is heard to advantage on Panama, which also has a beautifully shaped solo by Louis. Barney Bigard displays his complete mastery of the clarinet on many tracks - particularly in his feature on Body and Soul, ending with a glorious cadenza which closes with an immensely long-held note. And Jack Teagarden's trombone is mellow and melodic throughout. ~ Tony Augarde |
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1954-1961: Swedish Jazz - Maid In Sweden Vol.2 2LP |
Music » Jazz » Mainstream |
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 Artist: Various Album: Swedish Jazz - Maid In Sweden Vol.2 2LP Label: Metronome JMLP 2-106 (Double LP) Year: 1954-1961 Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbs Covers Front/Inside/Back HD ~ Ripped from original LP Time: 49/46 min Size: 114,09+108,45 MB AMG Rating  This is a very valuable two-LP set for it documents many of the top modern jazz recordings made in Sweden during the 1954-61 period. Cool jazz caught on in that country and quite a few talented jazzmen had opportunities to record including altoist Arne Domnerus, clarinetist Ove Lind, pianist Bengt Hallberg, trombonist Ake Persson and the great baritonist Lars Gullin, all of whom are heard from on this exciting two-fer. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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2000: Franck Avitabile - Right Time |
Music » Jazz |
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 Artitz: Franck Avitabile Album: Right Time Label: Dreyfus Jazz Format: FLAC + MP3 (320k/s) Size: 380 + 136 MB (full scans) Total time: 57:44 Franck Avitabile continues to grow as a pianist with his second Dreyfus release. An earlier CD was produced by the late pianist Michel Petrucciani, who obviously saw this newcomer as one filled with promise. Although Petrucciani died just prior to the taping of these sessions, he is obviously present in the spirit of Avitabile's playing. Joined by veteran first-call bassist Niels Pedersen and drummer Roberto Gatto, the pianist starts off with an attractive original jazz waltz, "Miss Laurence." He follows it up with a well disguised and somewhat dark introduction to Dave Brubeck's normally joyful "In Your Own Sweet Way"; his journey through this often recorded jazz standard is also atypical. He also avoids predictability with his intriguing chart of Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma" and the venerable standard "Cherokee." His "Right Time!" is a smoking bop number that features Pedersen's tremendous solo chops, while "Song for Evan" is a touching ballad that has an almost reverent quality. Louis Petrucciani, Michel's brother, takes over for Pedersen on his own soulful "Blues for the Stars" and the leader's samba-flavored "Facin' Up." Highly recommended. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide |
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Ahmad Jamal Trio - Ahmad's Blues |
Jazz, Cool, Post-bop |
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 Artist: Ahmad Jamal Trio Album: Ahmad's Blues Label: GRP Year: 1957 Release: 1994 Format, bitrate: 320 kb/s + FLAC Size: 144 mb + 421 MB, full covers REPOST with additional links for lossless from Mr. hungaropitecus This CD reissues most of the music recorded on one night by the 1958 Ahmad Jamal Trio (which consisted of the pianist/leader, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier) during a live performance in Washington D.C. Originally released as the LP Ahmad Jamal plus part of Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal, these 16 selections display the uniqueness and tightness of this memorable unit. With great attention paid to dynamics and the use of space yet always swinging (at least lightly), the Ahmad Jamal Trio is heard at its best on such numbers as "It Could Happen to You," "Stompin' at the Savoy," "Squatly Roo," "A Gal in Calico" and "Let's Fall in Love." ~ Scott Yanow, AMG |
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2007: PE'Z - Best Stage Zero Yamikumo |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz |
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 Artist: Pe'z Album: BEST STAGE ZERO Label: Daiki Sound Year: 2007 Genre: Japanese Jazz Format, bitrate:aac, 128kbps Time: 1:19:17 Size: 73.64MB Abroad was released "The Illusion" albums back as a domestic board! Hear the roar in the United States has been wildly! 14 works from three independent remix the song in LIVE + '06NY Complete takes! 』And『 now slavishly things back three years ago in 2005 at the NHK Hall PE `Z REALIVE 2005" section ~ FUSHI ~ "After a very successful, the same year 11 European tour in January 2006 three month North American tour (11 cities in nine performances) to press ahead, and was released shortly after the AL is local. Three independent works "pe` z "" Hayato-HAYATO-"" OKOKOROIRE "from a selection of 14 songs. Bonus tracks on the LIVE NY AL takes complete this is a remix of Western consciousness, is decorated with remastered, has just finished work hard PE'Z also say from a challenge. Despite the release overseas became a hot topic among enthusiasts now, and then imported back in circulation in the form of foreign-owned shops, some have disappeared quickly. This "visionary album" The point that has been called. 2009, rising star Orutanatibufoku "suzumoku" with the unit, pe'zmoku vigorously active middle, and finally back as a domestic board! 『BEST STAGE ZERO』 slavishly-YAMIKUMO-born, street dreams were overseas continued to run frantically toward the locus of PE'Z advance beyond the border in both name and reality, in a foreign land, "SAMURAI SPIRIT" that held sway the work can feel the moment. ATM Accident! ~ cdjapan.co.jp |
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2003: Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop |
Music » Jazz » Modern Jazz » Avantgarde |
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 Artist: Matthew Shipp Album: Nu Bop Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings Year: 2002, release: 2003 Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 Size: 93 mb AMG Rating:  Jazz and electronica mated many times before NU BOP, on both the electronic side and the jazz side, but seldom so purposefully and definitively as on this recording by boundary-pushing pianist Matthew Shipp. Here's a twist that's full-on bent: Matthew Shipp making funky avant-garde jazz. It's true that, like Sun Ra on his Lanquidity album in the late '70s, Shipp has decided to add programming and synths to his mix for this disc, to at least walk a tightrope between improvisational art and the music of the street. For any of you groaning as you read this, give it up — this disc is one of Shipp's very best and one of the first really new things to come across on the American jazz front in over a decade. The band is comprised of Shipp on piano, William Parker on contrabass, Daniel Carter replacing David S. Ware on saxophone and flute, Guillermo Brown on drums, and FLAM on synths and programming. Shipp's methodology is one of shifting rhythmic hypnosis and modal inquiry along scaled intervals and striated harmonic pathways that lead through the middle registers of both the saxophone and the piano. "X-Ray" is a keen example of how Shipp employs an ostinato line that changes itself ever so slightly in each chorus, is treated by FLAM with tweaked programming moves that underscore the rhythmic line, and allows Parker to roll around the changes between Carter and Shipp. In other places, such as on "Space Shipp," which opens the album, the funky line sets the pace for a six-chord thematic statement by Shipp. Parker lays in the cut with Brown, allowing the funk and roll to slip dramatically into a hypnotic groove that flows into Shipp's solo. Rather than a flurry of middle- and upper-register notes and chords, Shipp concentrates on establishing intervallic patterns that dig deeper into the thematic material and "deepen the funk," if you will, by modalizing its context. The disc closes with "Select Mode 2," an angular off-minor modal move with interplay and polyrhythmic accents by FLAM and Brown over a 5/8 samba figure as Shipp and Parker close ranks with the extensions of line and syntax in repetitive phrases that revolve around the rhythmic construct and move beyond it without leaving the groove. This is truly a new way of approaching jazz, a new way of hearing the intricacies of rhythmic counterpoint and textured harmonics that syncopate the entire methodology of composition and improvisation into a holistic view of the music as pulse and force. Shipp has clearly outdone himself this time, and the Blue Series that he coordinates on Thirsty Ear continues to be one of the bravest and most exciting series of recordings in jazz today. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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1992: Claudio Roditi - Milestones |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Hard-bop |
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 Artist: Claudio Roditi Album: Milestones Label: Candid Production Ltd. Year: 1992, release: 2007 Format, bitrate: Mp3 320kb/s Time: 70:00 min. Size:156Mb AMG Rating There aren't many trumpeters around more animated and energetic than Claudio Roditi. His searing solos and equally fiery accompaniment have been featured in several bands, and he takes center stage on Milestones. Besides his solos, the disc has some first-rate songs and an even better group. Alto saxophonist Paquito D'Rivera, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Ben Riley would constitute a great band by themselves, and are no less playing with Roditi. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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1989: Marcia Ball - Gatorhythms |
Music » Blues » Rhythm-n-Blues |
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 Artist: Marcia Ball Album: Gatorhythms Label: Rounder / Umgd Year: 1989 Format MP3, bitrate: VBR 262-320 kbps Time: 34:29 Size: 63,31 Mb (+3%) AMG Rating:  Marcia Ball explored R&B and honky tonk country on this album, keeping her blues chops in order while expanding her repertoire. She included a pair of tunes by country vocalist Lee Roy Parnell, "What's a Girl to Do" and "Red Hot," doing both in a feisty, attacking fashion. She was also challenging and upbeat on Dr. John's "How You Carry On" and "Find Another Fool." Her third Rounder album, Gatorhythms was one of her most entertaining and dynamic, as Ball became less of an interpreter and more of an individualist. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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1993: Lou Donaldson - Caracas |
Music » Soul » Soul-Jazz |
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 Artist: Lou Donaldson Album: Caracas Label: Milestone Year: 1993 Format, bitrate: 320 kbps Time: 55 min Size: 130MB (with covers) AMG rating  Lou Donaldson didn't break any new ground in the 1990s; instead, the veteran alto saxophonist excelled by sticking with the type of soul-jazz/hard bop that brought him a lot of commercial success (by jazz standards) in the 1960s. Caracas was recorded in 1993, but it sounds like it could have been recorded 30 years earlier. Regardless, this CD is excellent. Caracas was produced by Bob Porter, who has produced numerous soul-jazz and organ combo dates -- if any producer knows soul-jazz, it's Porter. And not surprisingly, he helps brings out the best in Donaldson, who is joined by organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, drummer Kenny Washington, and the Grant Green-influenced guitarist Peter Bernstein. Donaldson, who was 66 when this CD was recorded, is in fine form on groove-oriented blues (Jimmy Forrest's "Night Train") and romantic ballads (Neal Hefti's "Lil' Darlin'"), as well as one fast bop number: Charlie Parker's "Ornithology." Although the more accessible, groove-oriented stuff is what brought Donaldson the most commercial success, his albums usually contain at least one example of high-speed, Parker-minded bebop and, on Caracas, he acknowledges his Bird roots with "Ornithology." Donaldson will be the first to tell you that he is an instrumentalist first and foremost; however, he does provide the occasional vocal. The enjoyably humorous "Just a Dream (On My Mind)" finds him putting a 1990s spin on lyrics that Chicago blues great Big Bill Broonzy wrote back in the 1930s. Is Caracas essential? Not quite, but it's still a highly rewarding album that will please die-hard soul-jazz enthusiasts. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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1979: The Ray Brown Trio - Live At The Concord Jazz Festival |
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 Artist: The Ray Brown Trio Album: Live At The Concord Jazz Festival Label: Concord Jazz Genre: Jazz/Bop Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s Time: 48:47 Size: 112 Mb AMG Rating:  This might be one of the five best live performances ever recorded. It has everything going for it - lots of audience participation, a great trio of jazz players (headed up by one of the greatest bassists of all time), and near state-of-the-art sound quality. The session starts out with three great renditions of some bossa nova standards - Blue Bossa, Bossa Nova Do Marilla and Manhã De Carnaval (from Black Orpheus) - and a really nice St. Louis Blues. Then things really start swinging when Carl Jefferson (the record label's founder) introduces the MAIN ATTRACTION of this set: the incomparably magnificent Miss Ernestine Anderson. She starts cooking with an up-tempo Fly Me To The Moon that evokes a flurry of cheers and whistles from the crowd, followed by the real jaw-dropper on the album, the most soulful Georgia On My Mind you're likely to hear... ever!
No doubt about it, this is one of the greatest recordings that Concord Jazz ever produced. It makes me one happy fella every time I hear it. Buy it and let Ernestine convince you too that she is one of the few of the greatest jazz vocalists to appear since Ella, Billie or Sarah. - S. Baird at Amazon.com |
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