Artist: Larry Elgart
     Album: More Music in Motion (21 Channel Sound)
     Label: MGM SE 4080
     Year: ;1962 release:1962
     Format, MP3 bitrate: 256 LP RIP
     Time: 27 min
     Size: 52.2 MB

Larry Elgart appears to be something of an unstoppable force in dance band and big-band music, bordering on jazz mostly through the appropriation of various swingy instrumentalists to fill section ranks. The Elgart name itself is legendary in this kind of music; brother Les Elgart also fronts his own, similar orchestra and the siblings collaborated on the Les & Larry Elgart Band from the mid-'40s through much of the '50s. The boys' mother was a concert pianist but it was perhaps a Connecticut musician named Hymie Shertzer who had the most influence early on, successfully pushing a still teenage Larry Elgart for the spot of lead alto saxophone in the Charlie Spivak ensemble.

When Les Elgart headed for the West Coast near the end of the '50s his brother took on major control of the band they had formerly shared, guiding the shifting lineup of hired hands through a series of fine recordings for labels such as RCA Victor and Decca. Some four decades later, Les Elgart was merrily and energetically announcing that his band was still going strong and on the verge of conquering new frontiers, in this case an Australian tour. Exotica fans are obsessed with an earlier Elgart exploration, the 1953 10" entitled Impressions of Outer Space, in which Sun Ra is given a run for his intergalactic money. A more recent Elgart recording is the 2003 Bandstand Boogie. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

     Artist: Tadd Dameron
     Album: The Tadd Dameron Memorial Album
     Label:Prestige Records
     Year: 1956
     Format, bitrate: MP3 320kbps
     Size: 50,85 MB
     AMG rating



Also released under the more widely available Fontainebleau title, the Tadd Dameron Memorial Album is one of most original sets from the burgeoning hard bop days of the mid-'50s. Blessed with Dameron's complex yet seamlessly atmospheric charts, the five-track set features some of the pianist's most involved (the title track, "The Scene Is Clean") and swinging pieces ("Delirium," "Flossie Lou"). And helping out along the way, bop standouts like trumpeter Kenny Dorham, alto saxophonist Sahib Shihab, and drummer Shadow Wilson make choice contributions throughout. A must for any jazz collection. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide

     Artist:Wynton Kelly
     Album: Full View
     Label: OJC/Milestone
     Year: 1966, release: 1997
     Format, bitrate: MP3 320kbps
     Time: 36:16
     Size: 88 MB



Pianist Wynton Kelly's next-to-last set as a leader (he would record a slightly later date for Delmark) featured him at a time when his influence was waning and he was overshadowed by more advanced players. However, Kelly's impact would begin to grow again after his death, when the Young Lions movement began in the early '80s; certainly pianist Benny Green was greatly touched by Kelly's conception. This Milestone trio set, reissued on CD, matches Kelly with bassist Ron McClure and drummer Jimmy Cobb on a fine program mostly filled with standards but also including the then-recent Burt Bacharach hit "Walk on By" and Kelly's original "Scufflin'." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: David Sánchez
     Album: Obsesión
     Label: Sony
     Year: 1998
     Format, bitrate: mp3 @ 192kbps
     Time: 54:16
     Size: 88,1 MB
     AMG rating


David Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor at age 12. He graduated from a performing arts high school in 1986, spent a year studying psychology, and then moved to New York City in 1988, having decided to become a musician. Sanchez attended Rutgers University, studying with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar, and John Purcell. After a period freelancing in New York with many top Latin players (including Paquito D'Rivera and Claudio Roditi), Sanchez joined Dizzy Gillespie's United Nation Orchestra in 1990, also getting the opportunity to play with Dizzy's small group. Since then he has toured with the Philip Morris SuperBand, recorded with Slide Hampton's Jazz Masters, Charlie Sepulveda, Kenny Drew, Jr., Ryan Kisor, Danilo Perez, Rachel Z, and Hilton Ruiz (among others), and headed his own sessions for Columbia. David Sanchez is a tenor player whose music mixes together Afro-Cuban rhythms with advanced bebop on releases like 1994's Sketches of Dreams and 1996's Street Scenes. Obsession followed two years later and Melaza in mid-2000. Since that time, Sanchez has kept busy releasing Travesía in 2001, Coral in 2004 and Cultural Survival in 2008. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

     Artist: Fiona Apple
     Album: Tidal
     Label: Epic (a subsidiary of Sony)
     Year: 1996
     Genre: Jazz fusion, Alternative, Experimental
     Format, bitrate: mp3; 320kbps.
     Time: 51:29
     Size: 120MB.
     AMG rating




Fiona Apple demonstrates considerable talent on her debut album, Tidal, but it is unformed, unfocused talent. Her voice is surprisingly rich and supple for a teenager, and her jazzy, sophisticated piano playing also belies her age. Given the right material, such talents could have flourished, but she has concentrated on her own compositions, which are nowhere near as impressive as her musicianship. Most of Tidal is comprised of confessional singer/songwriter material, and while they strive to say something deep and important, much of the lyrics settle for clichés. Apple does have a handful of impressive songs on Tidal, like the haunting "Shadowboxer" and "Sullen Girl," but the gap between her performing talents and songwriting skills is too large to make the album anything more than a promising, and very intriguing, debut.

     Artist: Ron Carter
     Album: Stardust
     Label: Blue Note
     Year: 2001
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
     Time: 52:10
     Size: 121 mb (megaupload)


     Stardust is another satisfying record from Ron Carter, this one in part a tribute to the late Oscar Pettiford. Leading a quintet with Benny Golson on tenor, Joe Locke on vibes, Sir Roland Hanna on piano, and Lenny White on drums, Carter picks three choice tunes by Pettiford - the swing-to-tango "Tamalpais," the minor-key bop classic "Bohemia After Dark," and the masterfully simple "Blues in the Closet." Carter's originals, also numbering three, include the slow 14-bar blues "Nearly," the mid-tempo swinger "Tail Feathers," and "That's Deep," which is Carter's answer to the question, "How Deep Is the Ocean?" Locke sits out on a fairly upbeat rendition of "The Man I Love"; Carter and Hanna close with a duet on "Stardust," with Carter taking the melody. Golson and Hanna are in particularly good form, their richly seasoned sounds meshing well with the elan of the younger Locke.

     Artist: Stan Getz
     Album: Teenage Stan 1943-1947 Complete Edition Vol.1,Vol.2 (2CD)
     Label: Masters of Jazz
     Year: 1943-1947
     Release: 1997,1998
     Format: mp3, 320 kb/s
     Size: 350M　(inc. booklet)

     At the tender ages of 18 and 19-going-on-20, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz was plowing his own furrow in the fertile turf of the postwar jazz scene, developing his own sound while honoring the influence of Lester Young. Vol. 2 in the Masters of Jazz Getz chronology is appropriately entitled Teenage Stan. Rather than including every single Benny Goodman recording on which Getz blew his horn as a member of the Goodman sax section, the producers of this exciting retrospective have selected the sides on which Getz actually soloed. The first five tracks portray Getz as a fine featured horn with Goodman in the Los Angeles area during the first few weeks of 1946. Getz is also heard swinging with West Coast bands led by trumpeter Randy Brooks and tenor saxophonist Vido Musso; sitting in with the second-to-last-ever Blue Rhythm Band in 1947 and jamming on-stage at one of Gene Norman's Just Jazz concerts. Smack in the middle of this invigorating compilation Getz presides at his very first recording date as a leader (see tracks eight through eleven). This Savoy session, which took place in New York on July 31, 1946, involved pianist Hank Jones, bassist Curly Russell and drummer Max Roach; the group was billed both as "the Bebop Boys" and the Stan Getz Quartet. This superb collection is packed with great music and is guaranteed to please anyone who loves big-band swing, vintage bop and formative Stan Getz.

     Artist: Miles Davis
     Album: The Complete On The Corner Sessions
     Label: Sony Music Distribution
     Year: 1972-1975
     Release: 2007
     Format, bitrate: mp3, 320
     Time: 6:47:13
     Size: 6 CD: 169 mb/151 mb/134 mb/141 mb/157 mb/141 mb
     AMG Rating:

      From the opening four notes of Michael Henderson's hypnotically minimal bass that open the unedited master of "On the Corner," answered a few seconds later by the swirl of color, texture, and above all rhythm, it becomes a immediately apparent that Miles Davis had left the jazz world he helped to invent — forever. The 19-minute-and-25-second track has never been issued in full until now. It is one of the 31 tracks in The Complete On the Corner Sessions, a six-disc box recorded between 1972 and 1975 that centers on the albums On the Corner, Get Up with It, and the hodgepodge leftovers collection Big Fun. It is also the final of eight boxes in the series of Columbia's studio sessions with Davis from the 1950s through 1975, when he retired from music before his return in the 1980s. Previously issued have been Davis' historic sessions with John Coltrane in the first quintet, the Gil Evans collaborations, the Seven Steps to Heaven recordings, the complete second quintet recordings, and the complete In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and Jack Johnson sessions. There have been a number of live sets as well; the most closely related one to this is the live Cellar Door Sessions 1970, issued in 2005....

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: Americans In Sweden - Dear Old Stockholm Vol.1
     Label: Metronome JMLP 2-102 (Double LP)
     Year: 1949-1953
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbs (Covers Front/Inside/Back HD Ripped from original LP)
     Time: 42/46 min
     Size: 101,84+97,08 MB


     This double-LP from the Swedish Metronome label has a variety of intriguing bop-oriented performances by Americans who were visiting Sweden during 1949-1953. Some of these selections were leased by Prestige, and a few became famous, including two that were utilized for vocalese performances. Tenor saxophonist James Moody is featured on a dozen selections, including his version of "I'm in the Mood for Love" that became the basis for "Moody's Mood for Love." Zoot Sims is heard on two numbers; the great Swedish baritonist Lars Gullin leads a date that also includes Conte Candoli, Frank Rosolino, Lee Konitz, and Zoot Sims; and pianist George Wallington heads a sextet for an extended "Blue Bird." In addition, Annie Ross sings two songs (including the original version of "Jackie") and Stan Getz's eight numbers include the first American version of "Dear Old Stockholm" and his "Don't Be Afraid" (which would become a vocalese classic); pianist Bengt Hallberg is in the supporting cast. Some of these performances have not yet become readily available on CD, and, in any case, this is a particularly attractive two-fer that includes pictures of many of the main soloists.

     Artist: Thorbjorn Risager
     Album: Track Record
     Label: Cope/VME
     Year: 2010
     Format MP3, bitrate: 320 kbps
     Time: 40:43
     Size: 75,71 Mb (+3%)



     The time has come for Thorbjorn Risager’s fifth CD. Ever since the debut, this great Danish vocalist and his equally outstanding band is delivering new albums with about a year's interval, full of new compositions. How they find time for this – especially the composing – in spite of their intense touring, is a bit of a mystery. But life on the road is definitely a source of inspiration, which some of the songs, and even the cover photos, are reflecting - even though they don't do so much of their travelling by train...

     Artist: Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio with Billy Bang
     Album: Live At The River East Art Center
     Label: Delmark Records (566)
     Year: 2004; release: 2005
     Format, bitrate: FLAC
     Time: 67 mins
     Size: 450 MB (4 files)

     The diminutive but mighty acoustic bassist Malachi Favors was a charter member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio, and since his passing both groups have suffered. This recording for El'Zabar and his revamped trio including longtime member saxophonist Ari Brown and guest violinist Billy Bang is the first offering with bassist Yosef Ben Israel filling the chair of the late Favors. Because the unit was so reliant on the witty and unique elegance of Favors, not to mention his good humor, the band is at once somber and joyous, mourning his departure and celebrating his rich and wonderful artistic life. This live performance at the River East Art Center in Chicago sports a production value that also reflects the mood of the band -- a bit detached and thin, but full of spirit, body, and true reverence for their great friend. The set starts with a typical ceremonial tribute, "Big M," a 4/4 instrumental with mbira lead lines and shakers from El'Zabar, tenor sax and violin eventually soloing after a nearly ten-minute intro. "Return of the Lost Tribe" acknowledges Israel's new role as he leads the quartet out in an easy-walking jazz swing, with El'Zabar on the drum kit, Brown's John Coltrane/Pharoah Sanders/David Murray-like tenor brimming with emotion and power, and Bang's signature off-minor, harmonic-drenched violin solo a highlight. El'Zabar then moves to the conga drums, and with Israel forms a base to build on during "Where Do You Want to Go?," with the distraught violin of Bang up-front in a team workout and the line of the title vocally repeated by the leader. Following a spoken statement about "real" life and living, losing friends, and perpetual fear-mongering reared by governmental administrations, "Oof" is a similar instrumental theme to "Big M," but at the end El'Zabar and Brown speak out about "Big Favors." You hear and feel their pain and sorrow, with the tenor and violin in more understated moods -- slower, deep, heavy-hearted, and beautiful. The band would go into the studio two days later to produce an extended homage to Favors, feelings still fresh about the loss of a true giant in creative improvised music. Both CDs are good companions, well worth owning, and abundant in remembrances of the great man and musician, Malachi Favors.

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Artist: Wynton Marsalis
Album: Clasiic Wynton
Label: Sony
Year: 1998; release: November 10, 1998
Genre: classical music
Format, bitrate: mp3, 320 kbps
Time: 1h, 9 min, 36 sec
Size: 167 mb.

И снова в моей цветочной лавке (проездом из Ню-Ёрка в Бердичев) даёт концерты выдающийся трубач-классик, непонятно, каким образом попавший в список джазменов - Уинтон Марсалис!
А согласитесь, как трубач-классик он просто великолепен.



Итак...

     Artists: Chief Schabuttie Gilliam
     Album: Snakes Crawls At Night
     Label: Random Chance
     Recording : 2001-2002
     Release date : Mar 16, 2004
     Format/quality: mp3/ 320 kbps / 44,1Hz / Stereo
     Playtime: 46:32
     Size: 112 Mb



      Вся инфа о Chief Schabuttie Gilliame исходит из его уст. Родился в Египте в 1925 году.Соседи называют его "вождь",он регулярно выступает по всей Калифорнии, не говоря уже о родном Фениксе.Исповедует вудуизм, пишет справа налево, семь раз был женат и имеет 17 отпрысков.
Вот такой зашифрованный перец...

     Artist: Jack Teagarden
     Album: Meet Me Where They Play The Blues
     Label: Bethelehem/Membran
     Year: 1954, release: 2005
     Quality: MP3@320 kbps
     Size: 106 mb (sharebee)
     Total time: 49:24
     AMG Rating:





For this LP, trombonist Jack Teagarden is heard with three different groups on a dozen titles recorded in Nov. 1954. Although the supporting cast on various selections includes trumpeter Jimmy McPartland, clarinetists Edmond Hall and Kenny Davern, and Dick Cary, Norma Teagarden and Leonard Feather on pianos, Teagarden is the main star throughout. His trombone playing was still in prime form and his vocals give spirit to the music. Highpoints of this enjoyable Dixieland set include "Original Dixieland One Step," "Blue Funk," "Eccentric" and "Milenburg Joys." ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Artist: Charles Mingus
    Album: Mingus At Antibes
    Label: Atlantic
    Year: Jul 13, 1960; release: 1992
    Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz
    Format mp3, bitrate: 320 kb/s
    Time: 1:11:27
    Size: 174 Mb (covers)
    AMG Rating:

During 1960, bassist Charles Mingus led one of his finest bands, a pianoless quartet with Eric Dolphy (on alto, flute, and bass clarinet), trumpeter Ted Curson, and drummer Dannie Richmond. For this live concert, the band is augmented by the great tenor Booker Ervin for some stirring music. All of the music is memorable: "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting," "Prayer for Passive Resistance," "What Love," "Folk Forms No. 1," and "Better Get Hit in Yo' Soul." The immortal pianist Bud Powell sits in on a fine version of "I'll Remember April" and Dolphy and Ervin in particular generate a great deal of heat during some of their solos. - Scott Yanow at All Music Guide

     Artist: Various
     Album: Americans In Sweden - Stockholm Sweetnin'
     Label: Metronome JMLP 2-103 (Double LP)
     Year: 1949 - 1954
     Format, bitrate: mp3@320 kbs Covers Front/Inside/Back HD ~ Ripped from original LP
     Time: 51/50 min
     Size: 117,46+118,97 MB

     Artist: Various Artists
     Album: The Best of the Big Bands
     Label: Compendia / Intersound [CMPI 1040]
     Year: 1996
     Format, bitrate: MP3@320 kbps
     Time: 2:08:38
     Size: 290 Mb

     The Big Band Era began in the late 1930s. Nationally the musical sound was called "Swing." Orchestra leaders as Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller, Harry James, Count 'William' Basie and Duke Ellington each had their own style of sound. This is set part of Intersound's Legends series about Big Band Era.
     Performers include: Glenn Miller, Bennie Goodman, Harry James, Charlie Barnet.
     Personnel: Connie Haines, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Healy, Stuart Wade, Norton Sisters, The Pied Pipers, Vaughn Monroe, Bunny Berigan, Carl Grayson (vocals).

     Artists: Lem Winchester & The Ramsey Lewis Trio
     Album: Perform A Tribute To Clifford Brown
     Label: Argo
     Year: 1958
     Format, bitrate: mp3\320
     Size: 82.09 MB
     Total time:35m40s
     AMG rating




This out-of-print LP, Lem Winchester's first as a leader, matches his vibes with the early Ramsey Lewis trio on a tribute to the late trumpeter Clifford Brown. They perform two of Brownie's best compositions ("Joy Spring" and "Sandu"), four standards (including "Jordu"), the obscure "A Message from Boysie" and Winchester's "Where It Is." The little-known set (a good example of Ramsey Lewis' original piano style) is actually excellent and would be easily recommended to straightahead jazz fans if it could be found. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide