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got this one several weeks ago from Tiggi....sorry its taken so long to give it a spin Tiggster!
always liked Billie but until now never owned any so this was a real treat to get in the mail...in fact never really knew where to start with her music, so i guess this one solves the problem..10 cd set, 186 tracks.
seriously, i can listen to Billie, Nina Simone,John Coltrane and Etta James all day long if given the chance.
anyway, this is the first disc in the set of ten, nothing on here i do not like, just a steady album of great jazz sounds,
my pick of the tracks are listed with links below:
i wished on the moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD7b1ts2fUg audio
a sunbonnet blue and a yellow straw hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDTQmd9FTWA audio
what a night,what a moon, what a girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTkoMdY0Eds audio
eeny meeny miney moo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02URJWMT0wU audio
life begins when you're in love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXG3uUx70cY audio
these foolish things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_20tKuKtF8 audio
album rating: 2.1
Brilliant, Crazyman !!
Really glad they've found a good new home...
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HARRY CONNICK Jnr "when harry met sally" cd,1989.
Harry's fourth album and the only one i have, never been a big fan of what he does but millions do...so what do i know!?
got this one in a discount bin for a couple of track that i did like.
this is Harry's album of old 1940s standards for the film of the same name, nothing i love on this one but i do like six of the ten tracks,still it just fsails to make the pass mark on the MHRS.
he picked up a Grammy for the album for "best jazz vocal", allmusic rates this one 4.5/5 or 2.7 on the rating scale MH and I use....i think they are way off the mark, but hey, its only opinion!
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: winter wonderland(instrumental)
best track: it had to be you
tracks:
1. it had to be you **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ssBGj7_qk live
2. love is here to stay *
3. stompin all the way(instrumental) **
4. but bad for me *
5. winter wonderland(instrumental) *
6. dont get around much anymore **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYlsPKJSNQQ live
7. autumn in new york(instrumental) **
8. i could write a book **
9. lets call the whole thing off **
10.it had to be you(instrumental) *
11.where or when *
3s=0
2s=6
1s=5
rating: 1.6
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Abdullah Ibrahim's "Water from an Ancient Well"
Man, this guy has got some serious piano chops... He was one of the pioneers of 'cape jazz' a musical movement in South Africa during the time of apartheid. All of his work is really great, and maybe some of you Jazz lovers out there will find it a refreshing new sound 
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Ornette Coleman-Skies of America
Ornette's take on modern classical. Needless to say, it's very good
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^hhnnggggg yesplease. That's about as greasy as you get.
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Now if only we could listen properly we'd get an idea of what its really about.
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GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS "greatest hits-30 years of rock" cd,2004
wasnt sure whether to put this in the blues or in classic rock....but allmusic describes these guys as blues and ninety percent of their chart success came on the Billboard Blues charts...so here they belong.
another one Dani picked to slip in the machine the other day.
i guess Dani grew up listening to these guys also...George was a regular on the stereo in pubs and clubs when we were growing up in our late teens, and plenty of covers bands in Perth covered a few of their songs.
another reasonable album IMO, my problem though, is that i either love or dislike their songs, not much inbetween for me, thus the imbalance in the rating scores of 1,2 and 3 below....
some real raw,ragged and sleazy blues rock numbers here...most fo which revolve around the subject of drinking, anumber of live covers on the set also, from Jerry Lee's "rockin my life away" through "Willie & The Hand Jive", "Reelin' And Rockin'".....im guessing you get the picture of the sound these guys make...
i guess the most well known track here is "bad to the bone" which was used in Schwartzenegger's first "terminator" movie with great effect.
some great blues riffs here and some mighty fine pounding beats to boot....
Thorogood appaers to have had more chart success here in Australia than in the US, and certainly a lot more than in the UK where over his entire career he has only bothered the charts for one solitary week!
all up a very good and also very bad album...with six "loves", six "dislikes" and only three "likes" giving an overall score of 2.0.
selected tracks from the album:
one bourbon,one scotch, one beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWlSMFNRag live
bad to the bone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VsoxT_FUY live
i drink alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8E7aFdsSIY live
madison blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1f3Ye9AEmk live
get a haircut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adz1aWRsDw8 audio
the sky is crying
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL-R52GBH3U live
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Mingus at Antibes-Charles Mingus
After working my way through a good bit of his solo career, I thought it was time I look into his many, many live albums. This is the one I've read about the most, so I chose to go into it first. Excellent stuff, the version of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" on this one makes the already brilliant original even more exciting
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That's why I enjoy the live version ...it enhances the studio version mtthwibrahim Wrote:Mingus at Antibes-Charles Mingus
After working my way through a good bit of his solo career, I thought it was time I look into his many, many live albums. This is the one I've read about the most, so I chose to go into it first. Excellent stuff, the version of "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" on this one makes the already brilliant original even more exciting
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JAN GARBAREK GROUP - Dresden - In Concert (2009)
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Jan Garbarek has long been a favorite musician of mine since 1975 when I first heard his evocative contemporary jazz fusion album Dansere. Garbarek is from Norway and is a virtuoso on tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute. He has released more than thirty albums as a leader and collaborated on several other albums including ones with the legendary jazz pianist Keith Jarrett.
Garbarek at the tender age of 64 years still has massive chops and range as a saxophonist. His inventiveness and originality are a pleasure to listen to. The music on this double live set recorded in Dresden, Germany is buoyed by Rainer Bruninghaus, his lifelong German temporary accompanist on piano and keyboards, Manu Katche the phenomenal French drummer who has played as a guest musician with Peter Gabriel and Joan Armatrading , just to name a very few as well as the young upcoming Brazilian electric bassist Yuri Daniel.
Garbarek's repertoire is difficult to pin down. Straight ahead bebop jazz, avant garde free jazz, classical jazz, Norwegian folk, jazz fusion and Brazilian samba. He is known as a major world music musician with collaborations with international musicians from all over the globe.
I have found that everyone of his albums and collaborations are a true representation of fresh new music that never disappoints or falls short !
As a sidebar he is the proud father of the major Norwegian female pop rock star Anja Garbarek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI_CInaVezs - Twelve Moons audio from the Dresden Concert
All Music rating .....4.5/5
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