At The Mayfair Hotel 1927-1935 - Ambrose & His Orchestra

Advantages: great big band music
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...series Come Dancing, winning him 12 Car Allen Awards. Glenn Miller? Glenn Miller was born in the USA in 1904. He started to learn how to play the trombone and had such a love for music, he joined the Ben Pollack Orchestra, where he started to write his own music. Glenn also played with people like Benny Goodman and Ray Nobel. In 1937, he formed his own band, playing at some hotels, on the radio and did some recordings. He formed his own Orchestra in 1938, this Orchestra became the core to what we know now as the Glenn Miller Orchestra. This is when he won his first Gold Disc for "Chattanooga Choo Choo". During the was Glenn helped the war effort. His last public proformance was in 1942, when he joined the army and was assigned to the Army Specialist Corps, he then transferred to the Army Air Corps. It was here that he organized... Read review

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...I would like to make some comments to Lucifer regarding his review that I read the other day (ref. Lucifer-sun-of-the-morning, 12 February 2006). Lucifer, With a name like ‘The Guitar Orchestra’, intelligence would tell anyone with an ounce of it that this is an album concentrating on the use of guitars, and with the exception of percussion, that is exactly what it achieves. Nowhere do the credits say ‘Chris Baylis and the Guitar Orchestra’, nor is he calling himself an orchestra – the guitars are the orchestra (there’s a clue in the name if this is confusing). He merely plays the guitars that make up this orchestra. Furthermore, the album is dedicated to the memory of Leo Fender, NOT the Bamboo Man. If criticisms must be made, at least get the facts straight. To say this is self-indulgent is correct – how else would a serious... Read review

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Advantages: Great variety-differen side of Jools
Disadvantages: some people may think it's too different?

...Hey there Ciao! I'm going to review a CD of one of my favourite artists, the great Jools Holland. I'm sure all of you have heard of him somehow, as he has got himself everywhere at all times of the year; Later with Jools Holland, the Hootenanny at New Year, he was in the band Squeeze, and he did radio work, and countless gigs with his band, The Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. And it's the CD he did with them that I'm going to review! And it costs £11.99 if you're buying it new from www.amazon.co.uk, but you can get it for as little for £4 second hand! It's called Hop The Wag, and was released about 5 years ago. Now the first thing you notice is the slightly hippy themed front cover. It's basically Jools sitting in a slightly odd chair, in his usual nonchalant pose, and over the photo, the most crazy, most psychedelic, most funky drawing... Read review

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