BBC Jazz Awards 2007 - Various Artists

Advantages: Many different types of rock and fantstic artists - the best of 2006 and 2007
Disadvantages: Could have more hardrock artists in and and second CD hasn't as much good artists in

...A fantastic CD with lot's of different kinds of rock. The best bands of 2006 and 2007 put in one CD. Artists like Snow Patrol, Razorlight, The Fratellies, The Arctic Monkeys, Automatic, The Ordinary Boys, The Killers, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks and the list goes on. Has two CD's and has 40 tracks, 20 on each CD. Has new up coming artist such as Wolfmother. has many artists winners from the Brits: The Killers who won best national CD and best national band, The Arctic Monkeys won best British CD and best British band. The Fratellis won an award too and many more Brit award winning artists. A fantastic purchase well worth its money. A great buy. I recommend definitely to people anywhere between 8 and 100 if they enjoy that kind of music. It even has some live performing artists such as 'The Arctic Monkeys' on tour... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: very up beat tracks catchy and memorable
Disadvantages: some poor covers but overall brilliant

...his 3rd album twenty something which soon after turned platinum and was the number 1 selling jazz studio album ever from the united kingdom an amazing feat for the 23 year old at the time. Since then Jaimie has won several awards including the rising star award in 2003, BBC jazz award and the BBC radio 2 artist of the year as voted by listeners and finally in 2007 he won the Ronnie Scotts Jazz Award. So thats Jamie now a bit more about the album. Now at first i have to say i was a bit skeptical about the album as i thought he was just another average talent that has been pushed into the star light having a couple of good songs only to realize later that he isn't actually that good so lets just say i wasn't really expecting a lot . However what i did get blew me away the songs had be singing along and dancing before i even new them... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: 154 minutes of pure class music
Disadvantages: NONE, none none none none none

...What a cool cd. There isn’t much traditional jazz- as the CD explains – it’s a compilation of what jazz created – acid jazz, breakbeat, hip-hop and soul. All the songs on the 2 CDs (which both last 77mins – there is good value for money) are classics – some which you will instantly recognise , and some which you will recognise covers of. There are all sorts of artists on the double cd – you have modern artists like Jamiroquai and Brand New Heavies, and some really cool old artists – Bill Wyman’s there – singing “Just the Two of Us” (gorgeous), and Herbie Hancock with Chameleon. There are also 2 themes – Bob James - Angela (from Taxi) and James Taylor Quartet – theme from Starsky & Hutch (a damn cool theme tune). The blurb says “it’s jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop rolled into one. What you have here is a collection of its finest... Read review

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