Basin Street Proudly Present - Peggy Lee

Advantages: A few really good song; Great singing; Amazing piano solos
Disadvantages: Some boring songs; A lot of intrumental songs

...This was the first album I'd bought by Peggy Lee, after hearing a few of her songs from the internet, and I was quite impressed. It may just be my taste, but in my opinion quite a lot of the songs are dull, and I almost always skip the instrumentals. Peggy Lee is brilliant, as usual, and George Shearing is enough to make you want to take up Piano. The album's best songs have to be - 2: I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City 7: Blue Prelude 8. You Came A Long Way From St Louis 9: Always True To You In My Fashion 11: Get Out Of Town (has an AMAZING piano solo) 13: Nobody's Heart Some of the songs take a while to get into, but you probably won't regret buying this album.... Read review

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Advantages: Class Acts
Disadvantages: None

...This is a compilation double CD, of classic jazz/blues tracks all by women singers from the past 5 decades. Issued originally in 2002 - remember when Norah Jones was all over the radio? Well, she is track number 1, on Side 1, with her hit song 'Don't Know Why'. Apart from this, most of the artisits I recognise from their own work, or hearing them over the years and you certainly get a lot of music for your money. ~~~ Track Listings Disc: 1 1. Norah Jones - Don't Know Why 2. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy 3. Aretha Franklin - All Night Long 4. Peggy Lee - The Man I Love 5. Nina Simone - I Wish I Knew How It Felt To Be Free 6. Sarah Vaughan - Lover Man 7. Ella Fitzgerald - Its Only A Paper Moon 8. Julie London - Go Slow 9. Nancy Wilson - The Nearness Of You 10. Billie Holiday - Georgia on My Mind 11. Dinah Washington - Baby Won... Read review

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Advantages: An Eclectic collection of tracks, always interesting and enjoyable.
Disadvantages: too little of Thomas Newmans score

...follows with the sumptuous and slinky 'Open the Door' and we get our first taste of jazz on this eclectic collection. The brilliant Gomez contribute track 10 'We Haven't Turned Around' and as much as I like Gomez and indeed this track, it doesn't quite sit on the album, not sure why, it just doesn't feel right, but then that's me just being weird no doubt. No, we haven't accidentally stumbled onto the South Pacific soundtrack album, Peggy Lee sings the beautiful 'Bali Ha'i' and the album ends with the atmospheric jewel of the film, the fantastic 'Any Other Name', the Thomas Newman track recently massacred by all and sundry with sub-Ibiza beats laid all over it. A superb listen, track down the score too, probably as an import...booo!... Read review

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