Best Is Yet To Come, The - Bobby Wellins Quartet

Advantages: good album
Disadvantages: nothing

...track list and other up and coming albums. The Track list is as follows: 1 Intro 2 B.O.B.B.Y 3 Unspoken Word 4 Slow grind African 5 Airwaves 6 Love Jones 7 N.Y.C everything 8 Mantis 9 Slow grind French 10 Holocaust (silkworm) 12 Bobby Did it (Spanish Fly) 13 Handwriting on the wall 14 Kiss of a black widow 15 Slow Grind Italian 16 My lovin' is Digi 17 Domestic violence 18 Project Talk 19 Lab Drunk 20 Fuck what you think 21 Daily Routine Rza's music is pure and simple hard Hip Hop. This is made up of some unbelievable lyrics put over some even better music. Everyone one likes to bounce along to music and this is one of the best head bopping albums around. Hip Hop fans should all have heard of this as it contains vial tracks from Wu-Tang and Hip Hop history. There is a lot of gangster talk in their songs along with violent swearing so I... Read review

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Advantages: Some really good tracks
Disadvantages: Some are "so-so"

..., it is equally as sophisticated as Benny Goodman and his Quartet, yet it seems to be more vibrant and alive. Louis' singing as well as his trumpet playing really helps to kick this into a higher gear. The next track is Mame by Louis Armstrong. Jazz? Well, yes, it does still have a darn fine collection of jazz musicians backing Louis, so even though I would not call this particular piece "vintage jazz" it is still pleasant enough. Well, for the last track it is back to something that is undeniably reall vintage and classic jazz. It is Ballin' the Jack by one of the best jazz musicians of all time, Jelly Roll Morton. One of the greatest jazz pianists, singers and arrangers ever, he worked his way form playing ragtime piano in whorehouses to being one of the top jazz pianists of his day. I was lucky. I found this CD in an HMV sale at £1... Read review

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Advantages: Beautifully performed warm floating piano and perhaps the best packaging I have ever seen
Disadvantages: He's retired!

...quartet and his pride is understandable. It is no small achievement that he so effortlessly incorporates what could otherwise be tedious, hackneyed or cliched - all too often the use of any form of classical instrumentation in modern work that does not aspire to be classical ends up sounding like a piece of tacky light classical music or else is an insult to the ears. Yet Budd uses the string quartet to add further warmth and depth to his work The third strand of music in Avalon Sutra is the most archetypal of Budd's work: gentle piano based around the idea not so much of melody or rhythm but the precise use of sound and the insertion of delicate piano notes. It is perhaps best described as floating ambient piano, though this is in no way is fitting tribute to the music. Though in one sense it does quite adequately describe the manner... Read review

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