Classic New Orleans Jazz Vol.1 - George Lewis & The Mustache Stompers

George Benson - Jazz Master

Advantages: Amazing vocals, guitar playing, strong melodies
Disadvantages: Sadly a tendency towards blandness

an uptempo smooth jazz pop track of the period - the production in particular is very much mid 1980s with sounds popping up all over the place. Benson's voice is as good as always and this is a catchy song, if not a classic. "On Broadway (Ao Vivo)" Benson's version of the Drifter's classic 1963 hit. Benson does a fantastic job with this - you can imagine walking down New York's most famous thoroughfare and what you would see when you hear Benson sing and play. His vocals on this are particularly strong as he segues seamlessly from singing words to scat. Benson rightfully won a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance for this song. Finally This album isn't perfect - Benson did do some turkeys in his time in the spotlight - when he stays in the realm of the bland, it's pretty dull. However when he is allowed to do what is distinctively ...

rosebud2001 13.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Very Best Of George Benson, The (The Greatest Hits Of All) - George Benson

2007: New Orleans is recovering & worth visiting!

Advantages: Still the most beautiful city in the US
Disadvantages: Hurricane Katrina

Reading the other site reviews, it seems like all of them were probably written before Hurricane Katrina did its job on New Orleans. I've been back there several times since the storm, and have a few thoughts. I myself am an expatriate New Orleanian. Born and raised there, I've lived away for several decades, but still have ties and visit occasionally. As it happened, one of those visits was on the weekend before Hurricane Katrina hit. I've been back three times since then, and have seen the city slowly put itself back together. There's no sugar coating it: Katrina did a number on the city. The house I grew up in was lucky: it was on the edge of the flood zone (which covered nearly the entire city, except for the older parts of town hugging the Mississippi River), and so only (only!) had four feet (1.3 meters) of flooding ...

alexlint 04.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of New Orleans

A Classic Memory...

Advantages: Sound Quality, The Features...
Disadvantages: The Podcast Feature Is A Little Useless...

on your iPod , but you don't just have a song menu , you have plenty of other song choices to choose from such as the Artists list , where you can choose s song by any artist on your iPod. The Albums list , where you can pick a track to play by selecting it from where the album was downloaded or imported to your iPod , which can be very handy to choose different versions of the song you want if you have different remixes. Genres , this means that whatever type of music you have on your iPod , it is listen and you can choose this in the music menu like you do to each of the other music listings , and this genre menu means that you can choose the type of music on your iPod , whether it be Classical to Jazz , Rock to Pop , you can track down the types of songs you have on your iPod Classic right here in this menu!!!... Composers ...

Jordan2493 14.09.2008 · Read full review
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