Gitanes Jazz 'round Midnight - Chet Baker

Advantages: Some cracking tracks by big names.
Disadvantages: Couple of tracks that do not belong.

...Love Supreme) - John Coltrane Disc: 2 1. Mad About the Boy - Dinah Washington 2. Good Life - Tony Bennett 3. Someone to Watch Over Me - Frank Sinatra 4. Misty - Sarah Vaughan (with Quincy Jones Orchestra) 5. Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday 6. Summertime - Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald 7. Tell Me All About It - Natalie Cole 8. The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto 9. Love and Affection - Courtney Pine (feat Kele Le Roc) 10. In the Mood - Glenn Miller 11. 'Round Midnight - Miles Davis 12. Just the Way You Are - Cleo Laine 13. Giblet Gravy - George Benson 14. Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 15. April in Paris - Count Basie & his Orchestra 16. Desafinado - Stan Getz 17. Just Friends - Charlie Parker 18. Everything Happens to Me - Chet Baker Also posted on Dooyoo by me... Read review

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Advantages: Great guitar, good jazz, relaxing
Disadvantages: few

...Martin Taylor is one of the - if not the - best jazz guitarists in the world. And that is not me talking, it is as voted, repeatedly, by jazz fans. He came to fame when he released his first album, "Taylor Made", in 1978 and was invited to tour with the great Stefan Grapelli, a partnership which continued through the 1980s. Taylor played on a number of albums with Stefan Grapelli but also went on to release several albums himself, some with his own band and others mainly solo. He has also worked with a number of other great musicians such as Chet Atkins (who features on three of the tracks on Portraits) Taylor is a self taught guitarist; he has developed a unique style of playing in which he picks several parts simultaneously. Listening to a solo piece, hearing a bass line, rhythm part and a lead melody all going at the same... Read review

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Advantages: Great jazz tunes from the Golden Age
Disadvantages: None

...than people like Charlie Parker. Doggin' Around, is another By Royal Appointment tune, this time from the orchestra of Count Basie. A rather lush, full sound, perhaps a little less avant-garde than Duke Ellington? Out of Nowhere by Coleman Hawkins makes use of jazz guitar (many of the jazz bands didn't) but this, combined with the other "traditional" instruments make for a satisfying jazz classic. Eventually Jango Rhinehart, the Gypsy/Roma jazz guitarist would change all that… Lester Young's Sad Eyes, is a no-nonsense jazz piece, with more than a nod to the Blues. Moving, firm piano, which moves round a central theme, soon joined by the other instruments to show how to make Sad Eyes glad again. Whose Honey Are You, by Fats Waller and his Rhythm starts with a smattering of scat singing, and then uses piano, rhythm, and jazz... Read review

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