Advantages: Good selection of chocolates at a fair price Disadvantages: none in my view
Review of Thornton's Moments chocolate selection
My other half had his birthday last month and he was given a box of these chocolates by my daughter. She is a chocoholic and was hoping (I presume) that he would open them straightaway and let her dive in.....She was sorely disappointed as he didn't! Anyway on with the review!
The Product
A boxed selection of six different Thornton's Chocolates. The box I am reviewing is the 250g size, however the chocolates are also available as 650g box in supermarkets or a 650g bowl on the manufacturer's website.
Packaging and Contents
Moments come in a slightly out of the ordinary box, flat on the reverse, yet semi domed at the front. The recyclable cardboard box is wrapped in a clear cellophane wrapper. The box is rather distinctive as it is decorated with images of the actual chocolates ...
Advantages: Some Great Instrumentals Disadvantages: Adult Content
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******Background on the Movie******
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Idle Hands is classed as a comedy/horror, though in my opinion, it is more teen comedy than anything else. It is also rated an 18, as is the soundtrack due to numerous adult content in the lyrics (more information below)
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Advantages: A bit like Red Dwarf Disadvantages: Not enough like Red Dwarf
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Product Information for "Idle Moments [Remastered] - Grant Green" »
Product details
Title
Idle Moments [Remastered]
Performer
Grant Green
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Guitar
Release Date
14/06/1999
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1964
Label / Distributor
Blue Note / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Engineer
Rudy Van Gelder
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724349900325
Catalogue Number
4990032
Additional notes
Album Notes
The Rudy Van Gelder Edition of IDLE MOMENTS includes an essay by Bob Blumenthal. Personnel: Grant Green (guitar); Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Duke Pearson (piano); Bob Cranshaw (bass); Al Harewood (drums). Producer: Alfred Lion. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 4 & 11, 1963. Includes liner notes by Duke Pearson and Bob Blumenthal. Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Rudy Van Gelder (Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey). This is part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder Editions series. It was always a part of Blue Note's development and marketing to introduce new artists as sidemen on more well-known leaders' projects before giving them dates of their own. The system worked pretty well, and the irony is that a release like 1963's IDLE MOMENTS looks likes more of an all-star session in retrospect. Sure, we get to hear Grant Green stretching out. But we also get Bobby Hutcherson and Joe Henderson, who were just winning their first Downbeat polls at the time. Green himself had come through this system, appearing with organ combos and on other hard bop sessions, before graduating to his own Blue Note dates. IDLE MOMENTS may be one of his finest dates in the studio, simply on the strength of the elegant melancholy of the title cut and the deep groove the band settles into on "Django." Green's playing has much in common with that of such labelmates as saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and pianist Gene Harris. He manages to bring solid bebop sensibilities to a spare, down-home approach and delivers it all with an oaken tone at once dry, dark, and full of character.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Idle Moments
2.
Jean De Fleur
3.
Django
4.
Nomad
5.
Jean De Fleur (alternate take)
6.
Django (alternate take)
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