Jazz & Blues

Advantages: Virtuoso trumpet at its best
Disadvantages: Only the re-released version has the sound quality it deserves

...record shop. I spotted "A Kind Blue" and instantly withdrew my wallet and the CD was mine. As readers you will probably like to know about the music is like! Well simply it is divine, some find Miles Davis's music too intense and muddled, but it takes either an uninterested listener to ignore this or a fascinated listener to understand and appreciate it, I hope that the buyer will lean towards the latter of these two opposites. ... Read review

Advantages: Make you sways, chill out and feel romantic
Disadvantages: Not the songs to listen in the overexcited situation

...of wine without any intrusions. Come Away With Me is not a CD you would put on if you need an adrenaline boost. It's one to put on if you need to relax after work or simply in a romantic circumstance because it sways. After a year on the shelves the album has sold more than 6 million copies and won eight Grammy Awards. Five individual awards and Three other Grammys. Norah Jones won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, COME AWAY WITH ME won ...
...began recording the songs of Come Away With Me in May 2001 with producer Craig Street then in In August 2001 with Arif Mardin. The CD: The CD release February 26, 2002 Record Label: Blue Note Records (USA) Produced by Arif Mardin Engineered by Jay Newland Except tracks 1 & 7: Produced by Arif Mardin with original tracks produced by Norah Jones and Jay Newland. Except tracks 2, 4 & 13: Produced by Norah Jones and Jay Newland with original tracks ... Read review

Advantages: fantastic voice and a chilled out feel
Disadvantages: maybe too laid back in places

There is a familiar concept banded around in musical circles known as… "The difficult second album". It is a phenomenon that rightly haunts many artists and there is good reason for it. Imagine you are a band or artist struggling round the circuit for years writing your material as your own whim and desire takes you, testing those songs in front of live audiences for years and then one day it happens, the contract is signed, the studio is booked ...
...very little, the problem arises a year later when the men in the suits call a meeting with you to say they want a follow up album that pushes you even further into the public eye, a few more singles like the last ones and a worthy follow up to the debut album. Now you have to replicate in a matter of months for this album what it was that you spent years over for the first album. Hence the concept of a difficult second album. Often in a rush to follow ... Read review

Advantages: takes you to a time in the past
Disadvantages: has to be enjoyed at the right time/place

I first heard this album sitting in my local music shop with two male friends and my intial reaction was one of blushes...the power of the truley sensual voice of Peyreux was sufficient for me to have to leave the shop,so beautiful her tone,and classical the lyrics I thought my friends would only think id suggested listening to this as a means of seduction. She posseses a quality known to real jazz/blues singers to find somewhere deep inside her ...
...away and feel a part of a world where love, sex and sensuality are what lifes about. The french are known for their ability to transcend into the realms of romanticism and this is where I want to be, barefoot in paris listening to my loves ambitions, pains and woes sung like honey by a dark mysterious woman in a smoke filled bar.I will always listen to this album and its one for stolen moments of enjoyment and appreciation of a truley beautiful lyricist. ... Read review

Advantages: Includes their most popular songs.
Disadvantages: Several weaker tracks and ommisions.

This CD sits alongside Best Of... 2 to present pretty much definitive collection of Smiths tracks. Of the two, this is perhaps slightly the weaker, although it does include some of their most well-known and generally popular songs, such as This Charming Man and How Soon Is Now. These excellent tracks though are offset by the odd inclusion of some of their weaker material which lets the album down slightly. As a collection, you really need this (14 ...
...greatest songs. Despite this, this is a good CD with some of their best work on. The Singles CD is the main alternative, yet suffers the same problem only with ~20 tracks compared to the 28 offered by this and Best Of... 2. Still a classic collection though. ... Read review