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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: Lively, original and " funky fresssh "...
Disadvantages: i wouldn't actually call it sergio mendez, due to the fact that, Will.i.am from the black eyed pea's features in over half of the songs !!!

...Bencro feat. Marcelo D2 10. Timeless feat. India Arie 11. Loose End feat. Justin Timerlake, Paroahe Mon... 12. Fo Hop feat. Cuinga 13. Lamento feat. Maogani Quaret 14. Hey Girl 15. Yes, Yes Yall feat. Black Though, Chali 2na and Will.I.Am all 15 tracks are brilliant, but my person favourites are 01. 02. 07. 08. 11. 13. 14. 15. i like these the best because they are the liveliest - except 11. i like that one because it has mind blowing ...
...a CD without never hearing it, but this CD was calling out to me, from the shelf, it was just like of that kinder bueno advert " eat me eat me" it was just saying, " buy me, buy me listen to me, listen to me..." so i just went with my instinct, and bought it... i really advise you to buy this, and im not just saying it because it like it soo much, im saying it because i think that this album might change the peoples veiws in the worls like it has ... Read review

Advantages: Some great musicianship
Disadvantages: Never really lets go

Mind Transplant was an album by Alphonse Mouzon featuirng Tommy Bolin. The strange character that is Alphonse - a jazz fusion drummer who is of Afro-American, French and Blackfoot Indian descent oozes funkiness. I tried to get into this album but having listened to Billy Cobham's Spectrum, I just couldn't help but compare the two and this one came off worst. Whilst Tommy Bolin's guitar work is as good as ever on this album, you feel that he is somewhat ...
...or amazing solo. Mind Transplant seems rather caged for me and whilst it has undoubtedly good musicianship and some funkyness, it's not as free-flowing as some of its contemporaries. 1. Mind Transplant 2. Snow Sound 3. Carbon Dioxide 4. Ascorbic Acid 5. Happiness Is Loving You 6. Some Of The Things Pepole Do 7. Golden Rainbows 8. Nitroglycerin ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing collaboration, so funky
Disadvantages: None

...& Trumpet John Tropea - Guitar Ron Carter - Acoustic bass Ray Barretto - Congas Track List Quadrant 4 Searching For the Right Door Spectrum Anxiety Taurian Matador Stratus To the Women of My Life Le Lis Snoopy's Search Red Baron ... Read review

Advantages: Near perfect saxophony.
Disadvantages: Too smooth.

...Very Best of Stan Getz. Sax Moods. The cost of this double CD varies, I actually got mine from a boot sale for £3, it can be bought on Amazon for less than a fiver. Stan Getz, to me, on tenor sax is like Kenny G is to soprano, Mr smooth. There is no doubt that this has been both his accolade and his downfall. Traditional jazz fans may well find him too smooth, yet his pedigree and grounding was in some of the more bebop style bands. His 'tone' ...
...pretty near perfect, now personally I like something a little more 'off' perfect. This double CD is broadly (though not completely) split into two genres. The first CD is more traditional jazz tunes and ballads whilst the 2nd CD is dominated by Latin, Bossa Nova type tunes, not my favourite genre (CD 2). The thing I do like about this double CD is that there is a whole bunch of other incredibly talented musicians her such as: Astrud Gilberto (vocals), ... Read review