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Fats Weller Original 1939 Transcriptions

Advantages: For lovers of Jazz music
Disadvantages: May be not interesting to someone who dislike Jazz music.

...I like the music of Fats Weller, hence I liked a lot my first listening to this CD I bought in the year of the centennial, 2004. I have been listening to this Cd a few time since when I bought it. Problably you need a previous experience in listening jazz music, to fully enjoy this songs, but anyway it is a great music to listen to. I suggest you to buy it, at seen on ciao.co.uk My knowledge of Fats Weller This is music to dance, and not simply ...
...famous fans, the legend wants Fats Waller has always used only the pipe organ. Testifies that sound so unique that we find in Beale Street Blues where there is also the voice of extraordinary Alberta Hunter. But Fats Waller, really able Showmen, is also known for being one of the best pianists of "Stride Jazz" (the sound of Harlem) and, in fact, all the songs in this collection, although the structure typical of the "song form" represent an important ...

promos_123 21.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Fats Waller Vol.2 (Original 1939 Transcriptions) - Fats Waller

The Queen Of The Blues...

Advantages: Includes the most famous songs recorded by her
Disadvantages: Only for classic jazz/blues fans.

With World War Two in full swing, the shape of Western music was turning a significant corner which laid out the basis of music to come. Over in the States, black orientated music was climbing over the barriers that had held black and white music apart from each other. In the early 1940's, big bands of predominately black musicians devised a beat, which was soon to be titled 'jump blues.' It was a faster paced version of legendary blues, yet, this ...
...magnetic force which drew masses of people to the dance floors. Since it had been tagged to black blues, it wasn't long before it furnished the room of what we still know today as Rhythm and Blues. The main difference between these two genres was quite simple. Jump music had focused on the delightful and energetic musicians creating, fundamentally non vocal pieces. Musicians literally flew across the stage whilst still playing in tune, they jumped ...

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Review of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Dinah Washington

A Great Archive Let Down By Sequencing

Advantages: Fidelity is great, songwriting, guitar playing and vocals superb, thorough research
Disadvantages: Sequencing - the track order is frustrating

...music fans a like. The Complete Robert Johnson comes across like a standards song book, the contents of which has given birth to numerous cover versions from acclaimed and esteemed bluesmen and rockers from across the globe spanning six decades. There is however, one glaring disappointment with this set and that is with the sequencing. This is the most comprehensive collection of Johnson's material and as such there are alternate takes included. ...
...by side with their original counterparts which makes the whole very hard to listen to as each track is repeated, albeit a variant of the original. It still baffles me as to why the alternates were not on a separate disc from the originals. Even for me, a hardened fan of the genre, it makes for difficult listening if you using an old fashioned CD player. This is a wonderful and comprehensive archive but unfortunately does not work as a listening experience ...

Nixu1980 03.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Complete Recordings, The (All 41 Recordings) - Robert Johnson

An Older and Wiser Sequel

Advantages: Great voice, band
Disadvantages: None

...stronger with every listen. Feels Like Home with The Handsome Band and special guests. I am a big fan of Norah Jones. Her first album, Come Away with Me was an absolute classic. The album was certified diamond by the RIAA on February 15, 2005 having sold over 10 million copies in its first three years of release. It won five awards at the Grammy Awards of 2003, including "Record of the Year", "Album of the Year", and "Song of the Year" for "Don't ...
...to an article I read, Feels Like Home is the second album by jazz songwriter Norah Jones, released in 2004. It sold a million copies in the first week of its U.S. release, the first album to do so since Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again (2000) and it was the second best-selling album of 2004, with about 4 million copies sold. It sold 1,920,000 copies on its first week worldwide. Probably the most popular song from the album is track number ...

Spottydog11 29.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Feels Like Home - Norah Jones

Blues from Brum

Advantages: Awesome talent, Blues solos
Disadvantages: Joanne Taylor Shaw sounds better???? It's really that good that's my only gripe

...I would never hear....a British white girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!!! Not only was I in total shock but it took me a good few minutes to ask her how long she had been playing like that ? "A few years" she replied "how old are you now" I asked "sixteen she said. I woke up a few seconds later on the floor. **White Sugar** Now 23 years old Joanne Shaw Taylor released her debut ...
...To Be? Time Has Come White Sugar Kiss The Ground Goodbye Heavy Heart Watch 'em Burn Blackest Day Joanne get's things started with "Going Home" which opens with a gut wrenching "Sea Sick Steve" like blues riff. the bass comes kicking in and then the drums crash in before you get the real guitar brilliance, For someone of 23 her vocal is all the more remarkable, her raspy smoky vocal belies her age and has all the power and grace of someone nearly ...

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Review of White Sugar - Joanne Shaw Taylor