Jazz New Orleans Style - Various Artists

Advantages: Everything!
Disadvantages: i can't think of one

...I absolutey adore this album, the best money i have ever spent. I bought this album only a few months ago after being introduces to jazz and funk, and i'm still not bored of it. I love it, no matter how bad your days been it really gets you up and dancing. It contains some amazing artists like the Meters, Huey Piano Smith, Explosions, and Eddie Bo. I bought is for only £8 including postage, its brilliant. It doesn't matter what kind of music your normally into, i think this is something everyone can enjoy at all ages. Its great to get dancing to but really good for relxaing too, i always have it on in the background to study. If you haven't already got one, its the perfect CD to start your Funk collection. It also comes with a great booklet that tells you all about the style of music and the different artist on the CD to give you more... Read review

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

...of microphones was to he left, the other two the right. Mostly, they didn't fail, so the company was left with two good master discs. In order not to waste them, they would produce record pressings from both masters, labelling them up to differentiate the two masters. Apparently a jazz historian found out about this and was able, by tracking down two records of the same performance, but produced from the different masters, to re-master them as a brand new stereo release, using the original recordings. The St Louis Shuffle from Fletcher Henderson is a good example of the St Louis style of jazz, combining jazz and blues. Actually, Fletcher Henderson did more than this, he really put his own mark on this, by a variety of musical techniques and instruments. Based on this tune, I think he was robably more genuinely experimental than people like Charlie... Read review

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Advantages: everything - a fantastic album
Disadvantages: may lead to a lifestyle rethink!

...'s in that region - but he's been around since the seventies if I'm not mistaking and whatever he's learnt in all those years has certainly paid off in this twenty-first century offering. Ever seen 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' - the dire Francis Ford Coppola effort featuring an hilarious attempt at an English accent by Keanu Reeves? If you have, you may remember the Renfield character - the crazy guy in the mental asylum who spends his time addressing his absent master Dracula and gobbling flies. Well - that's Tom Waits. And not only is it an impressive turn by Singer-turned-actor standards, it's a somewhat appropraitely bizarre introduction to the world of Mr Thomas Waits esq. This world is a dark and disturbing one, but not in a way that's bereft of black humour or scintillating style. Imagine darkest New Orleans. Imagine seedy jazz bars. Imagine... Read review

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