Jiving The Blues Vol.2 (Performing Live At The Industriehalle, Graz, Austria 27 Dec 1954) - Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra

Often foolishly overlooked

Advantages: Small yet lively, a variety of things to do and a great place to be based
Disadvantages: none

Graz is Austria?s second city, with around 260,000 population, as well as 100,000 students which boost the population in term time. For a second city, that is not exactly massive, but nevertheless Graz has a certain je ne sais quoi. Having lived in Vienna for four and a half years, I have often headed down to Graz and have friends there, to revisit the city I first discovered in 1997-8 when I lived in Judenburg. Getting there: Graz is 2:30 direct by train (fahrplan.oebb.at has an online timetable) from Vienna (leaving from the Südbahnhof), with hourly trains, although every second hour you have to change in Brück an der Mur. The journey itself, over the Semmering pass, in particular the stretch between Semmering and Gloggnitz is well worth it. Unfortunately, when the Semmering tunnel is completed, some of this breathtaking journey ...

Morgenhund 23.01.2005 · Read full review
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The blues is most definately a feeling!

Advantages: Great variety-differen side of Jools
Disadvantages: some people may think it's too different?

Hey there Ciao! I'm going to review a CD of one of my favourite artists, the great Jools Holland. I'm sure all of you have heard of him somehow, as he has got himself everywhere at all times of the year; Later with Jools Holland, the Hootenanny at New Year, he was in the band Squeeze, and he did radio work, and countless gigs with his band, The Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. And it's the CD he did with them that I'm going to review! And it costs £11.99 if you're buying it new from www.amazon.co.uk, but you can get it for as little for £4 second hand! It's called Hop The Wag, and was released about 5 years ago. Now the first thing you notice is the slightly hippy themed front cover. It's basically Jools sitting in a slightly odd chair, in his usual nonchalant pose, and over the photo, the most crazy, most psychedelic, most funky drawing ...

MissTopaz 23.10.2005 · Read full review
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Not just for shopping!

Advantages: People wear traditional dress, lots to see and do, very pretty
Disadvantages: Steep cobbled streets, smoking allowed in public places

For the benefit of anyone who still doesn't know, my partner and I bought a little flat in Maribor in Slovenia at the end of last year. Over our last few visits we have been furnishing the flat and given the abundance of retail parks in the area you might be forgiven for thinking that this would be easy. The trouble is that although there are lots of retail parks in Slovenia they all have the same limited stores and so people tend to head over the border to shop. Depending on where they live, this might be to Italy (very stylish and very pricey), Hungary (cheap but not so stylish), Croatia (so-so, good quality but not much choice) or Austria (reasonable prices, good quality and lots of choice). People in Maribor tend to go to Austria and head for Graz, just fifty or so kilometres away. There's even a song that goes something like ...

fizzytom 10.04.2008 · Read full review
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