Midnight Jazz Chill Out - Various Artists

Advantages: Everything; up there with the best of them
Disadvantages: You have to change disc!

...I bought this in 2006 for £5. This is one seriously chilled album, featuring many unheard of artists. It has 30 tracks in total. The design is simple, the packaging minimal. There is over 2 hours of tunes on here. I would compare this to Red Jerry's "Deep and Chilled Euphoria" from 2001. The tracks on here are more recent, one of them "Kota" by Bonobo being featured on an O2 advert some years ago. It has happy parts, sad parts and parts that allow you to reflect. "Shake It Loose" by Dolphin Boy takes your mind to another dimension. "Only Hush" by Nostalgia 77 sounds very underground and shady. But "Kota" must be one the top tracks, simple and non-mainstream. All in all a fabulous album!... Read review

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...For me good Chill Out music is the kind that sometimes makes your hair stand on end at the back of your neck. The tracks are very individual one persons list can be totaly different both in tempo and genre to another person. I like to think I have a wide and varied taste in music. I was one of those people who bought Rhinestone Cowboy by Rikki and Daz. Seventies and eighties disco are also among my favourites. Chill out or Relaxation music though is very different. For starters it is very important to me as I need to relax at least once a day, the kind of music I listen to relates to how well I can relax. So here it is, my top ten, may not be everyones cup of tea but it works for me. ~~~ 1. Yeha Noha - Sacred spirit. This has to be my favourite, it is Native American in origin although it has been... Read review

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Disadvantages: There are none

...A History of Jazz just has got to be one of the most comprehensive programmes on the history of jazz that I have ever come across. It is subtitled Bluesland A portrait In American Music. It shows the very heavy Blues influence on the original forms of jazz. The first section is called: Everybody got the Blues. It starts with a haunting Blues refrain, as the camera look along some railroad tracks to some plaintive blues music. The camera then shows some typical scenes of life in the south of America. A steam train, black people working on the farms and playing and singing the blues. Then, comes the introduction to the programme, proper, by the host, Keith David, with Albert Murray and Robert Palmer. Keith David points out that everyone gets the blues, and that everyone develops methods of coping with the blues. His favourite... Read review

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