Piano Grand Master - Art Tatum

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

..."Whose Honey Are You?" Indian Summer, by Sidney Bechet is a simple jazz refrain, which is as warm and as welcome as an Indian Summer. Sidney Bechet, feel some people, is one of the neglected heroes of the Golden Age of Jazz. He should not be. Art Tatum's Stormy Weather is a good tune, much performed down to this day by score upon score of artistes. This version is a good, simple version of this classic tune. Just played on the piano, using a lilting style that is fully conversant with the jazz idiom. I paid about £5.00 for this, check on Ciao for the current price using the Ciao price comparison service.... Read review

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Advantages: Two outstanding peices of chamber music for an unusual combination of instruments
Disadvantages: On the surface quite contrasting works, listener must be openminded

...The work of Ligeti has been at the forefront of Western avant-garde since his escape from the oppressive communist regime of Hungary in 1956, and he is widely appreciated as one of the most outstanding contemporary composers. The Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano because it was born out of a three-year period of illness and writer's block after the completion of Le Grand Macabre in which time he laboured over a piano concerto but completed only two short harpsichord pieces (Continuum and Hungarian Rock), yet the result in 1982 was the Trio, one of the finest and most complex pieces written so far. His career up to this point had included such sucesses as his Requiem, Atmosphères and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001. Tiring of his own cluster-textural techniques and the avant-garde, Ligeti refreshed his compositional... Read review

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Advantages: One or two snippets of good music
Disadvantages: No catchy tunes as before, poor lyrics, lazy effort

...I have to admit that this is the first Teenage Fanclub album I purchased since the album 'Songs From Northern Britain' which, along with Grand Prix, is the band at their very best. However, Man Made is nowhere near the giddy heights of those two pieces of art. It's five years since they last made a record and this is the best they could do? There are some very weak songs on this album and arguably the best song on the album is the opener, It's All In My Mind but it's gradually downhill after that. 'Nowhere' has some rather poor lyrics and is pretty disjointed as a track whilst 'Only With You' has an unwelcome piano piece that goes on for what seems like an eternity after the song is done. Plink, plink, plink, for no reason other than to annoy you even more than the song does itself. I wouldn't recomment this album I'm afraid... Read review

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