Royal Wedding Suite, A - Oscar Peterson

Advantages: Close to shopping centre/ city centre
Disadvantages: Shops close early, rooms slightly pricey

...One one of my many visits to beautiful Trinidad, I decided to try the Royal Palm Suite Hotel in Maraval. Having stayed in quite a few hotels and having heard positive reviews from family members, I decided to give it a shot and hopefully have an enjoyable stay. The hotel is mid sized with 70 or so rooms or suites, and is a family run local hotel. The staff were very helpful and friendly and always had a smile or a kind word. *LOCATION* The hotel is a 20 minute drive from the Piarco International airport and taxis are readily availabe at the airport at a cost of around £15 (guests can make prior arrangements to be met at the airport by the hotel's in-house taxi service as well). Maraval is a fairly affluent area in the city with some very beautifu, large and expensive houses nearby. Nestled between the Maraval hills, the hotel is... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: Fantastic album, range of pieces
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit expensive for a 30 year old album

...I only got into jazz very recently myself and I thought I'd use the platform of ciao to try and persuade others who may not have listened to it before to give it a go too. The CD I'm reviewing was chosen by me purely on the basis on the fact that I vaguely knew the name of the pianist from other jazz articles I'd read and the fact that I love jazz music where the piano is the main solo instrument. The CD Oscar Peterson's 'Tracks' is not a new release. In fact it was originally released in 1971. The actual CD I'm reviewing has been digitally remastered and the tracks in no way sound dated; either in quality or in musical style. But this is something I will come on to in more detail later on in this review? I have to say the cover to this CD seems uninspiring. Simply showing a side profile of a face (perhaps Peterson... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: very exciting music
Disadvantages: almost never

...I write this because Iam the fanatic Mr Peterson ,He is the master of jazz specially pianist musicians....and my review hope for sharing to my friends in ciao.thank you for everybody for the critical to my review and I learn to written in english one by one and I try can write this review about my master piano oscar peterson. the first, I like this musician cause he is (Mr Peterson) is the greatest at the moment forever.Oscar peterson can jazz lover be histerical when hear the petersons fingers dance in the tuts piano.very very amazing and attractive.everybody must be agree when peterson is the genius man beside the master piano,like duke ellington together make into the jazz can be the famous music in the world.the improvisations skill can do taste for the jazz lover.one thing I can tell that the super genius for improvisations... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful