Simply Smooth Jazz - Various Artists

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...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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...I am always a sucker for new beauty gadgets, some turn out to be great and fulfil what they promise to do others turn out to be a complete waste of money. The Babyliss turned out to be a wonderful buy I have always trusted in the quality of Babyliss products and they are always quite reasonably priced, and this definitely is another winning product in my experience. First of all I must say that I am fair and am not very hairy so I can?t say how it would be on tougher hairs. The Babyliss is a hand held machine a bit like a small travel hair dryer with a round head at the end where you attach the exfoliating pads. It is very simple to use you just turn it on and smooth it over your legs and the head gently rotates ,the pads are like fine sandpaper that gently take the hair off, it just feels like rubbing fine sandpaper on your... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic range of great tunes and songs
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...(So Many Times and Peg 'o' My Heart) show the smooth and terribly sophisticated side of Jack Teagarden's music, whilst the next track, Swingin' on the teagarden Gate, is entirely different. So full of the jazz ethos that you can almost see the people dancing to it. So Many Times and Peg 'o' My Heart are for slow dancing. Then it's back to the smoother sound with Teagarden's rather melancholy Can't we Talk It Over, a ballad about a young man bemoaning the fact that he and his girlfriend are on the verge of splitting up. After four great (but different)classics from Teagarden we next hear from a young Louis Armstrong. The first track from Louis is Melancholy Blues. This is a great blues and jazz crossover. Yes, it is jazz, but yes, at the same time it could pass muster for a blues classic, too. The other Three tracks form Louis... Read review

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