Ten Years Ago - Richard Galliano & Brussels Jazz Orchestra

The Golden Years of Jazz Volume 5

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

-performed and fluid love song. Sadly the female singer with the honey-dripping tones is not credited on this CD. There's Harry James and his Orchestra with a waltz time piece called Carnival of Vencie, with some trumpet playing that is straight out of the trumpet section of a classical orchestra. There's Moonlight in Vermont sung by Ella Fitzgerald. If you haven't heard her sing, hear this song and you'll know why Ella Fitzgerald is so well-loved to this day by people from all over the year. Prisoner of Love by Teddy Wilson is good, solid jazz fare. A simple rhythm, slightly muted trumpet and lilting piano. Eventually, the music is joined by a female singer with a voice that is slightly reminiscent of Mae West. Closing Hour Blues by Meade Lux Lewis is a blues jazz cross-over. Somehow the crackles from the original master recording just add ...

Martinscholes 27.11.2005 · Read full review
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Brussels on a budget

Advantages: easy to get to, the Grand Place
Disadvantages: Mannakin Pis is dissapointing, takcy tourist shops

powdered stuff but I did not mind. Brussels is quite a small city and can be a little bit confusing at first. You can walk but the metro (under ground train) is the best way to get about. I would recommend getting a multiple journey pass. There were weekly ones and day passes as well as multiple journey ones. We bought a ten journey pass for just under 10 euros. It could be used by multiple people by just inserting it in the slot twice or more. The metro itself was fairly easy to use and I thought the energy saving escalators that only start when people step on them were a brilliant idea. Only being in the city for less than a day we were severely limited in what we could actually do. I would have loved to see the Art Nouveau areas of the city, the cartoon museum featuring Tin Tin, flea markets and the insides of lots of pubs and bars. I ...

duskmaiden 27.06.2003 (30.08.2009) · Read full review
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Are You Smarter Than a Ten Year Old? Find out on the Nintendo DS

Advantages: Entertaining for a short while
Disadvantages: Badly programmed, low production quality, uninspiring sound and graphics

This review is for the Nintendo DS game, Are You Smarter Than a Ten Year Old? The game is based on the Sky One television quiz show, presented by Noel Edmonds. The aim of the game is to answer questions in order to get yourself to a prize of 100,000 pounds, and then you can gamble this to win 250,000 pounds. You can gain the help of six different children to help you through the game to win the money. That?s about the limit of the structure of the game, there?s nothing else to do really do in this game. There are three different ways that you can gain help (for those who have never seen the TV show, it?s very similar in principle to Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?, but the questions are from children?s textbooks), which are the peek, copy and save options. In peek, you can look at one of the answers given by a child and then choose ...

julwhite 04.07.2009 · Read full review
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