This One's For Blanton - Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington - The Essential

Advantages: The fundamentals - Classic Big Band Style Jazz
Disadvantages: Sound quality was poor

Duke Ellington composed many interesting traditional jazz music suited at that time for big band style. Amongst the popular music he wrote were Mood Indigo, It Don't Mean A Thing, Caravan, Chelsea Bridge and many more. His compositions in my opinion were very radical compared to those of the traditional era which cause some people to dislike it. It applies more tension chords as ever, bringing in modern jazz concepts and adapting them in a traditional context. He is however one of the legends in the field of jazz and although many do not know him, they have heard of him. Many of his songs are taken today and played in small group bands, trios and quartets and improvised to meet modern expectations. I personally enjoyed the tracks because I am a jazz fanatic. What I didn't enjoy was the poor recording quality which is probably ...

jazzwillie 28.05.2004 (29.05.2004) · Read full review
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Review of Duke Ellington

Dine like a Duke

Advantages: Cracking food and a good price - for a pub!
Disadvantages: A bit small for buggies, awkward downstairs toilet access.

crumble and custard *. The rhubarb has just the right amount of tartness and was cooked to that right level of softness, there were some really soft mooshy pieces and other big firmer chunks. The crumble topping was buttery, held its form (not a crumble that crumbled everywhere) and wasn't heavy or claggy. Not a huge amount of custard but then again, the rhubarb had enough of its own juice not to warrant loads, just nice vanilla-y custard really. * Mango sorbet *. Friends of ours ordered this and received 3 large scoops. However, they couldn't eat it all and offered it around, I tried some and this was the one thing that wasn't so great (for me). I expected the flavour to be richer and thicker but instead I found it quite watered down. That's probably just be me though. ~ Toilets ~ These are down a flight of fairly narrow ...

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Review of The Duke of York

Is this The One for you?

Advantages: significant potential savings, mortgage repaid quicker, superb service
Disadvantages: need to be very disciplined money wise

This is an update on my original review in December 2007, reviewed twelve months after commencing the facility. I have updated this given the unprecedented changes in the financial markets recently as well as changes in my personal circumstances, both of which have been helped enormously through having a One Account. ***History*** In 1997 The Royal Bank of Scotland and Virgin Direct formed a joint venture and marketed "The Virgin One" to Virgin Direct's 200,000 customers and it was an immediate hit and so in 1998 it was marketed to the general public for the first time. Since then it has continued to be a huge hit. In 2003 it became known as "The One Account" and Virgin were no longer involved. From the regular TV ads and poster campaigns most people will have heard of the name but may not know exactly what it is. Web site is ...

TheWizardsSleeve 13.12.2007 (09.01.2009) · Read full review
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