Ultimate Christmas Jazz - Various Artists

Christmas Rappin' (With Not Kurtis Blow)

Advantages: Lots of big tunes
Disadvantages: One average tune

of things (but in a more complete way than Kurtis Blow's 1980 recoridng ?Christmas Rappin'? **Five Stars** 2.?Let The Jingle Bells Rock? - Sweet Tee Known for her 'Love Rap' ?Why Did It Have To Be Me? (in LL Cool J's ?I Need Love? style), New York's Sweet Tee comes to thrown down a tune that acts as the complete oppostie to that rack Hip Hop ballad as we see that she rides the 'Amen' break and comes out with some fly rhymes that concentrate everything around warming imaginery that you tend to connect with Christmas time. **Four Stars** 3.?Dana Dane Is Coming To Town? - Dana Dane Here we get a funky jam that I really can't see any rooms for complaints in as we find that Dana Dane comes in with some storytelling rhymes that seem to take on all that Slick Rick was known for (even though he didn't debut as a solo artist until the year after ...

XICripZ 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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A History of Jazz

Advantages: Fantastic
Disadvantages: There are none

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 ...

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Vintage Jazz Volume 13.

Advantages: Fantastic range of great tunes and songs
Disadvantages: None

My late Father would have approved of this CD. For this, he would have said, was real Jazz. "Not like this modern rubbish!" My father's idea of real Jazz was music by the greats of the 1920 and 1930s. Jack Teagarden, for example. Mezz Mezzrow, was another of his heroes. And perhaps some of the early Louis Armstrong. Well, two out of three ain't bad. There's no Mezz Mezzrow on this CD, but there is plenty of Jack Teagarden and some early Louis Armstrong, too. There's also Lester Young and Artie Shaw, too. I have to agree with my dad. This rocks. Well, perhaps not rocks, but I think you know what I mean! Jack Teagarden's jazz is the ultimate in smoooooth jazz. Until he really wanted to become lively, then it was as if you were listening to an entirely different orchestra. The first two Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra tracks ...

Martinscholes 21.11.2005 · Read full review
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