Young Man With The Golden Horn 1924-1930 - Bix Beiderbecke

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

...guitar to back a song sung by man asking "Whose Honey Are You?" Indian Summer, by Sidney Bechet is a simple jazz refrain, which is as warm and as welcome as an Indian Summer. Sidney Bechet, feel some people, is one of the neglected heroes of the Golden Age of Jazz. He should not be. Art Tatum's Stormy Weather is a good tune, much performed down to this day by score upon score of artistes. This version is a good, simple version of this classic tune. Just played on the piano, using a lilting style that is fully conversant with the jazz idiom. I paid about £5.00 for this, check on Ciao for the current price using the Ciao price comparison service.... Read review

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Advantages: Nice guest rappers like Ghostface and Raekwon turn up at AFTERPARTY and THE TURN respectively.
Disadvantages: The lyrics from Method man are disgusting and the musical production is revolting! SAY WHAT?

...horns and cheap bass lines that sound like they were stolen from a Casio keyboard. The high-pitched horns that sound off in the background are, according to my memory, the worst quality of instruments in recent history. They are ugly and sound like a schoolboy or a schoolgirl farting heavily in the classroom, fouling the air very strongly with rotten egg gas. In short, the horns smell bad like hydrogen sulphide and may even be fatal to me as a rap listener. Method Man's verses smell EVEN WORSE than hydrogen sulphide and contain mixtures of misogynistic wordplay, monosyllabic rhymes and materialistic clichés that flow like hydrogen selenide gas. He spits commercial garbage like ' Ticallion is phatter than your fattest chrome chain….' and ' ….It's Meth, baby, drop top, navy Mercedes….'. However these bad lines... Read review

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Advantages: Two outstanding peices of chamber music for an unusual combination of instruments
Disadvantages: On the surface quite contrasting works, listener must be openminded

...The work of Ligeti has been at the forefront of Western avant-garde since his escape from the oppressive communist regime of Hungary in 1956, and he is widely appreciated as one of the most outstanding contemporary composers. The Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano because it was born out of a three-year period of illness and writer's block after the completion of Le Grand Macabre in which time he laboured over a piano concerto but completed only two short harpsichord pieces (Continuum and Hungarian Rock), yet the result in 1982 was the Trio, one of the finest and most complex pieces written so far. His career up to this point had included such sucesses as his Requiem, Atmosphères and the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001. Tiring of his own cluster-textural techniques and the avant-garde, Ligeti refreshed his compositional... Read review

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