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Nothing But The Best

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Frank Sinatra

Release Date May 12, 2008

CD-Charts Position 52
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Birth of The Cool

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Miles Davis

Release Date January 08, 2001
I own several of MD's album - my personal favourite being Sketches of Spain. This album, which is rather dull, I made the mistake of buying on the basis of the track Rocker on a compilation. It's dificult to describe, but to me the sound is too undifferenciated to let the melodies and tune speak. It is an ambient album. Pleasant, but doesn't set the blood racing. Instead, buy in A Silent Way, Sketches... or Kind of Blue.....Or better yet by the Best of Blue Note Comp' - not a duff track on it

CD-Charts Position 53
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Dreamland

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Madeleine Peyroux

Release Date April 04, 2005
I have all three of Madeleine Peyroux's albums now having recently purchased this beauty. All through the album, you can tell the quality and the feeling in her vocal performance. I find it difficult to believe now that it took 8 years before Madeleine Peyroux became a household name with her second album "Careless Love" and not this one. Never mind. This is still a wonderful album.

This album is a launching pad for Madeleine Peyroux to launch from. Her singing style is very similar to that of Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith, the jazz and blues divas of their time. It hits off with "Walking After Midnight" and finishes off with a blues-fuelled "Lovesick Blues". The tracks inbetween are also of distinction including "Dreamland", ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 54
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Betcha' Bottom Dollar

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: The Puppini Sisters

Release Date July 31, 2006
The Puppini Sisters - Marcella Puppini {Italian} Kate Mullins {English} and Stephanie O'Brien {English} are a musical trio specializing in 1940s-style close harmony vocal music.
They chose their name to pay tribute to The Andrews Sisters.
Puppini met Mullins & O'Brien at The Trinity College of Music in London. The group was founded by Puppini after she was inspired by the animated film Belleville Rendezvous.
The group's influences include The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Belleville Rendezvous, Kate Bush, Marlene Dietrich, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 55
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Verve//Remixed 4

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Various Artists

Release Date June 23, 2008
The Puppini Sisters - Marcella Puppini {Italian} Kate Mullins {English} and Stephanie O'Brien {English} are a musical trio specializing in 1940s-style close harmony vocal music.
They chose their name to pay tribute to The Andrews Sisters.
Puppini met Mullins & O'Brien at The Trinity College of Music in London. The group was founded by Puppini after she was inspired by the animated film Belleville Rendezvous.
The group's influences include The Andrews Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Belleville Rendezvous, Kate Bush, Marlene Dietrich, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 56
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Katy Lied

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Steely Dan

Release Date June 28, 1999
Containing none of their most famous hits, 'Katy Lied' is nevertheless Steely Dan's most gorgeous collection of songs. There is perhaps less invention and more commercialism in the music, but this is deceptive, for the invention is in the writing. 'Bad Sneakers' features attention-grabbing twists in both music and lyrics, as does the lovely 'Doctor Wu', though, like many of the band's songs, its meaning is elusive. The opening image of suicide on the strident 'Black Friday,' by contrast, is stark. 'Everyone's Gone To The Movies' shows them in buoyant mood. One of the strokes they pull off here is the low-key sinister melody on vibes that lies beneath the jaunty main theme. 'Your Gold Teeth II' points the way toward their jazzier moments. Every track on here ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 57
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Back on the Block

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Quincy Jones

Release Date August 15, 2005
Diverse, Jazzy, Funky and Soulful

I bought this album over 10 years ago and it still sounds as brilliant and in vogue today as it did then. I would even call it one of the best R'n'B albums of all time taking into account I am a big Stevie Wonder fan who unfortunately did not guest on this particular album. Quincy Jones a man who lives and breathes music, producing, arranging and sometimes composing for such greats as Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, George Benson, Michael Jackson .......... not to mention classic soundtracks to films such as The Italian Job and In the Heat of the Night. Back on the Block is one his best 'solo' albums.

From the opening prologue where even Quincy Jones adds his own rap seguing into the title track to a variety ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 58
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Mozart: Symphonies 38-41

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
from: Linn

Release Date February 25, 2008
I have given this record full marks, but this is clearly a 6 out of 5 record. It gets 4 stars just for the content, the performance clearly merits at least 2 extra!

There is a lot of elitist bull**** surrounding classical music, but this is a record for us all. As long as you like 'music' and you have got a reasonably open mind spend the £8 and buy this CD. Listen to track 1 CD 1 3 or 4 times (it deserves that much patience!) at the end of it if you are not a convert then go and speak to the devil to buy back your soul.

You can almost reach out and touch the genius in this music, the changes of pace, the change of key...this is an artist operating beyond the ordinary.

Buy it you will never regret it.

CD-Charts Position 59
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Blues Brothers - Music from the Film: Original Soundtrack

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: Blues Brothers

Release Date November 06, 1995
Like the last reviewer, and many, many others, The Blues Brothers was a film I first watched when I was about 10 and it introduced me to a whole new world of music.

This soundtrack was the first record I ever owned and it is where I first heard a lot of artists that I may otherwise never of heard of, since I had only really listened to pop and ska before.

This is a great collection and younger people especially will find it it very educational. If you enjoy the soundtrack it would also be a good idea to look up some of the other artists featured in the film but not on the soundtrack, like Sam and Dave and John Lee Hooker.

A fun film and a fun soundtrack, try the other Blues Brothers recordings too, you won't regret it!

CD-Charts Position 60
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Indiana Jones & The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull OST

CD-Charts > Music > Jazz
by: John Williams

Release Date May 19, 2008
Like the film it accompanies, John Williams' score is an undeniably good piece of work, but isn't quite in the same league as the first 3. There's nothing that really stands out as memorable and it just kind of passes you by. It's much more minimalistic than the old scores as well and reuses several themes from the past films, which just feels abit lazy. When the action does kick in it's quite exciting, but overall it's just mereley 'okay'.