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... Read review

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

...(So Many Times and Peg 'o' My Heart) show the smooth and terribly sophisticated side of Jack Teagarden's music, whilst the next track, Swingin' on the teagarden Gate, is entirely different. So full of the jazz ethos that you can almost see the people dancing to it. So Many Times and Peg 'o' My Heart are for slow dancing. Then it's back to the smoother sound with Teagarden's rather melancholy Can't we Talk It Over, a ballad about a young man bemoaning the fact that he and his girlfriend are on the verge of splitting up. After four great (but different)classics from Teagarden we next hear from a young Louis Armstrong. The first track from Louis is Melancholy Blues. This is a great blues and jazz crossover. Yes, it is jazz, but yes, at the same time it could pass muster for a blues classic, too. The other Three tracks form Louis... Read review

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Advantages: The price of the Album was good and within my budget
Disadvantages: The music store had to order the Album in, did not have it in stock

...of waiters as they ply the customers with cocktails. A small group of dancing couples shuffle round the floor in time to the soulfull notes. For any jazz fan this album is full of pure nostalgia for a saddly bi-gone age. Billy's voice echos all the pain and suffering of her life experience and as she sings the vocals this is particularly noticeable in her rendition of " Lady sings the Blues" and "God Bless the Child", each word is uttered and infused with a knowledge of the reality of the message within the song. This singer is truly at one with the lyrics, she sings as if she is sharing with the listener her own joy saddness and or dissollusionment with a life which should have held so much promise and yet slipped away to quickly in jazz clubs and gin joints accross America. From track 1 -19 this is a beautiful album and a must for any... Read review

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Advantages: Great Transmission. Smooth Engine. Low Running Costs. Hugely Spacious Interior. Build Quality.
Disadvantages: Messy Dashboard Styling. Uninspiring Exterior Styling.

..."mini-limo" in the shape of a Honda Jazz. The Honda Chiswick loan car was finished in deep metallic blue paint and therefore would have hit the road at just the wrong side of £12,000. DEPRECIATION 8 / 10 - Always the biggest running cost. 8 / 10 is a brilliant score in this category. Had this been a basic, or mid range Jazz, that score would have been even higher. Top of the range models will always take a larger hit on depreciation, although small automatics, especially good ones, tend to hold their value very well as they are extremely rare on the second hand market. As a range the Jazz is known to be one of the least steeply depreciating cars on the road. If you are looking for a cheap second hand one, you will need to spend a lot of time seeking out an abnormally high mileage car. Generally the Jazz tends to spend its life... Read review

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Advantages: The wonderful tracks My Man, Don't Explain etc
Disadvantages: The dialogue interupts musical flow

...Lady Sings The Blues premiered to an eager, anticipating audience in October 1972. The public flocked in droves to the cinemas to see this much-hyped film, whilst critics watched intensley and eagerly sharpened their pencils. Soul singer and Motown legend, Diana Ross controversially took the role of the tortured Jazz legend, Billie Holiday and deservedly won wide critical acclaim for her harrowing and riviting performance in the film which subsequently gained her an oscar nomination (though Diana sadly lost out to Liza Minnelli for Cabaret - people claimed this was down to Berry Gordy's over-kill campaign to get her to win where Berry sent various extravagent gifts to members of the comittee which was merely perceived as a ploy to get her to win). Critics were instantly silenced on hearing the movies quintessential and divine... Read review

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Advantages: Some really good tracks
Disadvantages: Some are "so-so"

...Vintage Jazz Volume 4 is another of my all-time favourite jazz CDs, as it does exactly what it sys on the label, it IE.. it contain some really fine examples of some of the best classic jazz. Coleman Hawkins as his All Star Jam Band, featuring every example of the best jazz instruments, guitar, drums, clarinet, all performing together as one on Honeysuckle Rose. And please note the use of the word "jam" in the name of the band. As they say, there really is nothing new under the sun! The next track is also by Coleman Hawkins and His All Star Jam Band, but is a totally different style of jazz as they give a rip-roaring, jumping version of Sweet Georgia Brown. Crazy Rhythm is the next track an is also from Coleman Hawkins and His All Star Jam Band. Crazy Rhythm? Well, no all that crazy, and it is another example of the multi... Read review

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Advantages: space, comfort, flexibility, fuel economy
Disadvantages: absolutely none for me

...sits underneath them) and it has a gorgeous snub nose. It comes in a variety of colours, mostly metallic. Mine is 'clover green', a very dark metallic green. It's not the colour I would have chosen (more on this later) as I think it looks wonderful in bright red, pearlised white and a gorgeous metallic ice blue. It ain't sporty looking, but neither does it look cheap, tatty or estate/saloon type boring. 9/10 Criteria 9: Flexibility Here is where the Jazz is absolutely unbeatable. It is remarkably roomy inside and incredibly interchangeable. The back seats fold down completely flat for that flat-pack furniture, or the seat part of them folds up flat, giving you a lovely tall space for plants etc. Also, the front seats recline to prone position if you want a kip. Add to this the fact that the boot is a good size... Read review

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Advantages: very convincing style of writing
Disadvantages: sometimes contains too much information on one page

...*** John Murray, born in West Cumbria in UK now lives in Brampton near Carlisle. A writer with reporting kind of talent, a lover of words, Murray in “Jazz etc” is intelligent and educativily informative. By now, he has published five critically honored novels and a collection of stories, “Pleasure”, which won the Dylan Thomas Award in 1988. His novels, “Radio Activity” (1993) and “Reiver Blues” (1996), were nominated as Books of the Year in The Spectator, The Independent and The Observer. In 1984 Murray founded the fiction magazine, “Panurge”, the magazine that celebrated a number of young writers. John Murray's previous novel, “John Dory”, was listed for the Lakeland Book of the Year and won the creative category, the first novel to receive such an award... Read review

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Advantages: Some decent rhythm and blues
Disadvantages: Film dialogue in the wrong places

..., either by being a slightly altered version of a classic track for the film, or by being a completely different version, possibly with a slightly inferior vocal given that some of the tracks are performed by actors rather than professional musicians. For those who are fans of the "Blues Brothers", this is the best way to enjoy "Blues Brothers 2000, as while the film was a bit of a let down and a pale imitation of the original, I felt that the music was by far the best part of it. There is a much greater variation of sound than from the usual rhythm and blues sound of the band, taking in several different genres and being a decent snap shot of all kinds of American music generally. So if you're someone who enjoys compilation albums, this is possibly one you'll enjoy, as no two consecutive songs are the same and mostly they'll be in genres... Read review

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Advantages: It's free on radio 3
Disadvantages: What else I could be doing

...JAZZ FILE BBC - R3 - FM 90.2 - 92.4 FM After to long watching television I decided to check out the radio. I was surprised at how much the BBC has on offer. There was a time when only R1 held my interest; nowadays R2 contains all R1 used to. I moved to R3 in search of something classical, instead I came across an old friend JAZZ. As a youngster I played classical trombone but never mastered all that jazz my mother used to listen too. At around about 18.00 hrs on Saturday JAZZ FILE starts on radio 3 - today’s programme concerns itself with the art of arranging with the help of John Dankworth. Today’s music is brass jazz for trumpet and trombone. There is some emphasis on trombone and concepts (or sounds) like growl and glissando are discussed. The sounds are illustrated with some live music and talk about rhythm and jazz... Read review

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