Best Retro Swing
"Brian Setzer combines his big band leanings with his Stray Cat upbringing to create the year's best all-around holiday album.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's a great non-traditional rockabilly and big band combo Christmas record!"
"Ann-Marget sings "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Setzer-- pure fun and such a tight orchestra!"
"Great price, excellent holiday LP."
"An instant classic that rolls through songs with all the conviction and energy that Brian's live concerts have."
"No concerns./\. I would give this a real good rating."
"A fun Christmas album, the white vinyl pressing was good quality."
TracklistA1 Fiery Crash A2 Imitosis A3 Plasticities A4 Heretics A5 Armchairs B1 Darkmatter B2 Simple X B3 The Supine B4 Cataracts B5 Scythian Empires B6 Spare-Ohs.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This is another great Andrew Bird indie/folktronica album."
"Great recordings pressed on the vinyl even though i'm sure its been originally recorded for digital audio."
"If you are an Andrew Bird fan, this is a must have in your collection."
"If you're looking at this you already know how great Andrew Bird is."
"I love the. harmony and how the female voice blends so well with his voice."
"It is one of the greatest albums from start to finish that I've ever heard."
"I've had this album for months now and I can't stop listening to it."
"I'm disappointed that some people review this album, and others by Bird, and dock him a star because they didn't like the album as much as another Bird album they heard."
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Dirty Boogie - Cd.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Brian rocks the town with this CD."
"Even Gwen Stefani ads vocals to "You're The Boss", in her early No Doubt days. If you are a music lover & you plan to buy a new cd, make this your purchase...it's fantastic!"
"best of the 3 that I ordered."
"Even as he is, I was quite amazed to hear the Sinatra influenced crooning style against other gritty vocals that recall the Stray Cats."
"The tracks on this album are creative, fantastic, and very well recorded."
"Setzer GETS IT and it shows on every cut of this outstanding CD."
Best Contemporary Big Band
The Big Band era was a unique time in musical history, for it was a time when quality and public taste coincided to encourage memorable performances, many of which were captured on recordings.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great classic music, purchased for seniors home."
"What a great collection!"
"Great, nostalgic listening."
"Lots of cool music."
"This is some timeless music that will forever!!!"
"Sound is " OK " only."
"The disk is so cheaply made and so thin that my Bose New Wave Music System has to try and re-try several times to load it because of the lack of "oomph" needed for it to realize a disk is there to be loaded."
Best Classic Big Band
The Big Band era was a unique time in musical history, for it was a time when quality and public taste coincided to encourage memorable performances, many of which were captured on recordings.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Great classic music, purchased for seniors home."
"What a great collection!"
"Great, nostalgic listening."
"Lots of cool music."
"This is some timeless music that will forever!!!"
"Sound is " OK " only."
"The disk is so cheaply made and so thin that my Bose New Wave Music System has to try and re-try several times to load it because of the lack of "oomph" needed for it to realize a disk is there to be loaded."
Best Vintage Dance Bands
If you set out to create a single anthology that charted all the twists and tributaries of that uniquely American river we call jazz, you couldn't do better than this companion set to the PBS series-94 tracks on 5 CDs licensed from virtually every important label in the history of the music. Includes The Pearls Jelly Roll Morton; Charleston James P. Johnson; West End Blues Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five; The Mooche Duke Ellington; Singin' the Blues Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke; Moten Swing Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra; Strange Fruit Billie Holiday; Three Little Words Art Tatum; Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins; In the Mood Glenn Miller; Take Five Dave Brubeck; So What Miles Davis; Giant Steps John Coltrane; Desafinado Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd, and many more classics.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is easy to list regrettable omissions from this set (and many reviewers have done so) and just as easy to point out how impossible it is to do full justice to a century of music that had multiple sources and spread rapidly to a plethora of sub-genres (and many reviewers have done that too). The British Trad Jazz that took hold in the early 50s and is still going strong (Chris Barber, Kenny Ball and their followers) is another indispensible part of Jazz history that finds no place in this collection."
"That being said, each of the four better discs in the set leaves much to be desired as a "listening experience." With such different styles and aesthetics encompassed on each disc, you're not likely to just put one on and enjoy the whole thing-and none of the discs are, or even could have been, arranged as coherent sets."
"Best $5.00 I have spent on some great music.Yes,it was a used CD set but plays perfect and everything was included."
"the best way to learn about most styles of 20th century jazz!"
"This 5-CD set is a great introduction to jazz music."
"terrific music, it's been a long time sense I heard original jazz."