Smooth Jazz - The Essential Album

February 8, 2008 | By Doug In Jazz and Blues |

Smooth Jazz - The Essential Album
Customer Review: Too Many Covers
Of the 27 tracks on offer here a minimum of 11 are covers and some of the originals are from way back ie Grover Washington and Earl Klugh before the term Smooth Jazz had been dreamt up.

Dont get me wrong you get great musicians here and side one showcases some of the very best including Boney James, Rick Braun, Pieces of a Dream, Fourplay and the Rippingtons, where the CD falls down is side two where 10 0f the 13 tracks are from 1980 and before and would have probably fallen into the Jazz Funk category.

If you are looking to try a smooth jazz album I would recommend hunting down old Jazz FM compliations which are going very cheap on this site eg 101 Eastbound a penny, a bargain with more upto date artists.

Customer Review: A collection of the smoothest sexiest tunes
I have numerous jazz albums, but this one has to be the best, every single track is fantastic, a great blend of smooth instrumentals and vocalistic heaven. If you buy only 1-jazz album make this it! You will not be dissapointed. It kind of makes you drift away to a very sunny paradise somewhere on a beach in Miami, and then pulls you back in to a smokey jazz bar in New Orleans. Great stuff.

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