Kenny Ball - Greatest Hits

Kenny Ball - Greatest Hits Artist: Kenny Ball
Label: Castle Pulse
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5016073725523
ASIN: B00000854K


Release Date: 1998-02-05

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Tracks:

  1. I Love You, Samantha
  2. I Still Love You All
  3. Someday You'll Be Sorry
  4. Midnight in Moscow
  5. My Mother's Eyes
  6. March of the Siamese Children
  7. Green Leaves of Summer
  8. So Do I
  9. Pay Off
  10. Sukiyaki
  11. Casablanca
  12. Rondo
  13. Acapulco
  14. Hello, Dolly!
  15. When I'm Sixty-Four
  16. Heartaches
  17. Margie
  18. Caterina
  19. Nina Never Knew
  20. I Wanna Be Like You

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Great disappointment........2005-08-27

I expected jazz and although most of the songs are quite good, the VOCALS are entirely unexpected and very disappointing -- if I wanted vocals, I would have looked for a different album. It is my feeling that the vocals completely ruin this CD and I am greatly disappointed in it.

5 out of 5 stars Great dixieland playing from British group........2000-09-29

Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen are a British group and they are very good. They've been playing dixieland music (called "trad" in Britain) for more than 25 years, so they've got a lot of experience with this music despite their foreign roots. Their biggest hit is "Midnight in Moscow" which was a hit in the U.S. back in the 1970s, but most of their other pieces are quite good too. Personally, I prefer this British group to most American groups -- including groups based in New Orleans -- because they play very well together and do more ensemble playing and play shorter solos than is typical in the U.S. Frankly, I generally find the extended solos typically found in New Orleans dixieland boring after a while. If you like good ensemble dixieland with well-played -- but short -- solos give this CD a try.

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  1. Music from Two Basses ~ Dave Holland & Barre Phillips
  2. The Original Jam Master, Vol. 1: Ain't It Funky Now! ~ Grant Green
  3. The Best of the Big Bands ~ Harry James
  4. Walking with Giants ~ Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
  5. The Marciac Suite ~ Wynton Marsalis
  6. Think Tank ~ Pat Martino
  7. New for Now ~ Jonathan Kreisberg
  8. Standards in Norway ~ Keith Jarrett Trio
  9. The Complete Blue Note & Pacific Jazz Recordings ~ Clifford Brown
  10. Confirmation: The Best of the Verve Years ~ Charlie Parker

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