Sam Levine - Brentwood Jazz Christmas

Monday 1st December 1997
Sam Levine - Brentwood Jazz Christmas
Sam Levine - Brentwood Jazz Christmas

STYLE: Jazz
RATING 5 5 5 5 5
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 5719-5565
LABEL: Brentwood CD5296J
FORMAT: CD Album
RELEASE DATE: 1997-09-19
RRP: £10.99


Reviewed by Sue Rann

This collection of Christmas tunes is touted as having a "warm, honest feel that perfectly evokes the joy and sparkle of Christmas." Well, it's smoothly produced, as you'd expect given the pedigree of the people involved. The jazz arrangements are consistently pleasant and undemanding, but "O Come All Ye Faithful" is the first among the playlist that doesn't sit well with the harmonies and syncopated rhythms of jazz style. I love jazz, but found this an uncomfortable blend; not completely successful: too reminiscent, despite high production values, of the schmoozy syncopated jingles that assault the ears in a million shops every year from mid-November onwards. Pass.

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Posted by C.Dubois in Canada @ 14:58 on Jul 1 2010

Je voudrais avoir ce cd Brentwood Jazz Christmas
S.V.P.



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