The Very Best of Smooth Jazz - UCJ

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Product Details

Artist : Various Artists
Format : Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0731458349020
Label : Universal Classics
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2002-06-24
Running Time : 173minutes
UPC : 731458349020

ASIN : B000068G4U

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
2. Just The Two Of Us - Grover Washington, Jr., Bill Withers
3. After The Love Has Gone - Earth, Wind & Fire
4. The Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto
5. Walk On By - George Benson, Tom McIntosh
6. My Girl - The Temptations
7. Goin' Out Of My Head - Luther Vandross
8. Love Will Find A Way - Lionel Richie
9. Mas Que Nada - Tamba Trio
10. Feeling Good - Nina Simone, Hal Mooney
11. Mad About The Boy - Dinah Washington, Quincy Jones
12. Until You Come Back To Me - Hil St Soul, Phife
13. Wasting Your Time - Frank Mccomb
14. Angela (Theme from Taxi) - Various Artists
15. Minute By Minute - Larry Carlton
16. Make Yourself Comfortable - Sarah Vaughan, Hugo Peretti Orchestra
17. Sunny Side Up - Freddie Ravel
18. Crush - Richard Elliot
19. Miles After Dark - David Benoit
20. Aja - Christian McBride

Disc-2
1. We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong
2. Everybody Loves The Sunshine - Roy Ayers
3. Just To Be Loved - Al Jarreau
4. Sweet Thing - Chaka Khan
5. Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
6. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) - Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto
7. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Bregman Orchestra
8. A Love Supreme (full lenght) - Will Downing
9. Droptop - Jeff Golub
10. So Amazing - Gerald Albright
11. Tourist In Paradise - The Rippingtons, Brandon Fields, Carl Anderson
12. Kari - Bob James, Earl Klugh
13. Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) - Freddie Jackson
14. My One Temptation - Mica Paris
15. Midnight At The Oasis - Martin Taylor
16. Smile - Dennis Jerome Taylor
17. So Good, So Right - Brenda Russell
18. For The Love Of You - For The Love Of You - Candy Dulfer
19. Soul on Soul - Rick Braun, Maysa
20. Biggest Part of Me - Take 6

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Customer Reviews

A good buy (2008-08-19)

if you quite like smooth jazz. If you are a real jazz fan you wouldn't want it. I think it's a nice mix of the familer and the less so and a safe five star purchase.

I like it a lot, but... (2006-06-01)

it's not jazz.I love every single song on these CDs and yes, as someone else pointed out, they are songs you'd recognise from films and adverts. If you're a hardcore out and out jazz fan then this CD isn't really for you, but if you like easy listening jazzesque sounds then go for it, this CD is gorgeous.

Don't buy this cd! (2006-02-12)

I often read the reviews on Amazon, if I am not sure on whether to buy a cd or not. I tend to go on the fact that if there are 4 good reviews and only one bad one, then that's a safe ratio and I buy it. This is why I feel compelled to warn you about this cd. If you see the tunes you recognise and like and hope the others will be familiar, then forget it. There are one or two good tunes on here and the rest of the cd is padded out with the sort of tunes you hear when you call the gas company and you're waiting in a queue. I was so disappointed by this cd and wish more people had given it the review it truly deserves.

Neither the best, nor smooth, nor jazz (2004-08-02)

It's always faintly embarrassing buying a compilation album in a store, because it just screams that you don't know much about the genre. I've always been happy enough to do it for pop music and am the proud owner of several of the Now That's What I Call Music series, on the basis that I don't really care much for pop music anyway and it's a cost-effective way of getting hold of the few good tracks that are worth owning without shelling out on masses of singles or, worse, mediocre albums where only one song is single-worthy. But I've suffered for this policy, with several of my friends getting very sniffy and telling me that I have neither a defined musical taste nor sufficient critical faculties.

Finally with The Very Best Of Smooth Jazz, I've discovered exactly what they mean. This is an album pitched squarely at people who have heard one or two tracks accompanying television adverts and want to hear more of the same. Even the track listing admits as much, with its "as heard on" subtitles.

This means that vast swathes of this double-CD collection are filled with the sort of music that, if you heard in a lift, would make you get out and walk up fourteen storeys just to avoid. For every genuine classic - Ella Fitzgerald's performance is, of course, utterly brilliant - there are at least half a dozen songs which aren't even jazz, but are in fact quasi-jazz MotR easy-listening rubbish. It's unfortunate that Amazon won't allow reviewers to use obscenities because a nice earthy metaphor for excrement would come in quite handy for describing some of the tracks here.

I'd go so far as to say that even the likes of Louis Armstrong's song included here, better known as a Bond theme tune, isn't real jazz either. To include one of the world's greatest ever jazz musicians but to select a non-jazz track is very disappointing but effortlessly sums up the publisher's intentions.

My recommendation, and Amazon makes this spectacularly easy to achieve, is that you avoid this album and instead, dip in to the jazz section and find a couple of albums that reviewers recommend whole-heartedly. There is plenty of really good "smooth jazz" waiting to be discovered but it would be absolutely tragic if anyone heard this particular album and came to the conclusion that it is anywhere near the best that the genre has to offer.

AMAZING! (2003-11-20)

This album is one of my all-time favourites! A great mixture of some of the best, most relaxing and classic jazz tunes around. Read the track list and you'll see what I mean...

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