Category: Big Band
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Caravan Palace: Chronologic
Caravan Palace is a French electronic music band based in Paris. They play electro-swing, which is as it sounds; possibly more popular on the Continent than this side of La Manche. Electro-swing combines swing and jazz mixed with modern dance. It can be an acquired taste; Mr Scruff and Jurassic 5 have written electro-swing tracks. […]
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About You, baroque, Blues, brother, Caravan Palace, CDs, Chronicle Series, Chronologic, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Daft Punk, Django Reinhardt, early, electro swing, funk, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Jurassic 5, Melancolia, Miracle, Moonshine, Mr Scruff, music, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Waterguns -
Michael Bublé: Love
This starts off with a sentimental cover, When I Fall In Love, which is peak Bublé, as slow and luscious as you like and his voice shown off to its best. A perky I Only Have Eyes For You follows, just total class; you’d have to be Scrooge not to love it. Love You Anymore […]
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baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Charlie Puth, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, early, funk, Help Me Make it Through the Night, I Only Have Eyes For You, jazz, Jem Condliffe, La Vie En Rose, Love You Anymore, Michael Bublé Love, music, My Funny Valentine, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Such A Night, When I Fall In Love -
Engelbert Humperdinck: Warmest Christmas Wishes
Hump’s first Christmas album in almost 40 years (since A Merry Christmas With Engelbert Humperdinck, but you knew that) is so sweet it’ll make the brandy butter taste as bitter as the tears of Bambi’s mother. His last album The Man I Want to Be was pretty good (it’s Engelbert Humperdinck, we’ll never play it […]
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A Christmas for the Family, Around the Christmas Tree, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Christmas Song, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Driving Home for Christmas, early, Engelbert Humperdinck, funk, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, I’m Not Dreaming of a White Christmas), It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Leise rieselt der Schnee, Let It Snow, Medley, music, O Tannenbaum, Please Come Home for Christmas, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Silent Night, Silently Falls the Snow, Snowy Christmas, soul, Still Still Still, Warmest Christmas Wishes, What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?, Winter Wonderland -
Sheridan Smith: Sheridan
We don’t watch much telly and live for us is gigs, not theatre, so the talented Ms Smith has passed us largely by: we’ve only heard people rave about Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Gavin and Stacey and Benidorm (but then, who needs more than Detectorists?). She starred in The Harry […]
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Addicted to Love, And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going, Anyone Who Had a Heart, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, City of Stars, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Crazy, Dinner at Eight, early, For Forever, funk, Hurt, I Smell a Rat, jazz, Jem Condliffe, Mad About the Boy, music, My Man, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sheridan Smith, soul, Superstar -
Echoes of Swing: Travelin’
Joyously cliched in places, this is a loving tribute to the old swing tunes, all with a travellin’ theme: Orient Express opens, with the piano and snare making a passable train impression before easy listenin’ sax comes in. As John Lewis nearly has it, this is never knowingly over-demanding and overall the quartet has the […]
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baroque, Bernd Lhotzky, Blues, brother, Cabin in the Sky, CDs, Chris Hopkins, Chronicle Series, Classical, Colin T Dawson, Congleton Chronicle, Das Wrack Der Guten Hoffnung, Disorder at the Border, early, Echoes of Swing, En Auto, funk, Gan Hyem, jazz, Jem Condliffe, music, Oliver Mewes, On a Slow Goat Through China, On a Turquoise Cloud, Orient Express, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Southern Sunset, The Fiji Hula Bula, The Old Country, Trav’lin Light, Travelin’, Volare, Where or When, Wohin? -
Engelbert Humperdinck: The Man I Want to Be
The existence of Engelbert Humperdinck has always baffled us: to whit why Arnold Dorsey, of Leicester, should adopt the stage name of a German 19th century composer of operas. The idea worked, which is more surprising. Even if you don’t know who Humperdinck is (the still-alive one) you’ll know his songs: described as “one of […]
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Absolute Beginner, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Crazy, early, Engelbert Humperdink, funk, How Can You Live With Yourself, I Followed My Heart, I’m Glad I Danced With You (with Olivia), jazz, Jem Condliffe, Just Like the First Time, Just the Way You Are, music, On Broadway, Our England, Photograph, pop, Prodigal Son, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Songs of Love, soul, The Man I Want to Be, Welcome to My World -
Jocee: Just Love
Jocee is living the dream whether or not anyone buys this. She already makes a living with a residency at the Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch, ran an acoustic music night for emerging artists with Pixie Lott for three years and is a member of the Urban Voices Collective. She has worked with Paloma Faith at […]
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Hackney Colliery Band: Live
Whenever we’re down in the dumps in the Review Corner, we often play Rock With the Hot 8, by The Hot 8 Brass Band, a New Orleans outfit that blend hip-hop, jazz and funk. It’s not brass as you might expect if you’re a fan of Foden’s Band, and nor are there eight of them, […]
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Africa, All of the Lights, baroque, Blues, Bread and Circuses, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Cramm, Dead Dialogue, early, funk, Gather Your Wits, Heart-Shaped Box, Hitched, It’s Normally Bigger, jazz, Jump Then Run, music, No Diggity, pop, Prodigy Medley, Reawake, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, Sharpener, soul, The Morning, Timelapse, When You Know -
Vera Lynn: Her Greatest From Abbey Road
Dame Vera comes from a different age, when there was less choice in entertainment and people wanted nice songs they could sing to in the front room (while watering the aspidistra) or down the pub. She’s had a long and successful career — she began performing at seven, her first radio broadcast was with the […]
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Michael Bublé: Nobody But Me
Nobody But Me It’s Christmas! It must be time for the Bublé to release an album. Thankfully it’s not a re-release of Christmas, though having released it as a normal CD, then deluxe, super deluxe, super deluxe with bells, super super deluxe with whistles and tassels and super dooper deluxe best-ever honest (remastered) with free […]
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albums, Alsager Chronicle, Biddulph Chronicle, buy this, Congleton Chronicle, easy listening, God Only Knows, I Believe in You, I Wanna Be Around, Jem Condliffe, Jeremy Condliffe, Michael Buble, My Baby Just Cares for Me, My Kind of Girl, Nobody But Me, On an Evening in Roma (Sott’er Celo de Roma), opinion, review, Sandbach Chronicle, Someday (feat. Meghan Trainor), The Very Thought of You, Today Is Yesterday’s Tomorrow
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