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350,447 - Total Helpful Votes: 2 of 3
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If you like jazz find yourself a copy of this wonderful book. The sonnets are quite brilliant and recreate the players and the era with great success.The striking lino cut illustrations also bring the jazzmen to life. I knew Pete when he lived in Manchester and he was working on a book about Louis Armstrong, I don't think it has been published yet.Get a move on Pete.Best Wishes George x
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
This thing really is a blast from the past, it's absolutely fabulous. It takes you back to a time of lazy Sunday mornings, roast dinners, Billy Cotten on the "wireless" and your Dad working his B......s off in the garden. It even makes the sound that a lolly stick used to make in your bike spokes! Dream over, it isn't perfect but it does the job when you can't be bothered with setting up the big mower. I was lucky, I bought mine at an X-Catalogue shop for £16 brand new still in it's box. Of course, it's made in China but then what isn't these days.
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A new John Hiatt CD is always worth a listen and this one certainly is. His song writing shows no sign of tailing off or degenerating into sentimental bathos which cannot be said of many "older" country/rock performers. An excellent CD, however when I tried to play it on my laptop...nothing, it just refused to play, I cannot transfer it to my mp3 player which is my preferred way to listen to music. I paid for the CD on the understanding that it is mine to do with as want, if record companies continue to go down this road it will only backfire on them, pushing people to download tracks from fileshare sites. Anybody who buys CDs with embedded software like this should be made aware of its… Read more
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