Paul Hardcastle - Jazzmasters: Greatest Hits
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Artist: Paul HardcastleBrand: HARDCASTLE,PAUL
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-24
Music Label: Trippin & Rhythm
Soundtracks:
- Shine [#]
- Lost Summer
- Feel the Breeze
- Peace on Earth
- Walkin' to Freedom
- Bird Island
- Jokers Wild [Smooth Jazz Mix]
- Lost in Space
- Paradise Cove
- Forever Dreamin'
- Shelbi
- Northern Lights
- Wonderland
- London Chimes
Free Music Notes for Jazzmasters: Greatest Hits
Free Music Review: A different kind of "Smooth Jazz"
Hit: 5 Stars
I first discovered Paul Hardcastle via a Website streaming "Smooth Jazz" music. I enjoy certain performers in that genre and avoid others like the plague. While Hardcastle is certainly a purveyor of the form (it would be kind of hard to deny that with song titles like "Jokers Wild (Smooth Jazz Version)"), he's not offering run-of-the-mill, generic "quiet storm" music here.
I own this CD as well as The Jazzmasters V, The Collection, Hardcastle 3, Hardcastle 4, and Hardcastle 5. I prefer the instrumental tracks over the vocal ones (although some instrumentals do feature wordless "vocalizing" or a spoken line or two).
There is a level of melody, of tension, of complexity, something memorable in Hardcastle's music that isn't normally found in this genre. My top tracks from this CD are "Shine," "London Chimes," and "Peace On Earth." I've culled 13 other tracks from the CDs above for a CD-length playlist on my iPod, and I listen to it often.
There's some guitar, but it's not "Nils / Pacific Coast Highway" or a Norman Brown album. There are horns, but they never have that honking, screechy, nails-down-the-blackboard feel that's in some of the Rippingtons' self-described "high energy" tracks. The music is "balanced" without being "sanitized" or "homogenized."
This is a good CD to start with...representative of the range and variety in Hardcastle's music. Chances are you'll want more, just as I did.
Jazzmasters: Greatest Hits Poster
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Media Type: CD
Artist: HARDCASTLE,PAUL
Title: JAZZMASTERS: GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 04/17/2007
Genre: JAZZ
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