Title: Save Your Money
Product review: The guitar playing is awful and almost every track has that terrible fusion guitar sound that helps to mask mediocre skill. On the few cuts where the sound isn't electronicly smeared, you can often hear the buzz from an inaccurately fingered fret. This is acceptable when you're listening to someone like Joe Pass play 10 notes a second at a live jazz festival but there is no excuse for it on relatively slow passages recorded in a studio. I was especially disappointed with Somewhere Over the Rainbow which is one of my all time favorites and is given disastrous treatment by Mr. Stowell. The melody is distorted so as to be unrecognizable at times and finally lost in a misguided attempt to be original. The singer, Lynn Skinner, has a pretty voice but it doesn't work in this setting. If you like good jazz guitar then I don't think this CD can be priced low enough to make it worth purchasing.
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