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Title: WHERE'S THE BEEF?
Review: .Most smooth jazz stuff doesn't have great melodies...just simply ditties turned into, or manufactured into tunes...Keep the sound if you want, but try some cal tjader tunes, or Harold Arlen, or famous funk tunes, etc. Maybe the problem is that one has to pay to use these...but isn't it based on how many CD's sell anyway? I can't distinguish most smooth jazz tunes from each other, and I really don't think they allow the players to play their best ideas in solos. Try some Ellington tunes, or Waits tunes like Barber Shop, or Crusaders stuff, or Les McCann things...All Things Shining....
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