Reviews (page 14 of 14)
It's okay---couldn't get much interest.
Great for what it is, but of its time. Would still be brilliant in a jazz club, but on Spotify in a home office situation it doesn't really connect.
Highlights - Duet and Flight of the Foo Birds, I guess? Flight... certainly paints a picture, I can envision a gaggle of sea birds dancing about on the beach with this in the background. Having said that, I've never been a big swing music fan, it still sounds all the same to me... loud, surprising horns, slow-walking jazz bass, piano plinks here and there, relaxed woodwinds, brushes on percussion. It's winding-down music...and not necessarily for me.
Rather boring orchestra / big band music.
Nope
Enjoyed to an extent, not my thing though, probably wouldn’t listen again. Theatre/soundtrack/lift music
Production: 9/20 Songwriting: 9/20 Innovation: 8/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 12/20 =38 Pretty underwhelming background music but not unpleasant
Orchestral music really isn't my cup of tea. Some nice tunes in here, but this goes to the background music playlist for me.
Pleasant enough, pretty forgettable for me though. Big band is alright for background music in films but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen
Its jazz. Seems like good jazz? Who's to say.
Too much Jazz
Alkuun tuli kivat Fallout-pelin tunnelmat, mutta ei kantanut loppun asti. Varmasti tyylikästä musaa omaan aikaan, mutta kasarinlapselle levyllinen on liikaa kerralla.
old time jazz orchestra does well in a new vegas style game dont like it for lsitening though
I can appreciate it- before my time
Nope
I really really don’t like jazz. It makes me nervous. DNF
underwhelming. Slow jazz without any of the big band stuff I really like. Skipping through the songs yields almost no variety between them. Skipping to the midpoint of the next song sounds the same as skipping to the midpoint of the current song. Has to be a 1.
Big band jazz built from razor-sharp brass, swinging rhythms, elegant piano, and no vocals feels like watching a team of master craftsmen effortlessly build something beautiful while never quite convincing you to care about the finished product—immaculately performed, stylish, and for me emotionally detached.
big band, brass, 50's swing & slower. Not my thing
This may be an influential album but on my ranking scale this type of an instrumental album only gets one star.
Not for me.
Man, am I glad I didn't grow up in the era where big Band was the rage. Mr Basie & His Orchestra do pack a little more bang on this one then some others of the time. They are in sync but not setting off any H-bombs. Album cover is cool, maybe more popular due to cold war. 1.12 stars.
I've only ever heard a couple of the legendary acts from the 50's and they all sound pretty similar. Based on his credits and list of albums its evident that Basie is a legend, but I couldn't tell you why or what it is that he is doing that differentiates him in any way. He must be competent to assemble 10+ players and put together a swing jazz album so he's obviously doing something right, I just have no affection for any of it. A couple of the tunes from Atomic featured some upbeat solos which I enjoyed. Otherwise the rest of it falls into I'm sure if I was around at this time it would make a lot more sense as to how and why this was the popular music on the forefront of pushing musical creativity at the time. Can't ignore the 50's for their place in music history, I just have no personal fondness for many of the acts. I don't mean it as a knock, but I've checked the box and now I'm moving on. 1.54 stars
Big band jazz. What you'd expect.
En vaan ymmärrä tätä musatyyliä, omaan makuuni tämä on ärsyttävää ja puuduttavaa, toki jollekulle muulle musiikin helmi. Minulta kuitenkin tyly 1/5
This is the Tom and Jerry soundtrack
Aburridisimo. 2/10
The hell
This is not my genre, so i pretty much hated it, so yeah that's it, didn't even finish it
DNF, not for me
Really not my cup of tea, I cant even really use this as a background
Instrumental
I just don't like big band...
Couldn't they afford a singer?
Call centre
Big band sounds just aren’t my thing. I am having a wretched run at the moment. Rap, big bands, crooning, 60s folk. FFS give me something with electric guitars before I explode.
Did not enjoy this. Was technically good but not really what I felt like listening to.
Pa leer
No ta x
Pls no
don't like big band or swing. to the trumpet section, get behind me Satan
nice jazz, no lyrics tho? no voice? yeah...no
Nope
0/11 bekannt 3/10 Beste Songs: the kid from red bank, flight of the foo birds, Splanky Zu viel Jazz
Basse Greven er sikkert en mega dygtig musiker. Men den her form for swing-jazz tiltaler mig overhovedet ikke.
Not my cup of tea.
Not my style.
Couldn’t finish it. Not the type of music I can listen to for very long at all. Really don’t like Big Band/Swing type stuff. If it had lyrics I might have been able to sort of distract myself from the sounds and stay locked in and keep listening maybe?? I tried!
eh not my vibe
99% percent of jazz hurts my brain and this is sadly not an exception :( so i can’t judge fairly
Ei lähe
Man, do I hate jazz. And big band is basically the hard rock of jazz.
This wasn’t offensive, it just was boring. This shit got old real quick.
So bad no reviews
Why is there elevator music on this list?
ugh jazz, instant vomit. and wtf is this album cover???
Not my style of music.
No comment
I can’t really follow music like this
Pas mon style
Bland old album
Not for me. 1/5
I didn’t really like it it was like elavitor music
Meh
Not for me! 😊 For me it sounds like something that I would find as background music in a old cartoon.
Definitely not my cup of tea. Not a jazz fan and I need to hear words to enjoy music.
Not for me
N ouvi
Not a genre I have any interest in, beyond historical importance/influence. I have been listening off-and-on to Andrew Hickey's "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" podcast (I am only up to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, which is a full 53 episodes in!) and I remember a lot of the early episodes discussed Basie, Ellington, etc., pretty heavily. We are so lucky we grew up in a time with rock music. LOL, imagine getting excited by this.
No words
Just couldn't feel the music.
Nope
I get why this album is considered good, but I really dislike big band and find it extremely boring.
I tried to listen to this bearing in mind that I don’t really like jazz and that it was from the 1950s. But, even with that in mind I don’t think this was particularly impressive or progressive
Wtf was that.
This was not an easy listen. The rock n’roll counter culture of the 60’s has never made so much sense when forced to sit through this. For me it just doesn’t resonate. I think the biggest obstacle is that I don’t understand what the music is trying to make me feel. Each number is indistinguishable from the other in terms of quality. This just ain’t it.
Sounds dangerous; No thanks.
Not my stuff
Big band music not realty me
Bored.
Good God no. I hate Jazz.
I just couldn’t really get into this one.
Instrumental jazz, probably the worst combo I can think of.
Not good
This wasn’t for me. If you’re into big band I’m sure this is a masterpiece but it took a lot to finish this past track 4.
My parents perhaps. Definitely not me. Hated the bass section
1950s not really my bag
Can see how people liked this in the 50's but not great by modern music standards. Lots of the songs very repetitive. Don't think I'll be listening again.
This is extremely not my shit, swing sucks
I can see why people like this and why the album is important but I really cant get into Jazz at all. This is very much posh resturant music for me. Favourite song: Least favourite: Album artwork: I love the cover
1.5 Not for me though it was more tolerable than the Charles Mingus album.
Jazz again :(
No
Yeah, no
Pleasant but uninspiring. Not crap enough for a 1, but not good enough for a 2. I'll see how I feel in the morning.
Jazz is shit.
I have not heard of this album before. I don’t listen to jazz so it was quite boring, didn’t notice when a song changed. Great as background music but I don’t think I will listen again.
Ol timey hoo-hah. Give every instrument a sassy air and slap a mute on it -- now that's music!
No thanks
Not for me (couldn't listen to more than a couple of songs).
Swing makes my brain itch. Not for me.
I feel bad but this did not hit for me at all. Not even a little bit. Did my best to try to stir up some appreciation for the musicianship but it was just a dull, dull record released at a time when everything you could do in the genre of Swing had already been done. Love to see the NJ representation from the artist, but can’t get even a little bit into any of this record.
Maybe I don’t like jazz. I’ve realised I much prefer listening to songs with lyrics or it gets boring for me, like I’m just listening to a backing track.
boring even for a instrumental
Jag vägrar
Swing aint my thing
Did not like it at all too many weird ass tunes
Tom & Jerry music
Tavanomaisen taitavaa. Vakuuttaa, että kävelevä basso on jazzin perimmäisen ärsyttävyyden taustalla.
Nah
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No, could tolerate it at barely Audio level in a restaurant or something, not my cup of tea Favourite song: didn’t have one
No one was offended. Glad to know it exists. If I have a posh sophisticated dinner party it can be part of the background music. Cover art. Odd choice. Still living with the direct aftermath of WW2 in 1958.
Meh
P1 intro, ukeslutt elns? Fekk litt vintage bar følelse som forhøyna dagens dusj Slitsomt. Eg trur eg kunne levd lykkelig uten å ha høyrt ditta albumet.
Fallout music with no lyrics
hvaða fucking rugl er þetta ég er ekki 95 ára gamall, hvers vegna í andskotanum er þetta á þessum lista, djöfull er þetta boring shit, 1 stjarna fuckit
C'est du jazz, chiant
Not a massive fan of Jazz
Got 2 tracks in and thats a no from me fam.
No jazz
Boring ass album. Never going back to it.
Bad
I know this is a critically acclaimed big band jazz album but man this music just doesn’t land with me. I couldn’t listen to it straight through without hitting next before a song was done. Maybe it’s great live and in its era. The song Double-O was kinda fun I guess?
No acostumbro a escuchar este tipo de música pero me ha gustado mucho la canción "the kid from red bank". Eso sí no volvería a escuchar el disco de seguido.
Chock full of swing music! Every track seems to meld together and none of them stuck out to me. Very nice background music.
Jazz, I won’t listen again.
Some of the jazzy bits were ok but then the horns and everything came back in. I hate all the big band stuff
pitos orquesta
Not my cup of tea really. Maybe the setting but did not really enjoy.
It makes me want to sip whiskey from a highball in a dark club, smoking cigarettes and being chill, None of which I would do in real life.
no
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Og animated cartoon kinda vibes