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Music : A Hot Night in Paris
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A Hot Night in Paris by: The Phil Collins Big Band List Price: $11.98 CD-Charts Price: $7.99 You Save: $3.99 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0075678319822 Format: Live Label: Atlantic / Wea Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic / Wea Release Date: July 20, 1999 Studio: Atlantic / Wea Sales Rank: 27195 MPN: 83198 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Phil Collins is regularly thrashed in the press for playing it safe and churning out predictable dependable music for yuppies. He was once accused of being "a rich superstar whose music only sounded good in a BMW." On A Hot Night in Paris, Collins again jumps into the shallow end of the pool and comes up playing Le Jazz Hot, with a 20-member band including a Count Basie arranger and some old-timers he borrowed from Buddy Rich's band to augment his regular players. To his credit, Collins worked out to a video designed for jazz drummers to get in shape for the project, but his muscular timekeeping lacks the color and subtleties of players born to the art form. Also, there is very little of what he does best: singing. The only vocals on this album are a few grunts and moans during an almost-note-perfect rendering of the Average White Band's funk classic, "Pick up the Pieces," which almost rescues the album from banality. Thrown in for recognition value are instrumental renditions of some of his better known solo chart-toppers, such as "Sussudio," "I Don't Care Anymore," and "Against All Odds." But more surprising, the former Genesis skinbeater threw in four numbers from the rock band's extensive songbook, including a swing version of the eccentric "Los Endos Suite." The only thing missing from this CD, recorded live in Paris and Montreux, is the clinking of cocktail glasses. --Jaan Uhelszki Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - great artist, singer, and musicI will make this short but the people who say this is rip off big band are idiots, and the people who say his voice, and solo cd's are garbage have little understanding of music,because there brains can't percieve it or also there afraid there friends will make fun of them to listening to compassionate songs of love, peoples lives, and world events, it just shows there bland taste in music like many in america have today, considering both big band and jazz, and classical are the heritage of this country. These are insecure people with themselves, who cannot percieve great musicianship, singing, and writing, and as far as his voice , not everyone has a high range like a chaka khan, or steve perry, it does not mean he has no talent, your corney ... Read More: Rating:  - Good - But don't get just to hear Genesis and Phil Covers One reason why Phil Collins departed from the group Genesis was to focus more on his own projects. These projects probably included (for good or bad) his own solo career, his film/soundtrack career, and a Big Band Project. "A Hot Night in Paris" represents a collection of Phil's Big Band recordings that were done live (I'm assuming Paris, but it never gives a date or specific location - the liner notes say he took the band out in the USA and Europe). This collection was released in 1999 and it marks something different that Phil Collins had done. "A Hot Night in Paris" is an instrumental collection and Phil focuses his efforts on the drums. Although this is something different, it isn't radically different. For most of Phil's career ... Read More: Rating:  - Was Mr. Collins joking about this?What a rip off. This CD is pure garbage. If you grew up in the 1940s, then this album is for you otherwise don't waste your money on it. I thought this was a live Phil Collins concert. On the contrary. Sure he oversaw the making of it and even played drums on it, but it's not a Phil Collins album. This is pure trash and I deeply regret spending the money on it. It's not worth it. Like I said, if you like Big Band stuff, then this is for you otherwise don't waste your time or money on it. Rating: - ThankfullyPhil Collins has always been a weak singer, good drummer and percussionist and long been a mediocre keyboardist. Thankfully this album does not showcase Phil Collins dry and rangeless voice. Instead its pretty much all instrumental which is its plus. Collins has assembled a strong group of musicians to help him out and came out with a acceptible instrumental jazz album. This album is far better then Phils horrid studio work but suffers the serious flaw of having many of the covers of Phil and Genesis pop songs still come out too poppy though there is a great live version of Los Endos at the end of the album, the best version out there. Rating: - Phil's Hot Big Band...As a longtime Phil Collins fan for well over two decades now, I've gotten used to the constant idiotic bad reviews of Phil's singing & songwriting abilities that have plagued him since 1985's "No Jacket Required" album, which are stupid enough. But to put down Phil's talent as a *drummer* is absolute bull---t! Phil Collins is without a doubt one of the greatest drummers in the world. NO ONE on God's given Earth plays drums like Phil Collins. He is a master, a pro, and he has a unique drumming sound that's entirely his own. He KNOWS his way around that drumkit. If you can't hear the brilliance of Phil's drumming on "A Hot Night In Paris," or on ANY album that Phil has drummed on throughout his career for that matter, then you are obviously, ... Read More: |
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