2003 release, French DJ/Artist St‚phane Pompougnac's sixth installment in this popular series featuring the best tracks heard at France's premiere club, bar and cafe. The Hotel Costes series serves as a ''tastemaker'' (read: trendsetting) for the rest of the world. His penchant for choosing the very best music for this series burns bright as he incorporates tracks on this outing from Minus 8, Barbara Mendes, Dutch Rhythm Cobo, Stigmato Inc. and others. Feel free to luxuriate with the sounds and splendor of the most relaxing place in Paris with the upper crust. The ''C“stes'' brand is forever linked with the ultimate in quality and is renowned with patrons as the home of luxury in Paris. After all, the overriding theme is ''all things in excess.''
A BIT DISAPPOINTING...BUT SOME HIDDEN GEMS I am in LOVE with Costes Etage III. (FANTASTIC music on that release. If you do not own it, it should be a MUST have for your collection!) But, this offering left me very much on neutral ground. The first half of this cd offers up some really fine fusion ... but the last four or so songs become annoying, and only succeeded in jarring my nerves. Highlights: 3-11 Porter -Surround Me With Your Love. (Without this song present on the disc, I would have given a much lower rating!) Submitted by a reviewer (Washington DC) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Another in a line of excellent chill compilations Perfect semi-background music for dinner parties or mood music for gettin-it-on!! Submitted by barguybrady (Chicago) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
$20.29 This is Toru Dodo's 3rd piano trio album featuring Rodney Green on drum and Joseph Lepore on bass. It's released in Japan on February 2006. **************DODO 3 Reviewby Brian LonerganAll About Jazz July 2006Toru Dodo's name may not be at the top of people's lists ofriveting jazz pianists-yet- but with recordingslike Dodo 3, such recognition could come soon enough.The album is full of catchy compositions showing an individual, unique and modern voice and hisacrobatic trio- Joseph Lepore on bass and RodneyGreen on drums- flies around complicated structuresand rhythms with energy and precision.The standout composition"NYUCS(New York Underground Car Service)", for example, could bemistaken in a blindfold test for The Bad Plus at theirmore adventurous, given its rhythmic, harmonic andstructural boldness. But the piece is not derivative inany way and bears Dodo's original signature throughout its unyielding gallop forward.(Its sampleof a #1 subway line conductor announcing stops is anadded pleasure for Manhatto-philes.)The album opener " R or B" is another compellingcomposition, with varying rhythms and tempospropelling it along, changing colors of minor andmajor 7 chords and two-handed, staccato passages."Arabesque" showa a classical influence with itssteadily flowing current of arpeggios, while on thesolo piano" My Romance" Dodo demonstrates he canplay a ballad the old-fashioned ...
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A BIT DISAPPOINTING...BUT SOME HIDDEN GEMS
Another in a line of excellent chill compilations
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