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Stephane Pompougnac Has Elevated the "Lounge Compilation" to a Level of Being an Artistic Audio Cocktail. With Worldwide Sales in Excess of 1. 7 Million, the "Hotel Costes" Series Has Proven to Be the Standard by which all Others Are Measured. Now, Pompougnac Transforms the Best Tracks from Volumes ...

Smooth Sailing...

After scoring the crossover hit "Virtual Insanity" in 1998 (remember the moving sidewalk video?), the U.K.'s Jamiroquai failed to keep their momentum alive with the somewhat scattered and skittish Synkronized. Thankfully for fans of the retro (if lightweight) pop/soul that is the band's special...

With songs that fall exactly in between Michael Jackson's Off the Wall period and A Taste of Honey, Jamiroquai's Synkronized is a funk-disco inferno that is distinguished from its 1970s counterparts only by its 1990s production. It contains all the same ingredients: wah-wah guitar, electric piano, s...

The third volume in this outstanding new series from Blue Note Trip sees DJ Jazzanova once again lay down only the finest in classic jazz and Latin funk, while keeping the package fresh by including remixes and contemporary material. A constant pleasure across twenty something tracks, Jazzanova prov...

On Super Heavy Organ, Robert Walter is in able company as he constructs what he calls "soul jazz". For one thing, there’s the rhythm section, culled from the finest of the New Orleans old and new guards: Johnny Vidacovich and Stanton Moore, respectively. Although they don’t join up on these trac...

Mushroom Jazz...

As the Boomtang Boys, the Canadian duo of multi-instrumentalist Rob DeBoer and drummer Tony Grace have already made a name for themselves in Europe's techno-pop/jazz dance scene. Here, in another form, their music is still very easy to dance and snap your fingers to, but there's an obvious attempt b...

Round Three...

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