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Home For The Holidays - #586

Eaken Piano Trio

1994 Naxos 1/1/94

Christmas Gift from Lisa

Purchased: 12/21/97 - Gift $12.99

Rated: 3

Earth Nation - #637

Earth Nation

1996 Eye Q 1/1/96

Not bad psychedelia for the 90's but I would imagine it sold about 2 copies at the full price.  A cutout.  Music to be played at a Rave, seemingly recorded live.  A drug induced stupor would make this music great.

Purchased: 6/25/99 - J&R $1.99

Rated: 3

Long Story, A - #680

Elias, Eliane

1991 Manhattan

Jazz! Brazilian Style.  Bossa Nova and those other Brazilian beats.  Good stuff when you are in the mood.  The liner notes are in English but the songs are in Portuguese.

Purchased: 2/5/99 - Imported $18.99

Rated: 3

Digital Duke - #317

Ellington Orchestra, Duke

1987 GRP Records 1/1/86

There is excellence here.  I bought this one after hearing "In The Digital Mood", Glen Miller music done in 0's and 1's.  This is excellent too.  How can it not be, Mercer Ellington conducts with Bradford Marsalis as one of the guests.  Every music lover should like this, a great reflection on another age and music that has become American Standards.  Satin Doll is a favorite.

Purchased: 1/1/86 - Tower Outlet $12.99

Rated: 5

Braggin' in Brass The Immortal 1938 Year- #423

Ellington, Duke

1988 Portrait 1/1/38

Great Classical Jazz but it is ingratiating because it is in the old fashioned arrangements..  I enjoy most it when I play it only occasionally.

Purchased: 10/10/92 - Columbia House $22.98

Rated: 3

Funky Divas - #76

En Vogue

1992 Eastwest 1/1/92

Good '90's Girl Group in the time honored tradition.  (Some say this group was manufactured for their looks by record executives).  A lot of top ten video hits out of this one

Purchased: 12/11/92 - J&R $11.99

Rated: 4

Memory of Trees - #469

Enya

1996 Reprise 1/1/96

Typical Enya, typically great.  Almost as good as her album "Watermark"

Purchased: 1/18/96 - Wiz $12.98

Rated: 5

Shepherd Moons - #131

Enya

1991 Reprise 1/1/91

Enya wrote the book on Celtic and new age.  A superior artist.  Here music is the most interesting of new age.  This would be a 5 were it anyone else other than Enya.

Purchased: 11/20/91 -  $12.99

Rated: 4

Watermark  - #332

Enya

1988 Geffen 1/1/88

This is the album that made Lisa say " Have I had my Enya Today ".  It is real New Age music.  Ying and Yang, a lot of it.  Good and evil, man and woman.  All the things that humanity craves.  There is lots of Enya in you and all of us.  All of here albums are good but this one is the best, balance and excellence.  The flow of the songs makes this one superb.

Purchased: 1/1/89 - J&R $14.99

Rated: 5

Golden Hits Of The Everly Brothers - #11

Everly Brothers

1962 Warner Bros 1/1/62

The rock lyrics and sound instrumentation has aged but the voices are still fresh and harmonious.   This 50's brothers team defined harmony for the British Invasion that was to come in the 60's.  Cathy's Clown is the rock harmony classic.

Purchased: 1/1/92 -  $10.99

Rated: 4

Cabo Verde - #557

Evora, Cesaria

1997 nonesuch 1/1/97

I mostly don't care for most Spanish music but not this one, it is a maximum.  This woman can compete with Maria Bethania

Purchased: 3/2/98 - CDNow.Com $12.99

Rated: 5