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Jazzmasters: Greatest Hits

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I can appreciate all music, and I love jazz, especially Paul Hardcastle and the Jazzmasters. This greatest hits cd is some of the best music I have ever heard. It's so smooth, it's impossible not to love this cd. If you listen to it you'd understand. This is a must for music lovers. I'm serious! This is a trip.......

Jazzmaster's Greatest Hits CD was the greatest discovery ever! Every single track is fantastic. I discovered Paul Hardcastle's music just recently while at the jewelry store having some batteries replaced in my watches. The jeweler was playing Hardcastle 2 on her portable CD player in the small store. When I was asked if I minded waiting for a few minutes for my watches, I was thrilled as I wanted to listen to more of this awesome music! When I asked her the name of the CD, she shared info on Jazzmasters as well. I listened to samples of different Paul Hardcastle CDs on Amazon that evening and was further hooked. This one was one of my favorites and I've already ordered several copies as gifts for friends and family. I highly, highly recommend this CD when you want to simply chill with sexy, soulful music, have a glass of wine or just relax and let it take you away to a different place.....

This is truly a treat for those who value smooth Jazz and good music. Paul Hardcastle is a genius and keeps coming up with brilliant compositions. 5 star rating all the way.
Asif Aleem

I first discovered Paul Hardcastle via a Website streaming "Smooth Jazz" music. I enjoy certain performers in that genre and avoid others like the plague. While Hardcastle is certainly a purveyor of the form (it would be kind of hard to deny that with song titles like "Jokers Wild (Smooth Jazz Version)"), he's not offering run-of-the-mill, generic "quiet storm" music here.

I own this CD as well as The Jazzmasters V, The Collection, Hardcastle 3, Hardcastle 4, and Hardcastle 5. I prefer the instrumental tracks over the vocal ones (although some instrumentals do feature wordless "vocalizing" or a spoken line or two).

There is a level of melody, of tension, of complexity, something memorable in Hardcastle's music that isn't normally found in this genre. My top tracks from this CD are "Shine," "London Chimes," and "Peace On Earth." I've culled 13 other tracks from the CDs above for a CD-length playlist on my iPod, and I listen to it often.

There's some guitar, but it's not "Nils / Pacific Coast Highway" or a Norman Brown album. There are horns, but they never have that honking, screechy, nails-down-the-blackboard feel that's in some of the Rippingtons' self-described "high energy" tracks. The music is "balanced" without being "sanitized" or "homogenized."

This is a good CD to start with...representative of the range and variety in Hardcastle's music. Chances are you'll want more, just as I did.

This jazz cd brings out the best in acid jazz. Mellow and outstanding sounds that one can listen to over and over again without getting bored. Paul Hardcastle is the best to produce one of a kind sounds on this cd.

What could have been a beautiful album was hideously ruined by the droning drum beat placed in front of and drowning out the fine instrumentation. Having listened to Hardcastle on a jazz station and XM's 'Escape', I never notice how intrusive and unnecessary that overpowering beat was. What a shame, I will never buy another Paul Hardcastle album without hearing it played first. The smooth easy listening quality is overshadowed by the constant boom boom boom. If not for that, it would be perfect. What was he thinking?

Good listening for a Saturday afternoon or a day after work. Always smooth and relaxing.

So many artists title an album "greatest hits" and it's a disappointment. This album is gentle and truly smooth jazz without the ugly aftertaste that some artists tend to leave one with. Not every track is a heavenly inspiration but many are. Worth the money.

This is the smoothest, most romantic CD ever, if you don't have it you need to get it. Every song is great you can't go wrong with this one. I've been listening to it from day one and it never get's old. It is truly the Best of the Best. Get it you won't be disappointed.

Paul Hardcastle's Jazzmasters is by far the best CD I have. All the music titles in this CD is worth the listening comfort. I listen to it at work and in my car.