Rok, I was thinking those same thoughts before I read your post. Nice easy listening music, but not nice enough for me to rush out and buy it. After acquiring the best jazz of two decades, we're kind of hard to please.
I like to listen, and then go through Nica's book, it seems as though I'm looking at old friends. As a matter of fact I've been looking at some other photo books, but after Nica's I feel that I would be disappointed.
Clark Terry's "Color Changes" is not for casual listners, it's to be savored, like the kind of cognac you pour in a brandy snifter, it's got some heavy personnel; Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, English horn, oboe
Seldon Powell - tenor saxophone, flute
Julius Watkins - French horn
Jimmy Knepper - trombone
Tommy Flanagan - piano
Budd Johnson - piano (track 6)
Joe Benjamin - bass
Ed Shaughnessy - drums
Julius Watkins was with Miles and Gil Evans, it's not often you hear French horn in jazz. I like Yusef Lateef best on those strange kind of flutes he plays.
I'm not quite sure where we go from here, but I've been hearing some interesting female vocalists on the jazz station. If you think of anything, post it.
Enjoy the music.