Jazz at the Pawn Shop...

Excruciating? Hardly.
You want excruciating; listen to Barry Manillow!

You want excruciating; listen to Barry Manillow

Did you mean to say excrement? ;-)

Come, come, at least Manilow wrote a few tunes rather than turgidly regurgitating past musical styles without regard to interpretation or meaning. Now if you could get Arne Domnerus and crew to do "Mandy" you would really have a great audiophile touchstone. Seriously, do not disregard the excellent Proprius label based on this treacle, I can heartily recommend a couple of their recordings that combine great, transcendental, music with fabulous recorded quality. They are "Kor" and "Cantate Domino". Happy listening.

Far from excruciating--it is really quite good--despite some of the negative comments--jazz is so variable in style--I like their rendition of "take five " others may not --like alot of opinions on the gon my advice is to listen to a copy for yourself--I have recordings that people raved about that are collecting dust and others that were just spot on --rich