Search - Flim & Bb's :: Vintage Bb's Best of

Smooth and Sharp

Randy Roten | Dunwoody, GA United States | 07/28/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"With this, the inevitable "Best Of" collection, the career of Flim & the BBs is bookended. The playlist is a broad sampling of the group's recorded history and features two never-before-released selections. This CD illustrates their smooth, jazz-pop efforts, punctuated by the sharp, detailed production that made this band the original digital musical organization.Originally coming together to help test new digital recording equipment, F&TBBs, from the very first, joined gentle, hook-laden melodies with stellar musicianship to create a new synthesis of jazz, pop, and easy listening. If Steely Dan brought jazz to rock, then F&TBBs brought jazz to everybody else. If you appreciate the highest level production values, this release is an absolute must-have, and an ultimate test-the-speakers CD. For the live music afficionado, the expressive interplay of the players is worthy of countless hearings. The only down side to having this CD in your library is that you'll have to somehow find and buy the rest of their mostly out-of-print catalog to find out what you're missing."