Long long ago Tony Blackburn proudly revealed that he didn’t like jazz before adding that he was a huge fan of Count Basie! So for Tony and all those likeminded (lost) souls who insist that they don’t like or understand jazz, Sony have come up with a perfect rescue package in the form of this box that houses 10 CDs in facsimile card sleeves. Covering most contemporary bases it includes such celebrated cornerstones as Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Time Out (Dave Brubeck), Headhunters (Herbie Hancock) plus Weather Report’s Heavy Weather that includes ‘Birdland’. Other goodies depict Charlie Mingus at his most exotic (Tijuana Moods) Thelonious Monk’s first album for Columbia (Monk’s Dream) and Billie Holiday’s final yet perhaps most emotional album Lady In Satin. Despite a lifetime of self-abuse which had come close to destroying her unique voice, it hadn’t dulled her passion as this final curtain call reveals. In all an enticing proposition for both believers and more importantly nonbelievers!