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One world, one world-music review: John Gentry Tennysonhas a history of playing with jazzers like Randy Brecker, Dewey Redmanand Al DiMeola, even though his roots are in classical music. On Europa(Angel), he mixes both with the terminally romantic music of Italy, Spain and France. Anyone stricken with the lust level of tango's Astor Piazzolla will find this an 8.5 on the Nookie-Enhancing Scale.

This month's Overlooked and Underrated artist: Holland's guitarist Stochelo Rosenbergsounds uncannily like his idol, Django Reinhardt, the patriarch of Europe's gypsy musicians. Rosenberg and his eye-crossing, 90 mph rants make those Guitar Playermagazine cover icons sound like your 16-year-old metalhead cousin who, when not wetting the bed, lives to beat that one Metallica riff to death. If he happens to fry his frame changing a tube in his amp, use the corpse cash for Rosenberg's Caravan (Verve).