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Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
(1991)
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Frank Sinatra
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years is an excellent single-disc retrospective of Sinatra's career at Reprise, including most of his signature songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Hits like "My Way," "That's Life," "Summer Wind," "Strangers in the Night," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "New York, New York" are present, as are songs that were never ...
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Billie Holiday [MGM]
(1959)
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Billie Holiday
This two-LP set features the best of Billie Holiday's Decca recordings. The 24 selections include such classics as "Them There Eyes," "Lover Man," "Don't Explain," "Crazy He Calls Me," "Now or Never" and "Good Morning Heartache," not to mention a 1950 version of "God Bless the Child." All of this material has since been reissued on CD. Scott ...
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Singin' with the Big Bands
(1994)
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Barry Manilow
Like Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow embarked on a transition during the 1990s from being a contemporary pop singer/songwriter to being an interpretive singer on the model of Tony Bennett, who achieved a career resurgence around the same time with a series of thematic albums. Manilow followed 1991's Showstoppers, an album of songs from Broadway shows, ...
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Strangers in the Night
(1966)
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Frank Sinatra
Strangers in the Night marked Frank Sinatra's return to the top of the pop charts in the mid-'60s, and it consolidated the comeback he started in 1965. Although he later claimed he disliked the title track, the album was an inventive, rich effort from Sinatra, one that established him as a still-viable star to a wide, mainstream audience without ...
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Ballads
(1962)
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John Coltrane Quartet
Throughout John Coltrane's discography there are a handful of decisive and controversial albums that split his listening camp into factions. Generally, these occur in his later-period works such as Om and Ascension, which push into some pretty heady blowing. As a contrast, Ballads is often criticized as too easy and as too much of a compromise ...
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All or Nothing at All
(1998)
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Joey DeFrancesco
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Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 12: Saxophobia
(1996)
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Various Artists
The lounge sounds of the '50s and '60s on this compilation are very much of a piece with the other volumes of the Ultra-Lounge series. But as you'd expect from the title, the emphasis is on vintage lounge at its jazziest, with the saxophone to the fore. This isn't the kind of jazz you're going to read about in Down Beat, despite the presence of ...
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The Reprise Collection
(1961)
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Frank Sinatra
Like The Capitol Years, the four-disc box set The Reprise Collection was released to celebrate Frank Sinatra's 75th anniversary. However, it works as a better sampler than the Capitol set, partially because Sinatra released so many albums on Reprise that it is necessary to have an introduction to such a large body of work. Also, his Reprise ...
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It's You or No One
(1963)
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Bobby Darin
It's You or No One is a strange album in Bobby Darin's catalog. For some reason, the record was recorded in 1960 but held for three years before its June 1963 release. It is another concept record for Darin, with one side filled with upbeat songs arranged by Torrie Zito and the other with more moody tunes done by Bobby Scott. The "up" side ...
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Falling in Love Again
(2003)
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Joey Defrancesco/Joe Doggs
Is this still young but nearly legendary hipster, who almost singlehandedly rekindled jazz's interest in the Hammond B-3 organ, going to the dogs? The folks at Concord Records hope so, sending out a doggie biscuit with their press materials as DeFrancesco gives one of his favorite East Coast jazz singers, Joe Doggs, a prominent spotlight. Doggs' ...
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Hit Parade 1943
(2007)
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Various Artists
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All or Nothing at All
(1955)
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Billie Holiday
This two-disc set features some of Billie Holiday's top Verve performances from the mid-'50s. Over the course of 28 cuts, she runs the emotional gamut from summery optimism ("Love Is Here to Stay") to pathos-rich musings ("Ill Wind"). Befitting her perennial after-hours mood while at the label, the majority of songs here feature Holiday in a low ...
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Night Club
(2000)
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Patricia Barber
Chicago native and classically trained pianist Patricia Barber's sixth album is a collection of downtempo standards, perfect for a rainy day. Taking on classics like "Autumn Leaves," "I Fall in Love Too Easily," "Bye Bye Blackbird," or even "Alfie" is always a risk, but her confident vocals and interpretations eradicate any doubt that she is a ...
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Yours
(2005)
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Sara Gazarek
When an older jazz singer warns a younger jazz singer that vocal jazz is an extremely crowded, brutally competitive field, it isn't just rhetoric -- vocal jazz (like just about any other area of music) has a lot more applicants than openings or opportunities. Therefore, aspiring young jazz singers need to do everything possible to stand out and ...
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A Man and His Music [Reprise]
(1986)
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Frank Sinatra
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Latin Lace/Latin Affair
(1999)
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George Shearing
In 1999, EMI released Latin Lace/Latin Affair, which contained two complete albums -- Latin Lace (1958, originally released on Capitol) and Latin Affair (1959, originally released on Capitol) -- by George Shearing on one compact disc. Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide
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Somebody Loves Me
(1961)
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Ray Conniff Singers
Somebody Loves Me offers a program of pop standards and love songs that receive the full vocal-group treatment rather than the wordless vocalizing for which Ray Conniff is known. The voices are out in front and gorgeously arranged, with the male and female singers on opposite sides of the stereo spectrum. More suave than Mitch Miller's singalong ...
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All or Nothing at All: The Dramatic Jimmy Scott
(2005)
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Little Jimmy Scott
Little Jimmy Scott (as he was billed at the time) did his first important recordings for Herman Lubinsky's Savoy label in the mid-'50s, but while Savoy didn't always seem certain of what to do with this admittedly idiosyncratic talent, they certainly didn't want other companies getting their hands on him, and as a result landmark recordings Scott ...
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Open Sesame
(1960)
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Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard's first recording as a leader, Open Sesame features the 22-year-old trumpeter in a quintet with tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, the up-and-coming pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Sam Jones and drummer Clifford Jarvis. This set shows that even at this early stage, Hubbard had the potential to be one of the greats. On the ballad "But ...
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Lady Time
(1978)
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Ella Fitzgerald
This CD places Ella Fitzgerald (then 60) in an unusual setting. Joined only by organist Jackie Davis and drummer Louie Bellson, she tackles a wide variety of material that ranges from "I'm Walkin'" and "I Cried for You" to "Mack the Knife" (which did not need to be remade) and "And the Angels Sing." Not one of her more essential releases, Lady ...
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The Diva Series
(2003)
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Billie Holiday
Part of Verve's Diva Series of compilations, this Billie Holiday collection is by no means the definitive account of her career -- Columbia's Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday takes that honor. That said, it is still a great introduction to the vocalist's singular and influential style. There is a timely flow to the track listing on most of the ...
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Gold
(2006)
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John Coltrane
John Coltrane presents several challenges to anyone trying to compile "an introductory collection" of his recordings, as annotator Ashley Kahn describes this 125-minute, two-disc set. Coltrane recorded prolifically; he recorded for several different record labels that, despite decades of corporate mergers and takeovers, remained separate as of ...
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Long Ago and Far Away
(1996)
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Charlie Watts
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Night Owls
(2006)
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The Chris Byars Octet
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Homage
(2000)
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Randy Johnston
There was no shortage of jazz tribute albums in the '90s, most of which focused on a particular artist. But on Homage, guitarist Randy Johnston pays homage to ten artists he admires and makes things interesting by opting for variety. Not surprisingly, Johnston salutes some jazz guitarists, including Kenny Burrell on "Lyresto," George Benson on ...
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