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Duets: An American Classic
(2006)
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett has so many adoring celebrity fans it should come as no surprise that when a major duets album is planned, he's able to draw a roster of the biggest recording stars from the rock and vocal worlds, plus a pair of country music wildcards. (This despite the fact that he recorded an album with several duets in 2001, and a full-album ...
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Dino: The Essential Dean Martin
(2004)
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Dean Martin
Dino: The Essential Dean Martin is an attempt by Capitol Records to fill up a single CD to the brim (30 tracks in nearly 78 minutes) with Dean Martin hits in the manner of the Beatles' 1. It's a welcome development from a label that was previously content to survey the same territory on the 1998 collection Greatest Hits: King of Cool, which ...
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The Essential Tony Bennett [Columbia/Legacy]
(2002)
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Tony Bennett
Like most entries in Sony/Legacy's Essential series, 2002's The Essential Tony Bennett is an excellent, exhaustive retrospective of a lengthy, hit-filled career at Columbia. Although Bennett spent time at other labels -- particularly in the '70s -- he made his best-known and greatest recordings for Columbia, from the late '50s through the '90s, ...
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This Guy's in Love
(2003)
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Steve Tyrell
When Steve Tyrell's version of "The Way You Look Tonight" found its way onto the soundtrack for 1991's Father of the Bride, chances are he had no idea that it would eventually lead to a second career incarnation as a pop/jazz vocalist. After years of working in the shadows as a songwriter and producer, Tyrell suddenly found himself in the ...
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Fifty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
(2004)
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Tony Bennett
When the first version of this impressive box set was originally released in 1991 (as Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett), it put the capstone upon Tony Bennett's remarkable return to prominence by looking back at a legacy that had been overshadowed by that of the colossus Sinatra. The collection methodically traced his career from his ...
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Bells Are Ringing [Bonus Tracks]
(1957)
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Original Broadway Cast
Lyricist/librettists Betty Comden and Adolph Green wrote the musical Bells Are Ringing as a vehicle for Judy Holliday, their old partner from their nightclub act the Revuers. Holliday was an Academy Award-winning comic actress (Born Yesterday, 1950), but her musical talents had gone largely unregistered until now. Comden and Green set their ...
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Dino: The Essential Dean Martin (Special Platinum Edition)
(2005)
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Dean Martin
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Greatest Hits Live
(2007)
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Judy Garland
From a glance at the title, listeners could be forgiven for considering Greatest Hits Live a budget-label collection with muddy sound and shoddy notes. In fact, it's another compilation from Savoy Jazz of material dating to Judy Garland's early-'60s television show and specials. Material from the same sessions have been coming out for several ...
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All-Time Greatest Hits
(1950)
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett's departure from Columbia Records after 22 years in 1972 inspired the label to put together a one-volume hits compilation (originally released on two LPs) of 20 songs covering his entire Columbia output, from "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" and the early hits like "Because of You" and "Rags to Riches," through the early- to mid-'60s hit ...
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Blossom Dearie Sings Comden and Green
(1959)
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Blossom Dearie
Buoyed by the success of Ella Fitzgerald's songbook series, Verve executive Norman Granz suggested to one of his other artists, Blossom Dearie, that she tackle the canon of lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green. But while Ella's acrobatic voice proved more than a match for any brand of songwriter (especially heavyweights like Gershwin, Porter, ...
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Business Man's Bounce
(2007)
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Bill Easley
Bill Easley has an extensive résumé as a sideman, but has led relatively few record dates of his own during his long career. But this excellent disc ought to open up more recording opportunities for him. With a potent rhythm section comprised of pianist Larry Ham, bassist Hassan JJ Shakur, and veteran drummer Michael Carvin (the latter a strong ...
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Classic Judy Garland: The Capitol Years 1955-1965
(2002)
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Judy Garland
In his book Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend, Scott Schechter wrote for August 1955: "Judy signed a...recording contract with Capitol Records, where she would make her finest recordings." As annotator, co-producer, and co-compiler of Classic Judy Garland: The Capitol Years 1955-1965, Schechter is able to give substance to his ...
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Jazz 'Round Midnight: Mel Tormé
(1994)
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Mel Tormé
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A&E Biography
(1998)
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Judy Garland
Released in conjunction with an airing of the television show of the same name, A&E Biography offers an incomplete but informative overview of Judy Garland's recordings for Capitol Records. Since she recorded many of her great songs for Capitol, the compilation doesn't feel incomplete the way similar entries on Mel Tormé and Bobby Darin do (they ...
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This Time I'm Swingin'!/Pretty Baby
(1957)
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Dean Martin
This British two-fer combines Dean Martin's fourth (This Time I'm Swingin'!, 1960) and second (Pretty Baby, 1957) regular studio albums onto one CD. The later album, heard first, was Martin's initial collaboration with conductor/arranger Nelson Riddle. It was an easy, swinging collection with appealing horn charts and a series of comfortable ...
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The Swinging Side of Bobby Darin
(2005)
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Bobby Darin
During the early '60s, the Capitol Tower had begun to lose its luster as the home of traditional pop. Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin had departed for Reprise, which soon became the home of pop with recordings from Sinatra and Martin plus Sammy Davis, Jr. One of Capitol's counter moves was to sign Atco's Bobby Darin, who had started as a teen idol ...
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Complete Blue Hour Sessions
(2000)
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Stanley Turrentine & the Three Sounds
Stanley Turrentine & the Three Sounds were initially featured together on an album called Blue Hour, which was a very relaxed and bluesy release. The spaciousness of "I Want a Little Girl" makes the listener savor every note, while "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" is played with an almost identical tempo and feeling. Gene Harris' "Blue Riff" picks ...
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Judy [32 Jazz]
(1998)
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Judy Garland
Producer Joel Dorn acquired rights to the audio and video recordings of the 1963-4 television series The Judy Garland Show, but then became more ambitious in creating this four-CD (plus half-hour VHS tape) box set. Apparently with the assistance of Garland fan Scott Schecter, Dorn acquired other Garland recordings, notably airchecks, and licensed ...
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Spotlight On Bobby Darin [Great Gentlemen of Song]
(1995)
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Bobby Darin
If you've got a yen for the most pop-oriented area of Darin's repertoire, head for this disc, which presents 20 of his most mainstream Capitol outings from 1962 to 1965. Devoted to pop standards, over half of the tracks feature orchestras working under the conduction of Billy May. It also has a bit more collector appeal than the typical volume of ...
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Live at the Blue Note
(2000)
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Bill Watrous Quartet
Another in the series of live performances from New York's Blue Note released by Halfnote, this time it's trombonist Bill Watrous and his quartet with Derek Smith, Russell George, and Joe Ascione. Watrous applies his effortless virtuosity and fluid expressive solo style to a program of classic pop and jazz standards, dealing with them in depth and ...
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Falling in Love Is Wonderful: Broadway's Greatest Love Duets
(2006)
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Various Artists
One positive result of the corporate mergers in the record business is that it gets easier to make comprehensive compilations, and the marriage of the show music vaults of Columbia and RCA Victor Records that resulted from the Sony BMG joint venture brings together two major repositories that used to be major rivals unlikely to cross-license ...
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Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings
(2000)
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Carol Burnett
Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings collects the comedienne's two early-'60s Decca albums -- Let Me Entertain You and How They Stopped the Show -- onto one CD. Burnett's renditions of classic show tunes and pop standards such as "I Cain't Say No," "Everything's Coming up Roses," "Sweet Georgia Brown," and "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest ...
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Duets: An American Classic [Hong Kong]
(2006)
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett has so many adoring celebrity fans it should come as no surprise that when a major duets album is planned, he's able to draw from a roster of the biggest recording stars from the rock and vocal worlds, plus a pair of country music wildcards. (This despite the fact that he recorded an album with several duets in 2001, and a full-album ...
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Lover Come Back to Me
(1981)
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Chris Connor
A 45-minute set taken from New York's Sweet Basil, Lover Come Back to Me was recorded in 1981 with Connor fronting a piano-bass-drums trio. Connor's voice is warm and dynamic for many of her freewheeling favorites: "It Might as Well Be Spring," "Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home," "Get Out of Town." Even "All or Nothing at All" is taken at a brisk ...
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I Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing
(1997)
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Steve Blackwood
Steve Blackwood, an up-and-coming Los Angeles-based vocalist, performs fresh versions of 11 familiar songs on his debut CD. Accompanied by a top-notch rhythm section (pianist Jane Getz, bassist Darek Oles and drummer Fritz Wise), and assisted on six of the 11 numbers by trumpeter Jeff Kaye, Blackwood uplifts and adds soul and swing to such tunes ...
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