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Cool Yule
(2006)
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Bette Midler
Well in advance of the Christmas season, Bette Midler, perhaps in her zeal to join the ranks of other artists like Bing Crosby, Elvis, and Johnny Mathis (the latter with whom she sings the duet here, "Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!") with famed holiday work, has come out with her first-ever Christmas album, Cool Yule. ...
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Now That's What I Call Christmas, Vol. 3
(2006)
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Various Artists
Like the Now That's What I Call Music! series from which it was spun off, Now That's What I Call Christmas! has spawned a series of various-artists collections drawn from the archives of three of the four major labels, Universal, EMI, and Sony BMG, labels that have long-since absorbed nearly all the old independent labels and thus control an ...
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The Christmas Collection [Reprise]
(2004)
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Frank Sinatra
The third quarter of each year brings a bounty of Christmas collections on pop artists ranging from Sinatra to Elvis Presley to Bing Crosby to the Beach Boys. Unfortunately, most of them reissue the same ancient material in the same shockingly awful sound (at least they don't charge much for such offensive product). Reprise's issue of The ...
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20th Century Masters - The Christmas Collection
(2003)
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The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5's 20th Century Masters - Christmas Collection is a straight reissue of The Jackson 5 Christmas Album released in 1970 on Motown. This is a pleasing combination of holiday classics, including "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Frosty the Snowman," and "Up on the House Top," with not so classic but still enjoyable tunes like ...
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Give Me Your Love for Christmas
(1969)
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Johnny Mathis
A million-seller, it features the Mathis sound after he returned to Columbia Records from the Mercury label. David A. Milberg, All Music Guide
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A Rosie Christmas
(1999)
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Rosie O'Donnell
A Rosie Christmas features Rosie O'Donnell in duets with stars like Billy Joel and Celine Dion. O'Donnell teams up with Lauryn Hill for "Little Drummer Boy," performs "White Christmas" with Elton John and duets on "Love's In Our Hearts" with N'Sync. Children's favorites like Angelica from Rugrats and Elmo The Muppet also sing with Rosie on tracks ...
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Bethlehem
(1998)
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Brian McKnight
With the help of several R&B artists, including Boyz II Men and Claude McKnight from Take 6, Brian McKnight's Bethlehem is a joyful, romantic holiday album. Religious Christmas songs like "The First Noel," "Hail Mary," "Silent Night," and "Bethlehem Tonight" are mixed in with contemporary tracks such as "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," ...
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The Christmas Album
(1992)
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The Manhattan Transfer
For their set of Christmas related material, the Manhattan Transfer welcome such guests as trumpeter Jack Sheldon (on "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"), Tony Bennett ("The Christmas Song"), trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and tenor saxophonist Pete Christlieb. With arrangements provided for the backing orchestra by Johnny Mandel on a few ...
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A Voice in Time: 1939-1952
(2007)
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Frank Sinatra
This four-CD set is a first in Frank Sinatra's Columbia Records discography: a box set that encompasses his Columbia solo sides with his work for Tommy Dorsey and Harry James, plus live broadcast sides up through 1952. It may also perplex some potential purchasers, especially those who already have the 12-CD Sony/Legacy Columbia Years set -- which ...
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The Essential Kenny G
(2006)
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Kenny G
With a series of greatest-hits collections being issued and repackaged over the past few years, this installment of the Essential series puts them all to shame by collecting not one, but two discs' worth of the jazz saxophonist's career. It's far more inclusive and thorough than most collections, as it spans everything right from the beginning up ...
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals
(2002)
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Various Artists
As part of its pact with Turner Entertainment, which controls the vaults of several of the great movie studios, Rhino Records has issued many compilations of soundtrack material from the movie musicals of the 1930s to the 1960s. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals is an attempt to present the musical highlights of the ...
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Gold: A 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration
(2006)
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Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis' best Christmas recordings date from the late '50s, when he recorded Merry Christmas for Mitch Miller and Columbia, and from the mid-'60s, when he recorded The Sounds of Christmas for Mercury. Mathis was a wonderful holiday singer, easily able to summon the congenial warmth and energetic cheerfulness that made his version of "Sleigh ...
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Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar
(2005)
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Various Artists
This expansive four-disc anthology essentially covers the recorded history of the guitar in the 20th century, beginning with the ragtime banjo that set the table for the role of the guitar in a jazz setting in the early 1900s, and then touching all the bases clear through to the post-postmodern possibilities of the instrument in the 21st century. ...
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A Merry 1940s Christmas
(2004)
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Various Artists
Collectors' Choice Music will definitely get something good in their stockings thanks to this compilation of classic Christmas melodies circa the 1940s. More than two-dozen vintage seasonal songs are gathered on 2004's A Merry 1940s Christmas, many made available for the first time on compact disc. The ageless nature of these entries has ensured ...
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Timeless Christmas
(2004)
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Denver & The Mile High Orchestra
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The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
(1960)
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Frank Sinatra
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra is a simple double-disc collection of 40 Sinatra classics from his Reprise Recordings. For casual fans wanting something more than the single-disc The Very Good Years but don't want the four-disc The Reprise Collection, The Very Best of Frank Sinatra is ideal, since it contains all of the true essentials he recorded ...
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Motown Christmas [Universal 1999]
(1999)
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Various Artists
A Motown Christmas is an outstanding 12-track sampler of highlights from holiday efforts like the Jackson 5's Christmas Album, Stevie Wonder's Someday at Christmas, and Smokey Robinson & the Miracles' The Season of Miracles, all recorded during the label's late-'60s peak and infused with the same beautifully soulful vibe which defined the Sound of ...
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Explorations
(1961)
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Bill Evans Trio
When this album was recorded in February of 1961, it had been more than year since the Portrait in Jazz was issued, the disc that won the critics over. By the time of this issue, Evans had released four albums in six years, a pace unheard of during that time. Most musicians were issuing two, three, and even four records a year during the same era. ...
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White Christmas
(1996)
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Rosemary Cloony
Although Rosemary Clooney had a major part in the famous film White Christmas back in 1954, this was her first full Christmas album and it was a big seller when it was released late in 1996. From the jazz standpoint, there is not much here, as Clooney is accompanied by a huge orchestra conducted and mostly arranged by Peter Matz. Although there ...
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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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Best of Judy Garland: 20th Century Masters
(1999)
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Judy Garland
Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around...well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection wasn't too far behind. Supposedly, the millennium is a momentous occasion, but it's hard to feel that way when it's used as another excuse to turn out a budget-line ...
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The Boy Next Door
(2003)
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Stacey Kent
Wrapping her sweet voice around songs by male singers she admires, Stacey Kent delivers another pleasant and low-key album with The Boy Next Door. Kent's tribute choices range from traditional pop (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett) to mainstream jazz instrumentalists (Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie) to the softer side of rock (James Taylor, Simon and -- ...
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The Intimate Miss Christy
(1962)
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June Christy
On June Christy's excellent run of albums for Capitol Records the vocalist was most often backed by Pete Rugolo's complex orchestral charts or by small, freewheeling jazz groups led by her husband, Bob Cooper. So The Intimate Miss Christy is a special treat for her fans as it finds the cool blonde singer backed only by Al Viola's guitar and Don ...
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The Definitive Collection
(2006)
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Judy Garland
Enshrined in Hollywood legend is the story of how Judy Garland earned her record contract with Decca in 1937, when label head Jack Kapp witnessed her precocious performance of "Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You" at a film preview. No matter that Garland had already recorded test sides for Decca, or that she was a shoo-in for the label because ...
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Cover to Cover
(1997)
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Paul Hardcastle
Because Paul Hardcastle has had great commercial success with his "Jazzmasters" projects, he occasionally gets linked to jazz. In reality, Hardcastle is a producer of electronic pop instrumental records who uses keyboards, drum machines, some regular instruments, often a saxophone lead and occasional singers to create dance music. The emphasis on ...
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