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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 Barbra Streisand
(2002)
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Barbra Streisand
Although Barbra Streisand has recorded for the same company, Columbia Records, throughout her career, her work has not been particularly well represented on compilations. Four single-disc best-ofs dot her discography, but the listener who wanted to do something as simple as purchase an album containing the original studio recordings of both her ...
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Nat King Cole [Capitol]
(1992)
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Nat King Cole
For an overview of Nat "King" Cole's years as a remarkably popular singer, this four-CD box would be difficult to top. Containing 100 songs spanning a 20-year period, this box has virtually all of Cole's hits, some of his best jazz sides, and more than its share of variety, including a humorous previously unreleased version of "Mr. Cole Won't Rock ...
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Chester & Lester [Bonus Tracks]
(2007)
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Chet Atkins/Les Paul
Chester & Lester is a beautiful and fun album by two masters. It was recorded in the mid-'70s when Chet Atkins was in his fifties and Les Paul was in his sixties. The latter had been in retirement for a decade before the recording of this album. Nashville studio musicians, including Randy Goodrum on piano and Larrie Londin on drums, back up the ...
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As Time Goes By
(1999)
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Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry invests considerable time and energy in cover albums (he should, considering that they compose a good portion of his solo catalog), treating them with as much care as a record of original material. He's always found ways to radically reinvent the songs he sings, so it's easy to expect that his collection of pop standards, As Time Goes ...
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At Newport
(1957)
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Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday at Newport presents the naturally intriguing results when Verve paired two sets recorded two days apart (over the 4th of July weekend, 1957) by the two best female singers of the 20th century. Unfortunately, circumstances weren't in their favor, as the combined factors of an unsympathetic band (for Fitzgerald) and ...
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Just for the Record...
(1991)
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Barbra Streisand
As they evolved in the 1980s, retrospective box sets tended to contain a full complement of an artist's essential recordings, plus enough rarities to suggest the artist's inspirations and ambitions. Not all box sets conformed to this outline, however. Barbra Streisand was unusual, in that she had a large base of devoted fans interested in the ...
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Schuur Fire
(2005)
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Diane Schuur
Having displayed a knack in the past for reinterpreting both pop and jazz tunes, jazz vocalist Diane Schuur once again succeeds in bringing together an unexpected mix of compositions on Schuur Fire. Featuring the Caribbean Jazz Project, the album finds Schuur's clarion vocals melding nicely with vibist Dave Samuels' superb Latin jazz ensemble -- ...
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Swingin' the Standards
(1999)
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Bobby Darin
All but two of these songs -- all standards, natch -- were released in 1966, when Darin released the LPs Sings the Shadow of Your Smile and In a Broadway Bag within months of each other. Songs from those albums form the bulk of this compilation, which also includes a couple of selections from 1967's Sings Doctor Dolittle and the 1966 single ...
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The New Moon [2004 Concert Cast]
(2004)
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2004 Concert Cast
After New York's City Center program "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert"®, a series devoted to semi-staged performances of neglected shows, turned to the 1928 operetta The New Moon in March 2003, Ted Chapin, chairman of the advisory committee, as he says in his liner notes to this album, "discovered there had never been a full recording" ...
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Easy to Love
(2006)
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Roberta Gambarini
Roberta Gambarini was a virtual unknown outside of Europe before coming to the United States and dazzling both seasoned jazz musicians and critics alike. Under the wing of Benny Carter for several years prior to his death in 2003, the Italian singer with an expressive, clear, and consistently swinging vocal style has seen her reputation spread ...
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The Commodore Master Takes
(1939)
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Billie Holiday
If you're a completist who insists on having everything that Billie Holiday recorded, The Complete Commodore Recordings is required listening. But for the more casual listener, it's best to pass on that two-CD set and stick with The Commodore Master Takes. While The Complete Commodore Recordings contains all of the alternate takes that Holiday ...
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Fearless Leader [Box Set]
(2006)
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John Coltrane
In the spring of 1957, when he signed with Bob Weinstock's Prestige Records, John Coltrane was still a relative newcomer to the national jazz scene. He wasn't, at age 30, a youngster by any means, and he had already been playing professionally for more than a dozen years, but most of that had been as a sideman and he was known primarily to ...
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The Hollywood All-Star Sessions
(1979)
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Art Pepper
This five-CD box of studio material was originally released in Japan on the tiny Atlas label. Until now it has never been available in the United States. Impeccably recorded between 1979 and 1982, the year Art Pepper's horn was silenced -- at least as a mortal -- these sides were the brainchild of Yasuyuki Ishihara. His vision was for Pepper to ...
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Earl Bostic Story
(2006)
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Earl Bostic
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Music of Sigmund Romberg
(1987)
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Dorothy Kirsten/Gordon MacRae
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Desert Song/The New Moon
(2002)
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1944 Studio Cast/1953 Studio Cast
This CD reissue combines two studio-cast recordings of 1920s operettas composed by Sigmund Romberg that were made decades after the original stage productions. Decca Records pioneered the original Broadway cast album with its successful release of recordings from Oklahoma! in 1943, and it was only a short time before the label was also re-creating ...
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The Bebop Years
(2001)
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Coleman Hawkins
Covering a period from 1939-1949, The Bebop Years profiles Hawkins during the days of combo swing and bebop. That the tenor great sounds at home in both settings here is testament to his great flexibility and intellect as a player. Proper pays its respects with four discs and a lavish booklet sporting a detailed discography, extensive notes, and ...
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The Ultimate Sigmund Romberg, Vol. 2
(2002)
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Sigmund Romberg
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Ultimate Legends: Billie Holiday
(2003)
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Billie Holiday
With such a lengthy and deep repertoire, it's difficult to compile a great representative selection of tracks for someone like Billie Holiday, but this particular album does a pretty decent job. Famous songs like "Strange Fruit," "Billie's Blues," and "Night and Day" aren't included here, but "God Bless the Child," "I Cover the Waterfront," and ...
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The Complete Aladdin Sessions
(1942)
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Lester Young
Although it has often been written that the cool-toned tenor saxophonist Lester Young's experiences with racism in the military during 1944-1945 so scarred him that he never played at the same musical level as he had previously, the music on this essential two-CD reissue disproves that theory. It is true that his attitude toward life was affected ...
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Oscar Winners: The Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II
(1997)
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Barbara Cook
One of the reasons that Barbara Cook has been a success in her second career as a concert and nightclub singer, after a first career as a Broadway musical star, is, ironically, that she has so completely reinvented herself. She still sings show music, by and large, but unlike other stage veterans who have moved to the concert hall, she isn't still ...
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The Ultimate Billie Holiday
(1997)
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Billie Holiday
Shirley Horn compiled The Ultimate Billie Holiday, a 16-track selection of her best-known songs that offers an excellent introduction to her Verve recordings. Although purists and collectors will have little use for this set, it suits the purposes of neophytes and curious listeners quite well. Among the highlights are "Lover, Come Back to Me," ...
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Sweet and Hot
(1953)
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Tenor Legacy
(1998)
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Benny Golson
On this enjoyable set, veteran tenor saxophonist Benny Golson pays tribute to nine other tenors: Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Ben Webster, and Don Byas. On "Body & Soul," Branford Marsalis joins Golson, three songs have James Carter making the quartet a two-tenor quintet, Harold ...
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