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In the Wee Small Hours
(1954)
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Frank Sinatra
Expanding on the concept of Songs for Young Lovers!, In the Wee Small Hours was a collection of ballads arranged by Nelson Riddle. The first 12" album recorded by Sinatra, Wee Small Hours was more focused and concentrated than his two earlier concept records. It's a blue, melancholy album, built around a spare rhythm section featuring a rhythm ...
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The Ultimate Tony Bennett [2000]
(2000)
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Tony Bennett
The 20 tracks on this anthology cover Bennett's entire career at Columbia, from his 1951 number one single "Because of You" to "Mood Indigo" from 1999's Hot and Cool: Bennett Sings Ellington. Note, however, that "entire career at Columbia" is not synonymous with Bennett's entire career, as there's nothing representing the span between the mid-'60s ...
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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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Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool
(1999)
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Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett's practically inevitable commemoration of the Duke Ellington centenary is an appropriately blue-chip affair, with a big band and orchestra augmenting the Ralph Sharon Quartet on arrangements by Jorge Calandrelli, who has slowed the tempos to give the singer time to give intimate interpretations to the lyrics of songs like "Mood Indigo ...
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Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone
(1994)
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Nina Simone
A fiery interpreter of the usually staid American songbook, Nina Simone took a song and made it her own -- whether it was Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy" or Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit." This 1994 collection on Universal features selections from her Philips years of the mid-'60s, generally acknowledged as the pinnacle of her recording career, ...
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The Blues and the Beat
(1995)
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Henry Mancini
With The Blues and the Beat, Henry Mancini delivered one of his bluesiest, jazziest records. Though it isn't an entirely successful experiment, but it has its share of delightful moments, as proved by "Mood Indigo" and "Sing, Sing, Sing." Mancini could never deliver straight jazz, but his easy, orchestrated approximations are enjoyable as their ...
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The Great Summit: The Master Takes
(2001)
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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were (and are) two of the main stems of jazz. Any way you look at it, just about everything that's ever happened in this music leads directly -- or indirectly -- back to them. Both men were born on the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries, and each became established as a leader during the middle '20s. Although ...
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Invitation
(1993)
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Joe Sample
A luscious outing from piano great Joe Sample, this disc includes beautiful interpretations of ten standards and near-standards. Featuring plush orchestral arrangements by Dale Oehler wrapped over and around Sample's piano trio, Invitation is simply one of the loveliest recordings of Sample's career. With a rhythm section made up of bassist Cecil ...
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Dot Com Blues
(2001)
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Jimmy Smith
On his first album in more than five years, Jimmy Smith, who turned 75 shortly before the release date, attempts the soul-jazz version of what Santana did on Supernatural -- heavily featuring guest stars in an attempt to broaden his appeal. The basic band consists of Smith on organ, Reggie McBride on bass guitar, and Harvey Mason on drums, but ...
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Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
(1963)
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Charles Mingus
Having completed what he (and many critics) regarded as his masterwork in The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus' next sessions for Impulse found him looking back over a long and fruitful career. Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus is sort of a "greatest hits revisited" record, as the bassist revamps or tinkers with some of his ...
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Best of the Big Bands [1995 Madacy]
(1995)
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Various Artists
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The Cotton Club
(1985)
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John Barry
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The Very Best of Duke Ellington
(2000)
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Duke Ellington
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Soft Lights/In a Mellow Mood
(2000)
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Bobby Hackett
Soft Lights/In a Mellow Mood collects two of Bobby Hackett's early-'50s albums on one CD. Blending the orchestral pop sounds that were popular at the time with his jazz roots, Hackett delivers romantic, artful performances on Soft Lights' "Bobby's Blues," "Under a Blanket of Blue," and "Someday You'll Be Sorry," and on In a Mellow Mood's "Lazy ...
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Ken Burns Jazz
(2000)
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Duke Ellington
In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant artists, as well as a five-disc historical summary. Since the individual compilations attempt to present balanced overviews of each artist's career, tracks from multiple labels ...
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Ken Burns Jazz
(2000)
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Charles Mingus
In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary Jazz, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant artists, as well as a five-disc historical summary. Since the individual compilations attempt to present balanced overviews of each artist's career, tracks from multiple labels ...
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Homage to Duke
(1993)
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Dave Grusin
Although Dave Grusin is best known as a soundtrack composer and for his jazz-pop recordings, he has always had a great admiration for jazz. This CD (released in a fairly deluxe package) gave Grusin an opportunity to pay tribute to Duke Ellington. He performs ten mostly familiar songs associated with Ellington and wisely features fluegelhornist ...
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Live in Swing City: Swingin with the Duke
(1999)
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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
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Standards
(1957)
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Jimmy Smith
Standards is a 12-track collection that is culled from the sessions that resulted in the House Party and Home Cookin' albums, both of which featured Jimmy Smith in a trio with guitarist Kenny Burrell and drummer Donald Bailey. All of the songs are familiar standards along the lines of "Bye Bye Blackbird," "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," "September ...
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Best of the Big Bands, Vol. 1
(1990)
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Les & Larry Elgart
In 2008 Sony BMG reissued one of Les & Larry Elgart's more substantial efforts, Best of the Big Bands, Vol. 1. This parade of polished and carefully executed instrumentals draws heavily upon their 1964 Columbia LP, Command Performance!, resulting in a smorgasbord of hits by such influential composers and bandleaders as Charlie Barnet, Count Basie, ...
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Fred Hersch Trio Plays...
(1994)
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Fred Hersch Trio
For this enjoyable disc, pianist Fred Hersch (along with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Tom Rainey) creates inventive versions of a dozen songs by 11 jazz composers (including Hersch's tribute to Bill Evans, "Evanessence"). Whether it be "Milestones," "Con Alma," "Moment's Notice," or a pair of Thelonious Monk tunes, Hersch and his trio are heard ...
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New Orleans, Vol. 4
(1987)
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
This LP, the fourth of four for Columbia, was the last one including the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's founder, Allan Jaffe, who played tuba and passed away when he was 52. Most of the rest of the bandmembers (trumpeter Percy Humphrey, clarinetist Willie Humphrey, trombonist Frank Demond, pianist Sing Miller, banjoist Narvin Kimball, and drummer ...
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Meditation: Solo Guitar
(2002)
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Joe Pass
Joe Pass achieved extraordinary balance in his career. Because he remained grounded in bop and swing, his guitar work was more conservative than many fusion and post-bop players, but his solo guitar work also ventured into unexplored territory, combining the single-note dexterity of Charlie Christian with the block chords of Carl Kress. Meditation ...
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The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
(1975)
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Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald/Oscar Peterson
W/ Ella Fitzgerald & Coleman Hawkins. A fine three-record set. The title is pretentious, but the album does offer plenty of great music and a cross-section of swing, mainstream, and blues. Ron Wynn, All Music Guide
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The Carnegie Hall Concerts (January 1943)
(1943)
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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
This two-CD set captures one of the milestones in Duke Ellington's long and extremely productive career, highlighted by his monumental suite "Black, Brown and Beige" in the only full-length version ever recorded by his orchestra; soon it was only performed as excerpts. In addition, Ellington's all-star orchestra (including such stylists as ...
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