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20th Century Piano Genius
(1950)
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Art Tatum
This double album was taped at a private party in 1956, featuring the amazing Art Tatum on solo piano. Tatum, who died the following year, never did decline, and he is in prime form throughout this highly enjoyable and frequently exciting set of standards. There are no real romps a la "Tiger Rag" but the 27 performances contain plenty of ...
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Water Down the Ganges
(2002)
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Joshua Prem/Manish Vyas
The German-born sitar, flute, and saxophone player Prem Joshua and fellow multi-instrumentalist Manish Vyas had been musical collaborators for over 15 years when they released Water Down the Ganges, the first album credited equally to both of them. Like most of the music produced by Prem Joshua, the album is a fusion of Eastern and Western ...
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Moonlight Sinatra
(1965)
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Frank Sinatra
Driven by a set of lush, sparkling Nelson Riddle arrangements, Moonlight Sinatra is a low-key, charming collection. Although the basic concept is somewhat nebulous -- all of the songs have the word "moon" in the title -- Riddle wrote a series of charts that suggest a warm, lovely evening with a variety of tones and moods, from light Latin rhythms ...
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Lonelyland
(2001)
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Bob Schneider
Lonelyland is actually the second of three albums released by Bob Schneider, but is the first and only to have major-label distribution. It's an entertaining, occasionally impressive effort that bodes well for the singer/songwriter's future. The LP kicks off with "Metal and Steel," an acoustic number that is vaguely reminiscent of Paul Simon at ...
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Homecoming
(1973)
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America
Homecoming, America's finest album, refines and focuses the folk-pop approach found on their debut release. The songs here are tighter and more forthright, with fewer extended solo instrumental sections than before. The sound quality is clear and bright; the colorful arrangements, while still acoustic guitar-based, feature more electric guitar and ...
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The Ballad Style of Stan Kenton
(1958)
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Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton's early arrangements set the tone for his orchestra, but through the years, he generally farmed out the writing chores to other talented arrangers who could move the big band forward. However, he did arrange occasional ballad charts, and this 1958 album (reissued on CD in 1997) showcases Kenton's writing. The Ballad Style of Stan ...
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Mood Music/Dream Time Music
(2000)
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Paul Weston
In 2000, Collectables released easy listener Paul Weston's Mood Music/Dream Time Music, which reissued the two complete albums on one compact disc. A soothing, intimate collection perfect for reminiscing or relaxation that is chock-full of standards guaranteed to emote old memories or serve as a catalyst to make new ones. Rob Theakston, All ...
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25 Number Ones
(2004)
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Conway Twitty
Over the years, there have been too many compilations of Conway Twitty "number one singles" to count. MCA Nashville/UTV's 2004 25 Number Ones is one of the better ones. Even if it isn't nearly as comprehensive as MCA Nashville's 33-track, double-disc 2000 release #1 Hits Collection, it is a little more user friendly -- it may offer eight fewer ...
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We Free Kings
(1961)
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk
We Free Kings, Roland Kirk's third long-player, is among the most consistent of his early efforts. The assembled quartet provides an ample balance of bop and soul compliments to Kirk's decidedly individual polyphonic performance style. His inimitable writing and arranging techniques develop into some great originals, as well as personalize the ...
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Silver Anniversary Collection
(1990)
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Conway Twitty
25 hits from Twitty's work for MCA and Warner Bros. are contained on this album, from "Guess My Eyes Were Bigger than My Heart" (1966) to "She's Got a Single Thing in Mind" (1989). It's an excellent introduction to one of the most popular singers in country music history. All Music Guide, All Music Guide
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Mystic Journey
(1996)
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Arlo Guthrie
On his first studio album of new original material in a decade, Arlo Guthrie turned out a recording to fit in well with his existing catalog. His chief musical influences continued to be Bob Dylan and the Beatles, circa 1966, as he made melodic folk-rock anchored by his acoustic guitar and augmented by a rock rhythm section, other stringed ...
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Day by Day/Day by Night
(2000)
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Doris Day
When Doris Day freed herself from those cotton candy films she appeared in, where her singing for the most part was limited to cute novelty tunes, she showed that she could successfully sink her vocal teeth into some solid standard material. The LPs compiled on this CD come from the late '50s, when she was recording for Columbia with backing from ...
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Sunrise
(2004)
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Norah Jones
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Gold [2006]
(2006)
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Conway Twitty
In 2000 MCA Nashville released an excellent Conway Twitty hits collection, The #1 Hits Collection, which compiled a whopping 33 chart-toppers. It was a nice listen, illustrating precisely why Twitty is such a legend. Then came 25 Number Ones in 2004, which was essentially a scaled-down, more economical single-disc version of its double-disc ...
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Skyline
(2002)
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Steve Howe
For those expecting epic prog riff rockers à la "Heart of the Sunrise," Steve Howe's 2002 solo release, Skyline, may come as a surprise. Instead, Howe has constructed an album that proves to be quite a serene and calming listen from front to back -- a far cry from Yes' over the top tour de forces that used to take up entire sides of albums. Also ...
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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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3, 4, 5: The Verve Small Group Sessions
(1955)
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Benny Carter
Has there ever been a more consistent performer in jazz history over a longer period of time than Benny Carter? The classic altoist, who had fully formed his sound by the early '30s (he first recorded in 1927), has not altered his style much in the past 65 (and counting) years. The music on this Verve reissue CD features Carter in three settings: ...
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Day by Night
(1959)
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Doris Day
Doris Day had considerable success for a non-film project with Day by Day, an album of interwar ballads conducted by Paul Weston, in 1957. Naturally enough, she re-teamed with Weston for the following year's Day by Night, another thematic album, this one a "program of night songs," as the liner notes put it. Day and Weston were mostly concerned ...
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#1's: The Warner Brothers Years
(1988)
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Conway Twitty
There are a couple of statistics in the late Conway Twitty's career that are rather astonishing: the first is that he scored 52 number one hits in the 30 years between 1958 and 1988. Just how astonishing can be illustrated this way: 52 number ones is more than the Beatles, more than Elvis Presley, and more than Frank Sinatra. The second -- and ...
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Trilogy: September of My Years/Moonlight Sinatra/Sinatra Swings
(2005)
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Frank Sinatra
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Beyond the Missouri Sky [Bonus DVD]
(2003)
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Charlie Haden/Pat Metheny
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Soundings Sampler
(1994)
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Various Artists
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Swingin' on the Moon
(1960)
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Mel Tormé
This unusual project, reissued on CD in 1998, features singer Mel Torme with the Russ Garcia Orchestra performing 11 songs that have the word Moon in their title plus "A Velvet Affair." Although the renditions are quite concise (all are less than four minutes) and a couple of the arrangements use novelty effects, the music is generally quite jazz ...
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The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 2
(1955)
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Art Tatum
The second of eight CDs teaming the amazing pianist with a variety of his contemporaries finds Tatum sharing the stage with trumpeter Roy Eldridge, bassist John Simmons and drummer Alvin Stoller. Eldridge, normally a very combative player, knows better than to directly challenge Tatum and instead is surprisingly restrained and muted on this ...
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Number 1's
(2007)
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Conway Twitty
Despite the frequency with which album titles like Number 1's appear among record releases (this one is part of an entire series by that name), most recording artists don't have enough chart-topping singles to fill such a collection. Conway Twitty, however, has the opposite problem. Until 2006, when he was outdistanced by George Strait, Twitty ...
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