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Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953-1960
(2000)
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Frank Sinatra
A good single-disc compilation of his Capitol years, covering 1953 to the beginning of the 1960s. His Capitol output was so extensive that it's impossible for a 20-song anthology to give a comprehensive overview even of the highlights. Also, as this focuses on the albums he made with Capitol, some of his biggest hits of the time are omitted, such ...
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Stardust: The Great American Songbook, Vol. 3
(2004)
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Rod Stewart
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Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
(1991)
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Frank Sinatra
Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years is an excellent single-disc retrospective of Sinatra's career at Reprise, including most of his signature songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Hits like "My Way," "That's Life," "Summer Wind," "Strangers in the Night," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "New York, New York" are present, as are songs that were never ...
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Frank Sinatra Collection: A Musical Tribute
(1997)
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Beegie Adair Trio
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Sings the Cole Porter Song Book
(1956)
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Ella Fitzgerald
A striking two-CD set featuring arguably history's finest jazz singer singing some of the best-written American pop standards on one of jazz's most prolific labels. Ella Fitzgerald shines as the perfect interpreter of Cole Porter's bittersweet love songs on these 35 tracks from the Verve archives. Recorded and released on LP in 1956, Ella is ...
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All the Greatest Hits
(1993)
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Zapp & Roger
This Dayton, OH, band came to typify swinging, effervescent, and melodic funk in an era when Parliament, Funkadelic, and other outfits were getting bogged down and burned out. Zapp, unlike the other P-Funk units, had their own personality divorced from George Clinton, so much so a listener might not get the connection unless they read the album ...
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The Ultimate Tony Bennett
(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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De-Lovely
(2004)
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Original Soundtrack
The soundtrack to De-Lovely -- a film that imagines the unusual love story and marriage of classic American songwriter Cole Porter (who was gay) and Linda Lee Porter as the kind of all-singing, all-dancing production for which Porter himself might have written the songs -- is a whirl of contrasting, and occasionally clashing, performances that ...
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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
(2001)
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Billie Holiday
Forget for a moment that The Best of Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday was tied into the release of the superb box set, Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, thereby offering a bit of advertisement to the full-fledged set. That doesn't matter -- even if there was never a box set, this would have been a welcome addition to Billie ...
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Time After Time
(1995)
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Etta James
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The Capitol Years [3-CD]
(1990)
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Frank Sinatra
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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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Night and Day: Big-Band
(1995)
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Chicago
Generally, when contemporary performers have taken on retro projects like this one, they have tended to emphasize their fidelity to the sources -- consider Linda Ronstadt hiring arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle to recreate his string backgrounds for albums like What's New. Chicago takes a different approach to the swing band classics it tackles ...
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Night & Day
(1993)
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John Williams & the Boston Pops
Night and Day is John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra's rousing tribute to Frank Sinatra. This is a collection of the standards that are Frank Sinatra, highlighting all the important phases of Sinatra's career. These are true signature pieces, from the swing side of "Witchcraft," "Chicago," and "You Make Me Feel So Young" to the classic ...
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Momento
(2007)
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Bebel Gilberto
On her self-titled 2004 sophomore album, Bebel Gilberto ditched the loungey grooves she explored on her debut and stuck to mostly acoustic elements -- guitars, percussion, strings -- to complement her voice, but her next release, Momento, finds the singer returning to both electronica and more traditional bossa nova. Gilberto is still, of course ...
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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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Party Tyme Karaoke: Standards
(2000)
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Karaoke
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Songs of Sinatra
(2005)
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Steve Tyrell
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Greatest Love Songs
(2002)
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Frank Sinatra
Released in January 2002 as part of the great rush of Valentine-themed releases, Greatest Love Songs outclasses most of the romantic-themed compilations in its genre -- which is only appropriate for the great Frank Sinatra. It outclasses the competition not just because it contains a generous 22 tracks, but because it cross-licenses, containing ...
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Perpetually Hip
(2006)
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Mimi Fox
For the uninitiated, it's understandable to assume that the artists on Steve Vai's record label, Favored Nations, must be from the same hard-rocking, six-string shredding variety. But this is certainly not the case, as evidenced by the 2006 double-disc release by Mimi Fox, Perpetually Hip. A Bay Area-based guitarist, Fox is a jazz guitarist ...
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Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano
(2007)
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André Previn
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Greatest Hits of Brasil '66
(1970)
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Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Released along with a slew of other A&M greatest-hits collections, 1970's Greatest Hits takes listeners through a dozen Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 tunes from the albums Herb Alpert Presents through Crystal Illusions. Not all of these were hits -- indeed, not all of them were singles -- and they are not representative of the wide range of Brazilian ...
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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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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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It's De Lovely: The Authentic Cole Porter Collection
(2004)
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Cole Porter
Whenever great American song in general, or a classic songwriter specifically, goes through another phase of popularity, record labels invariably cast around to assemble yet another round of songbook compilations with artists from their catalog interpreting the standards. In 2004, on the occasion of the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely (starring Kevin ...
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