| Louis Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hitsby Louis Armstrong ~ More Louis Armstrong | | John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman [Remaster] by John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman ~ Amazon.com: This is one of the three all-ballad albums that John Coltrane recorded in late 1962 and early 1963. Johnny Hartman was apparently Coltrane's suggestion, and his deep, dark voice meshes perfectly here with Coltrane's tenor. The material is well-chosen, including definitive readings of "My One and... | | Come By Meby Harry Connick Jr. ~ Amazon.com: People first smitten with Harry Connick Jr. due to his easy, timeless charm and swoon-worthy croon on the 1989 soundtrack When Harry Met Sally are in for a big treat. Come by Me, a delightful sequence of treasures both old and new, is Connick's first big-band record since 1991's Blue Light, Red... | | Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong ~ Amazon.com: Ella Fitzgerald's voice was satin to Louis Armstrong's sandpaper, but when you put them together on a single song, their chemistry was unimpeachable. This disc selects highlights from the three albums they made together at Verve (including their Porgy and Bess), and adds a spiffy live track from the... | | Capitol Collectors Series: Louis Prima by Louis Prima ~ Amazon.com essential recording: Band leader and lounge kingpin Louis Prima will be best be known for the classic, "Just a Gigolo," immortalized by David Lee Roth for a whole new generation of swingers. But Prima's output went much further: in his day he recorded for Capitol, acted in a movie or two, even owned a golf... | | Love Songs (Legacy) by Billie Holiday ~ Amazon.com essential recording: Culled from the Columbia Records reissue packages, variously released under the multivolume Quintessential Billie Holiday umbrella, this package goes straight for the love songs, the heart of Holiday. Ranging from such playful lyrics as "Let's Do It" and "Them There Eyes" to such essential Holiday... | | Greatest Hits (Sony) [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]by Billie Holiday | | Love Is...The Tender Trap by Stacey Kent ~ Amazon.com: Stacey Kent has a voice like the great Dinah Washington's, immediate in its grab of the ear and incisive in its tonal shape. Kent's middle range has a washing quality that pushes the edges forward, even as the edges lilt upward or warble excitedly. Kent and her British band--virtual unknowns prior to... |
|  Givin' It Up by George Benson and Al Jarreau (Audio CD - 2006) Guests on this cd include Patti Austin, Chris Botti, Patti Austin, Paul McCartney, Herbie Hancock (Artist) | | Gotta Get It Hits - Jazz by Herbie Hancock, George Benson, David Benoit, Marc Antoine, Regina Carter, Shirley Horn, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Al Jarreau (Artist) (Audio CD) |
| | All For You: A Dedication To The Nat King Cole Trio by Diana Krall ~ Amazon.com essential recording: All for You is a tribute to the Nat "King" Cole Trio of the 1940s, when Cole performed as both a singer and a pianist. Krall, like her heroes Lena Horne and Carmen McRae, is also a singer-pianist, and she plays both roles on most of the songs here. She's able to link her singing to her piano playing... | | Love Scenes by Diana Krall ~ Amazon.com essential recording: Like a mink draped over mahogany, Diana Krall's luxuriously supple alto adorns the vintage songs of romance and longing found on Love Scenes with a palpable aura of glamour and late-night cool. Her ostensibly effortless command of phrasing and intonation, whether the mood is seduction or a sweet... | | Only Trust Your Heart by Diana Krall ~ Amazon.com: Diana Krall, here with her first GRP album, expands on the delights that populated her 1992 debut, Stepping Out: The Early Recordings. Again, her talents are simply remarkable: she sings with feeling, emotion, and nuance--she invests a lyric with believability--and plays marvelous piano, no matter... | | Steppin' Out: The Early Recordings by Diana Krall ~ Amazon.com: For years singer-pianist Diana Krall has been bringing new lifeblood to jazz via her dual knockout talents. And while her later recordings reveal a consistently maturing artist, this 1992 debut album shows that the Nanaimo, British Columbia, native had the goods right from the get-go. In her mid-20s... | | When I Look In Your Eyesby Diana Krall ~ Amazon.com: Years after the '90s, the decade will be remembered for the rise of pianist-vocalist Diana Krall. Simply put, this British Columbian-born artist is one of the most engaging musicians to emerge from the heap of scat-happy singers high on pyrotechnics, but short on poetry. | | Music Is My Life by Diane Schuur ~ Amazon.com: After her long association with GRP Records, this is Diane Schuur's first recording for Atlantic. With label founder Ahmet Ertegun serving as one of the album's three producers, Schuur applies her powerful, free-ranging voice to a mostly quiet collection of familiar standards and a few lesser-known... | | Traveling Miles by Cassandra Wilson~ Amazon.com: Cassandra Wilson's tribute to Miles Davis, Traveling Miles, is nothing if not ambitious--easily on par with the other slew of Davis tribs. Covering the great trumpeter's long career is alone quite a challenge, but Wilson sets her goals even higher by writing new lyrics and arrangements that make... |
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