| Louis
Armstrong's All Time Greatest Hitsby
Louis Armstrong
~ More
Louis Armstrong
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| 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) |
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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) |
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| 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...
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| 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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