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Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century
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The Bebop Years
:Album Description:Hawkins reached a new level of creativity during the 1940's. THis box-set focuses on those yeard, presenting the original master of the tenor sax in a wide variety of settings, including his encounters with young modernists like Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. 88 tracks in all. Includes 56 page booklet containing the full Hawkins story, rare photographs and discography. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.
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The Mel Tormé Collection
: :Mel Torme has always resented his famous nickname, 'The Velvet Fog,' not because it's inaccurate, but because it only captures one small aspect of his music-making. He does have a velvety baritone that creates a breathy intimacy on certain romantic ballads. But he has done much, much more in a 67-year professional career that began when he was a four-year-old novelty singer for Chicago's Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Band in 1929 and continues today as the last of the great pre-rock ...
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Settin' the Pace
:Album Description:55 tracks from 1943 to 1950...mostly be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Criss and more. Includes 44 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases with individual artwork, housed together in a deluxe slipcase.
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Schoolhouse Rock! (1973 TV Series)
: :It's hard to overestimate the effect Schoolhouse Rock had on anyone who was a child between 1973 and 1985. Forty-one three-minute educational cartoons set to original songs, they were the original music videos, and they taught countless kids the difference between adjectives ('Unpack Your Adjectives') and adverbs ('Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here'), how to multiply ('Three Is a Magic Number'), basic principles of science ('Do the Circulation,' 'Interplanet Janet'), and American civics ('I'm Just a Bill,' 'The ...
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Self Portrait
: 's Best of 2001:As a clarinetist, he was one of the best, but as a bandleader and jazz innovator, Artie Shaw was peerless. In the various ensembles he led from 1936 to 1954, Shaw pushed swing jazz into new territory. He incorporated classical instrumentation into his arrangements and pretty much invented the genre of 'third stream jazz'; he ignored the color barrier by recording with Hot Lips Page in the late '20s and by touring with Billie Holiday; he ...
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You're Sensational: Cole Porter In The '20s, '40s, And '50s
:Album Description:A companion volume to You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s, this boxed set features seventy-two classic recordings by such renowned performers as Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, and many others.
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Jazz Moods: Jazz Party Mix - Cocktail Party/Groovin' the Blues
:Album Description:A companion volume to You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s, this boxed set features seventy-two classic recordings by such renowned performers as Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, and many others.
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The Classic Singles
:Album Description:A companion volume to You're the Top: Cole Porter in the 1930s, this boxed set features seventy-two classic recordings by such renowned performers as Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, and many others.
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Great Vocalists
:Album Description:UK budget-price box-set featuring one disc apiece for Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Billie Holiday, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee. Each disc comes in a slipcase and all are housed in a deluxe box. 2001.
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