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A Cabaret Christmas
: :Attention all lovers of that rarified New York-lounge-scene singer known as the cabaret performer. This droll and sophisticated collection of Manhattan's finest features Karen Akers and Andrea Marcovicci on several tracks, as well as Ann Hampton Callaway, Barbara Cook, and Jay Leonhart, to name but a few on this engaging and at times jazzy, show-bizzy, and witty disc. The show stealer is easily Julie Wilson's 'Season's Greetings.' Wilson's greetings take you through every conceivable holiday of the year and then some--including Election Day ('don't forget to vote,' she sings, sounding on ...
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Noel Coward Album: Noel Coward Live From Las Vegas & New York
:Album Description:Australian pressing. Budget anthology of the recordings of one of the 20th Century's true great artists. Coward was a master showman, witty songwriter and playwright. Here is the best of his long illustrious career. 29 tracks. Sony Classics. 2003.
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Ultra-Lounge: On the Rocks, Pt. 2
:Album Description:Australian pressing. Budget anthology of the recordings of one of the 20th Century's true great artists. Coward was a master showman, witty songwriter and playwright. Here is the best of his long illustrious career. 29 tracks. Sony Classics. 2003.
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Capitol Sings Cole Porter: Anything Goes
:Album Description:Australian pressing. Budget anthology of the recordings of one of the 20th Century's true great artists. Coward was a master showman, witty songwriter and playwright. Here is the best of his long illustrious career. 29 tracks. Sony Classics. 2003.
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The Kurt Weill Project
from: LML Music
:Album Description:Sung in English, German, and French, The Kurt Weill Project is a futuristic reinterpretation of 20th Century German composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950). Tenor A. J. Teshin earnestly gender-bends the text and the drama of familiar Weill pieces to uncover new themes of prostitution, anti-war rage, murder, drug addiction, and heavenly redemption. Teshin's vocals soar through soundscapes of symphonic instrumentation, electric guitars, lush choral singing, and quietly undulating loops. His hyper-stylized orchestrations depict a gothic and pan-sexual universe where the shock and alienation of Weill's original work is given new meaning--this ...
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Flappers, Vamps And Sweet Young Things
:Album Description:Sung in English, German, and French, The Kurt Weill Project is a futuristic reinterpretation of 20th Century German composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950). Tenor A. J. Teshin earnestly gender-bends the text and the drama of familiar Weill pieces to uncover new themes of prostitution, anti-war rage, murder, drug addiction, and heavenly redemption. Teshin's vocals soar through soundscapes of symphonic instrumentation, electric guitars, lush choral singing, and quietly undulating loops. His hyper-stylized orchestrations depict a gothic and pan-sexual universe where the shock and alienation of Weill's original work is given new meaning--this ...
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An American in Paris (1951 Film Soundtrack)
: essential recording:This is a considerably expanded version of the soundtrack album to Vincente Minnelli's Oscar-winning film. With two discs and 100 minutes of music (much of which is presented for the first time), these original session masters are highlighted by the MGM Studio Orchestra, Oscar Levant, Benny Carter, and Gene Kelly, all of whom perform such memorable Gershwin tunes as 'Someone to Watch Over Me,' 'Love Is Here to Stay,' and 'S'Wonderful.' Just about all of the material has a monotonously mono sound, but Levant's version of 'Concerto in F' ...
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Billie Holiday: The Complete Decca Recordings
: essential recording:Holiday recorded for Decca between 1944 and 1950, a period in which she was at the heights of both her popularity and her vocal powers. The music is less jazz-oriented in its backing than were the earlier Columbia and Commodore or later Verve recordings, but these are superb vocal performances, including matchless renderings of 'Lover Man,' 'Don't Explain,' and 'Solitude.' Holiday achieved the highest level that torch singing has ever known, creating consummately expressive, almost etched renditions that are richly nuanced, often enhanced by tasteful string arrangements. Holiday's deepest ...
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Lovable & Sweet: 25 Vintage Hits
: essential recording:Holiday recorded for Decca between 1944 and 1950, a period in which she was at the heights of both her popularity and her vocal powers. The music is less jazz-oriented in its backing than were the earlier Columbia and Commodore or later Verve recordings, but these are superb vocal performances, including matchless renderings of 'Lover Man,' 'Don't Explain,' and 'Solitude.' Holiday achieved the highest level that torch singing has ever known, creating consummately expressive, almost etched renditions that are richly nuanced, often enhanced by tasteful string arrangements. Holiday's deepest ...
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Make Believe
:Description:Her debut album, Pentimento, put a jazzy spin on Depression-era standards; the Boston Globe proclaimed, 'Slide over, Jane Monheit, and make room on the retro-vocals bench; Jessica Molaskey has arrived!' Her next CD, A Good Day, took off from the song stylings of Peggy Lee; Jazz Times cheered, 'She fills each breath with a sensuous charm and a torchy hint of k.d. lang twang.' But Jessica Molaskey is a Broadway baby at heart, with scores of shows to her credit. Now, for the first time, she turns her attention to a ...
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