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100 Chansons d'Or
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Die Grossen Erfolge
:Album Details:18 of the Greatest Hits from One of the Legends of the Silver Screen. In her Day, Movies were the Equivalent of Today's Videos and These Recordings Reflect her Greatest Moments from the Screen.
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Blood & Feathers: Live from the Café Carlyle
: :Blood and Feathers was Ute Lemper's 2005 cabaret show at New York's Café Carlyle. It's a partial survey of her career, nodding to, among other things, her affinity with Kurt Weill ('Pirate Jenny') and her Sally Bowles role in (a Cabaret medley). She incorporates more Weill ('Bilbao Song,' 'Moon Over Alabama') into a 'Moon Medley' that includes Van Morrison's 'Moon Dance,' Sting's 'Moon Over Bourbon Street,' Joni Mitchell's 'Moon at the Window,' the standard 'It's Only a Paper Moon,' and Tom Waits's 'Grapefruit Moon.' Lemper also tosses in Sondheim's 'The Ladies ...
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Wild for You
: :With this collection of '70s-era pop tunes, Karrin Allyson makes a bold, post-Norah Jones career move--and has a kittenish new look to show for it. We know not to judge a CD by its cover, but judging this smart and distinctive jazz singer by her song covers--Carole King's 'It's Too Late,' Cat Stevens's 'Wild World,' James Taylor's 'Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,' Joni Mitchell's 'All I Want'--we can safely say that the pop tunes that have dotted previous albums were less stylistic departures than indicators of her formative influences. Still, ...
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Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years
: :The received wisdom on the tragic torch singer's later work--of these 35 tracks, six were recorded in 1946 and '47, and the rest in the '50s--is that her interpretive skill made up for the collapse of her voice. In fact, the serious cracks in her pitch don't appear until the second disc of this set, and it doesn't approach the febrile croak of Lady in Satin until the END. But she relies on a handful of vocal tricks, and some numbers that had been in her repertoire for ages, to approximate ...
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Marlene Dietrich in London
: :The received wisdom on the tragic torch singer's later work--of these 35 tracks, six were recorded in 1946 and '47, and the rest in the '50s--is that her interpretive skill made up for the collapse of her voice. In fact, the serious cracks in her pitch don't appear until the second disc of this set, and it doesn't approach the febrile croak of Lady in Satin until the END. But she relies on a handful of vocal tricks, and some numbers that had been in her repertoire for ages, to approximate ...
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Perfect Stranger: The Island Anthology
: :After a decade and a half of recording everything from '60s pop covers culled from the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, country music, and pensive singer-songwriters, Marianne Faithfull signed with Island Records as a reinvented new-wave punk queen. With sharpened edge at the ready, she cut 1978's Broken English, a harrowing purge of sexual jealousy and guilt, six cuts from which are featured here. Her voice, ravaged from years of excess, cracks with wasted beauty and lent tarnished experience to her tales of struggle and hopeless nostalgia. After several albums of modern ...
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The Lady Sings
:Album Description:UK box-set featuring 99 tracks that highlight the late jazz icon's career between 1935-49. Backed by small All Star bands under Teddy Wilson's & her own leadership & the more formal studio bands during her Decca days, Billie turns every song into poetry. Includes 56 page booklet with rare pictures, discography & story. Four standard jewel cases housed in a box. 2001.
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Elaine Stritch - At Liberty (2002 Original Broadway Production)
: :Elaine Stritch is a legend and she knows it. And so she came up with a whole one-woman show about the best topic she could think of: her life in the theater. And what a trip it's been. From Ethel Merman to Noel Coward, Stritch has worked with some of the greatest names to grace the American stage, and she has anecdotes about all of them (most are included on this recording). In this show, she hits all the marks with the acuity of a seasoned pro who's seen it all ...
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Complete 1951-1956 Trio Recordings
:Album Description:This set is a sincere homage to an unfairly forgotten jazzwoman whose style brought a refreshing and individual voice in the tumultuous New York jazz scene of the 50s. Barbara Carroll is known among female piano players, as the first to venture into the progressive Bop style that was especially associated with Bud Powell. These 4 CDs hold Barbara Carroll's complete trio recordings under her leadership between 1951 and 1956. A successful recording period which spans sixteen studio sessions and 77 tunes originally released on 6 LPs, 2 EPs and ...
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