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Verve Story 1944-1994
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Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles
:Album Description:Billie Holiday's story is so huge, her artistry so vast, and her impact so incalculable, that even attempting to corral a representative sampling of it within a single collection of recordings is an overwhelming, perhaps foolhardy task. Many have tried, of course, and literally hundreds of options of varying quality and legitimacy, scattered across dozens of labels, are available to the consumer. Neophytes, or those not willing to commit to a gargantuan listening session, can settle for any number of single- or double-CD best-ofs that adequately present Holiday's most important, ...
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1940's Christmas
:Album Description:Billie Holiday's story is so huge, her artistry so vast, and her impact so incalculable, that even attempting to corral a representative sampling of it within a single collection of recordings is an overwhelming, perhaps foolhardy task. Many have tried, of course, and literally hundreds of options of varying quality and legitimacy, scattered across dozens of labels, are available to the consumer. Neophytes, or those not willing to commit to a gargantuan listening session, can settle for any number of single- or double-CD best-ofs that adequately present Holiday's most important, ...
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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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Strictly for Music Lovers
:Album Description:Budget-priced four disc box set featuring 95 tracks by the comic genius, including nine #1 million-selling hits, 'Der Fuerher's Face', 'Cocktails For Two', 'Glow Worm', 'All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)', 'Clink Clink Another Drink', 'Sheik Of Araby', 'Oh By Jingo', 'Holiday For Strings' and 'William Tell'. Also includes a fully illustrated 24 page booklet. Each CD comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come packaged within a thick, full color slipcase box. 1999 release. :The genius of Spike Jones--as a songwriter, bandleader, ...
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Laughing in Rhythm
:Album Description:One of the most eccentric vocalists ever to hit the jazz scene, Gaillard became a legendary cult figure thanks to his own privately invented jive dialect, 'Vout'. These 103 jazzy expositions from 1937-1952 are a master class & include all his best loved numbers. Includes 44-page illustrated booklet with authoritative biography/musical critique & full discography details. Four standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Proper. 2003.
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Artist of the Century
:Album Description:Japanese collection of 'The Artist of the Century's' most memorable recordings with one bonus track, the classic 'Love Me Tender'. Additional tracks include ''Heartbreak Hotel', 'Hound Dog', 'It's Now Or Never', 'In The Ghetto' & 'Suspicious Minds'. 26 tracks in all. 2000 release. Standard jewelcas e. :Artist of the 20th century? Quite an assertion, and yet as a pop-culture phenomenon, who else? Among the dozens of quotes included in this career-spanning boxed retrospective is one from rock scribe Greil Marcus: 'If any individual of our time can be said to ...
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook
: essential recording:While legends such as Billie Holiday and Count Basie made their greatest impact with visceral, blues-soaked statements, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington succeeded by lending their work unmatched grace and precision. This is a roundabout way of saying that no one is better suited to interpret the Duke than Ella, and the evidence is contained within these three CDs. Discs 1 and 3, recorded in June 1957, feature the support of the full Ellington band and are a complete joy, from Fitzgerald's terrific scat vocal on 'Rockin' in Rhythm' ...
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Four Decades of Song
:Album Description:Budget-priced three disc box for Bassey the Belter also known as the Tigress of Tiger Bay. 54 tracks including, 'Goldfinger', 'Don't Rain On My Parade', 'In The Still Of The Night', 'Feelings', 'All Of Me', 'Days Of Wine And Roses' and many more. A great collection of standards and show tunes as only dame Shirley Bassey can do them. 1998 release. Three standard jewel cases housed together in a slipcase.
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The Best of Dean Martin
:Album Details:Three CD Set- Budget Priced.
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