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Season's Greetings: 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection
: :Given this box set's grandiose title and three discs' worth of chestnuts roasting, songs about silent nights, and ho, ho, ho, you'd expect--if you're serious about Christmas music--a little bit more than what's actually here. The Millennium Collection is heavily saturated with classics you probably have, and if you're a baby boomer, chances are you will already possess many of the R&B tracks from the Motown era and some of the random, more contemporary songs by Angela Winbush, Aaron Neville, and Boyz II Men. That said, the set is still a ...
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Career: 1952-1988
:Album Description:The only collection to cover all phases of Chet Baker's remarkable career! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet! Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing. Early on, his good looks made him the James Dean of jazz. But his musical gifts never deserted him, as Career 1952–1988 amply demonstrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career. :During his lifetime it became difficult to separate Chet Baker's music from the ...
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This Is Hep
:Album Description:The only collection to cover all phases of Chet Baker's remarkable career! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet! Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing. Early on, his good looks made him the James Dean of jazz. But his musical gifts never deserted him, as Career 1952–1988 amply demonstrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career. :During his lifetime it became difficult to separate Chet Baker's music from the ...
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Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954
:Album Description:The only collection to cover all phases of Chet Baker's remarkable career! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet! Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing. Early on, his good looks made him the James Dean of jazz. But his musical gifts never deserted him, as Career 1952–1988 amply demonstrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career. :During his lifetime it became difficult to separate Chet Baker's music from the ...
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Let the Good Times Roll: The Complete Decca Recordings 1938-54
:Album Description:The only collection to cover all phases of Chet Baker's remarkable career! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet! Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing. Early on, his good looks made him the James Dean of jazz. But his musical gifts never deserted him, as Career 1952–1988 amply demonstrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career. :During his lifetime it became difficult to separate Chet Baker's music from the ...
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Les Miserables - The Complete Symphonic Recording
:Album Description:The only collection to cover all phases of Chet Baker's remarkable career! Deluxe 2-CD set with 60-page booklet! Chet Baker, the paragon of cool jazz, is one of the enduring greats, known for both his trumpet playing and his equally fragile-sounding singing. Early on, his good looks made him the James Dean of jazz. But his musical gifts never deserted him, as Career 1952–1988 amply demonstrates. This 2-CD set provides a complete overview of his entire career. :During his lifetime it became difficult to separate Chet Baker's music from the ...
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Live in Las Vegas
: 's Best of 2001:When Elvis Presley played Las Vegas between 1969 and '76, many rock & rollers screamed sellout. Today, every rock act plays Vegas. When Elvis came to town, it was the event. RCA--still uncovering unreleased stuff decades after the King's death--celebrates his Vegas legacy with two complete, previously unreleased shows from '69 and '70; a CD of previously released material from '70 (much of it taken from the classic Elvis Onstage, February 1970 album); and a fourth CD of mostly rarities from '74 and '75. The latter also includes ...
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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 crooners whose voice is still in good shape. That career is nicely ...
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Forty Years: The Artistry of Tony Bennett
: :Tony Bennett's commercial renaissance, complete with MTV Unplugged appearance, hadn't yet peaked when this four-CD set appeared in 1991. Forty Years, however, makes clear just why Bennett's comeback was so richly deserved: from early hits such as 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' and his version of Hank Williams's 'Cold, Cold Heart' to late-life triumphs such as 'When Do the Bells Ring for Me,' this is a testament to the singer's verve and unstinting good taste. --Rickey Wright
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The Complete Verve Studio Master Takes
:Album Description:For many people, Billie Holiday (a.k.a. 'Lady Day') wasn't just a jazz singer. She was the jazz singer, and remains so today. Thanks to her lifelong struggles with men, alcohol, and drug addiction, Holiday is often viewed as an archetypal example of the suffering artist--a singer who sang her life. And there's no denying the often heartrending quality of the classic recordings she made with musicians like Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, and Harry 'Sweets' Edison.But Holiday's sophisticated sense of rhythm, subtle melodic improvisations, and nuanced way with a lyric enabled ...
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