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The Roaring Twenties
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The Capitol Years
:Album Details:New UK 21 Disc Box Set.remastered With Bonus Tracks. Includes Exclusive 'Rare Sinatra'Disc Available Only in this Box.( A Must for Collectors!)
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Stardust: The Complete Capitol Recordings 1955-1959
:Album Description:Cole's baritone was sweet and many of his successes were with love songs, but he was equally well-versed in swinging rhythm numbers and blues. Cole was a founding father of R&B and a major influence on soul. He collaborated closely with the greatest pop orchestrators of all time. This Bear Family box contains Cole's complete recordings, all done for Capitol Records in the years 1955-1959. The 11CDs and 298 tracks contain a combination of Cole's most famous and most obscure work: the two piano-centric albums of 1955-'56: The Piano Style ...
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The Essence of Nancy Wilson: Four Decades of Music
: :Sophisticated and elegant, tart and bold, Nancy Wilson remains one of our most exemplary vocal stylists. This four-disc box is a gift for her diehard fans, focusing as it does on tracks making their debut on CD, as well as a number of tracks that have never been released at all. Through an endless range of styles and settings, Wilson's distinctive voice--crisp and biting, dexterous and translucent--commands center stage, always showing the influence of her hero Dinah Washington and remaining much the same throughout the decades. Disc 1 offers a broad ...
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The Original Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Complete Recordings
: :Sophisticated and elegant, tart and bold, Nancy Wilson remains one of our most exemplary vocal stylists. This four-disc box is a gift for her diehard fans, focusing as it does on tracks making their debut on CD, as well as a number of tracks that have never been released at all. Through an endless range of styles and settings, Wilson's distinctive voice--crisp and biting, dexterous and translucent--commands center stage, always showing the influence of her hero Dinah Washington and remaining much the same throughout the decades. Disc 1 offers a broad ...
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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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The Savoy Years and More
: :Like almost every single album bearing the name and inimitable voice of this rare jazz treasure, this reissue covering Jimmy Scott's on-again, off-again relationship with Savoy Records has both its highlights and its low points. Of course, no amount of treachery or ineptitude has ever muffled Scott's long-lined, behind-the-beat ballad singing, which often sounds like a woman's. His is an absolutely original voice and one of the most ambrosial acquired tastes in all of jazz history. Recorded mostly in the 1950s and early '60s, this set showcases Scott in his prime, ...
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50 by Bobby Short
: :Like almost every single album bearing the name and inimitable voice of this rare jazz treasure, this reissue covering Jimmy Scott's on-again, off-again relationship with Savoy Records has both its highlights and its low points. Of course, no amount of treachery or ineptitude has ever muffled Scott's long-lined, behind-the-beat ballad singing, which often sounds like a woman's. His is an absolutely original voice and one of the most ambrosial acquired tastes in all of jazz history. Recorded mostly in the 1950s and early '60s, this set showcases Scott in his prime, ...
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The Complete Cole Porter Songbooks
: :It's rare that a great tunesmith is also a great lyricist, but Porter was both, and the formal perfection of his best songs made them favorites among both singers and instrumentalists. These three discs (two vocal, one instrumental) raid the archives for renditions by jazz types (from Ella Fitzgerald to Roland Kirk), more straightforward pop singers, and a few ringers, like Fred Astaire, who does nicely by 'I Concentrate on You.' The singers love Porter for the depth, wittiness, and just-repressed-enough sentimentality of his lyrics, and for the melodies clustered around ...
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Louis Armstrong: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
: :Louis Armstrong recorded for RCA Victor for two relatively brief periods in his long career, in the early days of his big band (1932 to '33) and in the period when he broke up the orchestra and returned to a New Orleans-style smaller ensemble (1946 to '47). This four-CD set is evenly divided between the two periods. The early big bands--first drummer Chick Webb's and then the trumpeter's own--provide a comfortable setting for Armstrong, who simply reigned supreme among jazz soloists of the period, with peerless invention and a stunning flexibility. ...
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