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The Concert Years
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Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz In Los Angeles (1921-1956)
: :Throughout the history of jazz, mythical places like New Orleans's Storyville, Chicago's South Side, Kansas City's Tenderloin district, and New York's Harlem and 52nd Street were celebrated as the legendary hotspots. Thankfully, this impressive four-CD, 91-track collection featuring Nat 'King' Cole, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter to name a few, puts Los Angeles's famous African-American enclave, Central Avenue, on the historical map and offers the listener a zoot-suited, jitterbugged jaunt through Club Alabam, The Downbeat, and other jumpin' joints where Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with hep cats under a pulsating Pacific ...
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Lay Some Happiness On Me: The Reprise Years & More 1966-1985 (Bonus DVD)
:Album Description:Full title, 'Lay Some Happiness On Me - The Reprise Years & More 1966-1985'. German box-set featuring six CDs a DVD & a 112 page full cover hardbound book. 106 tracks total. Bear Family Records.
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This Is Jazz
:Album Description:Full title, 'Lay Some Happiness On Me - The Reprise Years & More 1966-1985'. German box-set featuring six CDs a DVD & a 112 page full cover hardbound book. 106 tracks total. Bear Family Records.
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Best of Nat King Cole: The Instrumental Classics/The Vocal Classics
: :Before he achieved his tremendous success as a ballad singer, Nat 'King' Cole was already a great jazz pianist, with the effervescent swing of Earl Hines and the grace of Teddy Wilson. The trio that he led through the '40s was a unique musical group, a perfect forum for Cole's talents as both a swing pianist and a vocalist who could range comfortably from boppish instrumentals to moving ballads to infectious novelty tunes. With the instrumentation of piano, guitar, and bass, the group combined light textures and solid swing, and guitarist ...
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This Is Gold
:Album Description:Nice price 3-CD set on the Disky label from the legendary Edith Piaf. 2005.
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Art Deco: The Crooners
:Album Description:Nice price 3-CD set on the Disky label from the legendary Edith Piaf. 2005.
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Essential Jazz Ballads
:Album Description:Nice price 3-CD set on the Disky label from the legendary Edith Piaf. 2005.
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The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection / Encore
from: Decca Broadway
: :In a career that's veered from '70s pop chanteuse to Broadway star and neo-operatic diva, Sarah Brightman has brought a critics-be-damned sense of dramatic scale to nearly every project she's tackled. This two-CD package of 31 hits brings together selections from Brightman's original Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, including many definitive versions of Lloyd Webber classics. Also included are songs from her album Encore, which itself was largely culled from her Songs That Got Away and Surrender song anthologies, although they do include four previously unreleased outtakes from those collections. Her 1998 ...
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A Golden Celebration
: :In a career that's veered from '70s pop chanteuse to Broadway star and neo-operatic diva, Sarah Brightman has brought a critics-be-damned sense of dramatic scale to nearly every project she's tackled. This two-CD package of 31 hits brings together selections from Brightman's original Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, including many definitive versions of Lloyd Webber classics. Also included are songs from her album Encore, which itself was largely culled from her Songs That Got Away and Surrender song anthologies, although they do include four previously unreleased outtakes from those collections. Her 1998 ...
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