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Roots of Rock N Roll: 1946-1954
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The Ultimate Collection
: :This three-CD collection provides a remarkable overview of Louis Armstrong's career, beginning with 1924 recordings with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and carrying all the way through the decades to include the pop hits from the 1960s, like 'Hello, Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World.' Along the way, there's plenty to document Armstrong's position as the first great soloist of jazz, its first great singer, and a popular entertainer whose charm was as unique as his musical talent. The 1920s are represented ...
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The Vintage Years
: :This three-CD collection provides a remarkable overview of Louis Armstrong's career, beginning with 1924 recordings with Fletcher Henderson's orchestra and carrying all the way through the decades to include the pop hits from the 1960s, like 'Hello, Dolly' and 'What a Wonderful World.' Along the way, there's plenty to document Armstrong's position as the first great soloist of jazz, its first great singer, and a popular entertainer whose charm was as unique as his musical talent. The 1920s are represented ...
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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 ...
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A Jazz Romance - A Night In With Verve
: :Reaching deep into its cavernous vaults, Verve has extracted a rich bountiful of moody and sentimental jazz, perfect for those long, expectant evenings or those equally long, rain-filled days. Nicely packaged with nostalgic, sepia-toned photographs on both the box and each individual CD, A Jazz Romance contains nearly 60 songs guaranteed to set a distinctly low- keyed mood, equal parts sultry and sad. The vast majority of the material is from bygone days of the '40s and '50s, with the ...
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Verve Story 1944-1994
: :Reaching deep into its cavernous vaults, Verve has extracted a rich bountiful of moody and sentimental jazz, perfect for those long, expectant evenings or those equally long, rain-filled days. Nicely packaged with nostalgic, sepia-toned photographs on both the box and each individual CD, A Jazz Romance contains nearly 60 songs guaranteed to set a distinctly low- keyed mood, equal parts sultry and sad. The vast majority of the material is from bygone days of the '40s and '50s, with the ...
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Oldies But Goodies: 250 Legendary Hits
: :Reaching deep into its cavernous vaults, Verve has extracted a rich bountiful of moody and sentimental jazz, perfect for those long, expectant evenings or those equally long, rain-filled days. Nicely packaged with nostalgic, sepia-toned photographs on both the box and each individual CD, A Jazz Romance contains nearly 60 songs guaranteed to set a distinctly low- keyed mood, equal parts sultry and sad. The vast majority of the material is from bygone days of the '40s and '50s, with the ...
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Prince of Cool
: :For a man with little formal musical training, who rarely composed his own music and had a limited range as both singer and trumpeter, Chet Baker was certainly able to carve out a rather nifty little career in jazz. Indeed, these 'limitations' became assets in Baker's work, breeding a guilelessness, clarity, and immediacy that only enhanced his music's appeal. The three-disc Prince of Cool: The Pacific Jazz Years 1952-1957 replaces the more comprehensive four-disc box Capitol released in 1994, and, ...
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The Great Bobby Vinton (3CD)
:Album Description:3 CD set featuring the great Bobby Vinton. Rajon. 2005.
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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 ...
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