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The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vols.1, 2 & 3
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This Is Smooth Jazz: The Box Set
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Academy Award Winning Songs: Box Set
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Triple Play
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Night and Day
:Album Description:Import exclusive box-set featuring 42 tracks. Highlights include, 'Begin The Beguine', 'S Wonderful', 'You Are Love', 'I'll Be Seeing You', & many more. Standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. Goldies.
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Complete Bud Powell on Verve
: :Bud Powell was a jazz genius, arguably the most creative and influential pianist the music has ever known. But like such legendary figures as Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and Billie Holiday, he was a profoundly troubled genius. Those troubles began at the age of 21 with head injuries inflicted in a police beating in 1945, and his life became a litany of arrests, hospital stays, shock treatment, over-medication, and self-medication, until he finally left America for France in 1959. This five-CD set compiles Powell's sessions for Norman Granz's Clef and Verve ...
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Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons
:Album Details:Selection of 100 Greatest Hits, Recoded by Popular French Singer.
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The Duke: The Essential Recordings (1927-1962)
: :Two central themes color this 65-track, three-CD compilation--covering Duke Ellington's three periods recording for Columbia Records (disc 1: 1927 to 1940; disc 2: 1947 to 1952; and disc 3: 1956 to 1962). One, Ellington disliked musical pigeonholes. His open-minded attitude allowed him to create masterpieces as different as the spiritual classic 'Come Sunday' with gospel star Mahalia Jackson and the Ravelian impressionism of 'Lady of the Lavender Mist.' Two, Ellington wrote expressly for the members of his band, and that made him sound different from everyone else. That's why the growling ...
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The Jazz Singers 1919-1994
: :Singing begot jazz. Sure, that's a vast oversimplification, but there's probably no better way to say it. The voice as the foundation and essential instrument of jazz's evolution is expansively presented in this five-CD box set compiled by Robert O'Meally, biographer of Billie Holiday. His goal, he writes in an accompanying 100-page booklet, is to show the sweep and the development of jazz singing in all its permutations, including blues, bebop, and scat, from the greatest figures--Bessie Smith, Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Jon Hendricks-to smaller or newer gems ...
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Swingle Singers: The Joy of Singing & Sounds of Spain
from: Philips Import
:Album Description:Full title - Concerto d'Aranjuez - Les Querte Saisons. Remastered reissue for the French vocal group. Details TBA. Universal. 2004.
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