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Bing Crosby's Christmas Classics
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A New Standard
: :A New Standard builds on the popularity of Steve Tyrell's appearances in the Father of the Bride movies. In addition to 'The Way You Look Tonight' (from the Father of the Bride soundtrack) and 'Give Me the Simple Life' and 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' (from Father of the Bride, Part II), the album features Tyrell singing 14 more standards in a casual, gravel-throated style. A New Standard includes the final recorded performances of trumpet great Harry 'Sweets' Edison, who solos on 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' and 'I've ...
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The Definitive Collection
: :A New Standard builds on the popularity of Steve Tyrell's appearances in the Father of the Bride movies. In addition to 'The Way You Look Tonight' (from the Father of the Bride soundtrack) and 'Give Me the Simple Life' and 'On the Sunny Side of the Street' (from Father of the Bride, Part II), the album features Tyrell singing 14 more standards in a casual, gravel-throated style. A New Standard includes the final recorded performances of trumpet great Harry 'Sweets' Edison, who solos on 'Don't Get Around Much Anymore' and 'I've ...
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16 Most Requested Songs
: :It's been suggested that almost as many baby boomers were conceived to the romantic sounds of Johnny Mathis's voice as to Sinatra's--and when you consider that Johnny's Greatest Hits stayed on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 178 weeks beginning in '58 (that's more than twice as long as Dark Side of the Moon, folks!), it's easy to understand why. Sony has used this '16 Most Requested' routine on a number of their easy-listening vocalists (including Sinatra and Andy Williams), but this one is special in that it takes the cream of ...
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The Hit Singles Collection
:Album Description:Rhino release featuring 20 swingin' tracks released from 1958-1966 on the Atco, Capitol and Atlantic labels. 2002. :Bobby Darin was one of the most personally complex and unpredictable artists of the rock era. Indeed, it's hard to find another major artist who reinvented himself with the deceptive ease and overwhelming success chronicled on this 20-track highlight disc. After scoring three lively and considerable Top 10 successes in the space of a year in the late 1950s ('Splish Splash,' 'Queen of the Hop,' 'Dream Lover'), Darin traded in his teen idol ...
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Great Records Of The Decade: 40's Hits, Vol. 1
:Album Description:Rhino release featuring 20 swingin' tracks released from 1958-1966 on the Atco, Capitol and Atlantic labels. 2002. :Bobby Darin was one of the most personally complex and unpredictable artists of the rock era. Indeed, it's hard to find another major artist who reinvented himself with the deceptive ease and overwhelming success chronicled on this 20-track highlight disc. After scoring three lively and considerable Top 10 successes in the space of a year in the late 1950s ('Splish Splash,' 'Queen of the Hop,' 'Dream Lover'), Darin traded in his teen idol ...
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The Very Best of John Coltrane
: :With his inexhaustible technique, trademark sound, and limitless imagination, tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane was one of jazz's most dominant musicians. This collection covers his important Atlantic Records sessions recorded from 1959 to 1960 (chronicled in their entirety on Heavyweight Champion). The tunes signal an important transitional phase from Trane's stints with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his emergence as a leader in his own right. 'Giant Steps' 'Naima,' and 'Cousin Mary'--featuring pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Art Taylor--crystallized Trane's supersonic 'sheets of sound' style. 'Like Sonny,' an Afro-Latin ...
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Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Pt. 2
: :With his inexhaustible technique, trademark sound, and limitless imagination, tenor and soprano saxophonist John Coltrane was one of jazz's most dominant musicians. This collection covers his important Atlantic Records sessions recorded from 1959 to 1960 (chronicled in their entirety on Heavyweight Champion). The tunes signal an important transitional phase from Trane's stints with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk to his emergence as a leader in his own right. 'Giant Steps' 'Naima,' and 'Cousin Mary'--featuring pianist Tommy Flanagan and drummer Art Taylor--crystallized Trane's supersonic 'sheets of sound' style. 'Like Sonny,' an Afro-Latin ...
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My Favorite Things
: essential recording:This 1960 recording was a landmark album in John Coltrane's career, the first to introduce his quartet with pianist McCoy Tyner and drummer Elvin Jones and the first release on which he played soprano saxophone. It also provided him with a signature hit, as his new group conception came together wonderfully on the title track. It's an extended modal reworking in 6/4 time that brought the hypnotic pulsating quality of Indian music into jazz for the first time, with Coltrane's soprano wailing over the oscillating piano chords and pulsing ...
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Cabaret: Original Soundtrack Recording (1972 Film)
: :Cheated out of playing nightclub canary Sally Bowles on Broadway in director Hal Price's Cabaret, Liza Minnelli nevertheless delivered an Oscar-winning star turn in Bob Fosse's cinematic reinvention of the show (which had the good sense to retain perverse imp Joel Grey from the stage production). Although the 1972 film discarded several songs from the original score, the new ones sound even better: Minnelli's breast-beating 'Maybe This Time,' the sultry 'Mein Herr,' and the salaciously satirical 'Money, Money.' By placing almost all the pertinent musical action on the stage of the ...
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