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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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Ella: Legendary Decca Recordings
: :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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The Great Broadway Collection
: :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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Andy Williams - Greatest Hits/Greatest Hits Vol. 2/Love Story
: :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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The Music of Johnny Mathis: A Personal Collection
: :Mathis was among the singers who, in the '60s and '70s, churned out an album every few months--often made up largely of the same recent chart hits his peers (Andy Williams, Jerry Vale) were covering. Despite the presence of 'Feelings,' however, this four-CD box is low on chaff and high on the wispy romanticism of hits such as 'Chances Are,' 'Misty,' and 'It's Not for Me to Say.' --Rickey Wright
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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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Essential Jazz Ballads
: :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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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 Collector's Sondheim (Musical Compilation)
: :This three-CD set offers a generous overview of the career of Stephen Sondheim, Broadway's most important composer of the last quarter of the 20th century. It's compiled by Thomas Z. Shepard, the producer instrumental to many of Sondheim's most important cast recordings for RCA. The set's ambitious reach covers music Sondheim composed for theater, film, and television back to 1954 (but not including shows for which he is only credited with lyrics, most notably West Side Story and Gypsy), and since much of the older material was recorded for other labels or ...
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100 Years of Cinema: 40 Classic Performances
:Album Details:Double Box Set Including 40 Classic Performances Taken from the Silver Screen and Recorded by Such Stars as Judy Garland, Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Carmen Miranda, Louis Armstrong and Many More.
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