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Piano-Bass Duets:The Complete Sessions
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The Complete Sarah Vaughan on Mercury, Vol. 1
: :Sarah Vaughan recorded extensively for Mercury/EmArcy during the 1950s and 1960s. Through much of that time, Vaughan's operatic voice was matched against overripe orchestrations or arrangements more suitable to a pop icon than one of the most versatile instruments in history. The exhaustive 4 CD box set overview of Vaughan's work with Mercury/EmArcy is essential only to completists or the most avid fans. Vol. 1, however, which collects material from 1954-1956 over six CDs, shows Vaughan at her best, including sessions with trumpeter Clifford Brown and drummer Roy Haynes. Most of ...
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Manhattan Nights: The Complete Golden Years Studio Sessions
:Album Description:For the first time, all the studio master takes recorded at the fifties (except Victor two LP and a half), plus a rare rehearsal recorded with pianist and club owner George Wein, and a session with Joe Bushkin in 1965. Includes Irving Berlin, Vincent Youmans and Richard Rodgers Songbooks, featuring Bobby Hackett, Ruby Braff and the duo Stan Freeman and Cy Walter. 2 CD set
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Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre (Finian's Rainbow, Kiss Me Kate, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls)
: :By the time he'd turned his own Reprise Records label into a going concern in 1963, Frank Sinatra could happily stub out his cigarette on Tradition, then douse the ashes with the slurry of his double bourbon on the rocks. It's not that Sinatra didn't respect the Broadway musical; indeed, he'd done quite well by its ballads over the course of his storied career. But that haughty Tradition--well, she was just another dame who had to go. So Sinatra swiftly showed her the door. Teaming up with musical director Morris Stoloff, ...
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The Great Frankie Laine
:Album Description:A new addition to this Australian Only series of remastered original recordings in a quality slip case box with gold print.
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A Night Out With Verve
: :This bargain-priced four-CD set presents itself as easy, event-based listening, with the CDs individually titled 'Wining,' 'Dining,' 'Dancing,' and 'Romancing.' A glimpse at the track list and personnel, however, immediately reveals that, much more than 'easy listening,' it's an extraordinary collection of jazz performances culled from the Verve archives and including material from the label's classic and recent periods, as well as from subsidiary labels. The selection has been made with remarkable thoughtfulness, pulling out tracks that may surprise even veteran listeners. John Coltrane plays 'You're a Weaver of Dreams' with ...
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Giants of the Big Band Era
: :This bargain-priced four-CD set presents itself as easy, event-based listening, with the CDs individually titled 'Wining,' 'Dining,' 'Dancing,' and 'Romancing.' A glimpse at the track list and personnel, however, immediately reveals that, much more than 'easy listening,' it's an extraordinary collection of jazz performances culled from the Verve archives and including material from the label's classic and recent periods, as well as from subsidiary labels. The selection has been made with remarkable thoughtfulness, pulling out tracks that may surprise even veteran listeners. John Coltrane plays 'You're a Weaver of Dreams' with ...
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The Complete Riverside Recordings
: :The span of this 12-CD box set is generally acknowledged as the best Bill Evans material available. That's saying a lot, considering the high quality of The Complete Fantasy Recordings and The Complete Bill Evans on Verve. What the Riverside recordings display is a young Evans discovering his revolutionary harmonic depth and improvisational genius with bursts of energy that, by his second session, had established a kind of moody intensity that seemed to deepen the music while making it at once more complex and easier to absorb. Evans's Riverside years encompass ...
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First Lady of Song
: essential recording:This three-CD compilation of Ella Fitzgerald's years with Verve covers the period from 1954 to 1966, with a single throwback to a 1949 Jazz at the Philharmonic concert for a jam session version of 'Perdido' with Charlie Parker. The settings range from the almost spartan (intimate, beautiful versions of 'Angel Eyes,' with guitarist Barney Kessel, and 'Lush Life,' with pianist Oscar Peterson) to orchestras and big bands, while the material ranges from classic standards to bop tunes like 'A Night in Tunisia' to the Lennon-McCartney 'Can't Buy Me Love.' ...
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Special 3-CD Collection
:Album Description:EMI UK box-set combines three of their best-selling Nat King Cole titles (all import exclusive), Singles (1992), Let's Fall In Love (1990) & The One & Only (1990). Featuring 60 of his finest recordings including the massively famous & recognizable hits, 'When I Fall In Love', 'Around The World', 'Sweet Lorraine', 'Fly Me To The Moon', 'Pretend', 'Somewhere Along The Way' & many, many more. The three standard jewel cases are housed together in a slipcase. 2002.
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