The Best of Billie Holiday | Jazz Music
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Billie Holiday was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. This collection features 40 of her best songs ... [Read More]
Although her career extended to her untimely death in 1959, the reputation, legend and legacy of Billie Holiday would be secure if we had only these sublime recordings to sustain us. It can be easily argued that her work for Columbia and its various subsidiaries of the time captured Holiday at her peak -- her voice in top shape, her phrasing at its... [Read More]
There's no such thing as a genuine Billie Holiday greatest-hits collection--her career was split among too many labels for that--but this single-disc distillation of the Complete Decca Recordings 2 CD set (recorded between 1944 and 1950) is pretty solid. Holiday's in fine vocal form (though her accompaniment is undistinguished easy-listening stuff;... [Read More]
The gloriously emotive voice of blues singer Billie Holiday remains a source of enjoyment and inspiration today, five decades after her tragic demise. Perhaps Frank Sinatra got it right when he said simply that she was 'one of the most important influences on American popular singing' - and remains so today. Featured here are 8 of her original albu... [Read More]
Beautifully packaged 3CD box set featuring six complete studio albums from the incomparable Billie Holiday. This release showcases Billie shining among such star jazzmen as Harry ''Sweets'' Edison, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Charlie Shavers, Oscar Peterson, and Barney Kessel, among others. The albums included in this set are: Music for Torching wit... [Read More]
Get your dance cards ready for sweeping your partner across the dance floor to 26 delightful vintage tunes. Perfect music for your afternoon or evening tea dances and tea parties. Track listing: Reinhardt & Grappelli - Tea For Two The Ink Spots - Java Jive Benny Goodman Orchestra - Sugar Foot Stomp Fats Waller & His Rhythm - My Very Good Friend The... [Read More]
Mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound, from the original analog tape 200-gram LP plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings! Featuring "Wild Man Blues" "Dickie's Dream" and more! This 200-gram Analogue Productions LP reissue is a magnificent-sounding recording of a historic TV event. For a rare and glorious one-hour nationwide broadcast, ... [Read More]
Because bandleader Tommy Dorsey had so many hits during the 1930s and '40s, his later work has been comparatively ignored or dismissed. But the 70 choice selections here, recorded with fine musicianship and in great sound from 1950 to 1953, show that Dorsey was still a formidable trombonist. Includes two new versions of Tommy's theme, I'm Getting' ... [Read More]
For those who want Artie's top hits and the artistic triumphs that brought him undying esteem, this 2-CD set is it ! Smashes like Begin the Beguine; Back Bay Shuffle; Frenesi; Blues in the Night; Nightmare; Indian Love Call; Traffic Jam; Deep in a Dream , and Star Dust join an unissued Streamline (1936), and 28 more.
UK collection. To commemorate the 50th anniversary this month of the ground-breaking Hit The Road Stax tour of the UK and Europe, Kent is delighted to bring you a second volume of previously un-reissued Stax recordings from the company's "blue" era (1960-68). Our first volume from The Other Side Of The Trax was originally intended to be a standalon... [Read More]
The songs on this 3 cd collection could be described as the soundtrack to life in the Forties. The decade began with the continuing horror of War and all it entails. Music became a kind of escape and a connection between those separated by time and circumstance. Precious moments were spent family and loved ones listening to these songs. When peace ... [Read More]
2009 two CD collection. Though he might have been ranked second at any given moment to Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller or Harry James, Tommy Dorsey was overall the most popular bandleader of the swing era who's high standards and attention to detail made him a maestro of the swing band. From the lively introduction of 'The Music Goes 'Round... [Read More]
This reissued collection of 11 stinging blues classics brings Hendrix's work as a bluesman to the musical forefront. Features a brilliant 12-string acoustic rendition of "Hear My Train A Comin'," plus Hendrix's own tributes to some of his blues forefathers, including Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" and Booker T. Jones'"Born Under A Bad Sign." This orig... [Read More]
This 3-CD, 73-track set presents, for the first time ever on a single edition, all existing sessions featuring the singing of Dinah Washington with bands conducted by Quincy Jones, who was also responsible for most of the arrangements on these dates. Ranging from 1955 to 1961, the sessions include the complete contents of the classic albums For Tho... [Read More]
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