Results for "Capitol Records"

Chet Baker: Master Of Jazz: Chet Baker Sings

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1998

Ornette Coleman's insights are well worth paying attention to, and he certainly hit the nail on the head when discussing Chet Baker's singing. To paraphrase Coleman, Baker may not have had much of a voice, but that didn't stop him from grabbing you with it emotionally. As a singer, Baker didn't have had the range of ...

Latin Ala Lee ! / Olé Ala Lee !

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1997

Swingin' Cheese

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1997

Black Coffee - Best Of The Decca Years

By Peggy Lee

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1997

Off the Beaten Path

By Dave Koz

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1997

The Peaceful Side

By Billy Strayhorn

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1997

Dave Koz: Off the Beaten Path

by Dave Hughes
September 1, 1997

Popular saxophonist Dave Koz has attempted to veer “off the beaten path" with this release; in other words, to create something that goes beyond the current “smooth jazz" formula which so many contemporary saxophonists have embraced. For this, he is to be commended. Overall, it's a successful effort. He keeps one foot solidly planted on contemporary ...

Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side

by Joel Roberts
August 1, 1997

During his twenty-five year tenure with the Duke Ellington Orchestra as composer, lyricist, arranger, and Duke's closest musical confidante, Billy Strayhorn rarely performed in front of a live audience and even less frequently entered a recording studio. Although his piano playing can be heard on a handful of records with the Ellington Orchestra as well as ...

Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool

by Jim Santella
April 1, 1997

As Miles Davis has indicated in his autobiography, he was breaking away from Bird and bebop, and finding his own voice, when he formed the nonet. Davis was attempting to take the sound of an orchestra (such as Duke Ellington's or Claude Thornhill's) and produce the same sound with only nine instruments: trumpet, alto sax, baritone ...

Stealing Beauty - Music From The Motion Picture

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1996