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Nat King Cole is Reinterpreted on 'Re: Generations'

Nat King Cole is Reinterpreted on 'Re: Generations'

The Roots, Cut Chemist, will.i.am, TV on the Radio and others take on the singer's hits. Carole Cole says her late father 'would be excited about this.' It was 50 years ago that Nat King Cole went to Brazil and was greeted with staggering street-side ovations. “There was so much affection, it's hard to describe what ...

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Article: Profile

Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout

Read "Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout" reviewed by Donald Elfman


When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...

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Article: Film Review

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Read "'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


Jackie Paris'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisOutsider PicturesWritten and Directed by Raymond De FelittaProducer: David Zellerford 2009 “You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody."--Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront

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Article: Album Review

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

Read "Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)" reviewed by Samuel Chell


How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...

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Article: Album Review

Richard Galliano: Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions

Read "Love Day: Los Angeles Sessions" reviewed by Chris May


French-Italian accordionist Richard Galliano began recording for the Milan label in the mid-2000s, since when he's released two tango-based albums, Luz Negra (Milan, 2007) and Live In Marciac (Milan, 2007), made with his Tangaria Quartet. Galliano's Love Day: Los Angeles Session finds him returning to another love, new musette, a jazz-inflected recalibration of the bal-musette cafe ...

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Article: Album Review

Nat King Cole: The Definitive Nat "King" Cole

Read "The Definitive Nat "King" Cole" reviewed by Jim Santella


Most of this superb collection features Nat King Cole in the role that he knew first: jazz pianist with a small ensemble playing instrumental favorites with a creative swing. Recorded in Los Angeles between July 1942 and August 1947, the songs come from an expressive pianist who knows the true value of a few complementary partners ...

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Article: Album Review

Nat King Cole: Nat King Cole At The Sands

Read "Nat King Cole At The Sands" reviewed by Jim Santella


Debonair Nat King Cole sat at the piano and sang for a large Las Vegas audience from 2:30 until 5:00 in the wee hours of the morning on January 14, 1960. This wasn't the usual casino audience: this dedicated throng flocked to see Cole with the knowledge that the performance would be recorded. They sensed something ...

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Sincerely / The Beautiful Ballads

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: Sincerely; Sweethearts On Parade ; You Are Mine ; Let Me Tell You, Babe ; No Other Heart ; Because You Love Me ; Cappuccina ; Let True Love Begin ; Baby Blue ; Silver Bird ; Nothing In The World ; Take A Fool's Advice ; The Beautiful Ballads; Felicia ; Miss Me ; Marnie ; Here's To My Lady ; Fool Was I ; Bend A Little My Way ; You'll See ; If I Knew ; Back In My Arms ; When It's Summer; I'll Always Be Remembering ("Things");

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The Greatest Hits

Label: DCC Compact Classics
Released: 1994
Track listing: Unforgettable; (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66; Orange Colored Sky; Mona Lisa; Walkin' My Baby Back Home; Straighten Up And Fly Right; Send For Me; Looking Back; You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love); (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; Nature Boy; Ramblin' Rose; Pretend; Too Young; Somewhere Along The Way; Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer; Smile; Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup; Answer Me, My Love; A Blossom Fell; If I May; Unforgettable;

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Nat King Cole

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1992
Track listing: Straighten Up And Fly Right; Jumpin' At Capitol; Sweet Lorraine; Embraceable You; It's Only A Paper Moon; What Is This Thing Called Love?; You Can Depend On Me; I'm Thru With Love; Sweet Georgia Brown; The Frim Fram Sauce; (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66; Baby, Baby All The Time; You Call It Madness (But I Call It Love); The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You); (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons; When I Take My Sugar To Tea; Too Marvelous For Words; Blues In My Shower; Kee-Mo Ky-Mo (The Magic Song); Save The Bones For Henry Jones; Nature Boy; Lost April; A Portrait Of Jennie; Bop-Kick; For All We Know; Lush Life; My Baby Just Cares For Me; Can I Come In For A Second?; I'll Never Say Never Again; Mona Lisa; Ev'ry Day (I Fall In Love); Orange Colored Sky; Jet; Too Young; Red Sails In The Sunset; Unforgettable; Walkin' My Baby Back Home; The Ruby And The Pearl; Somewhere Along The Way; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; Funny (Not Much); Pretend; Angel Eyes; Lover Come Back To Me!; That's All; If Love Is Good To Me; Blue Gardenia; Love Is Here To Stay; This Can't Be Love; Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup; Answer Me, My Love; Smile; My One Sin (In Life); Open Up The Doghouse (Two Cats Are Comin' In); If I Give My Heart To You; A Blossom Fell; If I May; It Could Happen To You; Autumn Leaves; There Will Never Be Another You; Let's Fall In Love; Night Lights; To The Ends Of The Earth; Candy; Ballerina; Caravan; Stardust; When I Fall In Love; When Sunny Gets Blue; Send For Me; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; I Should Care; The Party's Over; St. Louis Blues; Looking Back; The Very Thought Of You; But Beautiful; Avalon; The Late, Late Show; To Whom It May Concern; Non Dimenticar (Don't Forget); Standin' In The Need Of Prayer; The Best Thing For You; Perfidia; Wild Is Love; Thou Swell; Where Or When; Mr. Cole Won't Rock & Roll; I Remember You; A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square; The Touch Of Your Lips; Poinciana (Song Of The Tree); Day In - Day Out; Azure-Té; Ramblin' Rose; Say It Isn't So; That Sunday, That Summer; On The Street Where You Live; I Don't Want To See Tomorrow; L-O-V-E;


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