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Sing wonderful pop female hits! This CD+G features 8 note-perfect multiplex tracks of great female pop songs. Perfect for practice, performances, auditions, and more! Includes 2 versions of each song (guide vocals, and instrumental background track). Full lyric book included.
This is as good as it gets. I felt that way 30 years ago and I still feel that way today. If I had only one CD to take with me to a deserted island, this would be it.
In my opinion, the only younger artist out there today that has her kind of writing and singing chops is John Mayer. He gives me hope that the timeless music of artists like Joni and The Beatles (to name only two of many) will continue to be made, however grim the music business might look.
The musical arrangements are either guitar or piano (both frequently played by Joni) with little else to distract you from the quality of the songs. Stephen Stills and James Taylor also guest on the album but their contributions are subtle and restrained. Calling a favourite track is almost impossible since as you listen to each track the last song you heard replaces the previous to become your new favourite.
This is without doubt the finest example of any early 70's singer/songwriter album. This should be in everybodies collection, especially at the price you can buy it for now.
Although some of the songs have been covered before in the Enchanted Enchanted: The Works of Stevie Nickscollection, the extra features included in this set are well worth the purchas - Including audio from her Melbourne concert in January 2006.
As for the DVD - there is clips and concert footage that I hadnt seen before that I am now very happy to have in my collection.
walking in the air. Her voice is good for this song, but for the rest of the songs, I think her voice is a little too thin, no strong emotion to support it.
The Chicago Jazz Band is one of the best bands I've heard in ages and they work hand in hand with Maria Muldaur. It's a shame this is just a single cd - they have enough material for a double, I'm sure.
I know there is that DRIVE to hit the ultimate cut of a song, but I think a second version of Empty Bed Blues wasn't quite necessary. I keep thinking there were two or three other songs that could have been used. Coming in at just a shade over 45 min. seems like a big tease.
Coming down to it - she's the best blues singer, she gathers the best musicians and arrangers around her. She just oozes sex appeal and she knows just what she's singing about.
Hopefully she's got a Naughty, Bawdy & Blues Pt. 2 up her sleeves.
Naughty Bawdy & Blue is one of the best. The songs are mostly uptempo with a great backup of trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saloon style piano, etc. It is urban upscale blues of the 1920s and 1930s, a tribute to the great female singers of the era.
The songwriting is terrific. You don't get this kind of smart, bawdy, and often moving type of songwriting today. The Chicago Jazz Band brings an infectious mood to the songs.
In short: This is a really fun album of great songs, singing, and musicianship. I guarantee you will like it. It is one gem after another to the point you are disappointed when the album ends. My favorites: Down Home Blues, Up the Country Blues, Separation Blues (great duet with Bonnie Raitt), New Orleans Hop Scot Blues, TB Blues, One Hour Mama (very funny), and Yonder Come the Blues.
I cannot imagine anyone not liking this album. It makes me want to seek out the original singers and songwriters of these songs, which is exactly what a tribute album should do.
If you ever wondered who, if anyone, was going to carry on the tradition of great female blues singers now that the likes of Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Sippy Wallace and Memphis Minnie have long been gone from the scene look no further. As I pointed out in a review of her last album Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul Maria Muldaur has paid her dues and here she is doing it all over again. This is the third album in series that she started in 2002 to cover the old great blues singers. In the present album she covers the above-mentioned singers and others in a style in which they would surely recognize their style. These are the classic female blues singers of the 1920's and 30's. Maria is in fast company but she does not miss a beat.
Pay particular attention to her rendition of Victoria Spivey's Handy Man and the covers of Sippy Wallace songs. Damn if Maria does not sound like that unfortunately not well known singer (Maria also covered a Wallace classic Don't Advertise Your Man on her last album).
I would also add that I had the pleasure of hearing some of the cuts on this album live in concert by Maria in Cambridge (one of her old stomping grounds in her youthful days with the Kweskin Jug Band back in the sixties) and she can still belt them out. If there is any truth in the assumption that former President Clinton was our first `black' president no one can deny that Maria is our first `black' classic blues singer. And has the stage presence, to boot. The tradition lives. Listen on.
She's been through many years of problems and heartache, but then, here she still is, with a voice that is even better (if that's possible!) than when she was a sweet young thing performing with Louie Armstrong, Ray Charles, BB King and all the great band leaders and blues singers. She even has a new thin physique!
A couple of the tunes are ones she had in her regular repertoire forty-five years ago and others are contemporary hits from other artists. Each one is "pure Etta." I seem to play this one over and over and over. I can't get enough. I even have it on my computer so I can listen to it when I am doing other work!
This CD is a great example of what the blue are and the influence it can have on all kinds of music. Some of the tunes one will hardly recognize at first. And--the best part of this recording is that you don't have to be in love to enjoy it! (though it wouldn't be bad that way, too)
What else might I add for cataloguing this cult artist that it has not been said just before? She is part of the history jazz and her memory will transcend and surmount the next years to come.
For the best of Billie you need to go back to the glory days, 1933-1944, precisely the time period covered by this reasonably priced and beautifully produced 2-CD set. (If you're a player with money to burn go for the 10-CD comprehensive retrospective, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944.) All the songs providing the foundation of her reputation are here, as well as many pleasant surprises. The booklet, though not lavish, provides photos, background, and a complete list of personnel for each track. This detail is significant because the players on these selections, in addition to being the finest who ever backed Ms. Holiday, were also the absolute elite of their generation, each worthy of individual exploration. (Names like Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Teddy Wilson enjoy legendary status.)
Perhaps most amazing is the sound quality, considering the recordings are WWII vintage they're clear and smooth. About Ms. Holiday's personal life, the less said the better. What is remarkable is that, despite her personal troubles, she managed to create a canon of work that is truly timeless, just as sweet and powerful today as it was then. Not only is this the best Billie Holiday anthology available, it makes a formidable addition any jazz collection. (Dig that cover photo, wow!)
Like others here, I have it all, but I think her work from the 30s and early 1940s from Columbia and its ancestors is not just her greatest works, but among the great works of world musical culture. Everyone with a set of ears should be more or less required to have this music and enjoy it.
Strange Fruit was not recorded for Columbia but for the Indy label Commodore. Thus, you will not find it on this or any of the Columbia collections like this that capture her work in the period BEFORE Strange Fruit. It was recorded in the 1940s, whereas this collection contains work from Billie in the 1930s and perhaps 1940 and 1941. No doubt Sony wishes it had the rights to that side and everything else Commodore recorded, but they don't.
The truth is, Strange Fruit is not one of Billie's Greatest works. There are about 15 tunes on this CD that have better singing, better musicians backing her, and were more important pieces of Billie's work. Strange Fruit is well known to the people who know about Billie as a person, but don't know much about Billie as a Jazz musician. Her recording, while powerful, was not very nuanced, not very jazzy, and not as good as much of the work here. Indeed, the weakness of her mid-1940s Commodore work as opposed to these recordings is that Billie was persuaded to move away from Jazz and swing to attempt to become a cabarat chanteuse of "serious" songs, a move that some also relate to the inception of heroin and the decline of her voice, a move that brought about a decline in her art.
If you want to hear a better version of "Strange Fruit," listen to Josh White's recording which is so much more powerful, if not as well known. I am not downing the song or its politics, far from it, but Billie's Strange Fruit is more important as a political statement than as a work of Jazz art.
One of the greatest things about these records are the many master musicians of swing and jazz that join her on these recordings. Very shortly after she started recording, the greatest names in Jazz would flock to her sessions and play on her recordings for litte because of the innovation and creativity Billie showed as a jazz creator in her own right. These recordings were a chance for them to jam together in loose arrangements and be more innovative and creative than they were with the orchestras they played with.
These masters of Jazz viewed Billie as a serious artist of Jazz. They delighted in her knowledge of the musical aspects of swing jazz which was unique for such a young singer (she was in her twenties when these records were made) and delighted in her ability to sense what they were doing in their accompaniments and solos and to respond to them in her vocals.
Despite the exaggerated picture of her life as a prostitute that was part of the marketing of the 1950's work of ghost-written fiction called "Lady Sings the Blues," that a drug addled Billie claimed was her autobiography, Billie Holiday grew up around Jazz with her father being a big band guitar player who complained Billie hired every NY guitarist but him for these sessions. Billie's mother specialized in boarding Jazz musicians and catering parties for musicians and singers, parties where the young Billie would often help serve the food. So when she met Lester young in 1937 for these sessions, she had already known the man she named 'Prez in 1934 when he boarded with her mother while he was in the Fletcher Henderson band.
These sides contain most of the great collaboration between Lester Young and Billie. They were great musical friends and personal friends until Billie became a heroin addict, at which point Lester didn't much want to be around her.
However, as much as I am a Lester Young man to the death (his framed picture hangs in my home), too little is said of the other musicians who grace these recordings. Billie's collaboration with pianist Teddy Wilson who plays on and directed most of these recordings (many were recorded as Teddy Wilson Orchestra sides)needs to be explored. Likewise, her work with the great bassists and rhythm players on these records needs to be appreciated. My favorite sides are the ones in which she has the benefit of Basieites like her dear friend Freddy Green on guitar and the great Walter Page on bass. Likewise, Billie's musical closeness with the great Buck Clayton and his role on these sides is also underestimated.
Yet, it doesn't matter if Billie had recorded these sides with some high school band members from Winslow, Arizona. This is good music to listen to, good music to smile to, music to fall in love to, and music to dance too. Contrary to the tendency to get maudlin and milk her image as a tragedy that Holiday developed in the 1950s as her life and her musical skill declined , even the songs on these recordings with the sadest lyrics possess a great joy, swing, and spirit of the wonders of Jazz.
After watching the show, I've gained a new appreciation for the album as well because it contains all the songs from the show's most climactic moments. Both as a soundtrack and a CD it is great.
Music on this cd is from all 3 season! Very good are also "Into the Fire", "Worry About You" and "Salvation".
If you like the music in 4400, you should have this cd.
Aye, the opening song (the best cut) is WAY too short: I thought like the Geico theme song, "Remind Me," there was surely a longer version. Still even at just over a minute, it's worth buying. Very moody, but very worth listening to!
The CD begins so beautifully with Billie singing "All Of Me" and continues on into "You Go To My Head" by Gillespie and Coots. As with the rest of the songs on this CD, there is some background surface noise as these recordings by Billie were made in the 1930s and the very early 1940s. Nevertheless, there is a certain romantic style to each recording that leaves the listener wanting more after every track.
There songs on this CD are truly timeless; Billie sings such standards as "You Go To My Head," "The Man I Love," "Let's Do It," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "The Very Thought Of You." Don't play this CD for the first time without having time to relax and enjoy it with a glass of your favorite wine--you'll want to listen to it again after you've played it through because it's that beautiful and special.
The liner notes include an essay by Delfeayo Marsalis, the song credits and the dates Billie recorded them, a beautiful black and white photograph of Billie singing at the microphone on stage and the lyrics to "You Go To My Head" and "Easy Living."
I highly recommend this CD for fans of Billie Holiday, classic vocals and the standards of the entire 20th century. Although it is only one CD, it still is a very good representation of Billie's talent. It makes a great starter CD for people who want to find out more about Billie before they purchase box sets, too. A terrific experience to be enjoyed! SMILE
fairly represented that era. My husband and I fully enjoyed this CD
Sing wonderful pop female hits! This CD+G features 8 note-perfect multiplex tracks of great female pop songs. Perfect for practice, performances, auditions, and more! Includes 2 versions of each song (guide vocals, and instrumental background track). Full lyric book included.
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Blue
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ASIN: B000002KBU Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- All I Want
- My Old Man
- Little Green
- Carey
- Blue
- California
- This Flight Tonight
- River
- A Case Of You
- The Last Time I Saw Richard
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Joni Mitchell would go on from this '71 recording to make more popular, more ambitious, and more challenging albums, but she's never made a better one. Working with minimal accompaniment (Stephen Stills and James Taylor are two of the four sidemen), the Canadian thrush summoned an involving song cycle of romance found and lost. Though Blue is an uncommonly intimate representation, it's also astonishingly open and gracious. Songs such as "All I Want," "Carey," "California," and "A Case of You" work equally well as poetry and pop music. --Steve StolderCustomer Reviews:
One of the Top Ten Albums Ever Made.......2007-07-03
This is as good as it gets. I felt that way 30 years ago and I still feel that way today. If I had only one CD to take with me to a deserted island, this would be it.
In my opinion, the only younger artist out there today that has her kind of writing and singing chops is John Mayer. He gives me hope that the timeless music of artists like Joni and The Beatles (to name only two of many) will continue to be made, however grim the music business might look.
"I could drink a case of you...".......2007-06-24
Blue is the best of Joni Mitchell.......2007-06-15
The musical arrangements are either guitar or piano (both frequently played by Joni) with little else to distract you from the quality of the songs. Stephen Stills and James Taylor also guest on the album but their contributions are subtle and restrained. Calling a favourite track is almost impossible since as you listen to each track the last song you heard replaces the previous to become your new favourite.
This is without doubt the finest example of any early 70's singer/songwriter album. This should be in everybodies collection, especially at the price you can buy it for now.
One of the best CDs I own and I own over 500.......2007-06-14
Introspection creates one of the best albums ever.......2007-06-10
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Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (CD / DVD)
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ASIN: B000N3ST8O Release Date: 2007-03-27 |
Tracks:
- Edge Of Seventeen (CD)
- I Can't Wait (CD)
- Sorcerer (CD)
- If Anyone Falls In Love (CD)
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty) (CD)
- Silver Springs (with Fleetwood Mac) (CD)
- Dreams (with Deep Dish) (CD)
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- Rooms On Fire (CD)
- Talk To Me (CD)
- Landslide (Live with The Melbourne Symphony) (CD)
- Stand Back (CD)
- Planets Of The Universe (CD)
- Rock And Roll (Live) (CD)
- Leather And Lace (with Don Henley) (CD)
- Edge Of Seventeen (Live with The Melbourne Symphony) (CD)
Tracks:
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty) (DVD)
- Edge Of Seventeen (DVD)
- Stand Back (Scarlett Version) (DVD)
- Stand Back (DVD)
- If Anyone Falls In Love (DVD)
- Talk To Me (DVD)
- I Can't Wait (DVD)
- Rooms On Fire (DVD)
- Whole Lotta Trouble (DVD)
- Sometimes It's A Bitch (DVD)
- Blue Denim (DVD)
- Every Day (DVD)
- Sorcerer (with Sheryl Crow) (DVD)
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With a career that's seen her soar from struggling journeywoman to superstar via a fateful invitation to join Fleetwoood Mac, the singer who now bills herself as the most successful female artist in rock history looks back on the various facets of her iconography with this 16-track career retrospective and its accompanying DVD. The mystic-folkie ethos that has long been her caricature are well showcased via the cult fave Rumours outtake/B-side "Silver Spring," the muscular Sheryl Crow collaboration "Sorcerer," and a live version of the moody "Rhiannon" that casts it in even longer shadows. Yet Stevie Nicks has always displayed a willingness to push herself beyond her hippie muse, as witnessed by the dense aura of Deep Dish's remix of Mac's "Dreams" and such disparate, pop-savvy solo highlights as "I Can't Wait," "Stand Back," and shrewd, successful duets with Tom Petty ("Stop Draggin' My Heart Around") and Don Henley ("Leather and Lace"). Indeed, bookended by the original version of the hit "Edge of Seventeen" and a live revamping with the Melbourne Symphony that amps its every melodramatic nuance, reinvention often seems the anthology's subtext. The included DVD compiles 13 of Nicks's evocative videos with new commentary by her, as well as an insightful, previously unreleased home video shot during the Bella Donna sessions. --Jerry McCulleyAlbum Description
How beloved is Stevie Nicks? All six of her original solo albums, spanning 1981-2001, plus two "best of" collections,have been certified at least gold. With rock's superstar chanteuse about to go back on the road after guesting on Tom Petty's Highway Companion tour, Crystal Visions... covers her entire solo career for the first time in a CD+DVD package. Featured are several previously unreleased live tracks on the CD, as well as Stevie's voice-over commentary for each video and her artwork on the DVD. Crystal Visions...The Best Of Stevie Nicks is exactly that.Customer Reviews:
don't just rock a little,rock a lot!.......2007-07-31
My Stevie DVD!.......2007-07-30
Still the Best!.......2007-07-17
Although some of the songs have been covered before in the Enchanted Enchanted: The Works of Stevie Nickscollection, the extra features included in this set are well worth the purchas - Including audio from her Melbourne concert in January 2006.
As for the DVD - there is clips and concert footage that I hadnt seen before that I am now very happy to have in my collection.
Great Value for Money.......2007-07-12
Excellent!.......2007-07-05
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Walking in the Air
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ASIN: B000CNF4KG Release Date: 2006-01-10 |
Tracks:
- Walking In The Air
- The Prayer
- Nella Fantasia
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- Vivalidi's 'Rain' (From 'The Four Seasons')
- Going Home
- Panis Angelicus
- Vincent/Starry, Starry Night
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- To Where You Are
- One World
- Sigma
- Winter's Light (From 'Secret Garden')
- Brahm's Lullabye
- Gabriel's Oboe
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Love this CD!.......2007-07-16
Beautiful voice.......2007-07-01
her voice is too thin..........2007-06-21
walking in the air. Her voice is good for this song, but for the rest of the songs, I think her voice is a little too thin, no strong emotion to support it.
Walking in the Air - Chloe Agnew.......2007-06-20
Celtic Woman #1.......2007-06-14
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Naughty, Bawdy and Blue
Maria Muldaur Manufacturer: Stony Plain Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues
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ASIN: B000O591I8 Release Date: 2007-05-15 |
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- Down Home Blues
- Up The Country Blues
- Separation Blues
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find
- Handy Man
- New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
- Smile
- TB Blues
- One Hour Mama
- Empty Bed Blues
- Early Every Morn
- Yonder Come The Blues
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Building on her Grammy-nominated collections of classic women's blues from the '20s through the '40s (Richland Woman Blues, 2001, and Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul, 2005), jazz/blues chanteuse Maria Muldaur returns with Naughty, Bawdy & Blue. It's an apt title for a sassy group of songs originally recorded by Victoria Spivey (one of Muldaur's mentors), Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and other female urban blues stylists the singer describes as "liberated socially, financially, and most of all sexually from the confines and mores of the times." Backed by the perfect fit of James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band, who often performed with Sippie Wallace and whose sound seems to have time-traveled without alteration, Muldaur moves through a dozen vaudeville blues numbers with integrity and authenticity, and never resorts to campy riffs or faux black dialect. Her expressive soprano has taken on a depth and heft through the years, and she's smart to deliver such suggestive lines as "I love the way he whips my cream" (from "Handy Man") or "He's a deep-sea diver with a stroke that can't go wrong" (from Smith's "Empty Bed Blues") with a subtle wink, preferring to let an insinuating trumpet chase home the joke. The album finds its highlight with "Separation Blues," a duet with Bonnie Raitt, who introduced Wallace to new audiences on her tours of the '70s and '80s. Muldaur and Raitt--corduroy and burlap--harmonize with the ease that comes from decades of friendship, and from the joy of preserving and appreciating one of America's purest musical forms. --Alanna NashCustomer Reviews:
Urban Blues w/ Maria in top form.......2007-06-05
The Chicago Jazz Band is one of the best bands I've heard in ages and they work hand in hand with Maria Muldaur. It's a shame this is just a single cd - they have enough material for a double, I'm sure.
I know there is that DRIVE to hit the ultimate cut of a song, but I think a second version of Empty Bed Blues wasn't quite necessary. I keep thinking there were two or three other songs that could have been used. Coming in at just a shade over 45 min. seems like a big tease.
Coming down to it - she's the best blues singer, she gathers the best musicians and arrangers around her. She just oozes sex appeal and she knows just what she's singing about.
Hopefully she's got a Naughty, Bawdy & Blues Pt. 2 up her sleeves.
Excellent Tribute with Awesome Backup.......2007-06-01
Naughty Bawdy & Blue is one of the best. The songs are mostly uptempo with a great backup of trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saloon style piano, etc. It is urban upscale blues of the 1920s and 1930s, a tribute to the great female singers of the era.
The songwriting is terrific. You don't get this kind of smart, bawdy, and often moving type of songwriting today. The Chicago Jazz Band brings an infectious mood to the songs.
In short: This is a really fun album of great songs, singing, and musicianship. I guarantee you will like it. It is one gem after another to the point you are disappointed when the album ends. My favorites: Down Home Blues, Up the Country Blues, Separation Blues (great duet with Bonnie Raitt), New Orleans Hop Scot Blues, TB Blues, One Hour Mama (very funny), and Yonder Come the Blues.
I cannot imagine anyone not liking this album. It makes me want to seek out the original singers and songwriters of these songs, which is exactly what a tribute album should do.
Good stuff.......2007-05-25
PAYING HER DUES , AGAIN.......2007-05-17
If you ever wondered who, if anyone, was going to carry on the tradition of great female blues singers now that the likes of Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Sippy Wallace and Memphis Minnie have long been gone from the scene look no further. As I pointed out in a review of her last album Sweet Lovin' Ol' Soul Maria Muldaur has paid her dues and here she is doing it all over again. This is the third album in series that she started in 2002 to cover the old great blues singers. In the present album she covers the above-mentioned singers and others in a style in which they would surely recognize their style. These are the classic female blues singers of the 1920's and 30's. Maria is in fast company but she does not miss a beat.
Pay particular attention to her rendition of Victoria Spivey's Handy Man and the covers of Sippy Wallace songs. Damn if Maria does not sound like that unfortunately not well known singer (Maria also covered a Wallace classic Don't Advertise Your Man on her last album).
I would also add that I had the pleasure of hearing some of the cuts on this album live in concert by Maria in Cambridge (one of her old stomping grounds in her youthful days with the Kweskin Jug Band back in the sixties) and she can still belt them out. If there is any truth in the assumption that former President Clinton was our first `black' president no one can deny that Maria is our first `black' classic blues singer. And has the stage presence, to boot. The tradition lives. Listen on.
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Love Letters from Ella
Ella Fitzgerald Manufacturer: Concord Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues
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ASIN: B000QUU2HU Release Date: 2007-07-31 |
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- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
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- I've Got the World On a String
- Witchcraft
- My Old Flame
- The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)
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Love Songs
Etta James Manufacturer: Chess ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues
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ASIN: B000056PPZ Release Date: 2001-01-23 |
Tracks:
- At Last
- A Sunday Kind Of Love
- My Dearest Darling
- Trust In Me
- If I Can't Have You
- How Do You Speak To An Angel?
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Again
- I Want To Be Loved (But Only By You)
- Lovin' Arms
- Lovin' You More Every Day
- The Love Of My Man
- It Must Be Your Love
- Never My Love
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She's no stranger to the towering highs and lows of the heart, and Etta James's soaring, gospel-tinged pipes match up well with the rigors of unabashed bliss. Happily, the good people at Chess Records recognize this, and they have thoughtfully collected some of the best examples into one tidy record. Kicking off with her classic treatment of "At Last," the collection moves through the lilting strings of "My Dearest Darling" on into the expressive tones of "I Want to Be Loved (But Only by You)" with grace and emotional candor. James can be simultaneously tender and deeply honest and her ability to express the desperate joy that is the soul of love remains one of life's marvelous pleasures. --Matthew CookeCustomer Reviews:
THE LADY CAN SING.......2007-07-15
New Edge to "Old" Love Songs.......2007-07-07
She's been through many years of problems and heartache, but then, here she still is, with a voice that is even better (if that's possible!) than when she was a sweet young thing performing with Louie Armstrong, Ray Charles, BB King and all the great band leaders and blues singers. She even has a new thin physique!
A couple of the tunes are ones she had in her regular repertoire forty-five years ago and others are contemporary hits from other artists. Each one is "pure Etta." I seem to play this one over and over and over. I can't get enough. I even have it on my computer so I can listen to it when I am doing other work!
This CD is a great example of what the blue are and the influence it can have on all kinds of music. Some of the tunes one will hardly recognize at first. And--the best part of this recording is that you don't have to be in love to enjoy it! (though it wouldn't be bad that way, too)
Etta.......2007-05-30
Gets better each time.......2007-04-02
Love Songs CD.......2007-03-15
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Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday
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ASIN: B00005Q45Y Release Date: 2001-10-02 |
Tracks:
- What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday
- These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday
- I Cried For You - Billie Holiday
- Summertime - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Billie's Blues - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday
- A Fine Romance - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Easy To Love - Billie Holiday
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- I Must Have That Man - Billie Holiday
- Me, Myself And I - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- They Can't Take Away From Me - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Easy Living - Billie Holiday
- A Sailboat In The Moonlight - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Travelin' All Alone - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- When A Woman Loves A Man - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- You Go To My Head - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- My Man - Billie Holiday
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- I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Billie Holiday
- The Very Thought Of You - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- I Can't Get Started - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Long Gone Blues - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Sugar - Billie Holiday
- Some Other Spring - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Them There Eyes - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- The Man I Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Body And Soul - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Swing, Brothers, Swing - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Night And Day - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Let's Do It - Billie Holiday
- God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Solitude - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- I Cover The Waterfront - Billie Holiday
- Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday
- Until The Real Thing Comes Along - Billie Holiday
- All Of Me - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
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Lady Day: The Best Of Billie Holiday is an ideal introduction to the Voice of Jazz in all its enduring glory. This incomparable collection draws on the 10-CD boxed set Lady Day: The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia (1933-1944) (CXK 85470), representing not only her finest work, but American jazz and pop singing at its zenith. Accompanied sublimely by a Who's Who of the Swing Era (including her soulmate Lester Young, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Buck Clayton, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Jo Jones, and pianist-arranger Teddy Wilson, who was often at the helm when Holiday entered the studio), Billie Holiday masterfully renders a host of mostly-classic pop tunes. Fans are drawn to her musical triumphs and personal tragedies. She is a mysterious icon in the same vein as Miles Davis. Columbia possesses the first and finest recordings of her entire career! This material has never sounded clearer and more intimate!Customer Reviews:
Absolutely the best of Billie Holiday.......2007-02-24
Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday.......2007-01-10
The tragedy of a lonely woman!.......2006-11-21
What else might I add for cataloguing this cult artist that it has not been said just before? She is part of the history jazz and her memory will transcend and surmount the next years to come.
Billie's Best - Accept No Substitutes.......2006-06-12
For the best of Billie you need to go back to the glory days, 1933-1944, precisely the time period covered by this reasonably priced and beautifully produced 2-CD set. (If you're a player with money to burn go for the 10-CD comprehensive retrospective, The Complete Billie Holiday on Columbia, 1933-1944.) All the songs providing the foundation of her reputation are here, as well as many pleasant surprises. The booklet, though not lavish, provides photos, background, and a complete list of personnel for each track. This detail is significant because the players on these selections, in addition to being the finest who ever backed Ms. Holiday, were also the absolute elite of their generation, each worthy of individual exploration. (Names like Lester Young, Roy Eldridge, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Teddy Wilson enjoy legendary status.)
Perhaps most amazing is the sound quality, considering the recordings are WWII vintage they're clear and smooth. About Ms. Holiday's personal life, the less said the better. What is remarkable is that, despite her personal troubles, she managed to create a canon of work that is truly timeless, just as sweet and powerful today as it was then. Not only is this the best Billie Holiday anthology available, it makes a formidable addition any jazz collection. (Dig that cover photo, wow!)
A serious and great artist's best work, you need these sides.......2005-03-11
Like others here, I have it all, but I think her work from the 30s and early 1940s from Columbia and its ancestors is not just her greatest works, but among the great works of world musical culture. Everyone with a set of ears should be more or less required to have this music and enjoy it.
Strange Fruit was not recorded for Columbia but for the Indy label Commodore. Thus, you will not find it on this or any of the Columbia collections like this that capture her work in the period BEFORE Strange Fruit. It was recorded in the 1940s, whereas this collection contains work from Billie in the 1930s and perhaps 1940 and 1941. No doubt Sony wishes it had the rights to that side and everything else Commodore recorded, but they don't.
The truth is, Strange Fruit is not one of Billie's Greatest works. There are about 15 tunes on this CD that have better singing, better musicians backing her, and were more important pieces of Billie's work. Strange Fruit is well known to the people who know about Billie as a person, but don't know much about Billie as a Jazz musician. Her recording, while powerful, was not very nuanced, not very jazzy, and not as good as much of the work here. Indeed, the weakness of her mid-1940s Commodore work as opposed to these recordings is that Billie was persuaded to move away from Jazz and swing to attempt to become a cabarat chanteuse of "serious" songs, a move that some also relate to the inception of heroin and the decline of her voice, a move that brought about a decline in her art.
If you want to hear a better version of "Strange Fruit," listen to Josh White's recording which is so much more powerful, if not as well known. I am not downing the song or its politics, far from it, but Billie's Strange Fruit is more important as a political statement than as a work of Jazz art.
One of the greatest things about these records are the many master musicians of swing and jazz that join her on these recordings. Very shortly after she started recording, the greatest names in Jazz would flock to her sessions and play on her recordings for litte because of the innovation and creativity Billie showed as a jazz creator in her own right. These recordings were a chance for them to jam together in loose arrangements and be more innovative and creative than they were with the orchestras they played with.
These masters of Jazz viewed Billie as a serious artist of Jazz. They delighted in her knowledge of the musical aspects of swing jazz which was unique for such a young singer (she was in her twenties when these records were made) and delighted in her ability to sense what they were doing in their accompaniments and solos and to respond to them in her vocals.
Despite the exaggerated picture of her life as a prostitute that was part of the marketing of the 1950's work of ghost-written fiction called "Lady Sings the Blues," that a drug addled Billie claimed was her autobiography, Billie Holiday grew up around Jazz with her father being a big band guitar player who complained Billie hired every NY guitarist but him for these sessions. Billie's mother specialized in boarding Jazz musicians and catering parties for musicians and singers, parties where the young Billie would often help serve the food. So when she met Lester young in 1937 for these sessions, she had already known the man she named 'Prez in 1934 when he boarded with her mother while he was in the Fletcher Henderson band.
These sides contain most of the great collaboration between Lester Young and Billie. They were great musical friends and personal friends until Billie became a heroin addict, at which point Lester didn't much want to be around her.
However, as much as I am a Lester Young man to the death (his framed picture hangs in my home), too little is said of the other musicians who grace these recordings. Billie's collaboration with pianist Teddy Wilson who plays on and directed most of these recordings (many were recorded as Teddy Wilson Orchestra sides)needs to be explored. Likewise, her work with the great bassists and rhythm players on these records needs to be appreciated. My favorite sides are the ones in which she has the benefit of Basieites like her dear friend Freddy Green on guitar and the great Walter Page on bass. Likewise, Billie's musical closeness with the great Buck Clayton and his role on these sides is also underestimated.
Yet, it doesn't matter if Billie had recorded these sides with some high school band members from Winslow, Arizona. This is good music to listen to, good music to smile to, music to fall in love to, and music to dance too. Contrary to the tendency to get maudlin and milk her image as a tragedy that Holiday developed in the 1950s as her life and her musical skill declined , even the songs on these recordings with the sadest lyrics possess a great joy, swing, and spirit of the wonders of Jazz.
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ASIN: B000OCY6VI Release Date: 2007-05-01 |
Tracks:
- A Place In Time (Theme From The 4400) - Bosshouse
- This Is Your Life - Switchfoot
- Falling By The Wayside - People In Planes
- Into The Fire - Thirteen Senses
- Worry About You - Ivy
- How Do You Say Goodbye? - Engineers
- She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5
- Shy Baby - Jacqueline McKenzie
- Do The Buildings And Cops Make You Smile? - Bedroom Walls
- Cheek To Cheek - Billie Holiday
- Salvation - John Van Tongeren
- A Place In Time - The Landau Orchestra
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Relaxing yet satisfying..........2007-07-27
After watching the show, I've gained a new appreciation for the album as well because it contains all the songs from the show's most climactic moments. Both as a soundtrack and a CD it is great.
really good to listen.......2007-07-22
Music on this cd is from all 3 season! Very good are also "Into the Fire", "Worry About You" and "Salvation".
If you like the music in 4400, you should have this cd.
Buy for one song.......2007-07-21
the good songs are very good.......2007-06-26
Fits the Mood of the Show.......2007-06-16
Aye, the opening song (the best cut) is WAY too short: I thought like the Geico theme song, "Remind Me," there was surely a longer version. Still even at just over a minute, it's worth buying. Very moody, but very worth listening to!
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Love Songs
Billie Holiday Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues
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ASIN: B000002ACT Release Date: 1996-03-12 |
Tracks:
- All Of Me
- You Go To My Head
- Until The Real Thing Comes Along
- My Man
- The Very Thought Of You
- Easy Living
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
- Them There Eyes
- Night And Day
- The Man I Love
- Me, Myself And I
- The Way You Look Together
- If You Were Mine
- I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
- Let's Do It
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Culled from the Columbia Records reissue packages, variously released under the multivolume Quintessential Billie Holiday umbrella, this package goes straight for the love songs, the heart of Holiday. Ranging from such playful lyrics as "Let's Do It" and "Them There Eyes" to such essential Holiday as "You Go to My Head," "The Very Thought of You," and "Easy Living," this set is guaranteed to keep the home fires burning brightly. Lay this one on your lover next Valentine's Day. As was so frequently the case with Holiday, the ensemble support is impeccable, including many of the swingers from Columbia's Greatest Hits package. The bonus here is Count Basie on piano, leading his swinging big band on "They Can't Take That Away from Me." --Willard JenkinsCustomer Reviews:
Classic!.......2007-01-11
WOW!!.......2006-11-09
Great Collection of Billie Holiday Songs.......2006-10-06
Oh, Billie! HOW DIVINE !!!.......2006-08-25
The CD begins so beautifully with Billie singing "All Of Me" and continues on into "You Go To My Head" by Gillespie and Coots. As with the rest of the songs on this CD, there is some background surface noise as these recordings by Billie were made in the 1930s and the very early 1940s. Nevertheless, there is a certain romantic style to each recording that leaves the listener wanting more after every track.
There songs on this CD are truly timeless; Billie sings such standards as "You Go To My Head," "The Man I Love," "Let's Do It," "The Way You Look Tonight" and "The Very Thought Of You." Don't play this CD for the first time without having time to relax and enjoy it with a glass of your favorite wine--you'll want to listen to it again after you've played it through because it's that beautiful and special.
The liner notes include an essay by Delfeayo Marsalis, the song credits and the dates Billie recorded them, a beautiful black and white photograph of Billie singing at the microphone on stage and the lyrics to "You Go To My Head" and "Easy Living."
I highly recommend this CD for fans of Billie Holiday, classic vocals and the standards of the entire 20th century. Although it is only one CD, it still is a very good representation of Billie's talent. It makes a great starter CD for people who want to find out more about Billie before they purchase box sets, too. A terrific experience to be enjoyed! SMILE
Fine CD.......2006-04-28
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Songs That Got Us Through WW2, Vol. 2
Various Artists Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic Female Vocal Blues
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ASIN: B0000033BK Release Date: 1994-07-19 |
Tracks:
- Juke Box Saturday Night - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
- Ration Blues - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- There! I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
- Perdido - Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
- Mr. Five By Five - Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
- Lili Marlene (German Version) - Marlene Dietrich
- Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
- Caldonia - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Dinah Shore
- On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers
- Idaho - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- Sweet Slumbe - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
- When My Man Comes Home - Buddy Johnson & His Band
- Mairzy Doats - The Pied Pipers
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) - Billie Holiday
- San Fernando Valley - Roy rogers (King Of The Cowboys)
- It Could Happen To You - Jo Stafford
- Flying Home - Lionel hampton & His Orchestra
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Memories.......2007-07-22
fairly represented that era. My husband and I fully enjoyed this CD
Track titles mixed-up.......2007-06-13
Revies WW@ Vol 2.......2007-03-18
great 40's compilation........2007-03-18
Great Nostalgia.......2007-01-04
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