Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire - Together

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:39
Size: 143,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Roxie
(3:20)  2. Top Billing
(3:35)  3. How Lucky Can You Get?
(4:05)  4. Spring Spring Spring
(3:12)  5. It's Easy To Remember
(2:55)  6. Change Partners
(5:09)  7. Pick Yourself Up
(2:51)  8. Mr Keyboard Man
(3:26)  9. I've A Shooting Box In Scotland
(3:28) 10. In The Cool Cool Cool Of The Evening
(3:49) 11. Bon Vivant
(2:50) 12. Sing
(3:50) 13. Dance In The The Old Fashioned Way
(3:00) 14. I Love To Dance Like They Used To Dance
(2:58) 15. A Couple Of Song And Dance Men
(2:39) 16. That's Entertainment (The Band Wagon)
(1:51) 17. Top Billing (Reprise)
(3:40) 18. Session Sound Bites - Bloopers With Bing & Fred

Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. What a Team! Crosby the Archetypal Crooner and Legendary Hitmaker who Had Worked with Everyone from Bix Beiderbecke to David Bowie and Astaire the Quintessential Dancer who Introduced More Classic Songs to the Popular Catalogue Than Crosby and Sinatra Combined. This Collection is a Reissue of the Original 1975 Album "How Lucky Can You Get!" and features Bonus Tracks. Sleeve Notes Written by Ken Barnes, the Producer of the Original Record. ~ Editorial Reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Together-Bing-Crosby/dp/B000E9X6WG

Together

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Helen O'Connell - Here's Helen

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1959
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:27
Size: 73,6 MB
Art: Front

(1:59)  1. Who Cares
(2:36)  2. I Can't Believe That You're In
(2:26)  3. Bye Bye Blues
(3:43)  4. Blue And Broken Hearted
(2:25)  5. Saturday Night (Is The Lonelie
(2:27)  6. You Took Advantage Of Me
(1:48)  7. I've Got A Feelin' You're Fool
(3:51)  8. You Showed Me The Way
(1:45)  9. Just You Just Me
(3:23) 10. I Cried For You
(2:36) 11. Miss You
(2:23) 12. Please Don't Talk About Me Whe

Helen O'Connell, who had a fairly long career, will always be best remembered for her squeals on "Green Eyes" and her work with Jimmy Dorsey. She originally left her native Toledo with Jimmy Richards' nine-piece group, gigging and touring for a year and a half. O'Connell appeared on a regular radio show in St. Louis until she agreed to tour with Larry Funk's band (which was billed as "Band of a Thousand Melodies"). After the outfit started working in New York, she was discovered and quickly signed up by Jimmy Dorsey in 1938. O'Connell soon had a hit rendition of "All of Me," which was followed by popular recordings of "Embraceable You," "Brazil," "Jim." and "When the Sun Comes Out" (which she introduced). However, it was in December 1940, when she started sharing recordings with ballad singer Bob Eberly, that O'Connell for a time became a household name. Eberly generally took a slow chorus, Jimmy Dorsey would have a brief instrumental interlude, and then O'Connell would finish up the record with a swinging chorus. This combination worked very well on hit versions of "Amapola," "Yours," "Green Eyes" and "Tangerine." After appearing in the 1943 movie I Dood It with Dorsey (singing "Star Eyes"), O'Connell retired to get married; she would eventually have four daughters. In 1950 she began a successful solo career, making occasional records, appearing regularly on television (she spent a period as co-host of The Today Show), toured as part of Four Girls Four (which also included Kay Starr, Rosemary Clooney and Rose Marie) and made guest appearances with the Jimmy Dorsey ghost band, singing in an unchanged style. Although her voice was limited, she made her deficiencies into assets and carved out her own place in musical history. Helen O'Connell was active up until shortly before her death from cancer. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/helen-oconnell-mn0000954646/biography

Here's Helen

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Earl Coleman - Earl Coleman Returns

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1956
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:16
Size: 135,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:42)  1. Say It Isn't So
(5:53)  2. Reminiscing
(6:31)  3. Social Call
(5:23)  4. It's You Or No One
(4:17)  5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(5:24)  6. No Love, No Nothin'
(2:46)  7. This Is Always (bonus track)
(2:52)  8. My Last Affair (bonus track)
(3:42)  9. Ghost Of A Chance (bonus track)
(3:38) 10. I Haven't Changed A Thing (bonus track)
(4:23) 11. My Ideal (bonus track)
(7:38) 12. Two Different Worlds (bonus track)

Singer Earl Coleman, who had an early hit with "This Is Always" (cut with Charlie Parker in 1947), had a rather sporadic recording career. The music reissued on this CD (which adds four bonus cuts to the original Prestige LP) was, with the exception of a couple selections on Sonny Rollins and Elmo Hope albums, the singer's only recordings during 1949-1966 and (other than an obscure Atlantic album) his only sessions from 1949-1976. Coleman, who had a deep baritone voice influenced by Billy Eckstine, clearly deserved better. Although not an improviser, Coleman could swing, as he shows on these performances with the assistance of such fine players as trumpeter Art Farmer, altoist Gigi Gryce, and pianist Hank Jones; highlights include "It's You or No One," "Social Call," and a remake of "This Is Always." ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/earl-coleman-returns-mw0000664310

Personnel: Earl Coleman (vocals); Gigi Gryce (alto saxophone); Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone); Gene Easton, Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Nate Woodyard, Art Farmer (trumpet); Henderson Chambers, Ed Moore (trombone); John Houston, Hank Jones , Lawrence Wheatly (piano); George Brown , Shadow Wilson, Wilbert G.T. Hogan (drums).

Earl Coleman Returns

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Chris Minh Doky - Minh

Styles: Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:25
Size: 120,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:29)  1. I Told You So
(4:09)  2. Every Breath You Take
(0:12)  3. Welcome
(2:49)  4. Waiting On You (jungle vibe)
(5:06)  5. Sleepless Dream
(0:04)  6. Chhaya
(5:39)  7. Lean On Me
(4:56)  8. I Just Wanna Stop
(4:52)  9. A New Day
(0:09) 10. Ken & Mai
(5:39) 11. It Once Was
(3:44) 12. Mardi Chez Lionel
(0:28) 13. Messages
(5:42) 14. Home Sweet Home
(0:19) 15. New York City
(5:02) 16. Dont Get Funny With My Money

One can call Chris Min Doky an international musician. Born in Denmark as the son of a Danish pop singer and a Vietnamese guitarist he got his talent on a natural way. In 1989 at age 18 he moved to New York, where he soon had the opportunity to start his career as bassist and to record his debut album Appreciation followed by The Sequel (1990) and Letters (1991) on Storyville Records. His specialty was mixing jazz and rock. Signed by Blue Note Records he released Doky Brothers (1995), Doky Brothers 2 (1996), with his elder brother, the jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky, and Minh (1998). Chris comments about Minh: "I wanted to do something totally different than what I had been doing with Doky Brothers. I was ready to do something more funky, more edgy, less polite. 

I wanted to record an album that told the story of who, and where, I was at the time. What better way to do that, than invite all your friends an have a party?" Guest musicians on Minh are the Brecker Brothers, David Sanborn, Mike Stern, Lenny White and many more celebrities.  Minh offers a great variety of styles from jazz to Pop and R&B. Fusion jazz on I Told You So and Waiting On You is searching the musical borders of all musicians. You find delighting songs like Every Breath You Take and Lean On Me interpreted by Lalah Hathaway. In spite of the fact that merging of fusion jazz and R&B on the same album is a risky endeavor Chris finds the right balance between the genres. This album was released in 1998, a time when smooth jazz in USA had its first ascendancy. http://www.smooth-jazz.de/starportrait/Doky/Retrospective.htm

Personnel:  Chris Minh Doky (Bass);  Michael Brecker (Tenor Saxophone);   David Sanborn (Alto Saxophone);  Randy Brecker (Trumpet);  Ricky Peterson, Joey Calderazzo, Chris Parks, Larry Goldings, Lasse Janson, Jim Beard (keyboards, Piano);  Paul Peterson, Louis Winsberg, Chris Parks,Joe Caro, Mike Stern, David Gilmore, Hiram Bullock (Guitars);  Michael Bland, Paul Peterson, Lenny White, Adam Nussbaum, Alex Riel (Drums);  Dianne Reeves, Vivian Sessoms, Lalah Hathaway,Randy Brecker (Lead Vocals);  Kayoko Suzuki Lange (Voice)

Minh

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