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Unforgettable $1.95 COLE NATALIE UNFORGETABLE WITH LOVE…… |
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Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes $9.90 Charlie Parker welcomed the opportunity to record standards with a small string ensemble in 1949, and the results are stunning, his liquid alto soaring over the tuneful and only occasionally stiff arrangements. Along the way, he invests tunes like “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” and “Laura” with a unique blend of bluesy realism and mercurial improvisation. The CD adds live versions from a Carnegi… |
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Ella & Louis $9.00 What we have here is the mating of honey and molasses. Or is it the sound of melted butter over gravel? Never mind–sweeter, more joyous music has never been recorded (although the follow-up, Ella and Louis Again, may be even better). You can’t listen to these two without smiling. It’s such an inevitable pairing that you wonder what titanic forces of nature could have kept Ella and Satchmo apart … |