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D 10108CD
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A great selection of the 18 essential recordings of France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international star. Edith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, December 19th, 1915 -- October 10th, 1963) was the French singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars. The music of Edith Piaf was often autobiographical and she is specialized in chanson and torch ballads about love, loss, and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (1946), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (1960), "Hymne à l'amour" (1949), "Milord" (1959), "La Foule" (1957), "L'Accordéoniste" (1940), and "Padam, padam..." (1951). Since her death in 1963, several biographies and films have studied her life, including 2007's Academy Award-winning La Vie en rose -- Piaf has become one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.
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D 20023CD
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It is 2020 and the world celebrates Ludwig Van Beethoven's 250th birthday the complete year over. Two CDs with Beethoven's masterworks! Ludwig van Beethoven, born in 1770 and baptized 17th December the same year in Bonn, Germany -- died 26 March 1827 in Vienna, Austria, was composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, he remains one of the most recognized and influential musicians of this period, and is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time.
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D 20027CD
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The latest edition in the Jazz Collector's Edition 2CD-set series presents Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, the American swing dance band formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the swing era and one of the greatest singles charting acts of the 20th century. While he was traveling to entertain US troops in France during the second World War, Miller's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel. Alton Glenn Miller (1904-1944) was the American big-band trombonist, arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best-known big bands. Miller's recordings include "In the Mood", "Moonlight Serenade", "Pennsylvania 6-5000", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "A String of Pearls", "At Last", "(I've Got a Gal In) Kalamazoo", "American Patrol", "Tuxedo Junction", "Elmer's Tune", and "Little Brown Jug". In just four years, Glenn Miller scored 16 number-one records and 69 top ten hits -- more than Elvis Presley (38 top 10s) and the Beatles (33 top 10s) did in their careers.
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D 10017CD
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Porgy & Bess is the opera by the US-American composer George Gershwin, and tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black street-beggar living in the slums of Charleston. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, her drug dealer. Porgy & Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935. It was adapted as a film in 1959. Some of the songs in the opera, such as "Summertime" and "It Ain't Necessarily So", became popular and frequently recorded songs. The Jazzy Side Of Porgy & Bess presents crucial recordings by the biggest names and finest artists in jazz like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Miles Davis & Gil Evans, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, André Previn, Sammy Davis Jr., Bill Potts, Grant Green, and more in an over 72 minutes adventure not to be missed!
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D 50021CD
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Five-CD set presenting 100 masterworks composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Performed by various orchestras, choirs, and soloists from Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria -- with all the details and credits noted in the enclosed six-page leporello booklet. Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 31st (or) 21st March 1685 -- died 28th July 1750) was the German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Art of Fugue, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th century Bach Revival, he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Western art musical canon.
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Five-CD set presenting 100 masterworks composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Performed by various orchestras and choirs from Germany, Hungary, Great Britain, Austria, Bulgaria, Slovakia -- with all the details and credits noted in the enclosed six-page leporello booklet.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born January 27th. 1756 -- died December 5th, 1791), baptized as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was the prolific and influential composer of the classical era. Born in Salzburg (Austria), Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his early death at the age of 35. The circumstances of his death have been much mythologized.
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D 20010CD
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40 top tunes of great artists catching the vibe of the legendary New York venue in Harlem. The Cotton Club was the popular New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923 to 1935), then briefly in midtown Theater District (1935- 1940). The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black People could not initially patronize the Cotton Club, but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era. Features Billie Holiday, Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Bill Evans, Jimmie Lunceford, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Dexter Gordon, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Judy Garland, Oscar Peterson, The Mills Brothers, Earl Hines, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine, Dinah Washington, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Etta James, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, LaVern Baker, Lena Horne, Mel Torme, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt, Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Lucky Millinder, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Donald Byrd, and Freddie Hubbard.
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D 50022CD
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Five-CD set presenting 100 masterworks of the opera, from Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georges Bizet, Jacques Offenbach, Charles Gounod, Bedrich Smetana, Peter Tschaikowsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Richard Wagner, and many more. Performed by various orchestras, conductors, singers, choirs from Germany, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic -- with all the details and credits noted in the enclosed six-page leporello booklet. Also features operas by: Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Gaetano Donizetti, Arrigo Boito, Amilcare Ponchielli, Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Georg Friedrich Händel, Jean Philippe Rameau, Claudio Monteverdi, Henri Purcell, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Luigi Cherubini, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Peter Cornelius, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff, Michail Glinka, Otto Nicolai, Albert Lortzing, Carl Maria Von Weber, Conradin Kreutzer, Franz Schmidt, Friedrich Von Flotow.
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D 20011CD
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Double CD-set in the Jazz Collector edition series! William James "Count" Basie was the US-American musician, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed his own jazz orchestra and led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Despite Basie's death in 1984, the band survived and continued without him. These recordings, live At The Savoy Ballroom New York 1954, feature Thad Jones, Joe Newman, Benny Powell, Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Don Byas, Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Jo Jones, and others.
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D 20012CD
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40 tracks of historical recordings 1950-1958 backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Oscar Peterson Trio, Ellis Larkins, Joe Williams, and Louis Armstrong, with detailed musician credits! Dubbed "The First Lady Of Song", Ella Fitzgerald was the most popular female jazz singer in the USA for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
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32-track double-CD with all big names of country, including Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Freddy Fender, Faron Young, and the ladies of Kitty Wells, Crystal Gayle, Patsy Cline, Lynn Anderson, and more. Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States of America in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies mostly accompanied by string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. According to Lindsey Starnes, the term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working-class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs, and the musical traditions of various groups of European immigrants. Also features Moe Bandy, Exile, Johnny Lee, Pam Tillis, Donna Fargo, Janie Fricke, Juice Newton, Jack Greene, Billie Dean, Merle Haggard, Mark Wills, Doug Stone, T.G. Sheppard, Ferlin Husky, and Lacy J. Dalton.
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D 20009CD
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Known as "The King Of Swing", Benny Goodman learned to play clarinet at age of 10. He played in jazz bands at a young age and went on from sideman to bandleader forming his first band in 1934 and toured the world from then on. He was the catalyst for the swing era, contributing to the development of the "swing" style of jazz, inserted Afro-American Charlie Christian as a member to his sextet turning the electric guitar into a popular jazz instrument, and helped integrate people of color in the USA. He explored bebop and studied classical repertoire. In 1962, his Orchestra toured the Soviet Union (former Russia), after the Cuban missile crisis. He was later honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in jazz with a career spanning five decades (1920s to the 1960s). The career starts with playing in brass bands and on riverboats in New Orleans, learning to read music and being one of the first musician to perform extended trumpet solos, moving to Chicago to play in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, went to New York City to play with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, returning to Chicago to form his own group as Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five. Back in NY, he emerged as a vocalist with his scat singing style, enriched by matchless experience as a trumpet soloist. He kept touring well into his '60s, playing in Africa, Europe, and Asia, got a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Quincy Jones came into prominence in the 1950s, touring as trumpeter and pianist with the bandleader Lionel Hampton, played in Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey's studio band, was trumpeter and musical director for Dizzy Gillespie, and started releasing albums from 1955 onwards. In 1961, he was promoted to vice-president of Mercury Records. He is now one of the most respected and prolific music producers of all-time, and is known for both his own releases, along with the many he has produced for a varied range of recording artists, including Michael Jackson, Dinah Washington, Roland Kirk, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus & Chaka Khan, George Benson.
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John Coltrane was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. His early recordings capture a musician in the relatively conventional confines of bebop and hardbop, but his enduring legacy primarily rests on the modal jazz pioneered by his classic quartet and by free jazz explorations late in his career. Starting out as alto saxophonist, he played since the early 1950s tenor saxophone and from 1960 onward as well the soprano saxophone.
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Miles Davis was the US-American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz. He was part of the so-called bebop revolution, influenced the development of all the various styles of jazz like cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and jazz-rock in a significant way and won nine Grammy awards.
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36 classics and great namedropping on a double-CD set. The stylistic origins of jazz are blues, ragtime, spirituals, folk, marches, classical, music of West Africa, and the cultural origin was in the late 19th century, Southern United States. Typical instruments include piano, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, keyboards, double bass, drums, guitar, vocals. Known subgenres: avant-garde, jazz, bebop, big band, chamber jazz, cool jazz, free jazz, gypsy jazz, hard bop, Latin jazz, mainstream jazz, modal jazz, M-Base, neo-bop, post-bop, progressive jazz, soul jazz, swing, third stream, and traditional jazz. This double-CD collection features: Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Chick Webb, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford, Jimmy Dorsey, Earl Hines, Charlie Barnet, Les Brown, Cab Calloway, Nat King Cole & George Shearing, Louis Prima, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Chris Barber, Dorsey Bros Orch., Humphrey Lyttelton, The Nat King Cole Trio, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, and Miles Davis.
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A very clear recommendation for all music lovers, especially for the fans of the big band sound with full dynamic range. Originally released in 1986, here's the double-LP edition from 2016. Recorded at the legendary Criteria Studio, Miami, Florida with additional recordings and final mix at Arco Studios, Munich. Caterina Valente (born January 14, 1931 in Paris, France) is a French-born, Italian multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best-known as an international performer, Valente also spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues as a "ghost band". 180 gram vinyl, half-speed mastered; Includes lined inner sleeves.
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A great compendium of music on double LP-vinyl which features the self-titled debut album by Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) from 1962 on side one and two, plus 12 extra tracks on side three and four with 12 recordings by other key performers from the new folk movement: Joan Baez (born Joan Chandos Báez), Judy Collins (born Judith Marjorie Collins), who are both still very active today, Bob Gibson (who introduced an unknown Joan Baez at the Newport Folk Festival of 1959), and Dave Van Ronk (nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street, N.Y." and who was considered by many to be music's raconteur, troubadour, and provocateur). It is very much folk music history in the making, and worthy of a place in any discerning music fan's collection.
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