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Purchase Beautiful CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Norah Jones Fall CD (2009)
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 $14.44    
With The Fall, Norah Jones completes the transition away from her smooth cabaret beginnings and toward a mellowly arty, modern singer/songwriter. Jones began this shift on 2007's Not Too Late, an album that gently rejected her tendencies for lulling, tasteful crooning, but The Fall is a stronger, more cohesive work, maintaining an elegantly dreamy state that's faithful to the crooner of Come Away with Me while feeling decidedly less classicist. Some of this could be attributed to Jones' choice of producer, Jacquire King, best-known for his work with Modest Mouse and Kings of Leon, but King hardly pushes Norah in a rock direction; The Fall does bear some mild echoes of Fiona Apple or Aimee Mann in ballad mode, but its arrangements never call attention to themselves, the way that some Jon O'Brien productions do. Instead, the focus is always on Jones' voice and songs, which are once again all originals, sometimes composed in conjunction with collaborators including her longtime colleagues Jesse Harris, Ryan Adams, and Will Sheff of Okkervil River. In addition to King's pedigree, the latter two co-writers suggest a slight indie bent to Jones' direction, which isn't an inaccurate impression -- there's certainly a late-night N.Y.C. vibe to these songs -- but it's easy to overstate the artiness of The ...
| | Carla Bley Carla's Christmas Carols CD (2009)
Beautiful
$13.84 
Carla Bley and Christmas carols? You bet. She loves them and has incorporated them into her live sets for decades now. On CARLA'S CHRISTMAS CAROLS, recorded in ...
| | Nini Rosso Il Silenzio CD (2007) (Import)
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| Ramsey Lewis Love Notes CD (1977)
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| | Ultimate Phyllis Hyman CD (2004) Remastered
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$8.99
Recorded between 1977 & 1995. Includes liner notes by David Nathan.
Out of all the Phyllis Hyman compilations -- of which there were roughly a dozen floating around by early 2004 -- Ultimate Phyllis Hyman is one of the more desirable looks at the singer's career. This works as an abbreviated version of 1996's two-disc The Legacy of Phyllis Hyman, and it focuses on the hits that were most popular, all the while including a handful of album cuts. Since it considers her stints with numerous labels (Buddah, Philadelphia International, Arista, Zoo), it holds an advantage over a number of compilations that rely on a specific ...
| | Harry Connick, Jr Your Songs CD (2009)
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$13.79 
Much like 2001's SONGS I HEARD and 2004's ONLY YOU, 2009's YOUR SONGS finds vocalist/pianist Harry Connick, Jr. coming up with an urbane, passionate set of American popular standards and contemporary pop classics that he both performs and orchestrates. While his previous recordings leaned toward the classicist side--ONLY YOU featured songs of the '50s and '60s--YOUR SONGS features a more eclectic mix of standards and pop songs, with Connick's own lush orchestration lending an overall aesthetic of languid romanticism. To this end, Connick turns Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" into a kind of Herb Alpert-inspired '60s pop nugget and, conversely, the Beatles' 1964 classic "And I Love Her" gets a kind of '70s Latin lounge feel with classical guitar flourishes. However, Connick isn't only concerned with reworking tunes in unexpected ways; on the contrary, longtime fans of Connick's swinging neo-crooner vocals will be pleasantly surprised by his straightforward takes on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Some Enchanted Evening." Similarly engaging are his renditions of such rock-oriented tunes as Elton John's "Your Song," his low-key version of Don McLean's "And I Love You So," and the Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You." Ultimately, YOUR SONG is a classy and feel-good stroll of an album.
Recording information: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; The Music Shed, New Orleans, LA.
Photographer: Palma Kolansky.
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| | Bob Scobey Scobey Story, Vol. 2 CD (1954)
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$12.49
The second of two CDs (both clock in around 35 minutes and are reissues of original LPs) continues the documentation of trumpeter Bob Scobey's earliest performances as a bandleader. With trombonist Jack Buck, clarinetist George Propert, pianist Wally Rose, bassist Dick Lammi and drummer Fred Higuera, Scobey had a hot and enjoyable band. In Clancy Hayes, the trumpeter was fortunate to ...
| | Duke Ellington Ellington Suites CD (1976)
Beautiful
$9.89 
Digitally remastered using 20-bit K2 Super Coding System technology.
In 1959, Duke Ellington played at an arts festival in England and met Queen Elizabeth. So enchanted by Her Majesty was he that upon his return to America, Ellington composed the six-part "Queen's Suite." Ellington recorded one copy and sent it to the Queen, never intending it to be released commercially. The two other suites collected here were similarly composed for specific events rather than as commercial releases, but all three provide fascinating glimpses into the musical maturation of an American compositional giant.
Beginning with the evocative "Sunset and the Mockingbird," inspired by a birdsong Ellington chanced to hear when in England, the suite's other sections also echo sounds and sights of the natural world: the northern lights, lightning bugs and frogs. Ellington wrote "The Goutelas Suite" to commemorate the renovation or a 13th century French chateau. The suite conveys the flurry of activity of the building process in the rousing "Get-With-Itness" and the majesty of the finished product in the shiveringly beautiful "Something." "The UWIS Suite," (shorthand for University of Wisconsin), was ...
| | Oomph Unrein CD (2004) Import
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| | Blue Cheer Hello Tokyo, Bye Bye Osaka CD (1997)
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| | Object 4 CD (2004)
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| | Django Reinhardt Genius Of Improvisation CD (2005) (Import) France
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| | Karaoke: Third Day 3 CD (2005)
$8.09 | | Interstellar: The String Quartet Tribute To Interpol CD (2007)
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$13.29
The Vitamin label's ongoing mission to produce string quartet versions of every band in the universe ...
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