John Coltrane / John Quartet Coltrane - Ballads Audio CD

Track Listing of songs: How Deep Is The Ocean; The Night Has A Thousand Eyes; You Don'T Know What Love Is; Everybody's Song But My Own; Comes Love; Silence; Month Of May; Close ...

Ballads songs CD LINER NOTES: Multi-talented writer, composer, performer Bruz Fletcher, twice took the difficult journey of riches to rags in his turbulent 34 years. His drama-filled life was a wild and sad story of extremes and incredible plot twists. For a while, Bruz overcame it all and sparkled as he entertained in glamorous nightclubs, delighting his often well-known patrons with quick-witted, sophisticated and risque songs. Living as openly as a gay man could in a very homophobic age, he became a master of gay code and double speak. Fletcher's songs carry one set of meanings to delight heterosexuals and another to titillate gay men. Contemporaries Noel Coward and Cole Porter were careful not to go as far with their lyrics and double entendres, but Bruz Fletcher was more daring, or careless, or a dangerous combination of both. Though he killed himself in 1941, Bruz left behind three albums of wonderful songs that give a ...

Ballads music CDs Track Listing of songs: A Land Flowing With Milk And Honey (Eretz Zavat Halav Udevash); On The Hill There In The Galilee (Alei Givah Sham Ba'galil); Desert Caravan (Orha Ba'midbar); Between The Euphrates And The Tigris (Bein Nahar Prat Unhar Khidekel); On The Hill Of Sheikh Abrik (Al Givot Sheikh Abrik ); Well In The Field (Be'er Basadeh); Drink Herd! (Shtu Ha'adarim); Withdrawing Water (Ushe'avtem Mayim); Ballad Of The Spring And Sea (Ballada Al Maayan Va'yam); You Are Earth In The Desert's Heart (At Adama Be'lev Midbar); Song Of The Valley (Shir Ha'emek); Go ...

Ballads CD music This album was recorded live in Los Angeles in 1948, and finds the great Wardell Gray amidst some of the finest musicians of the time. In the late 1940s, the West Coast jazz scene introduced the big band jazz concert idea to the public. At this time in his short career, Gray was starting his ascent and would achieve lasting fame in tenor sax history. The recorded sound on the album is tinny, given that it was recorded in a hall, and the echo is distracting. However, the compact disc cleaned much ...