J. Cole
2014 Forest Hills Drive (LP) [ Interscope / 2 LP - released 5/May/2023 ] The third studio album from rapper J. Cole. The album was named after his childhood home address 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Produced by J. Cole with guest producers Elite, Ron Gilmore, Tray Samuels, DJ Dahl, Illmind, Cardiak, CritCal, Vinylz,... |
J. Cole
The Off Season (Gatefold LP) [ Universal / LP - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The Sixth Studio album from Grammy Award winning recording artist J. Cole. The album was executive produced by Cole, Ibrahim Hamad, and T-Minus. It also featured guest vocals from Morray, 21 Savage, Lil Baby, Bas, and 6lack. It became Cole's first... |
Lydia Cole
Love Will Find a Way [ Lydia Music New Zealand / CD - released 25/May/2009 ] Lydia Cole is a 21-year-old songwriter from the North Shore of Auckland. Her lyrics are born purely of experience, as showcased on her debut EP 'Love Will Find A Way'. |
Nat 'King' Cole
Nat "King" Cole: Four Classic Albums (Sings For Two In Love / Penthouse Serenade / 10th Anniversary Album / Just One Of Those Things) [ Avid Jazz / 2 CD - released 26/Jul/2018 ] AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Nat "King" Cole, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details... |
Artists incls Noel Coward, Les Paul Trio, Nat King Cole Trio, Ruth Etting, Elisabeth Welch, Billy Mayerl & Jessie Matthews:
Elegance: A Musical Journey Through the 30s & 40s [ Past Perfect / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] This album features polished performances from the most elegant artists of the 1930s and 40s, including Noel Coward, Nat King Cole, Fred Astaire and a wonderful Cole Porter medley from Hutch. |
Al Bowly, Marlene Dietrich, Nat King Cole, Vera Lynn, Fred Astaire, George Formby, Dorothy Lamour, Flanagan and Allen, Perry Como, Noel Coward, etc
Perfect Nostalgia [ Past Perfect / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Bask in a comforting warm nostalgic glow. Some wit once quipped "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be". I think when you hear this collection you will disagree. Happy listening! |
J. Cole
Born Sinner (LP) [ Interscope / 2 LP - released 16/Jun/2023 ] The second studio album by rapper and producer J. Cole, released 10 years ago on June 18, 2013. Born Sinner features standout tracks including "Power Trip" with Miguel, "Crooked Smile", "Forbidden Fruit" and "She Knows". The album peaked at... |
J. Cole
Cole World: The Sideline Story [ Interscope / CD - released 29/Sep/2023 ] Cole World: The Sideline Story is the debut studio album by American rapper J. Cole. It was originally released on September 27, 2011. The album is his first studio release, following three successful mixtapes. |
J. Cole
Cole World: The Sideline Story (LP) [ Interscope / 2 LP - released 29/Sep/2023 ] |
Kelly Smith & Billy May, Nat King Cole & George Shearing,, Art Pepper Quintet, Ella Fitzgerald & Nelson Riddle, Lee Konitz, Miles Davis, etc
Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOAN TOWER / WALTER PISTON / JOHN HARBISON
Gershwin: Concerto in F (with works by Tower, Piston & Harbison) Kevin Cole (piano) / National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "From the very opening [Gershwin] with its timpani motto, the piece goes like the wind, not sounding rushed so much as bracingly correct. Miller and pianist Kevin Cole set perfect tempos for the cakewalk passage in the first movement" Fanfare |
Lloyd Cole
Guesswork [ Ear Music / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] Through his work as front man for The Commotions and his solo career, Lloyd Cole has established himself as one of the most articulate and acute songwriters of the post-punk era. Guesswork is a record about the uncertainty of the world as one... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Sacred Treasures of Spain The London Oratory Schola Cantorum / Charles Cole (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Oct/2020 ] Music to illustrate the Golden Age: a selection of motets from sixteenth-century Spain culminating in Alonso Lobo's great funerary ode for Philip II, Versa est in luctum. |
Louis Cole
Quality Over Opinion [ CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Louis Cole is a singer-songwriter and sickeningly talented multi-instrumentalist with a strong DIY aesthetic from Los Angeles, California. He is on a mission to create deep feelings through music and is the figurehead of an LA jazz-adjacent scene... |
Lydia Cole
The Lay of the Land (LP) [ Lydia Cole LP / LP - released 17/Feb/2017 ] Following up from her Silver-Scroll nominated debut long-player, 'Me & the Moon', Lydia Cole releases her sophomore effort 'The Lay of the Land'. Inspired in part by the new surroundings of her new neighbourhood (Kingsland), Lydia's new offering... |
Lydia Cole
Me & Moon [ CRS / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] A powerfully intimate collection of songs about love, loss and hope - Lydia Cole's debut full-length record, 'Me & Moon'. |
GABRIEL FAURE / EMMANUEL CHABRIER / ERIK SATIE / MAURICE RAVEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Naida Cole - Faure, Chabrier, Satie, Ravel Naida Cole (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 5/Dec/1999 ] Naida Margaret Cole is a Canadian-American concert pianist who left a successful career as a recording artist and touring musician in 2007 to pursue medicine, studying at the Warren Alpert Medical School. |
Nat King Cole
The Greatest Hits [ Capitol / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] |
Nat King Cole
Gold (2CD) [ Universal / 2 CD - released 17/Jan/2014 ] |
Nat King Cole & George Shearing
Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Plays [ Capital / CD - released 17/Nov/1987 ] "Nat King Cole Sings - George Shearing Plays" finds two of the greatest musicians and entertainers of the time playing together for the first time ever! With a string choir conducted by Ralph Carmichael. |
Nat King Cole & Orchestra, Johnny Hartman & Erroll Garner, Modern Jazz Quartet, Helen Forrest & Billy May, Dinah Washington, Four Freshman, etc
Harry Warren Songbook - September in the Rain [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Well known Warren hits included, "Lullaby of Broadway", and, "I Only Have Eyes for You". Warren was one of America's most prolific film composers. |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio
After Midnight (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] |
Natalie Cole
Love Songs [ Rhino Records / CD - released 30/Jan/2007 ] The best of Natalie's most stylish and sophisticated romantic songs. Included are the two 'duets' with her father, Nat. |
Natalie Cole
Still Unforgettable [ Atco / CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] |
Natalie Cole
Unforgettable...With Love (LP) [ Universal / 2 LP - released 4/Feb/2022 ] Unforgettable… with Love is legendary singer and songwriter Natalie Cole's biggest album to date. Since its initial release in 1991, it has sold over seven million copies and also won Cole seven GRAMMY Awards. The album features Cole singing several... |
Paula Cole
American Quilt [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 23/Jul/2021 ] Paula Cole has never been afraid of speaking complex truths. With a musical catalogue defined by honest and deeply personal lyrics carried by her powerful, radiant voice, Cole has always had a gift for discerning the underlying humanity in stories... |
Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Keely Smith, NAt King Cole, June Christy, etc
Gershwin: Song Book Collection [ EMI / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] An outstanding anthology presenting many classic vocalists and instrumentalists doing Gershwin selections. The honor roll includes Peggy Lee, Four Freshman, Dinah Shore, Judy Garland, Louis Prima, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Mel Torme and many others |
Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Jane Benson (2), Yul Brynner, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Lorna Dallas, Doris Day, etc
Richard Rodgers - With A Song In My Heart [3 CD set] [ Reader's Digest / 3 CD Box Set - released 17/Jun/2013 ] Reader's Digest have the rights to the vast Sony (CBS) and RCA catalogues. This set contains classic recordings of musical standards by top artists of the 1960s. |
Ben Webster Quartet, Jimmy Giuffre, Nat King Cole Trio, Lena Horne, Nancy Wilson, Frank Sinatra, Gerry Mulligan Orchestra, etc
Harold Arlen Songbook - Over The Rainbow [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] New York-born Harold Arlen (1905-1986) wrote some of the biggest hits from the 1930s and 1940s, including the entire score to the classic movie "The Wizard of Oz" and was without doubt one of the greatest of all the American popular composers and... |
MICHAEL WILLIAMS / ALAN RIACH
The Prodigal Child - A Chamber Opera Stephanie Acraman / Joanne Cole-Rosser / Paul Whelan / Ogen Plus [ Atoll Records New Zealand / CD - released 1/Sep/2006 ] Michael Williams' chamber opera in three scenes to a libretto by Alan Riach explores three souls in crisis - the setting is New Zealand but the story is universal. |
Various artists incls Frank Sinatra, Chick Henderson, Al Bowlly, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, etc
Wartime Heart-throbs [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 22/Feb/2000 ] This 24-track CD features crooners from World War II era, including Frank Sinatra, Chick Henderson, Dick Todd, Bing Crosby, Al Bowlly, Tony Martin, Vaughn Monroe, Dick Haymes, Hutch, Nat "King" Cole, Perry Como, Bing Crosby and more! |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Fandango - Best Of Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi / Stephen Isserlis (cello) / Maggie Cole (harpsichord) / Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra [ Erato Classics / CD - released 21/May/2012 ] The very best of Boccherini includes the famous minuet and the 'castanets' quintet |
Chubby Checker, Joey Dee & The Starliters, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, Linda Hopkins, Clay Cole, Danny Peppermint & the Jumping Jacks, etc
Let's Dance: Four Classics Albums From The Twist Era [ Avid / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Still active today and still no doubt twistin' the night away at 81 years of age, Chubby Checker is probably as synonymous with dance as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire, probably more so to a certain generation of teens! This quote taken from the liner... |
PALESTRINA / BRUCKNER / MENDELSSOHN / VICTORIA / FAURE / DURUFLE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mysteries Beyond - songs and chants in the praise of Mary Kathleen Bride (soprano), Mark Krucez (organ), Vinson Cole (tenor), Patrick Stephens (piano) / Voices Of Ascension, Dennis Keene [ Delos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra, founded and directed by conductor Dennis Keene, is one of the world's premier professional choral ensembles. |
Lloyd Cole
Broken Record (Limited Edition 180 Gram Vinyl) [ Tapete Records / LP - released 4/Oct/2010 ] This is a limited edition LP record of the 'Broken Record' album by Lloyd Cole - on 180 Gram VINYL. You will need a good ol' record player to listen to it! |
Steve Cole
Smoke and Mirrors [ Artistry / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] With an unusual amount of time on his hands during a year of lockdown, saxophonist/composer Steve Cole found himself pondering the difference between our authentic selves and the illusions we project to others. On his new album, Smoke and Mirrors,... |
Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, & Bing Crosby
Christmas with Frank, Nat & Bing [ Big 3 / CD - released 8/Sep/2017 ] Christmas With Frank, Nat & Bing One disc each showcasing the vocal talents of 3 of the greatest singers of all time, each with their own characteristics, but all possessed with immaculate interpretation and delivery. Most Christmas favourites are... |
J. Cole
2014 Forest Hills Drive [ Interscope / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] The third studio album from rapper J. Cole. The album was named after his childhood home address 2014 Forest Hills Drive. Produced by J. Cole with guest producers Elite, Ron Gilmore, Tray Samuels, DJ Dahl, Illmind, Cardiak, CritCal, Vinylz,... |
J. Cole
Born Sinner (Deluxe Edition) [ Interscope / 2 CD - released 16/Jun/2023 ] The second studio album by rapper and producer J. Cole, released 10 years ago on June 18, 2013. Born Sinner features standout tracks including "Power Trip" with Miguel, "Crooked Smile", "Forbidden Fruit" and "She Knows". The album peaked at... |