More By Artist: Nat King Cole And His Trio
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Sonny Rollins, The King Sisters,Nat King Cole Trio, Peggy Lee, Annie Ross, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Ben Webster Septet, etc
Duke Ellington Songbook - mood Indigo [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Duke Ellington (1899-1974) brought a level of style and sophistication to Jazz that it hadn't seen before. Although he was a gifted piano player, his orchestra was his principal instrument. Like Jelly Roll Morton before him, he considered himself to... |
Hoagy Carmichael Trio, Nat King Cole, Art Tatum, Dinah Shore, Kay Starr, Zoot Sims, etc
Hoagy Carmichael Songbook - Star Dust [ Jazz Giants Play / CD - released 12/Oct/2005 ] Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing four of the most-recorded American songs of all time: "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", and "The Nearness of You" |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio
Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions, Vol. 1 (1938) [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] "This is a gentleman's music, and one of jazz's most influential trios, Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore, and bassist Wesley Prince, provide a clinic in pure swing...Cole's trio didn't just play together, they were 'silent' together" Audiophilia |
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Nat 'King' Cole Trio
Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions and Early Recordings, Vol. 6 (1941-1943) [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 31/May/2004 ] With the disbanding of the King Cole Trio late in 1951, the group's mainstay Nat embarked in earnest on the solo career already earmarked by the commercial successes of the million-selling US No.1s "Nature Boy" (1948) and "Mona Lisa" (1950). |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio
Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions, Vol. 3 (1939) [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] Even by contemporary standards (there was then a trend for jazzing the classics) the Trio's repertoire is remarkable in its diversity, possibly a reflection of Nat's catholic tastes and early assimilation of many styles -serious and mundane. |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio
Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions, Vol. 5 (1940) [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] The son of a Baptist minister, Nat was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, Alabama, on 17 March 1917 but from 1921 grew up in Chicago. Keenly interested in the piano as a child (his brothers Eddie, Isaac and Freddy also became musicians) he was... |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio & Dreamers
Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions, Vol. 4 (1939-1940) [ Naxos Jazz Legends / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] Between 1938 and 1941 Nat provided the instrumental backings on about 200 broadcast transcription discs issued on the Keystone, MacGregor and Standard labels, many of which remain unpublished. |
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... |
Various Artists incls Noel Coward, Les Paul Trio, Nat King Cole Trio, Ruth Etting, 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. |
Nat 'King' Cole Trio
After Midnight (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] |
