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Nat 'King' Cole
L-O-V-E The Complete Capitol Recordings 1960-1964 [ Bear Family Records / 12 CD/Book - released 2/Apr/2007 ] Nat King Cole (1919-1965) was the most popular male singer of his generation, and, along with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one of the four best known male vocalists of all time. Making Cole's story all the more remarkable, he began... |
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Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole - 20 Golden Greats [ EMI Music / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] 20 unforgettable songs from one of the worlds most gifted and influential artists. |
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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... |
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Nat King Cole
Gold (2CD) [ Universal / 2 CD - released 17/Jan/2014 ] |
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Nat King Cole
Penthouse Serenade / The Piano Style of Nat King Cole [ Collector's Choice / CD ] |
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Nat King Cole
Seriously Smooth [ Primo / 2 CD - released 23/Nov/2009 ] |
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Nat King Cole
Sings For Two In Love/Sings Ballads Of The Day [ CD - released 30/Jul/2008 ] |
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Nat King Cole
Sweet Lorraine / Nature Boy [ Le Chant du Monde / 2 CD - released 29/Apr/2016 ] |
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Nat 'King' Cole
Transcriptions Vol.2 1939 [ Naxos Nostalgia / CD - released 18/Jun/2001 ] |
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Nat 'King' Cole
The Very Thought Of You [ Not Now / 2 CD - released 24/May/2010 ] |
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Nat 'King' Cole Trio
After Midnight (LP) [ Wax Time / LP - released 14/Jan/2022 ] |
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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). |
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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. |
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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... |
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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. |
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BACH
Alto Arias Catherine King / Norwegian Baroque Orchestra [ Linn / CD - released 20/May/2016 ] Catherine King and the NBO perform a fascinating collection of arias by J.S. Bach, framed within the movements of his B minor orchestral suite, to create an unusual and attractive Baroque song cycle. Comprising some of Bach's most beautiful works... |
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GARDEN OF EARLY DELIGHTS
Garden of Early Delights: music from the renaissance and early baroque periods Pamela Thorby (recorder) Andrew Lawrence-King (harp, psaltery) [ Linn ECHO / CD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] "Whether on soprano, alto or tenor recorder, Pamela Thorby's tone has a limpid clarity which gives a crisp filigree-like quality to even the most fast and furious figurations...This crystalline sound is equally successful in conveying the melancholy... |
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MAURICE DURUFLE
Durufle: Requiem / Messe Cum Jubilo / Quatre Motets Patricia Bardon (contralto), Ashley Riches (baritone) / The Choir of King's College Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Cleobur [ King' College Live / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] For this new recording the choir are reunited with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to perform Maurice Duruflé's 1947 'Requiem', in the composer's own version for soprano, choir, organ and small orchestra. The album is completed with the... |
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Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys
Western Swing Get Together [ Jasmine / CD - released 1/Jun/2001 ] Although Pee Wee King remained leader of a very popular Western Swing band well into the 1950s, eventually the Rock 'N' Roll craze spelt the end for his kind of music. At the end of the 1950s, he broke up his band but continued to tour... |