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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'. |
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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. |
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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! |
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Cheryl Cole
Messy Little Raindrops [ Polydor / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] 2010 release, the sophomore album from the Girls Aloud member. As with her debut, 3 Words, the album fuses Pop, R&B and Dance and sees Cole working with a range of new producers including Star smith (Ellie Goulding/Kylie Minogue), Shux (Jay Z) and JR... |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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... |
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Lydia Cole
The Lay of the Land (LP) [ Lydia Cole / 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... |
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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'. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Natalie Cole
Still Unforgettable [ Atco / CD - released 23/Feb/2009 ] |
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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... |
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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. |
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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! |
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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... |
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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. |
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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! |