The Carmen McRae Revival is on! 2 CD Deluxe Release. • A NEWLY REMASTERED 2 DISC SET OF STUDIO AND UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS • THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK WITH COMPOSITIONS BY MONK, MERCER, GERSHWIN, RODGERS, HART, CAHN, BILLY JOEL, PAUL WILLIAMS & • DISC 1 FEATURES TRACKS FROM STUDIO SESSIONS IN '78 & '80 WITH BACKING FROM HUBERT LAWS, GROVER WASHINGTON, JR, FREDDIE HUBBARD AND MORE • DISC 2 FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM EUROPE '80, '82 & '89 In a prolific recording career that spanned five decades, Carmen McRae received a National Endowment For The Arts Jazz Fellowship Award for Lifetime achievement and considered a peer of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. 1. Come In From The Rain 2. I Need You In My Life 3. Won'tcha Stay With Me 4. I Won't Last A Day Without You 5. Sweet Alibis 6. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love 7. I'm Coming Home Again 8. Burst In With The Dawn 9. I Need You In My Life 10. Mr. Magic 11. Everything Must Change 12. The Masquerade Is Over 13. I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love 14. Mr. Magic Part 1 15. Mr. Magic Part 2 16. New York State of Mind 17. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Live) 18. Take Five (Live) 19. Body And Soul (Live) 20. My Funny Valentine (Live) 21. Do Nothing Until You Hear From Me (Live) 22. Them There Eyes (Live) 23. Don't Misunderstand (Live) 24. Everything A Good Man Needs (Live) 25. The Masquerade Is Over (Live) 26. 'Round Midnight (Live 27. I Never Felt This Way Before (Live) 28. New York State Of Mind (Live) 29. That Old Black Magic (Live) 30. On Green Dolphin Street (Live) 31. End of A Beautiful Friendship (Live) 32. No More Blues (Live)
Limited Edition 2 CD Set / 32 Performances - Post 1945. "Art Tatum was the greatest soloist in Jazz History, regardless of the instrument." - Leonard Feather. "First you speak of Art Tatum, then take a long deep breath, and you speak of the other pianists." - Dizzy Gillespie. "If you put a piano in a room, just a bare piano. Then you get all the finest jazz pianists in the world and let them play in the presence of Art Tatum. Then let Art Tatum play... everyone there will sound like an amateur." -Teddy Wilson. Art Tatum was among the most extraordinary of all jazz musicians, a pianist with wondrous technique who could not only play ridiculously rapid lines with both hands (his 1933 solo version of "Tiger Rag" sounds as if there were three pianists jamming together) but was harmonically 30 years ahead of his time; all pianists have to deal to a certain extent with Tatum's innovations in order to be taken seriously. Able to play stride, swing, and boogie-woogie with speed and complexity that could only previously be imagined, Tatum's quick reflexes and boundless imagination kept his improvisations filled with fresh (and sometimes futuristic) ideas that put him way ahead of his contemporaries. This collection of post 1945 performances is culled from unreleased studio sessions, Radio & Television appearance and private home recordings.
57 Tracks - 30 Songs Never Before on CD. Including 17 previously unreleased tracks. An outstanding new collection including 22 tracks from the last sessions with Django Reinhardt. Considered the father of modern jazz violinists, Stephane Grappelli 1908 - 1997 was a French violinist who had a long, prolific career spanning into his late 80's, and founded one of the first all-string jazz groups, the Quintette du Hot Club de France. Throughout his career, Grappelli played on hundreds of recordings, including sessions with Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson, Claude Bolling, Jean-Luc Ponty, Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma and Pink Floyd. Grappelli continued performing concerts around the world well into his 80s. On his 85th birthday, he was asked if he was considering retirement. Grappelli replied, "Retirement! There isn't a word that is more painful to my ears. Music keeps me going. It has given me everything. It's my fountain of youth."
