Dedicated to You


Dedicated to You by 101 DISTRIBUTION

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This 2011 two CD collection follows on from the very successful Billy Eckstine & Sarah Vaughan - Passing Strangers. This explains the absence of their biggest duet together as this collection is meant to compliment not duplicate the previous release. Sarah Vaughan was up there with the female jazz greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, Billy Eckstine's smooth baritone voice was to influence the looming soul and R&B artist to come. We bring them together again... more solo's from each of them and more in harmony duets, demonstrating once more just why they were two of the finest. Read more...

Golden Hits


Golden Hits by Polygram Records

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Irving Berlin Songbook


Irving Berlin Songbook by Verve

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Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook


Night and Day: The Cole Porter Songbook by Verve / Polygram

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Cole Porter's songs have a unique charm. Whether conveying the bantering, urbane wit of "I Get a Kick out of You" or the affecting depths of sentiment in "Every Time We Say Goodbye," his lyrics are matched to his melodies with a conversational ease. No matter how hard Porter might have worked at those effects, his efforts are invisible. That seeming nonchalance is conveyed magnificently here by a complement of wonderful singers, including Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, and Shirley Horn. Drawn largely from Verve's immense store of 1950s and 1960s recordings, the CD presents some ideal matches of singer and song, from the rhythmic vitality of Louis Armstrong's "Let's Do It" to the glorious depths of Billy Eckstine's "In the Still of the Night." --Stuart Broomer Read more...

Pippi Meets Irv Williams: PipJazz at Landmark Center, October 9th
Jazz Police (blog) - Oct 05, 2011

Here at home, Williams has played at every jazz venue, past and present, including the old Flame Bar where he was often back to back with such stars as Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie, and Johnny Hodges. The first jazz musician to have his own “Irv


Jazz breaking news: Hugh Masekela, Mari Boine And Asere For Musicport
Jazzwise magazine - Oct 17, 9839

against injustice globally, was given Louis Armstrong's old trumpet and later when Masekela arrived in New York, soon met some of his jazz heroes not only Armstrong but Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.


Savannah Native is headline performer for Hinesville Blues & BBQ
Savannah Morning News - Sep 22, 2011

“When I was 9, my dad gave me a guitar and I would spend hours in my room listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King, I copied every note, then worked to develop my own style.” Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top said of Robinson, “I have seen a lot of guitar


Kritiker-Liebling und Super-Mutti Nailah Porter kommt nach Deutschland
JazzEcho - Oct 17, 2536

LA Weekly schwärmte von der „rauen, aber seidigen Mischung aus Sarah Vaughan und Cassandra Wilson“ und die Jazz Times von ihrer „Traumstimme mit Persönlichkeit“. Im Chor der Porter-Fans waren auch Prominente wie DJ Gilles Peterson („Stimme des Jahres“)


Less “Serene,” More “Renegade” -- Rene Marie Returns to the Dakota, July 12th

09.07.11

Where she made the gutsy decision to sing the White South anthem “Dixie” with the Billie Holiday signature tune, “Strange Fruit”—or maybe that is not so strange given Rene Marie’s tendency to fuse powerful emotions into new ideas. And maybe that was just a preview of her highly controversial performance in Denver, not long before the National Democratic Convention of 2008, when instead of singing the usual Star Spangled Banner as expected, she chose instead to sing what has become known as the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.

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VA - Music for Cocktails Vol.4 (2005) Filesonic, Hotfile ...

by valechek82

The fourth volume of this successful series is surprising yet re-assuring. At first glance the tracks look like stand alones but after having listened to it you can really feel the excitement and the tension that has been build up. All tracks are carefully selected and placed with great precision. There is no room for coincidence. Only the very best is good enough… It's a profound selection of first class pop, lounge, house and jazz tracks. Artists included vary from Moloko to Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn and from nu soul star Bilal to Heather...

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