No Description AvailableTrack: 10: Baby Come Back To Me(The Morse Code Of Love),Track: 11: Candy,Track: 12: A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square,Track: 13: Birdland,Track: 14: Java Jive,Track: 15: Route 66,Track: 16: Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone,Track: 1: Boy From New York City,Track: 2: Trickle Trickle,Track: 3: Gloria,Track: 4: Operator,Track: ...
Chicago vocalist Kurt Elling's limber and deep tenor voice is at home in a myriad of idioms, from straight-ahead, Latin, and pop, to poetry, and his wide artistic range is fully reflected in his Concord debut. As in his six previous recordings, his longtime pianist-arranger Laurence Hobgood is at the helm of his trio, with special guests including bassist Christian McBride, Yellowjackets ...
All of the Manhattan Transfer's albums are laden with nostalgia, but few work as well as a time machine as Swing. This disc collects 13 classics from the swing era, from "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" to "Skyliner." All recall the past with the immediacy of a Burma Shave sign would. The Transfer felt the desire to recruit such talents as Ray Brown, Stephane Grappelli, Asleep at the Wheel, Ricky Skaggs, and ...
Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Roberta Gambarini is oneof the most heralded talents of her generation. Following herimpressive debut, Easy to Love, Gambarini finds herself inher ideal environment as a duet partner with the legendarypianist, Hank Jones singing songs which help to definethe jazz cannon.
Some of the Transfer's best records have been themed, such as Brasil and Vocalese. However, their biggest commercial successes have come from albums like Extensions and Mecca for Moderns, recordings that highlighted the genre-hopping versatility of the vocal quartet and yielded big pop hits along with it. This album falls into the latter category. The previous five ...