Complete Cole Porter Songbooks (1993) ( )

Product Summary Label: Uni/verve UPC: 00731451982828 Release Date: 10/19/1993 Buy.com Sku: 60211832 Item#: M32HF9 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I've Got You Under My Skin - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 2. Love For Sale - Shirley Horn ~ Various Artists 3. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists 4. Anything Goes - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists 5. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Mel Torm? ~ Various Artists 6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Helen Merrill ~ Various Artists 7. At Long Last Love - Bill Henderson ~ Various Artists 8. I Love You - Anita O'Day ~ Various Artists 9. Just One Of Those Things - Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists 10. It's Delovely - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists 11. Always True To You In My Fashion - Blossom Dearie ~ Various Artists 12. I Concentrate On You - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists 13. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 14. In The Still Of The Night - Billy Eckstine ~ Various Artists 15. Easy To Love - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 16. Night And Day - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists 17. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye - Betty Carter ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. I Get A Kick Out Of You - Louis Armstrong ~ Various Artists 2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Anita O'Day ~ Various Artists 3. I've Got You Under My Skin - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists 4. After You, Who? - Helen Merrill ~ Various Artists 5. So In Love - Dinah Washington ~ Various Artists 6. Too Darn Hot - Mel Torm? ~ Various Artists 7. Just One Of Those Things - Sarah Vaughan ~ Various Artists 8. Get Out Of Town - Shirley Horn ~ Various Artists 9. Love For Sale - Billie Holiday ~ Various Artists 10. From This Moment On - Anita O'Day ~ Various Artists 11. Night And Day - Fred Astaire ~ Various Artists 12. Give Him The Ooh-la-la - Blossom Dearie ~ Various Artists 13. Everything I Love - Morgana King ~ Various Artists 14. Miss Otis Regrets - Ella Fitzgerald ~ Various Artists (P) 1990 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 1990 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info The discs composing this set are also available separately: NIGHT AND DAY: THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK (Verve 847 202), I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU: THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK VOLUME 2 (Verve 511 070), and ANYTHING GOES - THE COLE PORTER SONGBOOK INSTRUMENTALS (Verve 517 168). This is not and cannot be the Complete Cole Porter Songbooks, but it's a marvelous collection of 48 timeless jazz interpretations drawn from the Verve catalog. Recorded between 1951 and 1988, these standards, ballads and show tunes are rendered by some 15 vocalists, many of whom appear twice, and about 13 instrumental groups. In addition to the usual suspects (Ella, Louis, Sarah, Dinah, and Lady Day) there are fine performances by Abbey Lincoln, Anita O'Day, Billy Eckstine, Mel Torm?, Blossom Dearie, Shirley Horn, Betty Carter, Helen Merrill, Morgana King and Fred Astaire. The instrumentalists -- and this is most fulfilling because Cole Porter's music is an essential strand in the DNA of swing, bop, and mainstream jazz -- include Ben Webster, Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Stan Getz, Al Cohn, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Bud Powell, Bill Evans, Tal Farlow, and Jim Hall. That makes this a portable jazz library of considerable potency, pungency and depth. Also quite valuable as a tool for learning and appreciating some of Porter's very best songs. First prize for both artistic magnitude and friendly intimacy goes to Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson for their fabulously relaxed, nearly nine-minute rendition of "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." ~ arwulf arwulf   Technical Info Release Date : 10/19/1993 Original Release Date : 1993 Catalog ID : 519 828 Label : Verve (USA) Number of Discs : 3 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Mixed SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00731451982828    Product Image