Sade’s brand of elegant pop/R&B owned the charts in the ’80s, making the Nigerian/British chanteuse one of those artists whose very name becomes the adjective to describe their sound. After an eight-year layoff, Sade and her core band (and longtime producer Mike Pela) are back with a CD that is both a stunning reaffirmation of [...]
Culled from the Columbia Records reissue packages, variously released under the multivolume Quintessential Billie Holiday umbrella, this package goes straight for the love songs, the heart of Holiday. Ranging from such playful lyrics as “Let’s Do It” and “Them There Eyes” to such essential Holiday as “You Go to My Head,” “The Very Thought of [...]
Includes 28 page Booklet Photos and Lyrics …CD 1: 1.Yesterday . 2.I’ll Follow The Sun . 3.I Need You (Harrison) . 4.Girl . 5.In My Life . 6.Words Of Love (Holly) . 7.Here, There, And Everywhere . 8.Something (Harrison) . 9.And I Love Her . 10.If I Fell . 11.I’ll Be Back . 12.Tell Me [...]
One of contemporary music’s premiere vocalists, Al Jarreau is the only singer ever to win GRAMMY® Awards in three distinct genre categories-R&B, pop, and jazz-a testament to his remarkable and enduring cross-over appeal. Jarreau’s most recent GRAMMY came at the 2007 ceremony, when he was honored with Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. With many of [...]
Composer: Georges Bizet, Francesco Cilea, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Charles Gounod, et al. Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Giuseppe Patane, Henry Lewis, Herbert von Karajan, Lamberto Gardelli, et al. View product details at Amazon
An intoxicating collection of Andre Riu’s most romantic music ever recorded. View product details at Amazon
The late Metropolitan Opera star Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, partnered by the brilliant young tenor Joseph Kaiser, and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, gave a concert of Spanish Love Songs in 2004. Their memorable and wide-ranging New York Festival of Song program includes Spanish and Spanish-related songs by Granados, Turina, Ravel, Schumann, Wolf, Sondheim and [...]
Marvin Gaye’s Vulnerable is the work of a genius adrift–a lavishly arranged, never-completed album of standards about unrequited love that the great singer tinkered with from 1967 to 1979, finessing his vocals and overdubbing them into a fine, layered mesh. (It was finally issued a few years ago.) Love Songs: Bedroom Ballads is a peculiar [...]
A Classic Album Packed with the Biggest Stars of Nostalgia Singing the All-time Finest Love Songs. View product details at Amazon
