To be honest, the king doesn't swing all that hard on this compilation of 18 numbers. It's suave swing, perhaps, often with orchestration, and sometimes so slow and romantic...
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As an introduction to their new "Songbook Series," Capitol has reeled together a sampling of one of the greatest interpreters of the Great American Songbook. On this CD (one...
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Cole is heard on this quintet session purely as a pianist, co-starring with trumpeter Charlie Shavers and tenor saxophonist Herbie Haymer; bassist John Simmons and drummer...
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This LP, which does not duplicate the Vintage Jazz Classics set called The Complete Early Transcriptions, contains the Nat King Cole Trio's earliest studio recordings, four...
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A year after Nat "King" Cole's death, Capitol Records released this "live" album, recorded at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1960. There is a historical...
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Originally released in April 1956, Ballads Of The Day (Capitol 680) was reissued as one-half of Close-Up [Capitol 252] in August 1969; it was reissued on CD in the early...
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For those needing a reminder of Cole's very original and expert piano playing, this 18-track roundup of some of his best instrumentals should fit the bill. Part of Capitol's...
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Cole's collaborations with the Count Basie and Stan Kenton Orchestras (all of which are included on this CD) found him mostly sticking to singing but enjoying the...
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Nat King Cole recorded the definitive version of "The Christmas Song" in 1946, and while this 1960 re-recording is sublime, seek out the original. Although there is a...
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This 20-song single CD gives one an excellent introduction to the very popular singing of Nat King Cole. Concentrating on his hits, it contains virtually all of the biggest,...
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Originally released in August 1958, Cole Espanol (Capitol 1031) was reissued in 1981 (Capitol 16166). It was reissued on CD in August 1991 as Cole Espanol, Vol. 1 (Capitol...
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Every now and then, the endless budget-line repackagings of Nat King Cole's seasonal material yield a refreshing spin on the subject; Christmas Is for Kids is one of those...
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Originally released in 1960, Every Time I Feel The Spirit (Capitol 1249) was reissued in June 1991 (Capitol 96263). ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music...
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Greatest Country Hits is a 12-track budget-priced collection featuring some of Nat King Cole's interpretations of country songs like "Your Cheatin' Heart," "He'll Have to...
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Nat "King" Cole's 16 trio recordings for Decca have been reissued many times (including on this CD), and rightfully so. Cole was already one of the top swing pianists by...
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This CD has many of Cole's most interesting Capitol dates away from his trio. The great jazz pianist is heard with the 1947 Metronome All-Stars, jamming with the all-star...
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For those who cannot afford or get a hold of the magnificent Mosaic 18-CD box set, this single CD offers a fine sampling of Nat King Cole's talents as a pianist and jazz...
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Just One of Those Things is a theme album comparable to one of Frank Sinatra's up-tempo swing albums of the same period (Come Fly With Me, etc.), and employs the same...
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This 1996 gold audiophile CD reissue of a 1956 Nat King Cole vocal set is augmented by three numbers taken from his similar 1963 album Where Did Everyone Go? By the...
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This is a very interesting transitional collection featuring Nat King Cole when he was gradually emphasizing his vocals over his jazz piano playing and phasing out his Trio....
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Released just in time for Valentine's Day 2003, the Capitol compilation Love Songs is a generous collection of romantic ballads sung by Nat King Cole. The compilers have...
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Although it would have been interesting to hear Nat Cole play some piano and perhaps accompany a vocal by George Shearing instead of exclusively the other way around, this...
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For an overview of Nat "King" Cole's years as a remarkably popular singer, this four-CD box would be difficult to top. Containing 100 songs spanning a 20-year period, this...
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Nat King Cole Sings For Two In Love was Nat King Cole's first album to be specifically for the new 12-inch LP format. Like Frank Sinatra, with whom he shared a record...
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Nat King Cole possessed one of the most accessible and appealing voices of any singer in the 1950s. This ballad-oriented set puts the emphasis completely on his voice (there...
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This double CD finds Cole revisiting his earlier hits with new versions. The 36 selections mostly focus on his pop successes of the 1950s, although there are a few wistful...
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The first of five CDs featuring Nat King Cole (all are available as part of a five-CD box set), this release from the budget label Laserlight contains 15 concise...
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The second of five CDs in this series (which are also all available as a five-CD box set) features the Trio on 17 selections from radio transcriptions dating from 1945. The...
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The third of five CDs in this series of radio transcriptions features pianist/singer Nat King Cole, guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller on 17 selections, many of...
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The fourth of five CDs in this series features Nat King Cole's wartime Trio (with guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller) on 14 radio transcriptions. Highlights...
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The fifth of five CDs in this series by the budget label Laserlight differs from the first four in that it spans 16 years in pianist/singer Nat King Cole's career. He is...
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This Dutch release is the third of three albums drawing on television soundtrack recordings from the TV series The Nat King Cole Show of 1956-57. During its first season,...
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Confusingly, Capitol Records, Nat "King" Cole's label from the mid-'40s until his death in 1965, has released several albums titled Unforgettable, starting with a 10" LP...
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The folks at Capitol have been busy little elves when it comes to repackaging Nat "King" Cole's Christmas music. If you're out shopping around the holidays, chances are you...
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After several years of hearing criticism from the jazz press about his decision to break up his trio and become a pop singer, Nat "King" Cole was persuaded to record this...
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This four-CD set contains 112 performances by the Trio from 1938-1941, radio transcriptions made especially to be played on the air. The early trio is instantly recognizable...
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Nat King Cole recorded with arranger/bandleader Billy May on several occasions and all of their collaborations are on this excellent double CD. Dating from 1951, 1953, 1954,...
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This five-CD set, despite the lack of definitive liner notes, is highly recommended. The bulk of this package (most of four discs) features the Trio on radio transcriptions...
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With the exception of a couple of Anita Boyer vocals from 1941, this CD (which contains 30 broadcast transcriptions by Nat King Cole's Trio) dates from 1944. Two numbers...
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Here's a parcel of rarities that chronicle the rise of Nathaniel Adams Cole, from his very first appearances on record as a pianist in his brother's swing sextet through a...
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The albums that Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, and other classic pop singers made in the 1950s usually consisted of standards from the golden era of pop songwriting in the...
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Originally released in October 1960, Wild Is Love (Capitol 1392) was reissued in 1980 (Capitol 16037). It was reissued on CD on January 24, 1995. ~ William Ruhlmann, All...
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Part of a Capitol reissue series called, "Great Ladies And Gentlemen Of Song," and Spotlight On...Nat King Cole is a 18-track compilation that, for once, eschews the...
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The year after he had formally disbanded his trio to turn his attention to vocal pop music, Nat "King" Cole reversed himself and went into the studio with guitarist John...
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Cole's breezy, laid-back style with his original trio was tailor-made for the informality of the V-Disc series, and these 17 performances capture him at his conversational...
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You know your body of work is impressive when even the cut-rate samplers made from your music are gorgeous, classy affairs. Nat "King" Cole was a great performer, and A...
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In 1998, EMI released Sincerely/Beautiful, which contained two complete albums -- Sincerely (1967, originally released on Capitol) and Beautiful -- by smooth crooner Nat...
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The 20-track EMI collection Let's Fall in Love appropriately spends its running time on the love songs of Nat King Cole. Since Cole recorded hundreds of ballads, a bit of...
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The Best of Nat "King" Cole is part of EMI-Capitol Special Markets' Ten Best Series, where they selected ten hits from a popular artist on their roster. For the...
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This Dutch release is the first of three albums drawing on television soundtrack recordings from the TV series The Nat King Cole Show of 1956-57. During its first season,...
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This Dutch release is the second of three albums drawing on television soundtrack recordings from the TV series The Nat King Cole Show of 1956-57. During its first season,...
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EPM's selection of Nat King Cole Trio sides works as fine alternative to popular collections on Capitol and Rhino. Along with many classics like "Sweet Lorraine," "Route...
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The main focus of this collection, which Stardust assembled in 2000, is the lesser-known 1943-1946 recordings of the drumless Nat King Cole Trio, which included Cole on...
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An admirably lengthy collection of holiday favorites from the smoothest of the smooth crooners, Disky's The Christmas Album from Nat King Cole includes great versions (of...
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This entry in the Songbook series of Nat "King" Cole compilations, according to Billy Vera's liner notes, is devoted to tracks "from the Cole canon of lost love songs about...
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Rockin, Boppin and Blues features Nat King Cole's Capitol recordings that were not exclusively focused on the popular romantic music, which often overshadowed the majority...
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This 18-song compilation emphasizes the lyrically happy and positive side of love songs as delivered by Nat King Cole. Songs From the Heart is part of the Capitol songbook...
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On this four-CD set are included the bulk of Nat King Cole's radio transcriptions of 1941 and 1944-45. Although the programming could be a little better (the complete...
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The French Best of Jazz label released this Nat King Cole compilation as a primer to the best jazz recordings Cole was featured on, irrespective of chart position or whether...
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A number of live broadcasts by the Nat King Cole Trio have turned up on European independent labels, but this is the first to appear on Capitol. In spite of the usual...
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This is a double-CD set documenting Nat "King" Cole as a jazz trio leader, before he was recast as an international pop star and song stylist. The trio's instrumentation is...
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This volume of Capitol/EMI's Legends Of The 20th Century profiles Nat King Cole, tracing his work as a jazz pianist and a massively popular singer. Both sides of Cole's...
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In the days when recording artists did not write their own material, it was not unusual for them to record more material than actually fit into record companies' release...
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A year after Nat King Cole's death, Capitol Records released this "live" album, recorded at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas on January 14, 1960. There is historical interest in...
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Pianist/singer Nat King Cole recorded so extensively in the 1940s that putting together a one-disc sampler of his work with his trio must have been a daunting task. The 15...
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If you add up all the songs Nat King Cole placed in the various Billboard singles charts -- including not only the pop and R&B charts, but also the adult contemporary and...
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The title Best of the War Years might lead some people to believe that this 2001 release contains some of the most essential recordings that Nat "King" Cole made for Capitol...
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Wouldn't You Like to Know includes 18 tracks of radio transcriptions by the King Cole Trio recorded circa 1944. Most of the selections appear to be from one set (the...
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Easily the longest of any Capitol single-disc compilation, 2005's The World of Nat King Cole also benefits from a fresh remastering of its material to make it the best...
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This English reissue CD has ten of the Nat King Cole Trio's 16 Decca recordings, plus 16 selections taken from their early days with Capitol. A single-disc sampler that can...
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