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I'll start: Sinatra-Basie #1
Sinatra in great warm voice, very enthusiastic.
Basie band, great as always, with some wonderful solos.
Quincy Jones brilliant, beautiful arrangements.
Excellent Reprise recording.
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I was raised on the 40's crooners...My Mother was from the Big Band Era...She use to sing on the local radio with her sisters...Andrew Sister's like...
We had this music playing through our home endlessly...I remember sitting around the TV when this concert was played live from the Garden...The Howard Cosell intro is just a classic...
In 1991 the Super Bowl was in the Twin Cities and Sinatra was on the 75th Birthday Jubilee Tour. I bought my whole family tickets for Christmas. My Mother was my date and we got dressed to the nine's...Suit, Fedora, Cane, White silk scarf...Mom had her mink coat and dripping in jewels...we had a blast...he played two of our favorite songs back to back...Summer Wind and the Best is Yet to Come...we were a couple of giddy teenagers...
I have never really ever bought concert T-shirts, but I bought this one...and still wear it...
Thanks
Mark
When I was 23, it was a very good year.
:)
I have close to 2 dozen Sinatra albums, pressings are so so quality, sad, considering the A+ performance.
....
I concur-
let's suggest (1) studio album and (1) live album.
One of my favorite Sinatra albums is " SINATRA-A MAN AND HIS MUSIC".
It gives a nice taste of everything pre '65.
nt
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
couldn't a good number of classical pieces be considered as having concepts behind a gathering of pieces?
Another might be Debussy's Clar de Lune/Arabesque/Prelude Afternoon of a Faun ( a stretch I know)
or The Four Seasons - Antonio Vivaldi.
Yeah, The Four Seasons. Excellent call.
:)
The first concept "album" was Woodie Guthrie's two albums of 78 rpms Ballads from the Dust Bowl (aka Dust Bowl Ballads).
Originally released in 1940, in two three-78rpm-disc albums totaling 12 songs, all of them about the travails of migrant farmworkers--"Dust Pneumonia Blues" is a typical title.
So, those two albums of 78rpms would have been about the outer limit of the running time of a 1950s 12-inch LP.
While it is possible that Sinatra and producer Voyle Gilmore were unaware of Dust Bowl Ballads, I rather doubt it. Guthrie was very media-savvy and his record label was Victor, not some undercapitalized mom & pop.
I am not claiming that either Sinatra or Voyle Gilmore sat down and listened to the whole thing through to study how Guthrie's songs fit together, but I am saying that it would have been bizarre for them not to be aware of Guthrie's concept album, which I believe was remastered and reissued as an LP on Folkways in 1950.
Wee Small Hours came out in 1955.
JM
Nah. The first "concept album", although they didn't have a recording system back then - it had to be performed live, was Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures At An Exhibition" in 1874.:)
Edits: 04/09/15
Thanks for that information, at least we now know that Sargent Pepper was not the first concept album.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
... All of them.
I think whatever is currently playing sounds better than any of the others which are not playing.
I'm currently listening to Frank Sinatra New York New York: His Greatest Hits streamed into the kitchen as I'm about to cook two 500g fillets fillets of coral trout with a large tossed salad using real veggies.
I like all Sinatra's work and can't choose a best, my musical preferences change by the hour, just how I like it.
Smile
Sox
With some Cloudy Bay sauv blanc? :-))
Regards from south of the border,
Andy
There are artificial veggies?
-RW-
albeit not in April... although we did have some fried taters tonight that were made with home-grown taters from the root cellar.
all the best,
mrh
... Real veggies are home grown and freshly harvested or at least freshly harvested if not home grown.
Veggies which have been harvested well before optimum and stored in cold rooms for weeks on end, such as what you find in most supermarkets, are a very poor equivalent to real veggies picked just hours before consumption.
YMMV.
d:o)
Smile
Sox
You CANNOT beat the flavor and crispness of freshly picked veggies straight out of the garden! I will *never* forget the corn I got once when driving back from MD's eastern shore. I was cruising back towards DC when I spied a a Mom & Pop operation up ahead. Pulled in and got out of the car. Just as I did that, a beat up pickup truck comes trundling out of the corn fields behind the stand.
In the bed of the truck was several bushels of freshly picked, special, hybridized, sweet white corn. The farmer told me that it was a new breed of corn being tested by the US Agriculture Dept. and he was one of the lucky recipients of the seed stock. IIRC, it was called Sugar Baby.
Anyway, I bought several dozen ears and hopped back in the car. Upon arriving at my home, I immediately put a big old pot of water on to boil. Once it was boiling, I threw 5 or 6 ears in. 5 minutes later I was absolutely *swooning* over the quality, taste, and sweetness of this corn. It was, without a doubt, the finest corn I've ever had (before or since) - and I've had WAY more then my fair share of corn on the cob.
Being the foolish glutton that I am, I proceeded to eat 11 ears (that is *not* a typo!) of that corn in the next half hour. Man oh man was that corn good!!
I admit however that the next day I got to pay for that corn again, and again, and again - I'm pretty sure I visited the bathroom once for each ear I had eaten [g]. No matter, I threw on another pot of water and had 5 or 6 more ears that afternoon. Two of the best daze in my life!!
-RW-
Only The Lonely - period!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
I agree with you whole-heartedly. The arrangements, however, were by
Neil Hefti.
Wow.. you're right. My bad... Guess I'll have to raise the altar for Neil Hefti's skills also. Terrific arrangements on that album. Thanks for the correction.
Live at the Sands, which IS arranged by Q.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
the duets records are far and away his worst...along w/ mama will bark (i actually have all of them, and his V-series stuff from WW2 is really special at times).
Every album between 1955 and 1962 were the best. Before '55 his voice hadn't matured yet from Jack and cigarettes. After '62, his voice began to decline. Again, probably due to Jack and smokes. Put any of those fine recordings on, in the source of your choice, pour three fingers of your favorite, hit play, and let The Chairman take over. Only The Lonely, while on lowly gold cd, and on mono yet, is my favorite of the bunch. Thank you Ava. I trust the lp would be perfection. For live, while The Sands is excellent, a little known Hoffman mastered gold disc titled Summit is also worth looking into. The liner notes more than elude to that the get out to vote in Illinois, led by Frank and Giancoma, was instrumental in Kennedy's election.
Res ipsa loquitur.
JM
Both Frank and Ellington's Band are phenomenal, musically AND sonically.
Plus you get some of the swingin'est versions of the "hits" ever!
There must be a dozen great Sinatra records, and I think you still need to
get the "Best Of" (or whatever) to hear "Summer Wind" which is an imperative track.
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I have Sinatra at the Sands and like it too. Sinatra sounds great on a lot of discs (and tapes). But I gotta put Ellington's band over Basie's. Sue me :-)
sue you.
Ellington's is my main band and IMO that LP is a better representation of his talents as opposed to Ol' Blue eyes, even though Sinatra did have the foresight to give Mr. Ellington an A&R position at his new Reprise label. And Ellington was hip enough to sign Dollar Brand as his first "artist".
Anyway, I think the Sinatra/Basie is a better SINATRA LP than Francis A. & Edward K.
Whatever - it's all better than good.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I still like "Watertown."
so more along the lines of what do the critics know.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
my copy of "Watertown" is a reel-to-reel tape :-)
From what I have read that recording is only essential for Frank completists.
Unrelated, I just bought an early 1950s Ellington on cd, Ellington Masterpieces. Musical perfection, and sound that is way better than it has any right to be. Better than Basie? Yeah.
I think that Basie's approach, punchy, rhythmic, driving, is so different from the Ellington Band's sophisticated moody melodic style, that there's no reason to compare them.
Who's Eddie K?
Ellington but you knew that eh?
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Backtrack to the beginning of this sub-thread (I was the OP) and maybe my mystification will be less mysterious :-)
Whatever, it's a fantastic record. I play "Sunny" for those who doubt.
Got it
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Do we like Sinatra live '57 ?
Sinatra/Jobim
...I'm not a big fan but my wife is, having listened to him with her dad growing up.
The song "Summer Wind" is one of her favorites.
The album is inexpensive if purchased used - otherwise you can get the box set for about the same price.
nt
Mastered by Doug Sax. RIP.
But I just don't get it.
I'd rather hear a recording of Old Blue Eyes attempting to nail Subterranean Homesick Blues and the like. At least I'd find that amusing.
Carry on Bob.
It's one of life's mysteries.
I love listening to it.
-Wendell
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