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• 9-02-2010
• Download – Music Is My Life: Loving for Loving 2010
• Of The English Roses 14 Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum 15 dEUS - Smokers Reflect 16 Kerli - Walking On Air 17 Metro Station - Shake It 18 Fleet Foxes - Mykonos 19 MGMT - Kids 20 Snow Patrol - Crack The Shutters 21 Bloc Party - One Month Off CD 02 01 Lady Linn And Her Magnificent Seven - I Don't Wanna Dance 02 Nat "King" Cole feat. Cee-Lo Green - Lush Life 03 A Brand - Mad Love Sweet Love 04 The Black Box Revelation - Never Alone / Always Together 05 Novastar - Because 06 Elbow - The Bones Of You 07 Tim ...

• 9-01-2010
• Sept 1
• in the Graveyard Belle and Sebasti:00 3:00 00 80-0120-16 A Well Respected Man Kinks :00 2:48 00 99-2210-02 Brazilian Love Song RMX Nat King Cole :00 4:45 00 99-2494-06 Celestica Crystal castles :00 3:48 00 99-2237-08 I'm a Man Black Strobe :00 4:29 00 99-2171-05 She Said, She Said Beatles :00 2:31 00 99-2432-18 Taxi Cab Vampire Weekend :00 3:54 00 99-2337-07 Girl I've Got a Date ...

• 8-31-2010
• Compact Disc Club - Classic Jazz CD 3
• Release day: 2008 Songs: 1. My Man (Billie Holiday) 2. Something (Sarah Vaughan) 3. Gimme a Pigfoot. (Bessie Smith) 4. Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole) 5. I'll Never Smile Again (Tommy Dorsey) 6. Someone to Watch Over Me (Ella Fitzgerald) 7. Round Midnight (Live) (Dexter Gordon) 8. Nobody Knows the Trouble I' Ve Seen (Mahalia Jackson) 9. Someday My Prince Will Come (Chick Corea) 10. Stuffy (Coleman Hawkins) 11. Can You Take It (Fletcher Henderson) 12. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Charles Mingus) 13 ...

• 8-31-2010
• Compact Disc Club - Yesterdays CD 4
• Release day: 2008 Songs: 1. Love Potion No9 (Searchers) 2. Suddenly You Love Me (Tremeloes, The) 3. Walkin' Back To Happiness (Helen Shapiro) 4. Tie Me Kangaroo Down (Rolf Harris) 5. I'll Never Find Another You (Seekers) 6. Let There Be Drums (Sandy Shaw) 7. 18 Yellow Roses (Bobby Darin) 8. Puppet On A String (Sandie Shaw) 9. Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days Of Summer (Nat King Cole) 10. Obla Di Obla Da (Marmalade) 11. Needles And Pins (Searchers) 12. How Do You Do It (Gerry And The Peacemakers ...

• 8-31-2010
• Canciones Eternas 50 Exitos Universales (2010)
• Bassey 12.- PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER Paul Anka 13.- MR. TAMBOURINE MAN The Byrds 14.- COLOURS Donovan 15.- LA MAMMA Charles Aznavour 16.- ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART Dionne Warwick 17.- SOUL MAN Sam & Dave CD 3 1.- UNFORGETTABLE Nat King Cole 2.- WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE Dinah Washington 3.- BLUE SUEDE SHOES Elvis Presley 4.- VOLARE Domenico Modugno 5.- LET IT BE ME The Everly Brothers 6.- RUBY. DON'T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN Kenny Rogers 7.- THE MAN I LOVE Billie Holiday 8.- CHERRY, CHERRY Neil ...

• 8-30-2010
• Issac Delgado | L-O-V-E (Coming Aug. 31st, 2010)
• Cuban Music Legend Issac Delgado Collaborates With Freddy Cole to Recreate the Sounds of Nat King Cole in Spanish "L-O-V-E" IS AVAILABLE AUGUST 31 NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 31, Sony Masterworks will release L-O-V-E by Cuban superstar Issac Delgado. On L-O-V-E, Delgado recreates 12 sultry and sexy Spanish recordings originally sung by crooner Nat King Cole. He does so with the help of a number of outstanding musicians including a special contribution by Nat King Cole ... 's brother, Freddy Cole. This is the first time that Freddy Cole has participated in a tribute album for his brother. Nat King Cole's relationship with the Spanish language is interesting and relatively unknown. Between 1958 and 1962, Nat King Cole released his three albums in Spanish. Recorded in Cuba, Brazil and Mexico, they included hits 'Perfidia', 'Quizas, quizas, quizas', 'Ay cosita linda', 'Piel canela', 'Aquellos ojos verdes' and 'Yo vendo unos ojos negros'. His Spanish albums created a new ... awareness for Latin-American music globally. Among Nat King Cole's fans was Cuban vocalist Issac Delgadowho grew up listening to Cole's Spanish recordings which he feltcombined Cuban bolero music with the sounds of classic American romanticballads. Oftenreferred to as the "Frank Sinatra of salsa" Delgado started studyingmusic formally at the age of 10 when he attended the Amadeo Roldan and Ignacio Cervantesmusic conservatories. At 18, he debuted with the Gonzalo Rubalcaba'sGrupo Proyecto, to later ... start playing with the Pacho Alonso Orchestraand NG La Banda. This latter contribution helped him to become one ofthe most important representatives of timba, a new style createdfrom Afro-Cuban music. In 1991, he debuted as a solo artist and hassince recorded a dozen albums and traveled around the world as "ElChevere de la Salsa". Eight of the twelve songs on L-O-V-E can be found on Nat King Cole'sthree Latin albums and the remaining four, are Cole classics thatDelgado reinterprets in Spanish ...

• 8-28-2010
• V/A – Kuschel Jazz Vol.3 [2CD]
• Various Artists |MP3 | 320 Kbps| Vocal Jazz |2005|364 MB Tracklisting: CD1 01. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me 02. George Michael - Roxanne 03. Natalie Cole - What A Difference A Day Made 04. Nat King Cole - Unforgettable 05. Dinah Washington - Mad About The Boy 06. Miles Davis - Time After [...] ...

• 8-27-2010
• James Hand - Shadow On the Ground (2009)
• 's also got an amazing knack for taking a song full of sad lyrics and making it upbeat and fun. The second track of the album is Hand's rendition of 'Mona Lisa', originally made popular by Nat King Cole in 1950. It's also been covered by bands and artists too numerous to count, including Elvis Presley, Me First and the Gimme Gimme's, and Willie Nelson. Hand's interpretation is fairly unique, turning Nat King Cole's version, (which sounds much like any other 50's standard music) into a swinging ...

• 8-27-2010
• ISSAC DELGADO RECREATES THE SOUNDS OF NAT KING COLE IN SPANISH / VIDEO
• On August 31, Sony Masterworks will release L-O-V-E by Cuban superstar Issac Delgado. On L-O-V-E, Delgado recreates 12 sultry and sexy Spanish recordings originally sung by crooner Nat King Cole. He does so with the help of a number of outstanding musicians including a special contribution by Nat King Cole's brother, Freddy Cole. This is the first time that Freddy Cole has participated in a tribute album for his brother. SKOPE IT HERE! ...

• 8-27-2010
• Fong Songs 101 All-Time Covers: #35 to 29
• . 33. Sammy Davis Jr. - The Lady is a Tramp (Live) [originally by Rodgers & Hart] I'm guessing Sammy Davis Jr. must have sung this song hundreds of times with numerous recordings, but it's this particular version that has stuck with me, perhaps because it was simply the first I heard. It's from a compilation called Live From Las Vegas that I borrowed once from the library. It included cuts from Tom Jones, Louis Prima, and Nat King Cole, but where in Vegas and which year, I have no clue. I love ...

• 8-24-2010
• Songwriters Hall of Fame Member George David Weiss Passes Away
• of Birdland (with George Shearing), Can't Help Falling in Love (with Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, a major hit for Elvis Presley), The Lion Sleeps Tonight (again with Peretti and Creatore and a hit for the Tokens), What a Wonderful World (with Bob Thiele, an ongoing classic for Louis Armstrong) and That Sunday, That Summer (with Joe Sherman and recorded by Nat King Cole). In the 70's, Weiss worked extensively with Peretti and Creatore, then better known as Hugo and Luigi, writing for artists like ... (Gordon Jenkins, Dean Martin, Charlie Rich)I Ran All the Way Home (Sarah Vaughan)I'll Never Be Free (Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Jordan, Dinah Washington, Laverne Baker)Jet (Nat King Cole) Let's Put It All Together (Stylistics) The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Tokens, Robert John)Lullaby of Birdland (Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan)Mr. Wonderful (Peggy Lee) Oh! What it Seemed to Be (Frank Sinatra)Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) (Frank Sinatra) Rumors Are Flying (Frankie Carle, Les Paul ... )Snoopy's Christmas (Royal Guardsmen)Stay With Me (Lorraine Ellison, Bette Midler)Surrender (Perry Como)That Sunday, That Summer (Nat King Cole) To Think You've Chosen Me (Eddy Howard)Too Close for Comfort (Eydie Gorme, Sammy Davis, Jr.)A Walking Miracle (Essex)What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)Wheel of Fortune (Kay Starr)Wild in the Country (Elvis Presley) ...

• 8-23-2010
• The Elegance Of Nancy Wilson
• in the early stages of what would become a long and rich career — Nancy Wilson. While growing up during the post-war years in her home town of Chillicothe, Ohio, young Nancy was surrounded by some of the best music of early jazz. Her father was an avid fan and filled the house with big band records, along with those that featured vocalists like Billy Eckstine, Dinah Washington, and Nat King Cole. Nancy listened and learned, and pointed toward a musical career. By the time she reached adulthood in the late ...

• 8-23-2010
• robertlohman wrote a new blog post: I Feel Good Music
• robertlohman wrote a new blog post: I Feel Good Music Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill Lisa Shaw - Better Days Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole - Unforgettable (Duet with Nat "King" Cole) Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again Barbra Streisand;Barry Gibb - Guilty (Duet With Barry Gibb) Elton John - Tiny Dancer John Legend - Ordinary People Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For [...] ...

• 8-22-2010
• Cuban singer revives Nat “King” Cole’s Latin numbers
• Cuban singer revives Nat "King" Cole's Latin numbers In 1956, Nat "King" Cole emerged from a plane in Havana holding a pair of maracas and began a series of dates at the club Tropicana. For the first of Cole's three subsequent Spanish-language albums, 1958′s "Cole Espanol," he was coached by Bebo Valdes, then the pianist [...] ...

• 8-21-2010
• V.A. - The Best Of Swing
• & His Orchestra - Margie.mp3 - 4.2MB Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Come And Get It.mp3 - 4MB Nat King Cole With Pete Rugolo Orchestra - Where Were You.mp3 - 3.1MB Stan Kenton - Intermission Riff.mp3 - 5.8MB Les Brown - A Good Man Is Hard To Find.mp3 - 3.3MB Cootie Williams - Everything But You.mp3 - 3.8MB Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Just An Old Manus.mp3 - 3.8MB Benny Goodman - Jumpin' At The Woodside.mp3 - 4.8MB Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Harlem Air Shaft.mp3 - 5.3MB Harry ...

• 8-20-2010
• Cuban singer revives Nat "King" Cole's Latin numbers
• In 1956, Nat "King" Cole emerged from a plane in Havana holding a pair of maracas and began a series of dates at the club Tropicana. For the first of Cole's three subsequent Spanish-language albums, 1958's "Cole Espanol," he was coached by Bebo Valdes, then the pianist with the Tropicana's Armando Romeu Orchestra, to phonetically sound out the lyrics. The suave but quirky charm of Cole's notable American accent and the swing of the musicians who joined him on great songs by Latin composers ...

• 8-20-2010
• Gig Alert: Theophilus London
• Theophilus London "Calypso Blues" (Nat King Cole) Playing FRIDAY at: Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St., East Village) Get: Tickets | Directions Equipped with a mad cool fashion sense and fierce urban pop-meister skills, Brooklyn rapper and singer Theophilus London is deftly bridging a gap between hip-hop and electro and, well, everything else. Just last week, London released this awesome cover of Nat King Cole's "Calypso Blues," featuring the Menahan Street Band. This block party jam will help ...

• 8-20-2010
• Cuban singer revives Nat "King" Cole's Latin numbersLOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In 1956, Nat "King" Cole emerged from a plane in Havana holding a pair of maracas and began a series of dates at the club Tropicana. For the first of Cole's three subsequent Spanish-language albums, 1958's "Cole Espanol," he was coached by Bebo Valdes, then the pianist with the Tropicana's Armando Romeu Orchestra, to phonetically sound out the lyrics.
• LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - In 1956, Nat "King" Cole emerged from a plane in Havana holding a pair of maracas and began a series of dates at the club Tropicana. For the first of Cole's three subsequent Spanish-language albums, 1958's "Cole Espanol," he was coached by Bebo Valdes, then the pianist with the Tropicana's Armando Romeu Orchestra, to phonetically sound out the lyrics. The suave but quirky charm of Cole's notable American accent and the swing ...

• 8-19-2010
• Edgar 9000 starts giving…
• ...music....today with a mix I did as opener at 06.08.2010 at 5 years Rote Sonne , Munich. Starting slowly with a blend of old Studio 1 tunes, some old minimal stuff from Stewart Walker, samples from Nat King Cole, Logic System. Getting dense and intense in the end. Here you go: Edgar 9000 Dj Mix [...] ...

• 8-19-2010
• MUSIC UP CLOSE, AUGUST 2010
• a wonderful cover of a song she wrote with Sy Coleman called "I'm in Love Again." The Duff Sisters (Haley and Hillary Duff) did a re-record of "We are Siamese." With Duke Ellington, she wrote the song, "I'm Gonna Go Fishin'" for the movie Anatomy of a Murder. Mel Torme did a wonderful cover of that song. Nat King Cole did a wonderful cover of "Where Could I Go without You," and his daughter, Natalie Cole, also recorded it. Janie: You even have some of her songs running under CSI, don't you? Holly F-W: It ...

• 8-18-2010
• Mercredix #59 When I Was a Ninja
• être celui de trop. Au lieu de ça, il synthétise définitivement l'art de la découpe industrielle de Tobin. L'aire du sampling clin d'œil s'éteint encore un peu plus pour laisser la place à la composition électronique pure et dure. 4 - Up, Bustle and Out - "Por Eso Quiero" Sur une toute autre planète, les deux DJs arpentent les rues de La Havane le temps de deux Master Sessions à peine chahutées par quelques beats. Le flutiste Richard Egües, qui travailla pour Nat King Cole, Orquesta Aragon et ...

• 8-17-2010
• Czesslove - Endless Thoughts (2005)
• возможно сложившийся у кого-то стереотип. CD1: Image Of The Wind 1. Blue Haze - Amber Glow/ Nat King Cole - Nature Boy 2. 2 Rare People - Ocean 3. Spiritchaser - Ever Increasing Circles/ Jussi Pekka - Subway 4. Blue Haze - Spacious 5. Bart Van Wissen - Inside Out 6. True To Nature - Lusty 7. Gothek D.C. - Velvet Skin 8. Duran & Aytek - First Sight 9. Micah - Acandavi (Chris Micali's Remix) 10. Bart Van Wissen - Electric CD2: Space OF Intellect 1. Subsky - Albino (Benz & MD remix) 2. Murat Uncu ...

• 8-17-2010
• Czesslove - Endless Thoughts (2005)
• возможно сложившийся у кого-то стереотип. CD1: Image Of The Wind 1. Blue Haze - Amber Glow/ Nat King Cole - Nature Boy 2. 2 Rare People - Ocean 3. Spiritchaser - Ever Increasing Circles/ Jussi Pekka - Subway 4. Blue Haze - Spacious 5. Bart Van Wissen - Inside Out 6. True To Nature - Lusty 7. Gothek D.C. - Velvet Skin 8. Duran & Aytek - First Sight 9. Micah - Acandavi (Chris Micali's Remix) 10. Bart Van Wissen - Electric CD2: Space OF Intellect 1. Subsky - Albino (Benz & MD remix) 2. Murat Uncu ...

• 8-16-2010
• Agenda NNM Updated: Segundo Semestre 2010 | Hot Chip, Who Made Who, CSS, Stephen Fasano, Pacific!…
• muy de cerca por los mas destacados productores ya que hay muchos que ya lo apuntan a ojos cerrados como una de las próximas figuras de la música Pop. Su música la describen como la fusión perfecta entre Michael Hot Chip, Hall and Oates, Wham and the Jackson 5, Prince, Tribe Called Quest y Nat King Cole. Por lo que claramente se puede esperar de todo. Penguin Prison se estará presentando en una nueva versión de Budweiser Urban Nights, fiesta que nos trajo a nuestro país a We Have Band (Uk). Info ...

• 8-16-2010
• Jimmy Crockett Rolls in as the "Cadillac Man" with Debut CD Release
• this Cadillac Man is just getting started! Crockett began honing his vocal and songwriting skills in his youth, and wrote his "first real song" in high school. "I was always making up little melodies since I can remember. I started to add some words to my jingles when I was about 10," reveals Crockett. Attributing his musical interests to his mother, Crockett stated, "My mother always had music in our house; Nat King Cole, The Mills Brothers and Mahalia ...

• 8-14-2010
• TOP DISCO - 12.Dezembro.1987
• PORTUGAL: Top LP´s Nº 01 - V/A - "Hit Parade '87" (N) Nº 02 - NAT KING COLE - "Collection" Nº 03 - V/A - "Superdisco '87" Nº 04 - MAFALDA VEIGA - "Pássaros do Sul" Nº 05 - TROVANTE - "Terra Firme" Nº 06 - BRUCE SPRINGSTENN - "Tunnel of Love" Nº 07 - MINISTARS - "Muit'a Louco" Nº 08 - JÚLIO PEREIRA - "Miradouro" (N) Nº 09 - ONDA CHOC - "Namoro" (N) Nº 10 - PINK FLOYD - "Momentary Lapse of Reason" PORTUGAL: Top Singles Nº 01 - LOS LOBOS - "La Bamba" Nº 02 - BLACK - "Wonderful Life" Nº 03 - BEE ...

• 8-13-2010
• Issac Delgado at the Conga Room Sept. 9
• ISSAC DELGADO Issac Sings Nat "King" Cole with Special Guest Freddy Cole - performing songs from their new CD "L-O-V-E" Thursday September 9th - 10:00pm at The Conga Room INFO: One of Cuba's most renowned singers, Issac Delgado will delight audiences as he recreates Nat King Cole's repertoire with special guest, Nat's brother Freddy Cole. They will perform a selection of Latin hit songs that Nat "King" Cole recorded in Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and embraced throughout the world. These songs ...

• 8-13-2010
• Brubeck Charms at Litchfield
• -fire finger work and power. Brubeck delivered a lovely version of "Sweet Lorraine," beginning and ending the piece on solo piano, with Militello and the band joining in for the heart of the song. Musically, this seemed like a chat between friends, full of touch, feel and references to the past and present. After the tune, Brubeck told the audience, "Bobby and I have been playing together for 30 years, and I've never played this tune. It's one of my favorites. That was Nat 'King' Cole from one of his great ...

• 7-19-2010
• Natalie Cole memoir due out in November
• Natalie had her operation. Cole also will share memories of her father, crooner Nat "King" Cole ...

• 7-19-2010
• Paulo Moura: 1932-2010
• Fitzgerald or Nat "King" Cole toured through Brazil, he frequently joined the accompanying groups. He ...

• 7-19-2010
• Natalie Cole memoir due out in NovemberNEW YORK - Natalie Cole has a comeback story.
• , crooner Nat "King" Cole. Publisher Simon & Schuster announced Monday that the book, "Love ...

• 6-21-2010
• Janelle Monae Cracks A “Smile” For ‘Billboard’ Mashup Monday
• of the greats, Stevie Wonder to Nat King Cole to Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra." Watch after the jump. What ...

• 6-04-2010
• Cuba's ageless diva Juana Bacallao croons past 80
• King Cole and Rita Montaner. She said she was friends with Chicago gangster Al Capone, a club regular ...

• 5-28-2010
• The Beginning of Summer Means Stars in Bikinis
• Ahh, summer. Nat King Cole says it's the "time for soda and pretzels and beer," but it also means ...

• 5-17-2010
• Grammy-winning jazz pianist Hank Jones dies at 91
• in Pontiac, Mich., he was influenced by such legendary pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole ...

• 2-14-2010
• Monty Alexander for New York Performance at Birdland: March 2-6, 2010
• March 2 to 6, 2010. Alexander, who has performed with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Ernest Ranglin, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole, Barbara Hendricks, Bill Cosby, Bobby McFerrin, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and on the 'Concrete Jungle, The Music of Bob Marley collection, ' will perform two shows per night, at 8:30 and 11 p.m., respectively. In a career spanning five decades, Alexander, a largely self-taught musician ...

• 2-09-2010
• Oscar Peterson: Duo Sessions
• liner notes, Oscar's true north inspiration wasn't Art Tatum but Nat King Cole, whose cool improvisational lines, glamorous taste and swinging syncopation were admired greatly by Peterson. Ritz interviewed Peterson before his death in 2007. During that interview, Peterson spoke of his admiration for Cole: "Nat brought something else to the table. In a certain way, Nat set the table. He had an aesthetic that reflected extraordinary taste and refinement without sacrificing an iota of rhythm pulse ... edition three-CD set. Which means once the copies that were printed are gone, that's it. The size of the set is unusual--the dimensions are roughly those of a 45-rpm sleeve--enabling a book with glossy photos of Peterson to be bound in and its words to be legible. The CDs slide into bound-in reproductions of the 10-inch albums that Granz released in the early 1950s. You'll find Debut as a download at iTunes or as a CD set here. JazzWax clip: Here's a clip of Oscar Peterson backing Nat King Cole ... on Tenderly in 1957 during an appearance by Jazz at the Philharmonic musicians on Nat King Cole's TV show. Notice Cole's hand move instinctively to the top of the stool to play as the camera pans to Peterson at the start of his solo. And dig the brief flash of mutual admiration at the end as pianist Cole bows slightly to a gleaming Peterson... ...

• 2-08-2010
• Show must go on: jazz concert ends with news of Dankworth death
• : "It is a fitting tribute that on the day of Sir John's death we celebrated on stage the 40th anniversary of The Stables with some of the many artists who have performed with Sir John here." The saxophonist had been ill for several months. Better known as Johnny Dankworth before he was knighted in 2006, he started his own jazz orchestra in the 1950s and went on to work with Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald. He was also a prolific composer, writing the theme tune for TV shows ...

• 2-08-2010
• RIP: Sir John Dankworth, British jazz musician
• From The Guardian: Sir John Dankworth, a totemic figure of the British jazz scene who worked as a musical director for artists including Nat King Cole and Ella -Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 82. The saxophonist, whose career spanned more than half a century, died yesterday in King Edward VII hospital, London. He had been ill for several months. • Dankworth's Qnote Records: http://www.qnote.co.uk ...

• 2-07-2010
• Sir John Dankworth, Britain's first jazz maestro, dies at 82
• Sir John Dankworth at Buckingham Palace after receiving his knighthood in 2006. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA Sir John Dankworth, a totemic figure of the British jazz scene who worked as a musical director for artists including Nat King Cole and Ella -Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 82. The saxophonist, whose career spanned more than half a century, died yesterday in King Edward VII hospital, London. He had been ill for several months. Dankworth enjoyed a parallel career as a film ...

• 2-07-2010
• Jazz legend Sir John Dankworth dies
• Veteran British jazz musician Sir John Dankworth died yesterday (February 6) aged 82. The saxophonist and musical director, who passed away in hospital in London, worked as the musical director for stars such as Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as fronting a number of his own bands, including The Dankworth Generation Band and The Dankworth Seven. He also composed a number of popular television theme tunes, including those for The Avengers and Tomorrow's World. His wife, singer Cleo ...

• 2-07-2010
• John Dankworth, legend of British jazz, dies at 82
• Sir John Dankworth, who died on Saturday Photograph: Chris Ison/PA Sir John Dankworth, a totemic figure of the British jazz scene who worked as a musical director for artists including Nat King Cole and Ella -Fitzgerald, has died at the age of 82. A saxophonist, he enjoyed a parallel career as a film and television composer and wrote the theme tune for The Avengers, as well as scores for films of the 1960s such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Servant and Modesty Blaise. Born ...

• 1-21-2010
• Taylor Swift, Jewel, Willie Nelson, on Valentine's Day Soundtrack
• contributes her new country single,"Stay Here Forever," while Nelson offers "On the Street Where You Live." SteelMagnolia's current country hit, "Keep On Lovin' You,"also appears on the soundtrack. Other featured artists include Michael Franti & Spearhead, Jools Holland and Jamiroquai,Sausalito Foxtrot, Ben E. King, Amy Winehouse, Maroon 5, Joss Stone, Diane Birch, Nat King Cole, Black Gold, the Bird andthe Bee, Anju Ramapriyam and Leighton Meester featuring Robin Thicke. ...

• 1-19-2010
• David Sanborn and John Pizzarelli at The Grove Park Inn Resort & Spa in January
• recorded more than 20 albums and has appeared on more than 40 albums of other artists including James Taylor, Rosemary Clooney and Natalie Cole. Internationally known for classic standards, late-night ballads and the cool jazz flavor he brings to performances, Pizzarelli has set the standard for stylish modern jazz. Often compared to Nat King Cole, Pizzarelli is among the prime contemporary interpreters of jazz. Multi Grammy award winner David Sanborn headlines the show at 8 p.m. on Saturday, January ...

• 1-13-2010
• Pat Boone's not ready to retire just yet
• stardom exploded. Boone was such a big star — and a "safer" star in many ways than Presley — that at 23 he landed a television variety show, "The Pat Boone-Chevy Showroom." Each week huge stars — Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett and Count Basie, to name just a few — came onto the show to perform songs on their own or as duets with Boone. Those shows, which Boone owns and which have almost never been seen since they originally aired, are being edited into the PBS special, "Pat Boone ... — Love Letters In The Sands Of Time," which will air March 6 during the annual pledge drives held at stations around the country. "I'm amazed," he says of the experience of looking at the shows again after so many years. "For a kid, 22, 23, to walk onto the set and host people like Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., and sing with them and act like I belong with them? "They had to look at me as a raw kid," he says. "But we made it work." Boone says he can't resist an appealing idea and just hearing ...

• 1-06-2010
• Joe Locke Group to Perform at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on January 26-31 in Support of "For the Love of You"
• of the mix. Forging a style that seems to be made of equal parts Nat King Cole and Donny Hathaway, Kenny Washingtonweaves his unique spell around a diverse repertoire. The seven vocal tunes include pieces taken from the contemporary pop / soul lexicon as well as the Great American Songbook. The critical community continually cites Locke for his artistic work. He has been given the "Mallet Player of the Year" Award by the Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) on three occasions and has been voted the #1 ...

• 1-03-2010
• M'boom, World Saxophone Quartet at Birdland Jan. 19-23 + World Tour
• , Charles Mingus, Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Sonny Stitt, Bobby Watson, Herbie Mann, Tito Puente, Cedar Walton, and Freddie Hubbard. In 2003, Mantilla signed with Savant Records and released "Man-Ti-Ya." In 2007 he was voted best percussionist by the Jazz Journalist Association. His latest CD is 'Good Vibrations on the Sarvant label. Warren I. Smith has performed extensively in the studio and on Broadway, recording and performing with Dionne Warwick, Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, and Aretha Franklin ...

• 1-02-2010
• AAJ Top 100 Most Read News Announcements: 2009
• , 2009 46. CD/Download/Album Laser's Edge Signs Germany's Eloy for 40th Anniversary Release Published: October 20, 2009 47. Performance/Tour Le Jazz de Paris Avec AmourPublished: August 8, 2009 48. Obituary Carol Cole Daughter of Nat King Cole DiesPublished: May 22, 2009 49. Contest/Giveaway Enter the Jazzhead Records "Oehlers / Grabowsky / Beck - Lost and Found" Giveaway ContestPublished: June 21, 2009 50. Contest/Giveaway Enter The Beatles 14-CD Giveaway Contest!Published: September 10 ...

• 12-26-2009
• 2010 Temecula Valley International Jazz Festival
• From July 9th to 11th in the Southern California Wine Country City of Temecula, thousands will converge to celebrate the "first lady of song, " Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In her lifetime, she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. She worked with all the jazz greats, from Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Nat King Cole to Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman. Headlining the festival, back ...

• 12-26-2009
• Swinging "What's My Line?"
• of present to get so many of you for the holidays, I simply decided to cull 11 of these jazz-pop appearances below. Enjoy--and Merry Christmas! Louis Armstrong... Julie London... Sammy Davis Jr.... Nat King Cole... Barbra Streisand... Jo Stafford... Judy Holliday... Peggy Lee... Eydie Gorme... Benny Goodman... Duke Ellington... ...

• 8-16-2009
• Quizás Quizás Quizás - Nat King Cole
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• Unforgetable - Nat King Cole
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• Nat King Cole Trio - When I Take My Sugar To Tea (1947)
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• When I Fall In Love/Nat King Cole
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• Smile - Chaplin by Nat King Cole
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• Nat King Cole "Pretend"
• Found at: youtube

• 8-09-2009
• L-O-V-E , Nat King Cole?
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• 8-09-2009
• NAT KING COLE ROUTE 66
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• 8-02-2009
• Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
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• 7-26-2009
• Let there be love - Nat King Cole
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• 7-26-2009
• Harry Belafonte & Nat King Cole
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• 7-26-2009
• Love - Nat King Cole
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• 7-26-2009
• Natalie & Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (1992 The Unforgettable Concert )
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• 7-26-2009
• Answer me my love - Nat King Cole
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• 7-26-2009
• Nat King Cole - I love you for sentimental reasons
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• 7-21-2009
• LOVE by: Nat King Cole
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• 7-21-2009
• Nat King Cole Not for kids
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• 7-14-2009
• Nat King Cole "LOVE"
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• 7-14-2009
• Nat King Cole Tribute
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• 7-14-2009
• Nat King Cole
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• 7-14-2009
• An Unforgettable Tribute To Nat King...
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• 7-05-2009
• Nat King Cole - "There Will Never Be Another You"
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• 6-23-2009
• NAT KING COLE - When I fall in love
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• 6-23-2009
• LOVE Nat King Cole
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• 6-08-2009
• Nat "King" Cole - The World Of Nat King Cole (from Jazz Reviews)
• In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Nat Cole's death, Capitol offers both a CD and DVD presentation. The choice is yours! The career-spanning CD provides all the essential Nat King Cole songs with a 28-track disk of the label's most important artist. Cole was one of the earliest entertainers to join the fledgling label in 1942. Others included bandleader Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse who gave Capitol its first major hit the same year. That song was, of course, Cow Cow Boogie. Howe......

• 4-24-2009
• Nat King Cole - Re: Generations (from Pop Matters)
• One wonder of hip-hop in the 1980s was learning how these revolutionary new artists would use unexpected source-sounds to make music that was jarringly new and freshly funky. So, it's hardly a new notion that remix artists could take something that once seemed square and give it the spacious groove of the NEW. Not that Nat "King" Cole was ever entirely square. His early trio was elegant but also puckish, putting across funky tunes like "Hit That Jive, Jack" and unleashing Cole's brilliant j......

• 3-22-2009
• nat king cole - unforgettable
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• 3-10-2009
• Nat King Cole - Generations (from Pop Matters)
• Official SiteAmazon Lala One wonder of hip-hop in the 1980s was learning how these revolutionary new artists would use unexpected source-sounds to make music that was jarringly new and freshly funky. So, it's hardly a new notion that remix artists could take something that once seemed square and give it the spacious groove of the NEW. Not that Nat "King" Cole was ever entirely square. His early trio was elegant but also puckish, putting across funky tunes like "Hit That Jive, Jack" and unl......

• 3-10-2009
• Nat King Cole - Re: Generations (from URB)
• Forty-five years after his death, Nat King Cole returns to join the likes of Nas, Cee-Lo, Just Blaze and TV on the Radio on a remix record entitled Re: Gernerations. This album puts a hip twist on Cole's early jazz while at the same time remaining rooted in the music that inspired generations of artists to follow. The first production credit on the album goes to Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine, who opens Re: Generations with a dark interpretation of "Lush Life." Haunting vocals and crisp drums......

• 2-15-2009
• Nat King Cole - Re:Generations (from The Guardian)
• When Natalie Cole was first reunited with the vocal ghost of her famously beguiling dad, few people saw it as the beginning of something beautiful. But from Cee-Lo's elegant Lush Life to TV on the Radio's fuzzed up Nature Boy, this unfeasibly witty and entertaining 21st-century reboot of Nat King Cole's back catalogue really does have something for everyone. Sometime Jay Z producer Just Blaze takes the honours for me, with the hilarious Pick-Up, in which a series of sarcastic homegirls bridle at......

• 1-01-2009
• Nat King Cole - Re:Generations (from Robert Christgau)
• Affable as ever, he slips suavely into the beats of the day--Cee-Lo and Just Blaze, will.i.am and TV on the Radio ("Straighten Up and Fly Right," "Pick-Up")....

• 1-01-2009
• Nat King Cole - Re: Generations (from Entertainment Weekly)
• Nat King Cole'smusic hardly needs hip-hop beats to sound fresh; 44 yearsafter the singer's death, his voice still resonates with an eternal cool. Fortunately, the acts on this smartly assembled remix disc agree, which results in a tribute album more tasteful than most. Highlights from Re: Generations include Cut Chemist's "Day In Day Out," Stephen and Damian Marley's reggaefied"Calypso Blues," and a funky take on "Straighten Up and Fly Right" by will.i.am and Cole's daughter Natalie. On "Nature ......

• 2-18-2005
• Nat 'King' Cole - The World of Nat King Cole (from Lost At Sea)
• In the last year, The World of Nat King Cole was the second largely promoted posthumous comprehensive recording from a popular African-American musician. Just like Ray Charles, Nat King Cole was an icon within the black community for his accomplishments in the realm of music, and, as a result, civil rights. This is not to say that Cole wouldn't have been involved in the struggle for civil rights if he wasn't a well-known singer/songwriter, but his talent and renown allowed him a certain amount o......

• 2-08-2005
• Nat King Cole - The Essential Nat King Cole (from bbc)
• There's no mistaking those velvet-piled vocal chords. Warm, sandy, accessible, Nat King Cole's is a voice to curl up inside on a grey afternoon, a fleecy blanket for the soul. His distinctive baritone and keyboard dexterity rapidly made him a musical phenomenon, and enriched all those who marketed it: Capitol Record's Hollywood headquarters became known as 'The House that Nat Built'. The downside is that his brilliant musicianship was channelled into commercial hits. Despite a hugely prolific ca......

• 1-01-2005
• Nat King Cole - The World Of Nat King Cole (from Jazz Reviews)
• Nat King Cole is a highly esteemed vocalist from an era gone by. Like his contemporaries Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and similar great male lead singers, his legacy is repeatedly celebrated, and for good reason. This set offers 28 prime tracks from the Cole catalog. The final release will include a DVD as well. Cole has one of those distinctive vocal styles and deliveries that are instantly recognizable. I was first introduced to this wonderful entertainer when I was a little boy, before I was corrup......

• 11-01-2002
• Nat King Cole - The Definitive Nat "King" Cole (from All About Jazz)
• Most of this superb collection features Nat King Cole in the role that he knew first: jazz pianist with a small ensemble playing instrumental favorites with a creative swing. Recorded in Los Angeles between July 1942 and August 1947, the songs come from an expressive pianist who knows the true value of a few complementary partners on stage. He enjoyed his work as much as we enjoy listening to it. This was just slightly before the big split in jazz that created a tense bebop camp to stand in oppo......

• 9-01-2002
• Nat King Cole - Nat King Cole At The Sands (from All About Jazz)
• Debonair Nat King Cole sat at the piano and sang for a large Las Vegas audience from 2:30 until 5:00 in the wee hours of the morning on January 14, 1960. This wasn't the usual casino audience: this dedicated throng flocked to see Cole with the knowledge that the performance would be recorded. They sensed something special and they were right. Entertainers' performing schedules usually overlap. Since this one was scheduled after most showrooms go dark, it offered other Las Vegas entertainers the ......

• 1-01-2002
• Nat 'King' Cole - The Definitive (from Jazz Reviews)
• Long before Nat "King" Cole became a Pop Icon, he was something of a fine jazz pianist, one that would be an influence on such influential pianists as Bill Evans and Red Garland (not to mention Blues/R&B; Icons Ray Charles and Charles Brown). His fame would be made chiefly on his voice, a fine velvety, worldly croon with just a touch of bluesy barroom grit. However, this installment of the Blue Note/Verve Definitive series concentrates on the jazz side of his musical persona (though The Croone......

• 1-01-1992
• Nat King Cole - Nat King Cole (from Entertainment Weekly)
• Nat King Cole diedin 1965, but this year the easy-swinging singer, pianist, and trioleader has sold more records, won more prizes, and earned moreplaudits than most living performers. So the news of yet anothercollection of his work is bound to land with the thud of ananticlimax. Yet Nat King Cole, a generous four-CD sampling of his trio and poprecordings, includes almost all of his hits as well as a couple ofpreviously unissued jewels (an affecting duet with his wife, MariaCole, "Ev'ry Day (I F......

• 1-01-1990
• Nat King Cole - Jumpin' at Capitol (from Entertainment Weekly)
• Twenty-five years after his death, honey-voiced Nat King Cole is fondlyremembered for pop hits like "Ramblin' Rose," but little more. The1940s sides on Jumpin' at Capitol, therefore, are a valuable reminder of the singingpianist's influential and highly successful jazz career. Theinstrumental showcases, on which Cole's nimble keyboard work leaveselectric guitarist Oscar Moore in knots, are spectacular. Elsewhere,Cole croons such charmers as "When I Take My Sugar to Tea," handlesnonsense numbers ......