Posts Tagged Gershwin
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August 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 269
George Gershwin / Cole Porter, The Best of Broadway Those K-Tel compilations and the like…big part of my childhood, the grandparents collected up the tapes and LPs and I loved them; a library of sounds. Here’s an interesting one – a split record – so one side is George Gershwin and the other is Cole Porter – best of […]Archive
September 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall: Love Is Here To Stay
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall Love Is Here To Stay Verve Since his son helped reinvent his career some 25 years ago Tony Bennett has played a simple, familiar card: Warm, weathered versions of the standards with which he made his name (the first time around). The Unplugged album was the thing that relaunched him […]Archive
March 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Willie Nelson: Summertime – Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
Willie Nelson Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Sony Legacy There’s dozens of Willie Nelson Sings and/or Willie Nelson Plays albums – a kids album, an instrumental album, reggae, jazz, standards, particular eras, composers…he is one of the most adept and brilliant song stylists of the post-war years. And yet some of his albums – particularly […]Archive
November 25, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1460
Andre Previn, Previn Plays Gershwin (1971) I hadn’t thought about this album in a long – long – time. Because now I’ve got all my classical records separated – only for the fact that the cabinet the stereo sits on (and in) is an old fashioned type with the cupboard for a few records. I […]Archive
April 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman