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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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April 19, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1526

Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli, Tea For Two (1978) My mum bought a CD of Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli playing Gershwin tunes. I was about 14 I guess. I loved it. Instantly. It had me spellbound. The weave of their violins, the way their sound danced in and out around the bass, piano and […]
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