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‘Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.’ is his debut album recorded for Decca (1955)

'Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.' is his debut studio album recorded on April 18, 1955 and released the same year by Decca.

1 . Lonesome Road (w/ Roy Clark)

2 . Hey There (Live)

3 . Hey There (1954)

4 . Hey There / This Is My Beloved

5 . Because Of You (Impersonations)

6 . My Funny Valentine (Live)

7 . My Funny Valentine

8 . Birth Of The Blues (1984, MDA Telethon)

9 . The Birth Of The Blues

Track Listing : 1.The Lonesome Road (Gene Austin, Nathaniel Shilkret) - 02:10 . 2.Hey There (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 02:48 . 3.And This Is My Beloved (Robert C. Wright, George Forrest) - 02:52 . 4.September Song (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) - 02:51 . 5.Because Of You (Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson) - 05:28 . 6.Easy To Love (Cole Porter) - 02:24 . 7.Glad To Be Unhappy (Lorenz Hart,

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Shirley Horn records ‘You Won’t Forget Me’ with Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Toots Thielemans et al (1990)

Shirley Horn's 'You Won't Forget Me' is a studio album recorded on June 12 & August 13, 1990 and featuring Miles Davis' last appearance as a sideman and released in 1991 by Verve.

1 . Come Dance With Me

2 . This Is The End Of A Beautiful Friendship (Bern, 1990)

3 . Loads Of Lovely Love (Bern, 1990)

4 . Nice And Easy (Bern, 1990)

5 . Music Thats Make Me Dance (Bern, 1990)

6 . Something Happens To Me (Bern, 1990)

Track listing : 1.The Music That Makes Me Dance (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) - 06:32 . 2.Come Dance with Me (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 02:47 . 3.Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Joe Greene) - 05:58 . 4.Beautiful Love (Haven Gillespie, Wayne King, Egbert Van Alstyne, Victor Young) - 03:38 . 5.Come Back to Me (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 03:43 . 6.Too Late Now (Burton

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This week In One-Off Collaborations 39/52

David Gilmour & Benedict Cumberbatch, Bonnie Raitt & Alison Krauss, Bruce Springsteen & U2, Mary Wilson & Georgie Fame, Brittney Howard & The Roots, Sting & No Doubt, Steven Tyler, Jeff Beck & Sting, Bruce Springsteen & Bryan Adams, Ed Sheeran & Tom Jones, Sammy Davis Jr. & Andy Williams, Buika & Javier Limón , Sergio Mendes & Carlinhos Brown

This week In Male Balladeers 39/52

Tony Bennett, Leonard Cohen, Bee Gees, Jamie Cullum, Van Morrison, Bryan Ferry, Johnny Mathis, Tony Joe White, Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil, Sammy Davis Jr. & Andy Williams, Simply Red, Rod Stewart

Singing With Ella Fitzgerald

Mel Torme, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Flip Wilson, Danny Kaye, Buddy Greco, Karen Carpenter, Ginger Rogers, Nancy Dussault, Tom Jones, Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Sammy Davis Jr., Treorchy Male Choir

This week In Jazz Legends 05/52

Bill Evans, Carmen McRae, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald & Sammy Davis Jr., J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding, Tony Bennett, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins & Jim Hall, Anita O'Day, Weather Report, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock

Singing with Frank Sinatra

Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr, Louis Armstrong, Dinah Shore, Doris Day, Nancy Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald , Liza Minelli

Atlantic Records release Aretha Franklin’s ‘Aretha Now’ (1968)

Aretha Franklin's 'Aretha Now' is an album produced by Jerry Wexler and released on June 14, 1968, less than six months after 'Lady Soul' by Atlantic Records.

1 . Think (1989) (Official Video)

2 . Respect Think (w/ Sammy Davis Jr., 1968)

3 . I Say A Little Prayer

Track Listing : 1.Think (Aretha Franklin, Teddy White) - 02:19 . 2.I Say A Little Prayer (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 03:36 . 3.See Saw (Steve Cropper, Don Covay) - 02:46 . 4.Night Time Is The Right Time (Big Bill Broonzy) - 04:50 . 5.You Send Me (Sam Cooke) - 02:29 . 6.You'Re A Sweet Sweet Man (Ronnie Shannon) - 02:19 . 7.I Take What I Want (Isaac Hayes, Mabon Teenie Hodges, David Porter) - 02:33 . 8.Hello Sunshine (Jimmy Cliff, King Curtis, Ronald Dean Miller) - 03:03 . 9.A Change (Dorian Burton, Clyde Otis) - 02:27 . 10.I

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We remember Count Basie. ‘For The Count’

This day (April 26, 1984), in Hollywood, Florida, died William 'Count' Basie a.k.a Count Basie, an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader and composer.

Tracklist :

1 . w/ Sarah Vaughan,Tony Bennett,George Benson (1981)

2 . w/ Oscar Peterson, Documentary (1980)

3 . w/ Ella Fitzgerald – Booty’S Blues (1979)

4 . April In Paris

5 . w/ Frank Wess, Milan (1960)

6 . w/ Ben Webster & Jimmy Rushing – I Left My Baby (1957)

7 . One O’Clock Jump (1950)

8 . w/ Ethel Waters – Quicksand (1943)

9 . Dance Of The Gremlins / Swingin’ The Blues (1941)

Tracklist :

One O'Clock Jump . Jumpin' At the Woodside . April In Paris . Splanky . The Kid from Red Bank . Flight Of The Foo Birds . Shiny Stockings . Sleepwalker's Serenade - 1994 - Remaster . Jive At Five . Lester Leaps in .

Recorded on December

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We wish Happy Birthday to Diana Ross. ‘La Ross’

This day (March 26, 1944), in Detroit, Michigan, is born Diana (Ernestine Earl) Ross a.k.a. Diana Ross , an American singer, who was lead singer of The Supremes.

Tracklist :

1 . If We Hold on Together (2019)

2 . I’m Coming Out-Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (2017)

3 . Baby Love/Stop! In the Name of Love (2015)

4 . More TODAY Than Yesterday (2007)

5 . Interview (2004)

6 . Touch Me In The Morning (1998)

7 . Upside Down (1993)

8 . The 14Th Annual American Music Awards (1987)

9 . We Are Family (1983)

10 . I’M Coming Out (1981)

11 . Medley (1973) .

Tracklist :

Upside Down . I'm Coming Out . Ain't No Mountain High Enough . Love Hangover . Endless Love . Touch Me In The Morning . I'm Still Waiting . Chain Reaction . You Are Everything . My Old Piano .

Released on October 26, 1973, Diana &

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Happy Birthday Quincy Jones. ‘Today is ‘Super Q’s Day”

This day (March 14, 1933), in Seattle, Washington, is born Quincy Delightt Jones a.k.a. Quincy Jones, an American record producer, conductor, arranger, film composer, ..

Tracklist :

1 . w/ Big Band – Moanin’

2 . The 75Th Birthday Celebration Live At Montreux (2008)

3 . w/ Toots Thielemans, Patti Austin – Setembro (1996)

4 . Back On Block Live (1991)

5 . w/ Tamia & Babyface – Slow Jams

6 . w/ Miles Davis – Montreux Jazz Festival

7 . w/ Frank Sinatra – Stormy Weather

8 . w/ Big Band – Killer Joe (1981)

9 . w/ Big Band – Ai No Corrida (1981)

10 . Live In Switzerland (1960)

Tracklist :

Summer in the City . Soul Bossa Nova . Ai No Corrida . Blues in the Night . Ironside . Desafinado . It's My Party (feat. Amy Winehouse) . The Dude . Just Once . The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite) .

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We remember Mary Wilson. ‘Oh Mary Love, My ….’

This day (February 8, 2021), in Henderson, Nevada, died Mary Wilson, American singer and founding member of The Supremes

Tracklist :

1 . Imagine (2018)

2 . I Am Changing (2015)

3 . Up Close The Copa Room

4 . Stop In The Name Of Love (2010)

5 . w/ Sugababes – Stop (2008)

6 . w/ James Gavin – The Lena Horne Project

7 . Walk The Line

8 . Green River

9 . The Supremes – Baby Love

10 . In Soul Train Line

Tracklist :

Oooh Child . Life's Been Good To me . Don't Get Mad, Get Even .

More Hits by The Supremes is their sixth studio album (released on July 23, 1965) that includes Stop! In the Name of Love and Back in My Arms Again. >>

Released on August 31, 1964, Where Did Our Love Go is the second studio album by The Supremes. >>

Released on February 18, 1966, I Hear a Symphony is an album

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Singing Broadway

Eighty six famous artists sing seventy songs lifted from sixty-one Broadway Shows. This is our special "Singing Broadway" in video

Track Listing :



1.Barbra Streisand / People (From "Funny Girl") - 05:01 . 2.Judy Garland / Get Happy (From "Summer Stock") - 02:41 . 3.Tony Bennett & Buddy Rich / Manhattan (From "The Garrick Gaieties") - 03:47 . 4.Sarah Brightman / Somewhere (From "West Side Story") - 02:32 . 5.Marisa Monte / Speak Low (From "One Touch Of Venus") - 02:49 . 6.Carly Simon / My Romance (From "Jumbo") - 02:56 . 7.Natalie Cole / Thou Swell (From "A Connecticut Yankee") - 02:38 . 8.Dean Martin & Judy Holliday / Just In Time (From "Bells Are Ringing") - 04:55 . 9.Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse / Body And Soul (From "Three'S A Crowd") - 03:22 . 10.Fred Astaire & Judy Garland/ Easter…

Motown publish The Temptations’s ‘For Lovers Only,’ their final album with Melvin Franklin (1995)

The Temptations's 'For Lovers Only' is an album (featuring the final recordings of Melvin Franklin) released on September 26, 1995 by Motown.

1 . Some Enchanting Evening

2 . Some Enchanted Evening (1995)

3 . Time After Time

Track Listing : 1.Some Enchanted Evening (Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Richard Rodgers) - 05:28 . 2.I'Ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 05:49 . 3.At Last (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 04:44 . 4.Night And Day (Cole Porter) - 03:53 . 5.Time After Time (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 04:59 . 6.Melvin'S Interlude (Isaias Gamboa) - 01:29 . 7.Life Is But A Dream (Raoul Cita, Hy Weiss) - 04:26 . 8.What A Diff'Rence A Day Makes (Stanley Adams, María Mendez Grever) - 06:17 . 9.I'M Glad There Is You (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Mertz) - 05:17 . 10.South Shell

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We remember Andy Williams. ‘Across The Moon River’

This day ( September 25, 2012) in Branson, Missouri, U.S., died Howard Andrew Andy Williams, an American singer.

Tracklist :

1 . w/ Henry Mancini – Moon River

2 . Love Story On The Muppet Show!

3 . w/ Antonio Carlos Jobim – Girl From Ipanema

4 . w/ Sammy Davis, Jr. – Breezin’ Along with the Breeze

5 . w/ Julie Andrews – Language Of Love

6 . w/ Tony Bennett – City Medley

Tracklist :

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year . Moon River . Can’t Take My Eyes Off You . Sleigh Ride . Music To Watch Girls By . Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season . White Christmas . Can’t Get Used To Losing You . Born Free . Do You Hear What I Hear? .

Wikipedia : This day ( September 25, 2012) in Branson, Missouri, U.S., died Howard Andrew Andy Williams, an American singer.

Andy Williams | Official Web Site :

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Happy Birthday Patti Austin. ‘Austin Power’

This day (August 10, 1950), in Harlem, New York, is born Patti Austin, an American R&B and jazz music singer who made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five.

Tracklist :

1 . Mack The Knife (2019)

2 . w/ l'Orchestra Jazz Siciliana - Ella now and Then (2019)

3 . Get Happy (2018)

4 . Mr. Paganini (2016)

5 . w/ Kurt Elling - Too Close For Comfort (2015)

6 . You Gotta Be (2014)

7 . How Do You Keep The Music Playing (2008)

8 . How High The Moon (2007)

9 . You Gotta Be

10 . w/ James Ingram - Baby, Come To Me (1998)

11 . w/ George Benson - I'Ll Keep Your Dreams Alive (1992)

12 . w/ Quincy Jones - Razzamatazz

Tracklist :

Baby, Come To Me . Through The Test Of Time . Say You Love Me . Love Is Gonna Getcha . Little Baby .Don't Go
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Warner Bros. publish Al Jarreau’s fifth album : ‘Breakin’ Away’ (1981)

Al Jarreau's 'Breakin' Away' is his fifth album produced by Jay Graydon and released on June 30, 1981 by Warner Bros.

1 . We're In This Love Together (Official Video)

2 . We're In This Love Together (Live, 1994)

3 . Easy (Milan, 1983)

4 . Easy (Live)

5 . Al Jarreau (London 1984)

6 . Roof Garden (Official Video)

7 . Jazz Day (2013)

8 . TEACH ME TONIGHT

Track Listing : 1.Closer To Your Love (Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau) - 03:54 . 2.My Old Friend (Steve George, John Lang, Richard Page) - 04:26 . 3.We'Re In This Love Together (Roger Murrah, Keith Stegall) - 03:44 . 4.Easy (Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau) - 05:23 . 5.Our Love (Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau) - 03:53 . 6.Breakin' Away (Tom Canning, Jay Graydon, Al Jarreau) - 04:12 . 7.Roof Garden (Tom Canning, Jay Graydon,

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Happy Birthday Tom Jones. ‘Miner Tom’

This day (June 7, 1940), in Treforest, Pontypridd, Wales, is born Sir Thomas John Woodward a.k.a Tom Jones, a Welsh singer.

Tracklist :

1 . Knock On Wood (2020)

2 . w/ Bethzienna Williams - Cry To Me (2019)

3 . Don't Knock (2017)

4 . New Kiss (2016)

5 . Take My Love (2015)

6 . w/ Sally Barker - Walking In Memphis (2014)

7 . Soul of a Man (2012)

8 . Sex Bomb (1999)

9 . Green Green Grass Of Home (1989)

10 . Rock N Roll Medley (1974)

11 . w/ Aretha Franklin - Medley (1970)

12 . w/ Ella Fitzgerald - Sunny (1970)

13 . w/ Janis Joplin - Raise Your Hand (1969)

14 . w/ Dusty Springfield (1967)

15 . Live In Australia (1965)

16 . w/ Cerys Matthews - Baby Its Cold Outside

Tracklist :

It's Not Unusual . Thunderball . Delilah . Burning Down The House . Sex Bomb . Green Green Grass Of Home .What's
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ATCO release ‘Donny Hathaway,’ his second album produced by Jerry Wexler (1971)

'Donny Hathaway' is his eponymous second studio album Released on April 2, 1971 by ATCO

1 . Put Your Hand In The Hand

2 . Put Your Hand In The Hand (on "The Flip Wilson Show")

Donny Hathaway - Donny Hathaway

Track Listing : 1.Giving Up (Van Mccoy) - 06:20 . 2.A Song For You (Leon Russell) - 05:25 . 3.Little Girl (Billy Preston) - 04:47 . 4.He Ain'T Heavy, He'S My Brother (Bob Russell, Bobby Scott) - 05:55 . 5.Magnificent Sanctuary Band (Dorsey Burnette) - 04:24 . 6.She Is My Lady (George S. Clinton) - 05:33 . 7.I Believe In Music (Mac Davis) - 03:38 . 8.Take A Love Song (Donny-Hathaway, Nadine Mckinnor) - 04:53 . 9.Put Your Hand In The Hand (Gene Maclellan) - 03:49

Musicians : Donny Hathaway

- Vocals, Keyboards . King Curtis- Tenor Saxophone . Joe Newman - Trumpet . Chuck Rainey - Bass…

Happy Birthday Liza Minnelli. ‘Lady Liza’

This day ( March 12, 1946), in Hollywood, California, is born Liza May Minnelli, an American actress and singer, the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli.

Tracklist :

1 . New York, New York (2011)

2 . You’ve Let Yourself Go (2008)

3 . @ Susana Giménez (2007)

4 . w/ Ann Hampton Callaway – Stormy Weather

5 . On Creating The Look Of Cabaret

6 . For The World Goes Round (1995)

7 . w/ Julie Walters – Stepping Out (1991)

8 . Losing My Mind

9 . w/ Frank Sinatra – New York New York.

10 . In London (1986)

11 . Bad Gastein/Austria Silvestergala (1982 )

12 . The Muppet Show (1979)

13 . w/ Joel Grey – Money

14 . w/ Judy Garland – Chicago

15 . 17 Year Old Liza Minnelli – Talks About Show Business

Tracklist :

Cabaret . Maybe This Time . Mein Herr . All That Jazz . Losing My Mind .Single
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Ella Fitzgerald records ‘Ella in Japan: ‘S Wonderful’ a live album for Verve (1964)

Ella Fitzgerald's 'Ella in Japan:'s Wonderful' is a live album recorded on January 19 and 22, 1964 at Hibiya Public Hall and Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan and released in 2011 by Verve.

1 . S'Wonderful (w/ Sammy Davis, Jr., On "The Ed Sullivan Show")

2 . Hallelujah, I Love Him So

3 . Meraviglioso, Misty

4 . Shiny Stockings (Japan, 1964)

5 . I Love Being Here With You (Japan, 1964)

Track Listing : 1.Cheek To Cheek (Irving Berlin) - 03:47 . 2.Deep Purple (Peter Derose, Mitchell Parish) - 03:59 . 3.Too Close For Comfort (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George Weiss) - 02:20 . 4.I Love Being Here With You (Peggy Lee, William Schluger) - 03:21 . 5.Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (Bart Howard) - 03:00 . 6.'S Wonderful (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 02:34 . 7.I'Ve Got You Under My Skin

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Wynton Marsalis’ ‘Crescent City Christmas Card’ is a holiday album featuring Kathleen Battle and Jon Hendricks (1990)

Wynton Marsalis' 'Crescent City Christmas Card' is a holiday album featuring Kathleen Battle and Jon Hendricks and released in January, 1990 by Columbia.

1 . Winter Wonderland

3 . 'twas The Night Before Christmas

4 . Jazz Christmas Song (The Hudson Union Society)

Track Listing : 1.Carol Of The Bells (Mykola Leontovych, Traditional) - 04:56 . 2.Silent Night (Franz Gruber, Joseph Mohr) - Feat: . 3.Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley) - 03:09 . 4.Little Drummer Boy (Katherine Davis, Henry Onerati, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone) - 05:29 . 5.We The Three Kings (Sidney Arodin, John Henry Hopkins, Jr., Traditional) - 05:22 . 6.Oh Tannenbaum (Traditional) - 01:39 . 7.Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish) - Feat: . 8.Let It Snow! Let It

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Frank Sinatra records the album ‘A Man and His Music’ for Reprise (1965)

Frank Sinatra's 'A Man and His Music' is a double album recorded from December 19, 1960 till October 21, 1965, with various conductors and released in 1965 by Reprise.

1 . Luck Be A Lady (1966)

2 . My Kind Of Town (Live)

3 . The Oldest Established (w/ Dean Martin)

4 . I'Ve Got You Under My Skin

5 . Witchcraft

6 . Young At Heart

7 . Young At Heart (1965)

Track Listing : 1.Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) (Paul Mann, George David Weiss, Ruth Lowe) - 03:10 . 2.All Or Nothing At All (Jack Lawrence, Arthur Altman) - 04:26 . 3.I'Ll Never Smile Again (Ruth Lowe) - 02:49 . 4.There Are Such Things (George W. Meyer, Stanley Adams, Abel Baer) - 02:57 . 5.I'Ll Be Seeing You (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 03:06 . 6.The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else) (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones) - 03:03 .

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Four Jazz Messengers Euro Gigs

On October 9, 1989, two days before his 70th birthday, Art Blakey took his Jazz Messengers to the Leverkusen Jazz festival in Germany.

The concert turned out to be a special event when ex Messengers joined the party. From the Fifties / Sixties line-ups : Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Jackie McLean. From the Eighties : Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison.

Benny Golson, he was there on November 30, 1958 at Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Belgium

Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, they were there five years later at the Festival Internazionale Del Jazz in San Remo, Italy.

Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison, they were there twenty years later at the "Montreux Jazz Festival" in Switzerland.

Leverkusen, Brussels, San Remo, Montreux. "Four Jazz









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Wintertime (1)

From 'Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow' to 'Winter Weather' , we have mixed 20 'Jazz' tunes around the theme of 'Winter (Cold Side)'. It has George Benson, Pauline London, Stan Getz, Wayne Newton and many more.

Kicks on My List

From 'Ain't That A Kick In The Head' to 'Get On The Good Foot' , we have mixed 20 'Jazz & Soul' tunes around the theme of 'Soccer'. "Kicks on My List" has John Coltrane, Art Van Damme, Otis Redding, Michael Bublé and many more.