Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Songbook - Oscar Peterson

Advantages: Fantastic album, range of pieces
Disadvantages: Perhaps a bit expensive for a 30 year old album

...change from the rest of the album. A wonderful piece after the first two minutes of rather odd and fragmented changes! 07) A Little Jazz Exercise The one original track on the album. This is Oscar Peterson showing off to be honest. But boy he can play, so we'll allow him. Perhaps a little twee inplaces, but 'A Little Jazz Exercise' is good fun to listen to as Peterson plays with rhythms and melodies and moves his fingers at lightening speed. 08) Django At this point the whole album slows up once more. Peterson plays with a far more mournful and bluesey lyrical style here and it makes a wonderful contrast to the comparatively trivial track before. 09) Ja-Da With a similar tempo to 'Django', 'Ja-Da' turns the notes on their heads and presents a hopeful little tune. Not my favourite on the album, but that... Read review

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Advantages: Some cracking tracks by big names.
Disadvantages: Couple of tracks that do not belong.

...shows the range of music and some pretty famous names, great stuff. ~~~Song List~~~ Disc: 1 1. Unforgettable - Nat King Cole 2. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald 3. We Have All the Time in the World - Louis Armstrong 4. The Look of Love - Diana Krall 5. My Baby Just Cares for Me - Nina Simone 6. Moondance - Van Morrison 7. I Just Want to Make Love to You - Etta James 8. Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones 9. Organ Grinder's Swing - Jimmy Smith 10. Tequila - Wes Montgomery 11. Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes 12. Hit the Road Jack - Shirley Horn 13. Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames 14. Cheek to Cheek - Stephane Grapelli 15. Night Train - Oscar Peterson 16. On the Sunny Side of the Street - Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins & Sonny Stitt 17. Stranger on the Shore - Acker Bilk 18. Acknowledgement (A... Read review

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Advantages: Some of the best songs ever written!
Disadvantages: Very bland

...John Barrowman has recently leapt into the spotlight due to a major role in the first series of the BBC's 'Doctor Who' relaunch, but has been known as a star of musicals for quite some time, and has also made various appearances in films and sitcoms. This album was presumably inspired by his recent involvement in two Cole Porter projects - the National Theatre's revival of Anything Goes and the Porter biopic De-Lovely, where he dueted with Kevin Kline on the song 'Night and Day'. Barrowman is one of those implausibly talented people - he's ludicrously handsome, he has a great singing voice, and he's an accomplished singer and dancer. The sort of man that inspires much jealousy, in short. His singing style is open and approachable, no nasal whining here. He has a wide range (he doesn't strain on any of the high notes) and you can make... Read review

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