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...NAT KING COLE: COLE, CHRISTMAS & KIDS (Capitol). Most of us have heard the great man cook up his "chestnuts roasting on an open fire," but this collection pulls together a graceful, occasionally goofy group of 13 Cole Yuletide greetings. He wrings some swing out of All I Want for Christmas, goes mitten-to-mitten with a chorus of brats on Frosty the Snowman and does a silken Brahms' Lullaby. And, yes, The Christmas Song is here too -- talk about pulling chestnuts out of the fire...
...obligatory cries of acclamation. None of this "the king lives!" stuff. And no "once and future king" either. They may be true, but they sound a little stiff somehow, something his music never was. So -- taking a cue from the music itself -- let's just salute the memory of Nat King Cole with one bright "flash!," a loud "bam!" and a reverent but resounding "alakazam...
...most important (flash! bam!), the intrepid Mosaic Records has just released The Complete Capitol Recordings of The Nat King Cole Trio: 18 CDs or 27 LPs, with a total of 349 cuts and about 17 hours of music. Great American music comes in lots of styles, but whatever the sound, it doesn't get much greater than this. Any one of the tunes in this collection can swing you off on a cashmere cloud...
...NAT KING COLE: BIG BAND COLE (Capitol). Now that Nat has got to the top of the charts again, via a ghostly duet with his daughter Natalie, this is the perfect time to discover Pop in his prime, singing and swinging his way through 17 standards backed by a big band, predominantly Count Basie's, on this welcome reissue...
President, Nat'l Bureau for Economic Research 1977-present...