Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRANK SINATRA J.F.K. cut him off, but a G.O.P. Congress votes Ol' Blue Eyes a medal. He finally...
...speaker, of course, is Frank Sinatra, introducing Angel Eyes on the forthcoming CD Live in Australia, 1959. The vintage is important: this isn't the coarse, harder-swinging Sinatra of the '60s or the performer of more recent decades who increasingly barked and bit his way through songs. Those Sinatras already have live albums. Here, for the first time on an official release, is Sinatra in front of an audience at close to his mid-'50s prime, the voice still lithe, graceful and burnished--and dubious hits like My Way yet to be written...
...Sinatra has always occupied a gray area between jazz and pop. The small group setting here--vibraphonist Red Norvo's quintet plus longtime Sinatra pianist Bill Miller--frees him to the extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn...
...world" --just the sort of boosterish hyperbole one expects from a New York City mayor. But Giuliani does have a point. Times Square probably has as great a hold on the nation's imagination as any piece of American real estate: The Great White Way! Bobby-soxers and Frank Sinatra...
Indeed, in the wake of Wallace's death, as with Shakur's, records bearing his name sold out in stores nationwide; the new CD is expected to be a hot seller. Americans have long been drawn to the symbiosis between criminal life and pop culture--from Frank Sinatra and his alleged mobster pals to the success of the Godfather saga, which is scheduled for an anniversary re-release this week, to the fact that John Gotti's daughter has a new novel out. In the case of gangsta rap, however, the music, though often purchased by suburban whites, is primarily...