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...FRANK SINATRA: A TOUR DE FORCE (Bravura). A live bootleg recording of a 1959 concert in Melbourne, Australia, with the Red Norvo Quintet. It's not only Sinatra's generic greatness that makes this one a must. He seldom worked with small groups, and the agility of Norvo and friends really gives the Chairman room to move. And when Sinatra moves, the earth does...
...Cole was that good. He could sing up there with Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Tony Bennett; "one of our four or five most awe-inspiring and most popular mainstream vocalists" is the way Will Friedwald sums it up in his kinetic and knowledgeable essays accompanying the set. Along with that considerable distinction, Cole was also a superb keyboard man, mightily influenced by the great Earl Hines and able to hold his own against -- if not precisely surpass -- his mentor and the likes of Art Tatum. When he became a pop superstar, he gradually shed the bass and guitar that had been...
...selling boxed sets of CDs featuring legends from Bob Dylan to Frank Sinatra have created a desperate desire among pop stars for this new badge of legitimacy. Get ready for overkill: retrospective collections of the Monkees, the Carpenters and Great Speeches of the 20th Century...
...TONY BENNETT (Columbia/Legacy) is a four-disc retrospective of one of the world's best song stylists. Not an act of autohagiography, like the current Barbra Streisand set, this 87-tune panorama showcases a singer who is as gracious with a melody as he is generous with his collaborators. Sinatra may supply more drama, Cole may have been cooler, but no one can get to the quick of a lyric with the easy emotion of Bennett. The selections range from the pop- heavy The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (1950) through some surprises (a swinging, ebullient 1967 version of Al Jolson...
...says. Then when Christa was in third grade, Arlette went back to school. For the past two years, she has taken charge of the library at Aberdeen's Simmons Junior High. "My whole life," she says impishly, "I've done in reverse. I feel like Frank Sinatra. I've done...