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...COMPLETE CAPITOL RECORDINGS OF THE NAT KING COLE TRIO (Mosaic...
Producer Michael Cuscuna tried to include only tunes "where Nat is on piano, the trio style is evident and hopefully there is some jazz content." Even such a flexible standard becomes a little restrictive by the early '50s, < when Cole turned more and more toward often wonderfully arranged orchestrations by Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Pete Rugolo and others. One of the Mosaic set's standout cuts is Cole's benchmark version, arranged by Rugolo, of Billy Strayhorn's great ballad of fantasy, loneliness and longing, Lush Life. There is also Nature Boy -- no getting away from that -- and such toothsome...
...moved with his clergyman father and family to Chicago in 1923 and started to play professionally while he was still a teenager. Guitarist Oscar Moore and bass player Wesley Prince joined him in 1937 -- a club owner had suggested to Cole that he form a trio -- and "for seven years," as the front man himself later remembered, "we knocked ourselves out." Cole had begun to sing, he later recalled, "to break the monotony," and by the time they joined Mercer's new label the trio had gone about as far in jazz and show biz as a black outfit could...
...driving, airy invention of the trio sound, first defined by such pre-Capitol hits as Sweet Lorraine, that staked their reputation. But it was Cole's singing that made them a stellar attraction. "The vocals," Cole said simply, "caught on." There were several shifts in trio personnel over the years (Irving Ashby, for example, took over the guitar when Moore departed in 1947), and the group became a quartet in 1949 with the addition of drummer Joe Costanzo. But through it all, Cole was the guiding spirit and main draw...
Bush finally did something last week -- in fact, several things. He replaced unpopular White House chief of staff John Sununu with Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, a likable moderate who has emerged as one of the Administration's smoothest troubleshooters. He appointed a trio of pragmatic political strategists -- Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, pollster Robert Teeter and Republican businessman Fred Malek -- to lead his re-election campaign. Yet before the week ended, two of Bush's advisers publicly disagreed about the wisdom of cutting taxes for the middle class, once again underscoring the divisions within the President's inner circle about...