Complete Concord Recordings [Box set]

George Shearing | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 7
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B00006NSJV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,757 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

It was a match made in heaven. In the early '80s, velvet-tone jazz vocal master, Mel Torme, teamed up with elegantly swinging jazz pianist, George Shearing, for a recording collaboration that would result in six already-classic Concord Jazz recordings over the course of eight years. Winning Grammy awards for the first two outings (An Evening With George Shearing & Mel Torme and Top Drawer) and garnering nominations for all six releases. This perfect match of musical wits brimmed with virtuosity, humor, refined taste and, of course, swing, on each and every recording. Concord Jazz is proud to present all six of these timeless Mel Torme/George Shearing albums in a special box, replete with a bonus disc featuring 17 previously unreleased tracks! Housed in a hard-back book style format with CD sleeves as pages. 2002.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the one you want, December 28, 2003

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K. Johnson (Morgantown, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Concord Recordings (Audio CD)

Mel Torme is was one of the best voices in music. He was blessed not only with a beautiful instrument, but he knew how to use it in ways no other has been able to understand or achieve. Many of the albums I've heard we're arranged with great production including strings, horns, and backup singers. This collection shows his ability to be one of the best jazz singers out there. The small ensemble allows him the freedom to bend the rules and create great improvisations along with his trademark scats. Great musicians along with a great voice make this Concord Collection a must have.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A story in itself, March 3, 2003

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Glen Gaskill (Canberra, ACT Australia) - See all my reviews
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All the Torme Shearing sides in one classic package. Not overdone just a reflection on the great combination of George and Mel. Ballads, Hip Songs, Humour, some classical overtones and marvelous piano and voice jazz. It certainly swings but also makes you laugh and cry. It's almost worth the price for the 7th CD - a collection of alternate or unissued takes. An album in itself.

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Superb !, April 12, 2008

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A. P. Van Kampen "arnold" (krommenie, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Concord Recordings (Audio CD)

The pairing of Mel Tormé with George Shearing was one of the most brilliant affairs in jazz. Only the legendary combinations of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and that of Oscar Peterson with Milt Jackson are in the same class.

Tormé & Shearing recorded 6 albums together and all were either nominated for, or won a Grammy Award. "An Evening with.....". "Top Drawer", "An evening at Charly's", "An elegant evening", "A vintage year" and "Do World War II" are all stunning, swinging, and wonderfull examples of taste and class.

Well this,- must have -, box brings you all, PLUS a complete bonus extra cd.

Maybe you think: these were "left-overs", well they are NOT.

The bonus-cd is of the same Olympic level as the other 6 and that makes this box a treasure and a collector's item as well.

All lovers of good music should have a copy and I am looking forward to a DVD of these giants.

In 1989 they toured Europe and their fabulous concert in Berlin was broadcasted, and I really hope that somebody will release that complete concert on both DVD and CD!

Maybe there is more material of this legendary couple, from other concerts ?

Well please people of the musicindustry, do yourself and us a favour and bring all out!

In the meantime we will have to do with this 7-cd box, and enjoy it over and over again.

Buy it while you can !

Arnold van Kampen, writer, jazz critic in the Netherlands.