Definitive Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B00006F2WV
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #312,628 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Tea for Two

2. Straighten up and Fly Right

3. Jumpin' at Capitol

4. Sweet Lorraine

5. It's Only a Paper Moon

6. Body and Soul

7. Riffamarole

8. Sweet Georgia Brown

9. The Way You Look Tonight

10. Airiness à la Nat [Alternate Take]

11. Route 66

12. Lester Leaps In

13. I Found a New Baby

14. Honeysuckle Rose

15. Too Marvelous for Words

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars jazz man fan, April 15, 2003

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This review is from: Definitive Nat King Cole (Audio CD)

If you are a Nat King Cole afficianado you will welcome this album for your collection. Long before Nat became a superstar [ a title he absolutely deserved] on Capital during the 50's-60's he was well known to the jazz artists of the 30's-40's for his incredible piano playing. On this album he sings a kind of nightclub lounge performer with just bass and guitar.In fact, so well appreciated by his swing contemporaries, his trio was the basis for the fantastic Oscar Peterson trios with bass and guitar to follow. The guitarist is the incredibly tasty Oscar Moore, and you also get to hear some Lester Young tenor sax, and a nice helping of alto star willie smith from the Lunceford great big band days. The sound except for one or two "old" sources, basically this is 44-48 times, is quite fine. Nat sings beautifully, effortlessly as always, and the pianistics are out of this world.