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Hoagy Sings Carmichael

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A must buy. Out of print for sometime. Winter Moon will knock you out. The album is high fidelity recorded live to two-track tape. The disc is a mirror copy of that tape. A desert island pick. True lost gem. Buy it now. You have been warned!

Mine is the same old story about the lost LP that then went out of print..Been waiting for this re-release for about a year. Nothing to fault here: Carmichael's songs are wonderful his relaxed singing style is perfectly complemented by exquisite arrangements and....Art Pepper!

Believe the other reviews and this one too. Truly one of the most enjoyable CD's I have. Hoagy's singing style will knock you out! And Art Pepper, well, what else do I have to say? This is one of those too good to be true albums. You just couldn't make it better if you tried.

This is true jazz singing, and unbelievably relaxed. A treasure of an album. The backing is ideal. The cover photograph is a great portrait, too. Don't miss Hoagy's autobiographies (two versions in one book), which give his memories of the 1920s and how he came to write his songs.

This is a classic vocal-jazz masterpiece, if you like Jack Teagarden's singing you'll also enjoy this. Charmichael's laid back style of singing with such jazz giants as Art Pepper is a jazz lovers dream come true. Highlights are "Georgia On My Mind", "Skylark" and many others. Absolutly stunning set of classic Charmichael tunes. If you like this you might also try "The Fred Astaire Story" a 2-CD set out on Verve with the JATP.

I've played this uniquely beautiful cd over and over since my recent purchase.Hoagy's kind of rough and bluesy voice combined with the absolute perfection of the jazz accompaniment creates a haunting loveliness.I especially love his rendition of (his favorite of all his songs) "Baltimore Oriole".

Hoagy Carmichael wrote songs we're all familiar with, but it's rare to hear him sing them. He's not the singer Sinatra was, but he has a marvelous relaxed style all his own. The band backing him on this CD is made up of some of the very best West Coast jazz musicians of the 50s. Art Pepper, on alto sax, puts in one of his finest performances here. As I said, a lot of these tunes are familiar to the point of being cliches, but these renditions have an authenticity that keeps them from ever being boring, and when a lesser known gem like Winter Moon comes up it's a revelation.

great sound quality. He is one of my favorites.

Being a huge Hoagy fan I like this stuff a lot, but it's probably not as good for someone just looking for a good Hoagy collection. A bit different.

Hoagy Carmichael writes and plays a relaxed coolness on this album. Taking the some of the most versatile cool jazz men of the time with him through the memories of the earlier jazz years to the present-time mid-fifties.