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Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote & Mercury Recordings
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| Artist: Nat King Cole |
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| Label: Verve |
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Regular Price: $47.95
On Sale For: $39.97 |
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| Year: 2010 |
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CD
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LIMITED EDITION QUANTITY: 7000 copies
There’s much more to Nat King Cole than you know.
Nat was surely a smooth singer and a gentle swinger. But he was also a consummate jazz piano player who recorded secretly as a sideman for Keynote and Mercury – using amusing pseudonyms – even as he rose to fame recording hit after hit for Capitol Records. Riffin’: The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings, a 3-CD box set on Hip-oSelect.com’s Verve Select imprint, features Nat backing his many friends in the 1940s, as well as his original King Cole Trio singles on Decca – a total of 53 tracks significantly restored and remastered, and housed in a beautiful 7 3/8” square box set with a 30-page book stuffed with rare photos, a brilliant essay by David Ritz, detailed session notes and reproductions of the original releases’ artwork, from 78 RPM labels to 10-inch LP covers and much more.
Although famous for his singing, Nat was a sympathetic sideman revered by musicians for his taste, elegance and grooving riffs. He got that rep first with his brother Eddie’s band the Solid Swingers, then in his own King Cole Trio in the early 1940s, when he was first heard vocalizing. These are the tunes recorded for Decca that make up most of Disc 1; best known among them is his first hit, “Sweet Lorraine.” Bonus tracks include four swingin’ Keynoter label recordings from ’46, led by saxophonist Willie Smith and featuring one “Lord Calvert” – a.k.a. Nat King Cole on piano.
Nat was also the pianist for Norman Granz’s first Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) concerts, trading solos with the future legend Les Paul and others in the summer of ’44 – while he’s otherwise a headlining superstar – and those rousing live jam sessions make up Disc 2. The set’s Disc 3 features Nat as “Aye Guy,” playing behind Dexter Gordon, and Lester “Pres” Young and Buddy Rich – significant sessions that are Dex’s first as a leader and Pres’ first after a horrific Army stint. Bonus tracks are alternates of the Keynoters tracks.
All of these display what the late great Oscar Peterson called Nat’s “relaxed sense of melody and rhythmic genius.”
All tracks featuring Nat King Cole at the piano.
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ARTISTS
Nat King Cole (piano) |
TRACKS
Disc 1: King Cole Trio & The Keynoters
1. Sweet Lorraine
2. This Side Up
3. Honeysuckle Rose
4. Gone With The Draft
5. Gone With The Draft - Alternate Take
6. Babs
7. Early Morning Blues
8. Scotchin’ With The Soda
9. Slow Down
10. This Will Make You Laugh
11. Hit The Ramp
11. Hit The Ramp
12. I Like To Riff
13. Stop! The Red Lights On
14. Call The Police
15. Are You Fer It?
16. That Ain’t Right
17. Hit That Jive, Jack
18. Honey Hush
19. Thunder
20. Stompin’ At The Panama
21. (Bedtime) Sleep, Baby Sleep
22. Honey Hush - Alternate Take
23. The Way You Look Tonight
24. Airiness A La Nat
25. I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
26. My Old Flame
Disc 2: JATP 1944
1. Lester Leaps In
2. Tea For Two
3. Blues
4. Body And Soul
5. Sweet Lorraine
6. The Man I Love
7. I’ve Found A New Baby
8. Rosetta
9. Bugle Call Rag
10. One O’Clock Jump
11. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
Disc 3: Dexter Gordon, Lester Young & Keynote Alternates
1. I’ve Found a New Baby
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. Rosetta
4. I Blowed and Gone
5. I Cover The Waterfront
6. Somebody Loves Me
7. I’ve Found A New Baby
8. Back To The Land
9. I Want To Be Happy
10. Peg O’ My Heart
11. Mean To Me
12. The Man I Love
13. I Cover The Waterfront - Alternate Version
14. The Way You Look Tonight - Alternate Version
15. Airiness A La Nat - Alternate Version
16. I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me - Alternate Version
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