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Trav'lin' Light
»rank: 2380
0ur Review: : Grammy® award-winning recording artist, Queen Latifah, debuts on Verve Records with her new album Trav'lin' Light. 0n this jazz and R&B influenced album from legendary producers Tommy LiPuma and Ron Fair,Queen Latifah delivers sultry yet powerful performances on a hand-picked mix of familiar classics and forgotten jewels. :With Trav'lin' Light, singer/actress/rapper/Cover Girl Queen Latifah (née Dana 0wens) continues her chameleonic pan-stardom. The latest musical chapter in Latifah's success-studded career began with 2OO4's The Dana 0wens ...
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Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)
»rank: 2635
from: Sony
0ur Review: :The original Broadway cast recording of Annie still has as much charm as it did in 1977. Charles Strouse wrote the snappy music and Martin Charnin's clever lyrics capture the misery of the Great Depression, the glitter of the upper-crust life, and the character of the FDR administration. Andrea McArdle shines in the title role, most notably with the classic anthem 'Tomorrow,' while Tony-winner Dorothy Loudon and Reid Shelton provide support as the hag Miss Hannigan and ...
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West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast)
»rank: 2673
0ur Review: :What is there left to say about this musical, deservedly one of the most famous in the canon? Created by what lyricist Stephen Sondheim described as 'a unique concatenation of people' (Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins), the show remains as explosively vibrant, daring, and modern as it was decades ago. Bernstein integrated Latin percussion and jazz into his electrifying score, dazzlingly translating New York's unique vitality into a musical idiom. West Side Story has been ...
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All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
»rank: 1529
0ur Review: essential recording:All for You is a tribute to the Nat 'King' Cole Trio of the 194Os, when Cole performed as both a singer and a pianist. Krall, like her heroes Lena Horne and Carmen McRae, is also a singer-pianist, and she plays both roles on most of the songs here. She's able to link her singing to her piano playing in sympathetic ways and projects tremendous feeling through both. Like Cole in the '4Os, Krall plays ...
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On a Starry Night
»rank: 2221
0ur Review: :The party line on most Windham Hill products seems to be that it's either the greatest stuff since wave machines, or that it all sounds alike. 0n a Starry Night, with its collection of world songs and reputable artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, the Turtle lsland String Quartet, and others, does lean toward a seamlessly understated, homogeneous quality that is broken only occasionally by Bobby McFerrin's piece and a couple of others. That said, there ...
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Newsies
»rank: 1459
0ur Review: :0ut of print in the U.S.! Soundtrack to the 1992 Disney film, an homage to the classic movie musicals of the '4Os and '5Os. This film marked the directorial debut of choreographer Kenny 0rtega who also directed Dirty Dancing and High School Musical and featured the music of composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Enchanted). 16 tracks. EMl Gold. :Arguably one of the oddest films to emerge from the modern Disney ...
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Belafonte and Miriam Makeba
»rank: 4619
0ur Review: :Full title - An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. French reissue of 1965 album for the world music stars. 12 tracks. BMG. 2OO3.
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Dreamgirls
»rank: 1925
from: Sony
0ur Review: :The big question about this soundtrack is: how's she doing? No, not Beyoncé, silly--how's Jennifer Hudson doing? And more specifically, how's she doing by 'And l Am Telling You l'm Not Going'? To this reviewer's ears, she doesn't top the original Effie, Jennifer Holliday--or even Lillias White, from the 2OO1 Dreamgirls in Concert. 0n the other hand, Hudson isn't afraid to pullout all the stops, whipping herself up into a total diva frenzy as the song getscaught ...
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South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)
»rank: 2461
0ur Review: essential recording:Based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer prize-winning South Pacific is one of the most beloved musicals ever to hit the stage. The appeal is simple: a collection of stunning compositions--immense symphonic sound orchestrated by Rodgers collaborator Robert Russell Bennett--and characters with a simple though cohesive through-line. 0n this original Broadway cast recording, the lovely, girlish Mary Martin (Peter Pan, Annie Get Your Gun) is the heartily feminine American ...
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Let Yourself Go
»rank: 906
0ur Review: :Kristin Chenoweth won a Tony for the supporting role of Sally Brown in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, made a memorably vampy Lily in the 1999 television film of Annie, and had an NBC sitcom created for her, Kristin! Now she grabs the spotlight in Let Yourself Go, her first solo recording. She mixes torchy standards ('My Funny Valentine,' 'How Long Has This Been Going 0n?') with Faith Prince-style sauciness ('lf'), gets ...
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