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Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1993)

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Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1993)

Lena Horne - Stormy Weather (1993)
XLD Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 334 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 138 Mb
Scans Included | 00:53:23 | RAR 5% Recovery
Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | Classic Jazz #CDCD 1084

Lena Horne was an international jazz superstar and a dynamic performer of striking appearance and elegant style. Singer/actress Lena Horne's primary occupation was nightclub entertaining, a profession she pursued successfully around the world for more than 60 years, from the 1930s to the 1990s. In conjunction with her club work, she also maintained a recording career that stretched from 1936 to 2000 and brought her three Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989; she appeared in 16 feature films and several shorts between 1938 and 1978; she performed occasionally on Broadway, including in her own Tony-winning one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, in 1981-1982; and she sang and acted on radio and television.

Lena Horne - The Best Of Lena Horne: The United Artists & Blue Note Recordings (2007) 2CDs

Posted By: Designol
Lena Horne - The Best Of Lena Horne: The United Artists & Blue Note Recordings (2007) 2CDs

Lena Horne - The Best Of Lena Horne: The United Artists & Blue Note Recordings (2007) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 754 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 317 Mb | Scans included | 02:09:21
Vocal Jazz, Swing, Traditional Pop, Show Tunes | Label: EMI Gold | # 0946 3 97388 2 3

2007 two CD set celebrating the life and music of the world-famous entertainer who has won numerous Grammy and Tony awards, appeared on television and in feature films and recorded enchanting music for over six decades. Features 40 tracks including 'Stormy Weather', 'Prelude To A Kiss', 'What The Word Needs Now Is Love', 'On A Wonderful Day Like Today', 'Softly As I Leave You' and many more.

VA - Cole Porter Song Book: The Platinum Collection (1998) 2CD

Posted By: Designol
VA - Cole Porter Song Book: The Platinum Collection (1998) 2CD

VA - Cole Porter Song Book: The Platinum Collection (1998) 2CD
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 342 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 261 Mb | Scans included
Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop, Standards, Swing | Label: Start | # PC622 | Time: 01:52:03

Cole Porter was one of a handful of American musical colossi. He had the genius to conjure up improbable rhyming lyrics to catchy melodies delivering not only a single song but as often or not a whole conundrum of numbers collected within the sphere of a show. This collection of 40 songs exemplifies the talent of Cole Porter and is a testament (tribute) to his longevity in musical history. Wit, humour, sophistication, rhythmic and key changes are small change to his ability.Who else could win a challenge to produce 'Miss Otis Regrets' after questioned whether he could write lyrics from the next words he heard? The cast of star celebrities in this collection say it all. Sinatra, Bennett, Crosby, Ella, Billie, Nat, Marlene, Judy to name a few. Also, the bigger bands of not so long ago, Nat Gonella, Jack Hylton, Geraldo. These need preservation orders and what better than endorse the master composer Mr Cole Porter? Add this to your collection.

Lena Horne - We'll Be Together Again (1994)

Posted By: Designol
Lena Horne - We'll Be Together Again (1994)

Lena Horne - We'll Be Together Again (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 288 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 133 Mb | Scans ~ 108 Mb
Genre: Vocal Jazz | Label: Blue Note | # CDP-528974 | Time: 00:58:07

We'll Be Together Again is a 1994 album by Lena Horne. At the 1995 Grammy Awards, Horne was nominated for a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance for this album. Lena Horne is nine years older than the 70-something Tony Bennett, and like him has lost a good bit of power and tone from her voice. Unlike Bennett, though, she doesn't try to bull her way through her vocal limits on We'll Be Together Again; she stays within those limits and fashions a striking testament to the subtleties of romance and friendship in one's autumnal years. Billy Strayhorn was one of Horne's very best off-stage friends, and seven of the 16 tracks here were written by Strayhorn and/or his partner Duke Ellington. Three more songs–"My Buddy," "Old Friend" and the title tune–are heartfelt remembrances of those once dearest to Horne and now gone–Strayhorn, her ex-husband, her son, her hairdresser and her wardrobe mistress.

Quincy Jones & VA - The Wiz: Original Soundtrack (1978) 2CDs, Remastered 1997

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Quincy Jones & VA - The Wiz: Original Soundtrack (1978) 2CDs, Remastered 1997

Quincy Jones & VA - The Wiz: Original Soundtrack (1978) 2CDs, Remastered 1997
EAC | FLAC (Tracks) + cue.+log ~ 512 Mb | Mp3, CBR320 kbps ~ 181 Mb | Scans ~ 99 Mb
Soundtrack, R&B, Funk, Soul, Pop | Label: MCA, Motown | # 111 649-2, MCD 11649 | 01:19:37

Get ready to click your heels-the smash-hit 1978 soundtrack to The Wiz is finally on CD! Quincy Jones, along with Ashford & Simpson, adapted the Tony Award-winning score for the film, and the list of performers is amazing: Diana Ross, a 19-year-old Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell and more. Includes Ease On Down the Road; You Can't Win; Is This What Feeling Gets? (Dorothy's Theme) , and all the rest of the numbers, plus a 24-page booklet with lyrics and original artwork and liner notes.

Lena Horne - Four Classic Albums Plus (1957-1959) [2CD Reissue 2010]

Posted By: gribovar
Lena Horne - Four Classic Albums Plus (1957-1959) [2CD Reissue 2010]

Lena Horne - Four Classic Albums Plus (1957-1959) [2CD Reissue 2010]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 675 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 369 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Avid Jazz (AMSC 1009)

Avid presents four classic Lena Horne albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered double CD. "Stormy Weather", "Give the Lady What She Wants", "At the Waldorf Astoria", "A Friend of Yours" plus the rare E.P. "At the Cocoanut Grove".
The liner notes for our first album "Stormy Weather" very accurately describe Avid's latest recruit to our four classic album series. "In singing there is Ella. In night clubs there is Hildegarde. In the movies there is Lana… and in all three- in singing, night clubs and movies there is the entertainer supreme - Lena… a fascinating mixture of talent, charm and beauty… This is Lena". Across these classic albums we can hear Lena covering the songs of Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke on "A Friend Of Yours"…

Lena Horne - An Evening With Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club (1995)

Posted By: gribovar
Lena Horne - An Evening With Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club (1995)

Lena Horne - An Evening With Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club (1995)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 268 MB | Covers included
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (CDP 7243 8 31877 2 0)

It is difficult not to love Lena Horne. Recorded when she was 77, this live CD finds the ageless singer sounding as if she were 57 at the most (and the photo of her on the cover makes her look 47). Horne talks the lyrics a little more than in the past but she cuts loose in spots with power, performs superior standards, takes part of a Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn medley as a duet with bassist Ben Brown and is not shy to hold long notes. on six of the songs 11 horns from the Count Basie Orchestra riff and play harmonies behind her; otherwise Horne is joined by her usual quartet with pianist Mike Renzi and guitarist Rodney Jones. The well-rounded set is Lena Horne's most rewarding recording in years.

Lena Horne & Michel Legrand - Lena & Michel (1975)

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Lena Horne & Michel Legrand - Lena & Michel (1975)

Lena Horne & Michel Legrand - Lena & Michel (1975)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 259 MB | Covers - 10 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: RCA (155455-2)

The recording sessions for this album, held on three consecutive February days in 1975, were comfortable, happy and exciting. The magical flow of good feelings to and from Lena and her musicians became a musical embrace happily captured on tape. As conducted and guided by the redoubtable Michel Legrand, the band assembied by co-producer Norman Schwartz joined with Lena in inspiring and sustaining a creative ambiance rarely encountered in this age of piecemeal, assembly-line records.
The music on this recording was deftly and freely shaped to fit the very special talents of a superb singer…

Lena Horne - Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena 1941-1958 (1990)

Posted By: gribovar
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena 1941-1958 (1990)

Lena Horne - Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena 1941-1958 (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 223 MB | Covers - 53 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Bluebird (9985-2-RB)

Although the very attractive Lena Horne has never really been a jazz singer, her vocals are generally of interest to jazz listeners and she has occasionally recorded in jazz settings. This Bluebird CD is pretty definitive of the first half of her career. Horne sings a pair of ballads with Charlie Barnet's 1941 orchestra and two songs (including "Don't Take Your Love From Me") with a unique Artie Shaw-led all-star band that includes Benny Carter, Red Allen, and a string section. The remainder of the disc features Horne backed by studio orchestras, and the results are superior (if sometimes overly dramatic) renditions of standards as rendered by a top-notch cabaret singer. Highlights include "Stormy Weather," "Ill Wind," "Moanin' Low," "As Long As I Live," and "It's All Right With Me."

Lena Horne - Lena Goes Latin (1963) [Reissue 1999]

Posted By: gribovar
Lena Horne - Lena Goes Latin (1963) [Reissue 1999]

Lena Horne - Lena Goes Latin (1963) [Reissue 1999]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 365 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 122 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Le Chant Du Monde (LDJ 274945)

After a lengthy and successful run on RCA from 1955-1962, Lena Horne cut a few albums for the small Charter label. Picking up on the period craze for all things Latin - mambo, bossa nova, or otherwise - Horne recorded this 1963 collection of swinging, Latinized standards for the company. With husband and bandleader Lennie Hayton directing a crack group through some fine Shorty Rogers arrangements, Horne shows off her powerful and supple voice on both obscure fare ("Cuckoo in the Clock") and perennial classics from Tin Pan Alley ("My Blue Heaven"). And while some might balk at the Mancini-like lounge touches informing highlights like the fiercely delivered "From This Moment On" and a bravura reading of "Night and Day," one must ask what would be better to temper the driving rhythms, frenetic horn charts, and Horne's theatrical phrasing…

Lena Horne - Seasons of a Life (2006)

Posted By: gribovar
Lena Horne - Seasons of a Life (2006)

Lena Horne - Seasons of a Life (2006)
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 211 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 97 MB | Covers - 8 MB
Genre: Vocal Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Blue Note (7243 8 73930 2 8)

Lena Horne had effectively retired in 2006 when Blue Note released Seasons of a Life, an album compiled for her by her musical director, Rodney Jones, and including unreleased performances recorded between 1994 and 2000. It's an effective capstone to her career, and shows that even at the age of 80, the former Cotton Club featured attraction had lost little of the verve and sophistication she exhibited throughout her career. The material comes from six different sessions, some live but most in a studio environment, including outtakes - most of which sound like outtakes - from her Blue Note albums of the '90s. Three of the performances come from the Blue Note project Classic Ellington, which allowed Simon Rattle and the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to pay tribute to Duke Ellington in a classical context…

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996) featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

Posted By: Designol
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996) featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Skyliner: 1940-1945 (1996)
featuring Lena Horne, Kay Starr & Peanuts Holland

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 343 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 170 Mb | Scans included
Big Band, Swing | Label: Giants Of Jazz, Promo Sound | # CD 53280 | Time: 01:08:32

Skyliner was one of Charlie Barnet's most exciting hit records, and quickly became as closely identified with his big band as was Ray Noble's Cherokee. This 1996 EPM Musique Jazz Anthology compilation is one of at least six Barnet albums with the word "Skyliner" in the title. Tracks one through twelve were recorded for the Bluebird label between June 19, 1940 and April 30, 1942. Tracks thirteen through twenty follow Barnet's progress through the turbulent wartime years with a trail of Decca sides cut between July 1942 and February 1944. "Skyliner" comes from a V-Disc recorded on July 13, 1944; "E-Bob-O-Lee-Bob," like "Oh Miss Jaxon" a vocal feature for trumpeter Peanuts Holland, was harvested from a Jubilee broadcast on December 6, 1945. Some of this band's arrangements were written by Horace Henderson, Billy May and by the leader himself. Most Charlie Barnet albums are well worth investigating. This one lives somewhere near the top of the heap.

Lena Horne + Gabor Szabo - Watch What Happens! (1970) {1990 MMS Classix/DCC}

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Lena Horne + Gabor Szabo - Watch What Happens! (1970) {1990 MMS Classix/DCC}

Lena Horne + Gabor Szabo - Watch What Happens! (1970) {1990 MMS Classix/DCC}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and LOG | scans | 187 mb
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | RAR | 86 mb
Genre: jazz, vocal jazz

Watch What Happens! is a 1970 collaborative album between jazz vocalist Lena Horne and guitarist Gabor Szabo. Originally a Skye and Buddah Records release, this was remastered by Steve Hoffman in 1990 for MMS Classix via DCC.