Release Date: 15 July 2022
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559469210
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
2 complete LPs on 1 CD with 12-page booklet, this release compiles two of the most jazz oriented and swinging albums of Sinatra's career: 'Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!' and 'A Swingin' Affair!'
Included here in their entirety, both albums feature Nelson Riddle in the dual capacity of arranger and conductor and boast the talents of such important jazz soloists as Harry "Sweets" Edison and Buddy Collette, among many others.
"Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! is a fast, driving album, the speediest and hardest swing collection Frank Sinatra ever recorded. It's one of his jazziest swing sets, with the musicians spitting out energetic, forceful solos and providing tough, gutsy support. Not only do the up-tempo numbers speed by, the ballads are sprightly. It has a confident, swaggering flavour of its own." - ***** Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic
"A Swingin' Affair! is a forceful, brassy album - it exudes a self-assured, confident aura. It is a hard, jazzy album. However, the attack is more brash." - ***** Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic
Tracklisting
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Nina Simone
Coleman Hawkins
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Judy Garland
