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Frankie Randall Sings and Swings teams the crooner with arranger Marty Paich to create an appealingly modern spin on old-school supper-club swing. While rooted in the conventions of Sinatra, the album also incorporates elements of contemporary pop and jazz to forge a genuinely soulful approach...

Dino: The Essential Dean Martin is an attempt by Capitol Records to fill up a single CD to the brim (30 tracks in nearly 78 minutes) with Dean Martin hits in the manner of the Beatles' 1. It's a welcome development from a label that was previously content to survey the same territory...

This was one instance where the Capitol Collector's series got it right on target. Released in 1989, this 20-song collection is the best and most reasonably priced collection of Dean Martin's hits that one can buy, covering his chart career from his 1948 single "That Certain...

The Essential Dean Martin compiles the best of the silky crooner's work with Capitol during the 1950s (and, in one case, the early '60s). His easy-going style and cool phrasing (along with his Rat Pack persona) made Martin a star, and this disc features him singing songs that have...

Issued by Capitol Records' discount label, this 12-track, 32-minute Dean Martin compilation contains most of his hit singles of the 1950s, including "Memories Are Made of This," "That's Amoré," and "Return to Me." (The 1989 Capitol Collectors Series...

Martin Taylor has long been one of the most accomplished guitarists on the jazz scene and while he has performed with a number of different guitarists in a duo setting, this time around he chose to play duets with himself via overdubbing. Choosing a dozen tunes, including standards, jazz...

Mary Martin and Noël Coward were still-prominent veteran entertainers when they joined together in October 1955 to appear on the live, 90-minute television special that is aurally reproduced here. The 41-year-old Martin was fresh from her Broadway and TV triumph in #Peter Pan, only the...

This eight-CD box set, containing 225 tracks and running almost nine-and-a-half hours, traces Dean Martin's singing career from July 1946, when he cut his first singles for Diamond Records, to November 18, 1955, the last song being "Innamorata," which became a Top 40 hit....

This British two-fer combines Dean Martin's fourth (This Time I'm Swingin'!, 1960) and second (Pretty Baby, 1957) regular studio albums onto one CD. The later album, heard first, was Martin's initial collaboration with conductor/arranger Nelson Riddle. It was an easy,...

13 songs from the funk-jazz period of Medeski, Martin & Wood's career before their move from Grammavision to the Blue Note label, Last Chance to Dance Trance documents the period when the trio was building their fan base both in and out of the jazz world. Irresistibly catchy, this album...

The only surprising thing about an album of Italian songs by Dean Martin, the most overtly Italian of the Italian-American pop singers, was that it wasn't recorded until near the end of Martin's recording contract with Capitol Records. Maybe it was the success of similar albums by...

The 2002 version of the Everybody Loves Somebody, All Music Guide

Medeski, Martin & Wood had already created a series of fine albums and a fervent following before they were signed to Blue Note, one of the most prestigious labels in jazz history. But rather than taking it easy after having made it in the jazz world, MM&W actually pushed the envelope...

Issued as part of a series in conjunction with the major television documentary series #The Blues, this is a hop-skip-jump 12-song compilation of tracks spanning nearly half a century, from the early '50s to the late '90s. For a man whose prolific career has actually been the subject...

Although he did not know it at the time, this would be Benny Waters' last European session as a leader, for his 40 years spent overseas would soon be ending. Age 80 at the time, Waters decided to stick exclusively to clarinet for the project even though he tended to be stronger on tenor and...

Martin Bejerano had only made appearances as a sideman with Roy Haynes and Russell Malone prior to making his debut recording as a leader, and it serves as an impressive introduction to his work. Joined by two musicians, bassist Edward Perez and drummer Ludwig Alfonso, with whom he had never...

Deep Roots Hidden Waters is a set of deep Native American ambience from Deborah Martin. It is one of the defining moments in Spotted Peccary's quest to define modern native music. Martin's sound-design skills are in top form on this CD. She plays the musical elements off each other to...