Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbook [Box]Various Artists
Release Date: 10/22/1996
Original Release:
1996
# of Discs:
3
J&R Item # 236680_CD
UPC # 731453326224
Label: Verve (USA)
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Performer: Various Artists
Distributor: Universal Distribution Notes: Full title: The Complete Rodgers & Hart Songbooks. THE COMPLETE RODGERS & HART SONGBOOKS contains all three of the Rodgers & Hart Songbook compilations: WE'LL HAVE MANHATTAN, MY FUNNY VALENTINE and ISN'T IT ROMANTIC?, which are also available individually. Producers include: Russell Garcia, William D. Hassett, Bob Shad, Norman Granz, Buddy Bregman, Stefan F. Winter, Hy Weiss, Shirley Horn, Joel E. Siegel, Ron Berinstein, Miriam Cutler, David Kreisberg, Creed Taylor, Ray Heindorf, Stephen Scott, Richard Seidel. Compilation producer: Michael Lang. Recorded between November 30, 1949 and August 1994. Includes liner notes by James Gavin, J.R. Taylor & Neil Tesser. All lyrics written by Lorenz Hart. All music written by Richard Rodgers. The classic songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are rendered on this outstanding three-disc set, which features vocalists like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Shirley Horn, Tony Bennett and Cassandra Wilson. Among the spotlighted instrumentalists are Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson. ~ Jason Ankeny
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