The Very Best of Nat King Cole [Capitol] [Remaster]

Performer: Nat King Cole
Artist: Harry "Sweets" Edison
Producer: Kevin Flaherty (Compilation)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Nat King Cole (vocals, piano); Nat King Cole; Oscar Moore, John Collins (guitar); Harry Bluestone (violin); Lee Young, Bunny Shawker (drums); Jack Costanzo (bongos); Harry "Sweets" Edison (trumpet). Recording information: The Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (11/30/1943-08/18/1964). Photographer: William Claxton. Arrangers: David Cavanaugh; Nelson Riddle. A single-disc anthology can't truly do justice to the many facets of Nat King Cole's career, but the superlative 28-track THE VERY BEST OF NAT KING COLE makes an air-tight case for the crooner as one of the greatest pop singers of the pre-rock-&-roll era. All of his hits are here, including his signature songs "Unforgettable," "Mona Lisa," and the truly mysterious yet lovely "Nature Boy," along with perhaps the definitive readings of the pop standard "Stardust" and the swing classic "Straighten Up and Fly Right." It's impossible to go wrong here.

One of the seminal performers in 20th-century American music, Nat "King" Cole was a major figure in the development of jazz piano, the stylistic link between early jazz and pop of the sophisticated urban variety that emerged in the '30s, and finally one of the greatest pop singers of his day. Cole was a hugely talented, intensely musical singer, blessed with almost flawless good taste, who became an international superstar capable of appealing to audiences across all boundaries.

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