VA - The Great Australian Songbook - The Music (2011) [FLAC] (2XCD, Thorn, Universal, Sony 88697989172)
Release: 2011 | Track: 40 (2CD) | Format: FLAC(tracks) - Cue - Log | Artwork | Size: 1.05 GB Genre: Pop | Label: Thorn, Universal, Sony | Cat#: 88697989172
This Great Australian Songbook showcases selections of the best Australian music of the last century and this century. The album features 40 tracks taken across 2CDs, ranging from Rolf Harris right through to Gotye's Someboady That I Used To Know.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Rodgers and Hart Songbook (2 CD) (1999)
2 CD | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1999 | MP3 320 kbps | 279 MB
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook is a 1956 album by Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book (3 CD) (1999)
3 CD | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1999 | MP3 320 kbps | 450 MB
Part of Fitzgerald's series of 'Songbooks', it is the only one where the composer is also featured as a performer. This was the first time that Fitzgerald had recorded with Ellington. It is also the entry in the Songbook series that gives her by far most often the opportunity to exhibit her famous scat singing.
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the 1959 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance, Individual.
This album marked the start of a fruitful artistic relationship for Ella and the 'Duke', the 1960s would see them perform on the Côte d'Azur for the 1966 album Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur, and in Sweden for The Stockholm Concert, 1966. Their only other studio album, 1965's Ella at Duke's Place, was also extremely well received.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (2 CD) (1999)
2 CD | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1999 | MP3 320 kbps | 296 MB
This was Fitzgerald's first album for the newly created Verve Records. Fitzgerald's time on the Verve label would see her produce her most highly acclaimed recordings, at the peak of her vocal powers. This album inaugurated Fitzgerald's Songbook series, each of the eight albums in the series focusing on a different composer of the canon known as the Great American Songbook. Fitzgerald's manager, (and the producer of many of her albums), Norman Granz, visited Cole Porter at the Waldolf-Astoria, and played him this entire album. Afterwards, Porter merely remarked, "My, what marvellous diction that girl has".
Frank Devol backs Ella with a 1940s-style big band with enough modernist, Atomic Age elements tossed in to stop it from being just an empty exercise in nostalgia. Fitzgerald finds the perfect marriage between mainstream pop and jazz singing -- her harmonic improvisations are extraordinary. A real treat.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook (2 CD) (1981)
2 CD | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1981 | MP3 320 kbps | 196 MB
Though it is subtitled as such, this album is not usually considered part of Fitzgerald's 'Songbook' series, the last of the 'Songbook' albums having been recorded in 1964.
It was Fitzgerald's first album of music devoted to a single composer since 1972's Ella Loves Cole, and it was her only album recorded entirely in the Bossa Nova style, though she had been singing Jobim's songs since the mid-1960s.
VA - George & Ira Gershwin Songbook (1993)
21 tracks | Genre: Jazz | Release: 1993 | EAC Rip | FLAC(tracks + CUE) | 277 MB
On Sept. 26, 1898, one of America's most important composers was born. George Gershwin of Brooklyn, N.Y., alone and with his brother, Ira, wrote many of the finest American popular songs and orchestral pieces.
The music of George and Ira Gershwin has long been a part of the American consciousness. The opening clarinet glissando from Rhapsody in Blue, the taxi horn theme from An American in Paris and the songs -- "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "The Man I Love," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Fascinating Rhythm," and so many others -- are instantly recognizable. Even the mention of the name "Gershwin" brings to mind the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s, personified by the brothers who helped to give a musical voice to the time.
But if the Gershwins symbolize a time, their music and words transcend it. The proliferating performances and recordings of their music testify to its enduring popularity, and George and Ira continue to be the subjects of popular as well as scholarly study. (loc.gov)
Tommy Emmanuel - Little By Little Songbook (2011)
Interactive CD-ROM | EXE / MP4 / AVC 966 Kbps | 864х468 | 29.97 fps | AAC 128 kbps | 9.64 GB Genre: eLearning | Language: English
For his latest installment in instructional materials, Tommy has teamed up with TrueFire to bring you state-of-the-art technology in instructional media. Using this format, the Little By Little Songbook breaks down sixteen songs from Tommy's latest double album.
Chris Cornell - Songbook Live (Best Buy Exclusive) (2011)
Release: 21 November, 2011 | 18 tracks | Lossless/MP3 | EAC Rip | FLAC(tracks+.cue+.log)/CBR 320 | 521 MB/178 MB Genre: Accoustic Alternative, Rock | Label: Hip-O Records
After spending over a decade avoiding his past, Chris Cornell reconnected with it in a big way during 2010. First, he reunited with Soundgarden, their tour so successful it spilled over into a studio collaboration interrupted by Cornell launching an acoustic tour where he revisited his catalog, quite definitively tying his solo career and time with Audioslave to Soundgarden.
Songbook is a live album culled from this tour and has Cornell sampling from all phases of his career, often spinning harder-rocking songs into moody reflective territory. Unlike his solo debut, Euphoria Morning, this never sounds solipsistic; Cornell is engaged, looking outward to the audience, giving subtly forceful performances that often rescue overlooked tunes -- including selections from his electronica makeover Scream -- and freshen up familiar songs, including covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You” and John Lennon’s “Imagine.” He sounds at peace with his past and comfortable with his present, and that casual assurance makes Songbook his best solo offering to date.