Cast Recording - Chicago / O.C.R. - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This is part of a mini-series on our competitively priced budget tag Fabulous under the banner of Jazz Legends, presenting some of great and influential names of jazz, with recordings drawn from the classic era of the genre's development between 1920 and 1950. Lester Young was one of the great tenor sax stylists, and had a huge influence on his peers and those who followed, his smooth, elegant, free-flowing phrases giving his music a relaxed and cool flavour. He came to prominence with Count Basie's orchestra

One of Gershwin's best scores Someone to Watch over Me; Clap Yo' Hands; Maybe, and Do, Do, Do. Bonus tracks include instrumental versions of the first two songs mentioned above-performed by Gershwin himself!-and Maybe, featuring Mary Martin.

Michael Bennett's 1975 valentine to Inchgypsies,Inch the dancers who are often treated as so much mobile scenery in Broadway musicals, is sometimes considered to have broken new ground with it's frank portraits of talented but frustrated performers. The score by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban is a favorite of Inchtheater peopleInch everywhere, but was designed to showcase the abilities of dancers rather than singers. Consequently, only the ballad InchWhat I Did for LoveInch has had a life outside of the show's context. This reissue of the original Broadway Cast Recording of a Chorus Line contained the previously unreleased InchMontage, Pt. 1 Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love,Inch plus extensive liner notes featuring memorabilia, cast listings, and previously unpublished photos.