Nat King Cole - Live At The Blue Note Chicago - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. Career spanning collection celebrating Nat King Cole's 100th birthday, featuring his most well-loved signature songs, including InchUnforgettable,Inch InchL-O-V-E,Inch InchMona LisaInch and featuring a newly recorded duet of InchThe Girl from IpanemaInch duet with Grammy-winning artist Gregory Porter. Album Tracks 1. There It Is (Side A) 2. She's the One (Side A) 3. Since You Been Gone (Side A) 4. Untitled Instrumental (Side A) 5. Say It Loud (Say It Live) (Side A) 6. Can I Get Some Help (Side B) 7. You Got to Have a Mother for Me (Side B) 8. Funk Bomb (Side B) 1. Baby Here I Come (Side A) 2. People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul (Side A) 3. I Got Ants in My Pants (And I Want to Dance) (Side A) 4. You've Changed (Side B) 5. Bodyheat (Side B)

Vinyl LP repressing. Initially released in 1952 as a 10Inch LP, this best-selling album was expanded to 12 tracks and released as a vinyl LP in 1954. Unforgettable is a collection of some of Nat King Cole's earliest recordings, including a track from The Nat King Cole Trio. The title has long since been out of print in the vinyl . Nat King Cole first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. He was widely noted for his soft baritone voice, performing in big band and jazz genres, and was a major force in popular music for three decades. Cole was one of the first African Americans to host a national television variety show, The Nat King Cole Show. His recordings remained popular worldwide after his death from lung cancer in February 1965. Album Tracks 1. Unforgettable 2. A Portrait of Jennie 3. What'll I Do? 4. Lost April 5. Answer Me, My Love 6. Hajji Baba (Persian Lament) 7. Too Young 8. Mona Lisa 9. (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons 10. Red Sails in the Sunset 11. Pretend 12. Make Her Mine

Limited 10 vinyl LP box set. Released in partnership with the Nat King Cole estate, Resonance Records' Hittin' The Ramp The Early Years (1936-1943) is the first large-scale collection of the pivotal early recordings of Nat's 29-year recording career. Most tracks are receiving their first official in this meticulously restored set of original live-to-disk recordings. This collection draws upon a wide range of sources, including many newly-discovered tracks unearthed for the first time from archives located all over the world, such as InchTrompinInch (jukebox-only for Cinematone, 1939), InchWhat'cha Know JoeInch (undocumented radio performance, 1940 - now the earliest known recording of Nat Inchon the airInch), InchThe Romany Room is Jumpin'Inch (private recording, 1941) and InchBeautiful Moons AgoInch (longer alternate take, 1943). Sessions include Nat at age 17, playing piano in his brother's band in Chicago, 1936; the first King Cole Trio recordings from 1938, made for radio broadcast only, for Standard Transcriptions; further radio transcription sessions for Standard, Davis & Schwegler, Keystone, plus his first (uncredited) session for MacGregor, with vocalist Anita Boyer; the Ammor Records Session (Spring 1940 - the first commercial- sessions for the trio), the Decca Recordings (1940-41), the small-tag sessions for Excelsior and Premier labels (1943), many previously-uncirculated Armed Forces Radio performances, and, with producer Norman Granz at the helm, early jazz sessions with Lester Young (Granz historic, first session as a producer) and Dexter Gordon, originally released on Philo and Mercury, respectively. Boasting an extensive 60+ page booklet with rare photographs; essays by acclaimed author Will Friedwald and guitarist Nick Rossi (with a special focus on Oscar Moore); plus interviews and testimonials from Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Quincy Jones, Ha