UMG - Natalie Cole - Thankful - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1977 album from the Soul and Pop vocalist including one bonus track. Like it's predecessors, the LP was produced by the Chicago team of Chuck Jackson & Marvin Yancy and contained a number of Natalie's own compositions. Thankful was certified platinum and boasted the U. S. million-selling R&B #1 and #15 Pop single, InchOur Love. Inch Key cuts on the album include the Gospel-driven title track; the smooth 'quiet storm'-flavored Cole fan favorite, 'La Costa' (co-written by Natalie and her then-musical director Linda Williams); the jazzy InchLoversInch (another tune co-penned by Natalie); and the Cole composition, the heartfelt 'Keeping a Light. ' in addition to saxophonist and co-producer Gene Barge, Jackson & Yancy assembled an 'A' list of musicians for the album including guitarists Lee Ritenour and Ray Parker Jr., drummers James Gadson and Paul Humphrey and keyboardists Sonny Burke and Michael Boddiker. SoulMusic. 2011.

Discover poetry in motion with Beauty Come Dancing, composer Gordon Getty's new album of choral works. Love and dance permeate this collection of new music, paying homage to the romantic and elegant traditions abounding in the latter half of the 19th century. Here, Getty finds inspiration in the poetry of John Keats, Lord Byron, John Masefield, Sara Teasdale, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Ernest Christopher Dowson. These settings sit alongside choral treatments of three of Getty's original poems, plus his arrangement of traditional favorite InchShenandoah.Inch Rising-star conductor James Gaffigan leads the Netherlands Radio Choir and Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in PENTATONE's beautiful recording. The music of the American composer Gordon Getty has been performed in such prestigious venues as New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London's Royal Festival Hall, Vienna's Brahmssaal, and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall and Bolshoi Theatre, as well as at the Aspen, Spoleto, and Bad Kissingen Festivals. Getty has enjoyed a fruitful relationship with the Pentatone tag. In addition to his three operas and Joan and the Bells, Pentatone has released an album devoted to six of his orchestral pieces, with Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; two albums of his choral works, Young America and The Little Match Girl; an album of his solo piano works played by Conrad Tao; and The White Election, a much-performed song cycle on poems by Emily Dickinson.

Double vinyl LP pressing of this 2009 . Who could have predicted that an accidental MP3 upload would birth a phenomenon? Never having met in person, but electronically connected through common musical friends, producer Grahm Zilla and Nigerian-born rapper/vocalist Isis began Thunderheist to throw a wrench into static Hip Hop conventions and explore their love for the dance floor. 13 tracks including the singles 'Sweet 16' and 'Nothing 2 Step 2'.