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Natalie Cole Sings "Better Than Anything" with Diana Krall
about 1 year ago
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“Better Than Anything” was written by Bill Loughborough and David Wheat. A very special guest appears on this recording - Diana Krall. It’s surely a “buddy” song between two women talking about what is better than being in love. The sprightly and cool arrangement is by master arranger Alan Broadbent with a significant guitar solo by Russell Malone.

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Natalie Cole Sings with Ike Cole: "Route 66"
about 1 year ago
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In 1991, Natalie Cole recorded an affectionate and loving tribute to her father Nat King Cole. Recorded at the same studios that her father created so much magic, the orchestra was filled many of the same musicians who had played with her fabulous Dad. Included on this selection was Ike Cole sitting at the piano in this sparkling arrangement of “Route 66" created by Andre Fischer and bassist Ra.

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Natalie Cole Sings "I Haven't Got Anything To Do"
about 1 year ago
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In 2002, Natalie Cole, daughter of Nat King Cole and niece to this week’s stars Freddy and Ike Cole, came out with an album titled “Ask A Woman Who Knows,” songs dealing with love, jealousy and the whole nine yards with songs new and old, borrowed and blue. “I Haven’t Got Anything To Do” (written by Lee Pokriss and Paul Vance) is artfully set by Rob Mounsey in an opulant arrangement fo

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Natalie Cole Sings “Ahmad’s Blues” with Janis Segal
about 1 year ago
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The person in question in "Ahmad's Blues" is jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal who wrote this seminal work in the late 1950's. Natalie Cole sings both the leading voice and joins with Manhattan Transfer's Janis Segal in the back ground vocals. This performance is typical of Natalie Cole: superb singing joined with excellent, probing understanding of the words and great phrasing on this 1996 performance.

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Natalie Cole Sings "Ask A Woman Who Knows"
about 1 year ago
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“Ask A Woman Who Knows” was written by Victor Abrams for this album. Rob Mounsey leads the sadly missed Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra in a blues inflected John Clayton arrangement of “a love gone wrong.” Joe Sample plays a very subtle accompaniment around Cole’s magenta colored vocal. (NOTE: The Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra broke up a few years back)(Magenta is a darker hued purple with red h

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