Frank Morgan

1. Bernie's Tune

2. My Old Flame

3. I'll Remember April

4. Neil's Blues

5. Champ

6. Chooch

7. Nearness of You

8. Whippet

9. Milt's Tune

10. Get Happy

11. Cresecendo Blues

12. "Huh! "

13. Autumn Leaves

14. Well, You Needn't

15. B.T.

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Average customer rating: Offbeat enough to be worth your time. A great album Little Shop At Its Musical Best Great Soundtrack Little Shop of Horrors -The Moview CD

Little Shop Of Horrors (1986 Film) Manufacturer: Geffen Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1980s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classical | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors (2003 Broadway Revival Cast) Little Shop Of Horrors: Original Cast Album (1982 Off-Broadway Cast) Rocky Horror Picture Show: 25 Years of Absolute Pleasure The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975 Film) ASIN: B000000OQ7 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Prologue (Little Shop Of Horrors) - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Bill Mitchell
2. Skid Row (Downtown) - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Ellen Green, Rick Morranis Donny Gerrard
3. Da-Doo - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, The Do Wops
4. Grow For Me - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell,
5. Somewhere That's Green - Ellen Green
6. Some Fun Now - Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell,
7. Dentist! - Steve Martin, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Robby Perkins, Robert Billig,
8. Feed Me (Git It) - Levi Stubbs,Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
9. Suddenly, Seymour - Rick Moranis, Ellen Green, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
10. Suppertime - Levi Stubbs, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell
11. The meek Shall Inherit - Rick Moranis, Michelle Weeks, Tichina Arnold, Tisha Campbell, Robby Merkin, Frank Oz...
12. Mean Green Mother From Outerspace - Levi Stubbs, Chorus
13. Finale (Don't Feed The Plants) - Chorus

Customer Reviews:

Offbeat enough to be worth your time........2007-06-02

This adaption of a famous Broadway play is a truly funky story with overtones of science fiction and some of the greatest music ever performed on screen. I never get tired of the soundtrack and play it often.

A great album.......2007-02-04

This album contains must of the song fron 1986 movie. This movie is great the music is fantastic. Unlike the on the movie the song are all unabriged on the track. The final song one the second version of the movie mean green mother from outer space for reason I don't understand was abriged for the movie. The songs running time was drasticaly cut from about 4.5 minutes on the album to about a little over 2 minutes. This originally was not the final song for the movie. When this movie was original first the last song was Don't Feed the Plants from the off brodway play. However six months after the movie was first released the whole ending sequence of the movie with Rick Morransis, Ellen Greeen. Levi Stubs and Jim Bilusie had to be shot over again due to negative audience reactions from several people who were upset and not stastified with director Frank Ozze's original first ending. As a result of the ending being modified from a sad depressing ending to a lovely romantic happy ending the song Don't feed the plants and the footage that went along with it were instantly trimed out of footage and only a small fragmet of it exist on the dealete scenes and out take portions of the dvd. However for reason I could never figure out don't feed the plants is include as the final song one the last track of the album even though it no longer exist in the current dvd and vhs formats of the movie

Little Shop At Its Musical Best.......2006-09-21

The film recording of Little Shop is the best recording of the score yet (despite missing many of the stage version's more superflous and campy ditties)The vocal arangements and orchestrations are the best and most appropriately complementary to the piece. They capture the sound, and spirit in full and with fun and excitement. The cast is superb, and Ellen Greene proved herself quite brilliant in her ability to adapt her stage performance for the small size of film. The performance of Levi Stubbs, criticized on this site, is actually the BEST interpretation and vocal performance of Audrey II to date, anywhere. It is the only performance to truly bring the role to life and is damn funny. The cuts and changes are all logical for the medium of film, and obviously approved of as they were made by Howard Ashman himself. The original off-broadway cast (yes, the show was NOT an official broadway show, therefore could not have won a tony for anyone) is the next best recording. But to those who harp on the film for cutting the stage songs, the original cast album is not the full score, and has cuts made as well. The New Broadway Cast recording, which had great potential and money behind it, is the full stage score. Yet the worst in orchestration, quality, and casting to date. Though bland enough to easily digest, it is no where close to the film's sound and energy.

Great Soundtrack.......2006-07-25

Nice adaptation of the show to the screen. Rick Moranis in the best part of his career. And having Ellen Greene preserved on film as Audrey is wonderful. One of the best musical comedy performances of the 80's. Too bad the original was an Off-Broadway production. She deserved a Tony.

Little Shop of Horrors -The Moview CD.......2006-02-18

If you are a fan of the movie, then you will really enjoy this CD. It revives the memory of the movie in every song that is played. First rate soundtrack.

Average customer rating:

City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Highnote ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Raising the Standard Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard Reflections You Must Believe in Spring Love, Lost & Found ASIN: B0002JP27U Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

1. Georgia On My Mind
2. Cherokee
3. Summertime
4. All Blues
5. I Mean You
6. Round Midnight
7. Equinox
8. Impressions

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Night in the Life: Live at the Jazz Standard Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Highnote ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at the Village Vanguard City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard Kids: Duets Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Light On For Sentimental Reasons ASIN: B000OCY6ZY Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

1. Confirmation
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Half Nelson
4. Hot House
5. Billie's Bounce
6. It's Only a Paper Moon

Average customer rating: YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING Always leave the audience wanting more! We all must believe in spring Soulful and oh sooo sweet...

You Must Believe in Spring Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Love, Lost & Found Bop Reflections City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard Yardbird Suite ASIN: B0000046L2 Release Date: 1992-09-22

Tracks:

1. But Beautiful
2. You've Changed
3. With Malice Towards None
4. Something Borrowed, Something Blue
5. I Should Care
6. Embraceable You
7. While Getting's Good Blues
8. My Heart Stood Still
9. Enigma
10. I Cover The Waterfront
11. You Must Believe In Spring
12. Come Sunday

Customer Reviews:

YOU MUST BELIEVE IN SPRING.......2002-08-27

The record is great BUT YOU HAVE NOT DELIVERED IT. WHERE IS IT? The Rimmers have never received it yheet you say it was delivered a week ago

Always leave the audience wanting more!.......2000-04-04

I have been a Frank Morgan fan for about 2 years. WHen I saw "You Must Believe In Spring" while visiting my son in Ann Arbor I immediately grabbed it without really noticing that the personnel was limited to Mr. Morgan's alto sax accompanied by "only" guest piano players. But what pianists! The list includes Roland Hanna, Kenny Barron, Tommy Flanagan, Hank Jones, and Barry Harris (who I freely admit I never heard play before). Of the 12 cuts Frank Morgan plays on 7 leaving a solo piece for each pianist. I find the concept brilliant. Just the proper mix of sax to piano with a chance for each artist to be spotlighted. Each cut is a gem exhibiting great beauty, great virtuosity, and great simplicity. Each cut allowed me to get out of myself and enter a world of beauty that the best jazz creates. I would recommend this very highly to any jazz fan, but especially to the novice who may find the clear melodic nature of the music readily accessible.

We all must believe in spring.......2000-01-10

Wonderfully soft and melodious. This album falls into the catagory of easy listening, without being an elevator music. There is a sweetness to Frank Morgan's music that makes it approachable even by non-jazz lovers.

Soulful and oh sooo sweet..........1999-02-05

The music on this disc will most certainly stand the test of time. It always seems to be a nice change of pace to have just piano and horn together. Morgan's playing is magnificent and the ensemble of pianist's doesn't get any better than this. ANYTHING by Tommy Flanagan is tasty! One can only wonder how much more great music Morgan would have made had he not been dealing with the law.

Average customer rating: Awful and Tacky! Julian Lloyd Weber Plays Andrew Lloyd Weber Too much of a good thing and I prefer the originals Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber Absolutely excellent!

Julian Lloyd Webber plays Andrew Lloyd Webber Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Gentle Dreams: The Best of Julian Lloyd Webber Unexpected Songs Phantasia Cello Moods Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber ASIN: B00005BJNF Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

1. Whistle Down The Wind: No Matter What
2. The Phantom Of The Opera: The Phantom Of The Opera
3. The Phantom Of The Opera: Music Of The Night
4. Cats: Memory
5. Evita: Don't Cry For Me Argentina
6. The Beautiful Game: Our Kind Of Love
7. Sunset Boulevard: With One Look
8. Jesus Christ Superstar: I Don't Know How To Love Him
9. Starlight Express: Starlight Express
10. Evita: Buenos Aires
11. Aspects Of Love: Love Changes Everything
12. Sunset Boulevard: The Perfect Year
13. The Phantom Of The Opera: All I Ask Of You
14. The Beautiful Game: God's Own Country
15. Song And Dance: Tell Me On A Sunday
16. Vars: Vars 1-4
17. Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Close Every Door
18. Jesus Christ Superstar: John
19. Requiem: Pie Jesu
20. Whistle Down The Wind: Whistle Down The Wind - Julian Lloyd Webber/Andrew Lloyd Webber

Amazon.com

Apparently, Julian and Andrew Lloyd Webber's first collaboration occurred when the latter was 9 and the former 6. It took place on the stage of a toy theater, and Julian's role was then limited to operating the collection of tiny plastic soldiers that made up the cast of Andrew's latest musical. More than 40 years have passed since then but, as this disc proves, the brothers still enjoy a remarkable familial and musical relationship. Julian first recorded a series of cello arrangements of hits from Andrew's musicals in 1990, and this disc updates the enterprise with six new tracks from Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game , and Sunset Boulevard. The orchestral arrangements are deliciously soupy (especially "All I Ask of You" from Phantom of the Opera, "Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love, and the Riverdance-esque "God's Own Country" from The Beautiful Game) and suit Julian's appropriately swoony and uninhibited approach to the music. Fans of the Lloyd Webbers shouldn't be disappointed. --Warwick Thompson

Customer Reviews:

Awful and Tacky!.......2005-05-11

The reason I checked out this CD from local library is because I just watched the disappointing movie version of `Phantom of the Opera' and hoped Andrew Lloyd Webber who appears suffering from `over-esteem' would redeem himself in this format of presentation. It really would have worked, considered the similar quality of cello and human voice and the already famous melodies.

But it didn't! This is a tacky and totally forgettable presentation only suitable for elevators and ... well, you know, some public facilities. It makes the critically panned 'Phantom of the Opera' movie like a masterpiece! It's not so much the music's or musician's faults. There just isn't any thought process in the music making at all. If the cello is just going to play by the numbers, what's the point then? And the music arrangements on the orchestra side are just as shameful and insulting.

Compare to 'Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone', it's a clear example how a good taste of music adaptation can make a difference between Heaven and Hell.


It should be a minus star!

Julian Lloyd Weber Plays Andrew Lloyd Weber.......2001-07-14

Fantastic collection for true Andrew Lloyd Weber fans. A perfect gift for you or your friends. Everyone who hears mine wants a copy.

Too much of a good thing and I prefer the originals.......2001-06-02

Certainly Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote some superb melodies and certainly his brother Julian is an accomplished, outstanding cellist. That said, while it is fine to listen to a couple of these songs at a time played in this format, the real greatness of Andrew was in his collaboration with his lyricists like Tim Rice, and the songs just work better in my opinion as Broadway/theatre, with the rich diversity of soloists who have sung them.

Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber.......2001-05-22

I got an e-mail recommending this CD....Being the Andrew Lloyd Webber fan that I was, I just decided to buy it thinking it was his greatest hits by the original casts of his Play.

Boy was I wrong...but pleassantly so. Julian Lloyd Weber does a brilliant job of his brothers work...Purely instrumentational and incredibly beautiful... definately worth buying if your are ALW fan

Absolutely excellent!.......2001-05-14

An updated and improved version of Lloyd Webber plays Lloyd Webber. The original was great; and this new one is even better. The old songs have been enhanced, and there are six new selections from Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind (the title song featuring Andrew on piano) and the two best Andrew songs brother Julian has ever done: "Our Kind of Love" and "God's Own Country" from the Beautiful Game. Even if you aren't into the Lloyd Webber brothers, any fan of classical and/or show music would absolutely love this CD.

Average customer rating:

Raising the Standard Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Highnote ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard Reflections Love, Lost & Found One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall ASIN: B0009PVZIM Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. Polka Dots And Moondbeams
2. Footprints
3. Nefertiti
4. Don't Get Around Anyomre
5. Old Folks
6. Tune Up
7. In A Sentimental Mood
8. Helen's Song
9. Bessie's Blues

Average customer rating: Ballads of Higher Standards

Love, Lost & Found Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bebop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: You Must Believe in Spring Mood Indigo Bop City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard Reflections ASIN: B000003D4Z Release Date: 1995-08-29

Tracks:

1. The Nearness Of You
2. Last Night When We Were Young
3. What Is This Thing Called Love
4. Skylark
5. Once I Loved
6. I Can't Get Started With You
7. It's Only A Paper Moon
8. My One And Only Love
9. Someday My Prince Will Come
10. All The Things You Are
11. Don't Blame Me

Amazon.com

On Love, Lost & Found, alto saxophonist Frank Morgan creates a breathy, intimate tone so calm and fluid it seems to be musical breathing. The result is an ultraromantic album that reinforces Morgan's status as one of the great balladeers of jazz history.

The 11 pieces are all vintage standards by the likes of Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and Vernon Duke, but Morgan makes them extremely personal by turning the melodies into saxophone sighs that seem to confess everything. When he turns a melodic phrase from Hoagy Carmichael's "The Nearness of You" into an extended, legato exhalation, you can hear the ache of a man made dizzy by the proximity of his lover. By contrast, on Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Once I Loved," Morgan's limpid saxophone solos are imbued with the deep melancholy of a man who can still imagine that nearness but realizes it will never return. It's possible there's a better possible rhythm section for such a romantic album than pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Billy Higgins, but it's unlikely. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Ballads of Higher Standards.......1999-05-18

This devoted Charlie Parker disciple seems to have misplaced his hard-bob jacket someplace on his way to the studio. His earlier "Easy Living" and "Yardbird Suite" albums (on Contemporary & OJC) may be considered as his better works by many. Yet, anyone passing up this one is sure to miss the 'other' (read gentle romantic) side of Mr. Morgan. A real gem of a collection of top-notch 'ballad standards'. A warm and imploring horn is backed up here by a cool state-of-the-art rhythm section... class all the way.

A definite must for those candle-lit... late-night... wine sipping... private sessions.

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Reflections Frank Morgan All-Stars Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Yardbird Suite Easy Living ASIN: B000000XA3 Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

1. Old Bowl, New Grits
2. Reflections
3. Starting Over
4. Black Narcissus
5. Sonnymoon For Two
6. O.K.
7. Caravan

Average customer rating: It's a twistuh! It's a twistuh!!!

The Wizard of Oz Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Movie Scores | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000DSCA Release Date: 1989-08-07

Tracks:

1. Wizard of Oz/Overture
2. Wizard of Oz/Over the Rainbow
3. Wizard of Oz/Twister
4. Wizard of Oz/Munchkinland
5. Wizard of Oz/Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
6. Wizard of Oz/Follow the Yellow Brick Road
7. Wizard of Oz/If I Only Had a Brain
8. Wizard of Oz/If I Only Had a Heart
9. Wizard of Oz/Lions and Tigers and Bears
10. Wizard of Oz/If I Only Had the Nerve - Jack Haley, Sr.
11. Wizard of Oz/Optimistic Voices
12. Wizard of Oz/The Merry Old Land of Oz
13. Wizard of Oz/If I Were King of the Forest
14. Wizard of Oz/Courage
15. Wizard of Oz/Audience with the Wizard
16. Wizard of Oz/The Witch Captures Dorothy
17. Wizard of Oz/The Castle of the Wicked Witch
18. Wizard of Oz/Return to the Wizard
19. Wizard of Oz/Dorothy's Farewell to Oz
20. Wizard of Oz/There's No Place Like Home/Finale
21. Wizard of Oz/Jitterbug

Customer Reviews:

It's a twistuh! It's a twistuh!!!.......2007-03-14

THE WIZARD OF OZ * ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM is a CBS Special Products release. Besides well over an hour of music and film dialog, a bonus track is provided. "The Jitterbug" was cut from production in order to shorten the movie.

Audio quality is good, if somewhat low compared to the average CD. All of the original Arlen & Harburg songs are here. The album's 12-page booklet includes a two page color reproduction of a 1939 Wizard Of Oz movie poster, as well as details on the making of the film.

TOTAL RUNNING TIME -- 72:51

Average customer rating: Lyrical, beautiful bebop Knowing bop. Good All Around

Bop Frank Morgan Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bebop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Yardbird Suite You Must Believe in Spring Love, Lost & Found City Nights: Live at the Jazz Standard A Lovesome Thing ASIN: B000003D5S Release Date: 1997-01-28

Tracks:

1. Milano
2. Well, You Needn't
3. K.C. Blues
4. A Night In Tunisia
5. Blue Monk
6. Half Nelson
7. Lover Man
8. 52nd Street Theme

Customer Reviews:

Lyrical, beautiful bebop.......2006-07-02

Anyone who thinks bebop means breakneck tempos combined with "bombs away" drumming should listen to this CD. Only one of these tunes is taken up-tempo, and Leroy Williams's drumming on it (52nd STREET THEME) is sensitive and lyrical. In fact, lyrical is the best word to describe this entire CD. Frank Morgan's alto playing is airy and delicate, and is most effective on medium-tempo selections, with John Lewis's MILANO a typical example. A couple of the tunes are Monk compositions, and pianist Rodney Kendrick emulates Thelonious with great skill and élan. K.C. BLUES is a slow blues, as was the original recording by Bird, and the group goes way downhome to get to the essence of it. LOVER MAN is taken perhaps a tad too slow (it feels draggy after a while), but everything else on this CD is magnificent and plays to the heart. This is bebop played lyrically and sensitively: Beautiful!

Knowing bop........2003-03-26

If you know Frank Morgan you know bop at its best.
No cliches.
Just pure music.
Just bop.
Great.

Good All Around.......2001-03-26

Bop! is a collection of bebop standards by Parker, Monk, etc. Morgan's solos are more original than could be expected. Many of these tunes have been played so many times that certain bebop cliches have become as much a part of the song as the original written parts! As a saxophone player I very much like his tone and see it as a nice break from that of the modern David Sanborn-imitating saxophonists. The rhythm section plays very well, too. The bass player stands out.

This CD's good all around, and it's worth buying if you are interested in hearing a new interpretation of Parker/Monk, experiencing a modern take on bebop, or have cash to spend and would like good music. I'd give it *4 AND A HALF STARS* if that were an option. Very nice.

Jazz Music:

1. Gettin Around [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]
2. Groovin' High
3. Heroes
4. Horn Culture
5. Hub-Tones
6. I Hear Music
7. Idle Moments
8. In My Own Words
9. Just Jazz: Live at the Blue Note [Live]
10. Late Night Brubeck: Live from the Blue Note [Live]

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