Lena

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This incredible Cuban artist, Lena, is not only known for her talented traits, but also for her compositions and instrumental abilities. Lena incorporates the elements of classical piano tunes with the profound intensity of the Caribbean beats.

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Average customer rating: Simply awe inspiring and amazing Ecstatic Music, Ecstatically Performed. canticles of Ecstay Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstacy Devine Music For Tranquil Hearts

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Tracks:

1. O vis aeternitatis - Sequentia
2. Nunc aperuit nobis
3. Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit
4. Cum processit factura digiti Dei
5. Alma Redemptoris Mater
6. Ave Maria, O auctrix vite
7. Spiritus Sanctus vivificans vite
8. O ignis spiritus Paracliti
9. Caritas habundat in omnia
10. O virgia mediatrix
11. O virdissima virga, Ave
12. Instrumental
13. O Pastor Animarum
14. O tu suavissima virga
15. O choruscans stellarum
16. O nobilissima viriditas

Amazon.com

Although Hildegard von Bingen's music has been around for 900 years--and recordings of her music for decades--it seems that only now, as we approach the turn of another millennium, the time is right for the world to pay attention. In this first-rate traversal of her music--the most popular of several volumes released by the early-music ensemble Sequentia--we hear music that resulted from Hildegard's legendary visions, which often included song texts that she subsequently collected and dispensed to her religious community of women. As rendered here by the voices and instruments of Sequentia, her music invokes an unobscured sense of mystery, conforming to Hildegard's belief that music was our bridge to the harmonies of the heavens. Whether or not we're experiencing that "heavenly harmony" here, the simple, direct, beautifully turned melodies, sung by pure, finely tuned, warm-colored women's voices, often eerily accompanied by an instrumental drone, is heavenly enough. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Simply awe inspiring and amazing.......2007-05-20

One would have to listen to this music to understand the power it will hold over you. Ethereal and almost eery, yet full of power, grace and triumph, this will be a mainstay in your collection. The only thing resembling it that the mass public would be aware of is Gregorian Chant, although this is it's own beast and so much more. It's not expensive, buy it and see for yourself.

Ecstatic Music, Ecstatically Performed........2007-05-13

I had first heard this performance of St. Hildegard of Bingen's "Canticles of Ecstasy" on sound cassette and loved it.

The music is sublime. The female voices are heavenly, without a hint of sentimentality.

When you listen to "Canticles of Ecstasy" you will know how this medieval nun and composer felt about things.

Caution. They could make a believer of you.

canticles of Ecstay.......2007-03-23

This is a very good CD I highly recomend it if you love chant. I am glad to have it in my collection.

Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstacy.......2006-07-25

This CD will transport you to another space and truly put you in touch with the sublime! If you are a massage therapist,I recommend it for use during your sessions. Anyone can use it as part of his or her meditative spiritual practice regardless of your particular faith.

Devine Music For Tranquil Hearts.......2006-02-23

I have searched through many composers, performers and albums... in search of this one sound. It only existed in my heart and mind until Hildegard von Bingen's work was recorded by this talented group. This music makes you feel like you are floating on your back - in the ocean - staring at the moon.

Average customer rating: the earlier years.... Only for oldies, and old noises FOUR QUEENS SING TIMELESS FIVE STAR CLASSICS !! Creme De La Creme Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah - their best was yet to come.

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Tracks:

1. The Man I Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
2. My Melancholy Baby - Ella Fitzgerald
3. Prisoner Of Love - Lena Horne
4. Nice Work If You Can Get It - Sarah Vaughan
5. I'll Never Be The Same - Billie Holiday
6. East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) - Sarah Vaughan
7. What A Little Moonlight Can Do - Billie Holiday
8. Ain't Misbehavin' - Sarah Vaughan
9. Out Of Nowhere - Lena Horne
10. All My Life - Ella Fitzgerald
11. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
12. Goodnight My Love - Sarah Vaughan

Customer Reviews:

the earlier years...........2006-08-01

This cd is a nice introduction to the earlier years of these Great Ladies of Song! Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan.

Only for oldies, and old noises.......2006-03-04

This CD is a good mix of the great ladies of jazz; however the master is the original, without any ounce of technology. I have heard new compilations, and they modify the sound, for hearing as new record, not as a phone call.
However, in matters of pleassure there are no limits, and there would be some one who loves it.

FOUR QUEENS SING TIMELESS FIVE STAR CLASSICS !!.......2006-02-01

Five Tremendous Stars!! Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and Sarah Vaughan!! Four of the best singers "there ever was" sing truly classic songs from early in their careers. This sampler 'freeze-frames' the careers of these tremendous singers at a crucial time when they were the rage of the jazz world, in a jazz constellation that included many other fabulous singers like Anita O'Day and Carmen McRae.

From the Ella Fitzgerald sessions with Teddy Wilson's orchestra in 1936 to Sarah Vaughan fronting George Treadwell's All Stars with Miles Davis, Benny Green, Tony Scott, and guitarist Mundell Lowe on piano of all things in 1950, these classic pieces are dated in sound and arrangement, BUT not in performance. These are truly timeless classics that can be enjoyed over and over by the 21st Century music fan. Indeed, any jazz singer of today would give anything to be able to duplicate these stellar performances.

In between the Fitzgerald and Vaughan "bookend" sessions, we find the inimitable Billie Holiday with her very own orchestra in the late 1930's, including Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Sweets Edison, and Jo Jones, and Lena Horne with another version of the Teddy Wilson Orchestra from 1936 featuring Emmet Berry and Jimmy Hamilton. Ms Horne only gets two tracks ("Prisoner of Love" and "Out of Nowhere"), but she uses them to telling effect as a jazz vocalist who would later become best known as a pop singer who never forgot her jazz roots. Ms Fitzgerald likewise gets two tracks within which to weave her vocal magic and she does just that with sizzling, memorable renditions of "My Melancholy Baby" and "All of My Life".

I usually pick out "Pieces De Resistance", the best of the best, from each CD, but this is an impossible task with this compendium. Indeed each singer could have performed each other's songs with equal aplomb. Each performance is a diamond of music, in and of itself, by each of these legendary vocalists who were honing their craft 'on the fly', as it were, in their early years. From Billie Holiday's "The Man I Love" to Sarah Vaughan's "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)", this is an essential CD for the serious jazz collector who wants a "quick, but deep" sample of the magnificence of these "Queens" in their youth. Highly Recommended! Five HUGE Stars!!

Creme De La Creme.......2000-05-12

There are not enough adjectives for the tremendous impact of this recording - all it takes is one play - one memory - cascades! These ladies are to "Die For".

Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah - their best was yet to come........1999-07-31

This collection was first issued in the mid '50s as "Ella, Lena and Billie" - Sarah was added later - and if you don't know these great vocalists by their first names, you must be from the Moon. The sessions by Billie and Ella are from the '30s, and Lena's sessions are from 1941. Most of these numbers were recorded with a Teddy Wilson-led band which included several of Basie's sidemen. The Sarah Vaughn numbers were recorded in 1950 with a lineup that included Miles Davis on trumpet. It's wonderful to hear these singers in the early stages of their careers. The sound quality is better than one might expect.

Average customer rating: Stephen Foster Terrific choral renditions Make the exquisite into the mundane Great Drinking Music! One of my favorite CDs

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Tracks:

1. Ring de Banjo
2. Beautiful Dreamer
3. Gentle Annie
4. Way Down in Ca-i-ro
5. My Old Kentucky Home
6. Old Black Joe
7. Dolcy Jones
8. Thou Art the Queen of My Song
9. Old Folks At Home
10. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
11. Oh! Susanna
12. Gentle Lena Clare
13. Nelly Bly
14. Some Folks
15. Laura Lee
16. Camptown Races
17. Traditional:Steal Away
18. Traditional:Nobody Knows (duh Trouble I See)
19. Traditional:I Want to Die Easy
20. Traditional:Dere's No Hidin' Place

Customer Reviews:

Stephen Foster.......2007-05-13

I saw a program on OPB about him so I got this. But, I didn't like it and don't listen to it. It is now under my bed collecting dust.

Terrific choral renditions.......2006-01-27

I own this CD and am especially fond of it for the solos by Thomas Pyle and Clayton Krehbiel, particularly the latter's singing of "I Want to Die Easy." All other soloists and choristers are equally superb, but those two gentlemen, sadly since deceased, were personal acquaintances and musical influences. If you don't have a taste for great choral arrangements, then pass, but you'll be missing out on something special. Enjoy it, you who adore the finest.

Make the exquisite into the mundane.......2004-07-21

Oh, puleeze, this is the sappiest rendition of these gorgeous songs ever recorded, right up there with sing-a-long with Mitch Miller.

I always hate when songs that are meant to be sung intimately as solos or duets are done by 7,000 harmonized voices.

I recommend this recording only to be listened to in a nice comfortable elevator

Great Drinking Music!.......2002-07-20

This CD Kicks ...! BR>The trombone riff in "Camptown Races" is incredible. The screaming axe in "Oh! Susanna" is mind-blowing. The fantastic jamming on this CD reminds me of HMTT. This CD is one monster hit after another. "Steal Away To Jesus", is a real kicker, although not quite as good as "Will You F'n Give Me Jesus".......

Just sit back, pop a cold one, maybe a whiskey shooter , pop this
baby on the victrolla and enjoy.......

Here's to ya Hawks...........

One of my favorite CDs.......2000-08-09

This is one of the best recordings of historic American music that I have heard, along with Joel Cohen's "Liberty Tree." The arrangements and interpretations of the songs are very beautiful. Some of the banjos are cheesy, but it is much much better than every other Foster recordings that I have heard. If you are in the mood to hear great music of Antebellum America, than I highly recommend this CD to you. You won't regret it!

Average customer rating: Not the best CD you can buy. Lena in her early PRIME A fine singer, in her prime!!! A Meek & Mild Lena A great way to get indroduced toan undeerrated jazz singer

The Fabulous Lena Horne: 22 Hits, 1936-1946, Including Stormy Weather Lena Horne Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Best Of Lena Horne: All Original Recordings Lena Horne - RCA Victor: Greatest Hits Love Songs Stormy Weather (Dig) At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands ASIN: B000001HKG Release Date: 1997-07-15

Tracks:

1. I Take To You
2. That's What Love Did To Me
3. Good-For-Nothin' Joe
4. You're My Thrill
5. All I Desire
6. St. Louis Blues
7. Careless Love
8. Aunt Hagar Blues
9. Bealestreet Blues
10. Don't Take Your Love From Me
11. Out of Nowhere
12. Prisoner of Love
13. Stormy Weather
14. What Is This Thing Called Love?
15. Ill Wind
16. Mad About The Boy
17. Moanin' Low
18. Where Or When
19. One For My Baby And One More For The Road
20. As Long As I Live
21. How Long Has This Been Going On?
22. Frankie and Johnny

Customer Reviews:

Not the best CD you can buy........2004-02-14

The reviewer "Poor Farmer" knows nothing about music.
Lena Horne was never influenced by Della Reese. He looks to be about 17 years old and is stuffing the ballot box. Get the Porgy & Bess/Jamaica CD or the Waldorf/At the Sands CD over this one. This is boring, and there are much better band sing singers.

Lena in her early PRIME.......2004-01-01

Whoever wrote the review "A meak & mild Lena is an idiot! This is Lena when her voice was like silk, and she was a true "Swing singer" who was not only able to sing torchy ballads, blues, and torch songs, but was equally talented as a novelty singer on uptempo jazz numbers! Lena's style was elegant and acceptible to white audiences in an era of segregation. To me this is the most appealing stage of her career, where her voice just seems to carress you. However by 1954 she changed her style and became more harsh sounding and very sassy, sounding very influenced by Della Reese! Even now she sounds great, all periods of Lena's career are interesting, but this is her in the cream of her career! Buy it, I gaurentee you'll love it or I'll eat my hat(& it's a derby)!!!

A fine singer, in her prime!!!.......2003-12-08

If you can't get into her pre 1950's singing you are a looser! This is Lena at her best sounding like a swing singer, she has the most appealing vocie on the planet and all of her pre 1945 music is essential and worth hearing!!!

A Meek & Mild Lena.......2003-12-04

Sorry, but I cannot get into or recommend the singing of Lena Horne before the 1950's. In her early singing she sounds like a completely different person than she did later, like she doesn't know or care what she's singing about. In this CD, her voice is nice and delivery is pretty. I prefer her later voice where her singing is dynamic, and her delivery complex and compelling. However, the singing on this CD is less demanding of the listener, and that is what many people may prefer. For the dynamic Lena, I recommend the "At The Waldorf" and "Lady & Her Music" CDs.

A great way to get indroduced toan undeerrated jazz singer.......2000-10-26

Lena Horne was a great swing oriented singer in the 30's & 40's, though most famous today as an actress, Horn could swing like Ella and sing a ballad or toch song like Billie. Here she's features with amny big bands and small groups, this is a great place to start when exploring the great Lena Horne.

Average customer rating: STUNNING PERFECTION! This is it: GET IT A "Cast" of One is Just Enough THE PINNACLE OF PERFECTION!

Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music (Original Cast) Lena Horne Manufacturer: Qwest / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Evening with Lena Horne At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands Seasons of a Life The Fabulous Lena Horne: 22 Hits, 1936-1946, Including Stormy Weather The Hornes: An American Family ASIN: B000002KMR Release Date: 1995-10-17

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Act I: From This Moment On
3. Act I: I Got A Name
4. Act I: I'm Glad There Is You
5. Act I: I Want To Be Happy
6. Act I: Cotton Club Review: Copper Colored Gal
7. Act I: Cotton Club Review: Raisin' The Rent
8. Act I: Cotton Club Review: As Long As I Live
9. Act I: Cotton Club Review: Lady With The Fan
10. Act I: Lena's Dialogue 'Cotton Club To Hollywood'
11. Act I: Where Or When (Hollywood Sequence)
12. Act I: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
13. Act I: Lena's Dialogue 'Hollywood'
14. Act I: Just One Of Those Things
15. Act I: Stormy Weather (Part I)
16. Act I:: Love
17. Act I: Lena's Dialogue 'Broadway'
18. Act I: Push De Button
19. Act I: The Lady Is A Tramp
20. Act I: Yesterday, When I Was Young (Hier Encore)
21. Act I: Deed I Do
22. Act I: Life Goes On

Tracks:

1. Act II: Watch What Happens
2. Act II: The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
3. Act II: Fly
4. Act II: Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
5. Act II: A Lady Must Live
6. Act II: Lena's Dialogue 'Love This Business'
7. Act II: That's What Miracles Are All About
8. Act II: Lena's Dialogue 'Early Career'
9. Act II: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
10. Act II: Stormy Weather (Part II)
11. Act II: If You Believe
12. Act II: Curtain Music, 'Stormy Weather,' bows

Customer Reviews:

STUNNING.......2006-11-13

There are no other words to describe this recording. Absolutely stunning. I saw the show when it was on Broadway and it remains one of the most thrilling experiences I have ever had in the theatre. This recording captures the experience perfectly. Let's all hope that the powers that be will eventually release a DVD of this show (it was captured live and distributed for a short while in the early 80's on video).

PERFECTION!.......2004-07-18

This magnificent one woman Broadway Show (over a year on B'way, 44 city tour - US & Canada & UK) is perfectly captured in this 2 CD set. Lena's voice had most all of it's luster at age 65 and her performance shows she was enjoying herself as much as the audience. Her best singing on records has always been Live and this CD is one of her very very best. She has commented many times that "Yesterday When I Was Young" is the most autobiographical song she ever sang. Another reviewer here missed the point when he wrote "Listen to track 20 and you will hear a story teller that over the decades has turned into a musican (with the help of her late husband Lennie Hayton)" Lena had several very important mentors, the most important was composer Billy Strayhorn. She was required to boost the importance of her husband in her musical development in the 1950s. Listen to the LYRICS of that song, look at the circumstances, do the math.

This is it: GET IT.......2003-12-05

Don't ask why, just buy it. It's one of her best, 5 stars is not enough!

A "Cast" of One is Just Enough.......2002-01-26

The Grammy-winning album from the legendary singer/actress/beauty is, by far, one of the best live performances ever. Miss Horne is in fine form, presenting a history lesson of her groundbreaking career. She sings her trademark songs, as well as those that illustrate highlights of the life led in entertainment. The musicians backing her never overshadow her voice; they complement each other superbly.

Y'wanna know a real DIVA! HORNE IS IT!

THE PINNACLE OF PERFECTION!.......2000-07-14

Lena Horne a beautiful class act lady who can sing! and she shows it on this compilation.

With her signature songs "Stormy Weather", and "The Lady & the Tramp" and my favorite "Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered".

Lena as always never gives a dull performance and this CD with its 5 star production and 10 star (if I could give it I would) lady....Lena performs like a dynamo.

A great 2 CD compilation that doesn't miss a beat from beginning to end. A perfect buy for the collection, family or friend.

Average customer rating: Best overall - but not perfect Smooth as Silk What a voice!! A One of a Kind Voice A great introduction to this legend...

Stormy Weather: The Legendary Lena (1941-1958) Lena Horne Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Fabulous Lena Horne: 22 Hits, 1936-1946, Including Stormy Weather Stormy Weather (Dig) Best Of Lena Horne: All Original Recordings Billie, Ella, Lena, Sarah Lena Horne - RCA Victor: Greatest Hits ASIN: B000002WE2 Release Date: 1990-02-08

Tracks:

1. You're My Thrill
2. Good-For-Nothin' Joe
3. Love Me A Little Little
4. Don't Take Your Love From Me
5. Stormy Weather
6. What Is This Thing Called Love?
7. Ill Wind
8. The Man I Love
9. Where Or When
10. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
11. Moanin' Low
12. I Didn't Know About You
13. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
14. As Long As I Live
15. I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
16. How Long Has This Been Going On?
17. It's Love
18. Let Me Love You
19. It's All Right With Me
20. People Will Say We're In Love
21. Just In Time
22. Get Out Of Town

Customer Reviews:

Best overall - but not perfect.......2007-01-28

This CD has the best selection overall, and it has the most tracks (22). But, it has a few downsides:

1. It omits Lena's only significant chart hit, 'Love Me Or Leave Me' (#19, 1955)
2. The mastering is good, but not as good as later discs (e.g. 'The Classic Lena Horne')
3. The material is strictly RCA - which excludes most of her movie classics.

But, if you're gonna buy only one, this would be my recommendation. Try to get the original RCA edition - not the chintzy Jazz Heritage reissue.

Smooth as Silk.......2005-10-19

Miss Lena was like no other vocalist. Her distinctive voice would haunt a whole generation, and she kept her looks, too.

This album captures her at the height of her powers: an era when recording technology was improving while voices were getting older. These songs represent Lena's amazing range and power.

She'll have you in the palm of her hand...

What a voice!!.......2003-03-18

Lena Horne's voice in this era is so smooth and delicious! There are 22 songs on this CD, so there's plenty to choose from. My one objection is that in this era, it was a common theme that women were expected to be attracted to bad and worthless men, and it was OK to sing lovesongs to them. I'm glad we've progressed to "I Will Survive." But keeping the songs in the context of their time period and listening to Lena's fabulous voice makes it worth the purchase.

A One of a Kind Voice.......2002-06-10

This CD is a great introduction to Lena Horne. Lena Horne unleashes her one of a kind voice on this CD. You'll want to listen to it 24/7.

A great introduction to this legend..........2000-10-17

Lena Horne is generally overlooked when it comes to jazz singers, and although technically she is not a jazz singer, her jazz phrasing, and her great sense of swing are immaculate. She really doesn't iimprovise all that much, but she can swing and make you at times think you are listening to Lee Wiley(another great, but overlooked jazz singer), yet she can also sing a torch song with as much verve as the younger Billie Holiday or Mildred Bailey. Horne here is backed by various swing bands, and the occasional small jazz combo. Most of these tunes are circa 1940's, however this CD covers from early 40's to to late 50's, where Lena has more sass,(& sounds a little more like Della Reese or Betty Roche) actually a more fairer comparison would be made to the later Conne Boswell of the 50's or Kay Starr, although Lena always had a style and distinctive voice all her own. Some of the highlights of this exellent CD are Good For Nothin' Joe, One For My Baby, and the quentessential and most difinitive version ever recorded of As Long As I Live. This set is recomended to jazz and vocal record collectors alike. Great music that generally swings.

Average customer rating:

Best of Lena Horne Lena Horne Manufacturer: EMI Gold Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000Q7ZIGI Release Date: 2007-07-09

Tracks:

1. On A Wonderful Day Like Today
2. I Wanna Be Around
3. Feelin' Good
4. Willow Weep For Me
5. The Girl From Ipanema
6. Softly As I Leave You
7. And I Love Him
8. Hello, Young Lovers
9. Singin' In The Rain
10. Somewhere
11. Wives And Lovers
12. It Had Better Be Tonight
13. Moon River
14. A Fine Romance
15. I Love Paris
16. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
17. I Got A Worried Man
18. Wonder What I'm Gonna Do
19. Love Bug
20. What The World Needs Now Is Love
21. Unchained Melody
22. Prelude To A Kiss
23. Day Follows Day
24. Old Friend
25. You're The One
26. I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open
27. I've Got To Have You
28. Come Runnin'
29. Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me (Live At The Supper Club)
30. I've Got The World On A String (Live At The Supper Club)
31. We'll Be Together Again (Live At The Supper Club)
32. The Lady Is A Tramp (Live From The Supper Club)
33. Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues
34. As Long As I Live
35. Autumn In New York
36. A Sleepin' Bee
37. How Long Has This Been Going On?
38. Maybe (2004 Digital Remaster)
39. Something To Live For
40. Stormy Weather

Album Description

2007 two CD set celebrating the life and music of the world-famous entertainer who has won numerous Grammy and Tony awards, appeared on television and in feature films and recorded enchanting music for over six decades. Features 40 tracks including 'Stormy Weather', 'Prelude To A Kiss', 'What The Word Needs Now Is Love', 'On A Wonderful Day Like Today', 'Softly As I Leave You' and many more. EMI Gold.

Album Details

2007 Anthology of One of the Most Gifted Singers that Emerged on Popular Music Scene of the 1940's and who Dominated the 1950's. She Performed with Jazz Musicians Like Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson and Artie Shaw. In the Early 1940's, She Became the First African-american Singer to Be Signed to a Contract with a Major Motion Picture Studio (Mgm) and Achieved her Biggest Hit (And Signature Song) "Stormy Weather", Both a Single and the Title of the Film. Throughout her Career, She Battled the Color Lines that Kept Black Performers Separate from Whites, Both in Hollywood and the Recording Studio. While She was Seen as a Pioneer Throughout Here Career, the Fact of the Matter is that She was a Most Talented Gifted Musician, Blessed with Alluring Good Looks and a Voice and Ability to Melt the Cruelest of Hearts.

Average customer rating: If you love Lena-this is a must-have! Happy yet sad Enchanting Magnificent Beyond Compare LENA HORNE: A FORCE OF NATURE

At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands Lena Horne Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stormy Weather (Dig) Lena Horne - RCA Victor: Greatest Hits It's Love/Songs by Burke and Van Heusen Jamaica/ Porgy and Bess An Evening With Lena Horne: Live At The Supper Club ASIN: B000063RUJ Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

1. Today I Love Everybody
2. Let Me Love You
3. Come Runnin'
4. Cole Porter Medley: How's Your Romance/After You/Love Of My Life/It's All Right With Me
5. Mood Indigo/I'm Beginning To See The Light
6. How You Say It
7. Honeysuckle Rose
8. Day In - Day Out
9. New Fangled Tango
10. I Love To Love
11. From This Moment On
12. Maybe
13. The Man I Love
14. Get Rid Of Monday
15. Jule Styne Medley: A Ride On A Rainbow/Never Never Land/I Said No/Some People
16. You Don't Have To Know The Language
17. Out Of My Continental Mind
18. Rodgers And Hammerstein Medley: A Cock-Eyed Optimist/I Have Dreamed/Surrey With The Fringe On Top
19. Harburg Medley: Thrill Me/What Is There To Say/The Begat
20. Don't Commit The Crime

Album Description

Reissue of two - At The Waldorf Astoria & At The Sands RCA albums recorded live featuring renditions of 'The Man I Love', 'Honeysuckle Rose', and 'From This Moment On'. 20 tracks. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

If you love Lena-this is a must-have!.......2007-05-11

Two classic albums from a legend. They are musts for any lover of Lena, or the Sinatra-standard song type of performer. Superb.

Happy yet sad.......2004-04-17

I am happy to finally see Lena Horne's only live albums from the RCA years on cd. But as fabulous as these albums are I was hoping they would be reissued seperately with 20 bit technology. The sound here isn't bad, but could be better like the remastering on her original "Stormy Weather" album. I personally like Lena at the Sands slightly better. Nonetheless, thats why I give it 4 stars not 5. Well 5 for Lena 4 for the package.

Enchanting.......2003-07-10

This is one of the Lena Horne recordings that make me wish I WAS Lena Horne. I don't usually enjoy live recordings but this album is perfect. She is very crisp and clear through the whole album. The audience creates a very curious atmosphere on the album- there are a few instances where the audience is laughing at Lena and something she is gesturing... but I think just the audio alone makes the listener outside of the joke.
In this album she is sassy and quirky- and I think these tracks give a little more insight into Lena's personality than the other non live recordings I have. Vocally she is very rich and obviously in her prime- she sings many standards but of course the one and only Lena Makes them her own! This is the number one Lena Album in my collection!

Magnificent Beyond Compare.......2002-06-27

No one planned a club act the way Lena Horne and Lennie Hayton could. Unusual songs, little-heard songs, everything literate and sharp and meaningful and clever, arranged perfectly and delivered with supreme intelligence, heart and musical skill. Lena Horne is gorgeous, Lena Horne is a remarkable singer, Lena Horne is an entertainer without peer but above all she is an artist. And these two remarkable and thrilling albums proved it, as if it needs to be proved. The Waldorf album encouraged scores of other singers to open their shows with "Today I Love Everybody" and "Let Me Love You" and steal as much as they could from Lena, knowing she knew exactly what she was doing. Famous at the time for being sexy, aloof and simmeringly angry, Lena comes across today in the same exact recordings as warm, accessible and a great hostess. What a difference time makes! We just saw different things in her then than we see now, I guess. For anyone interested in the art of popular singing at its zenith, this is the C.D. to get. Forty years have not diminished this music's freshness and inventiveness nor the star power of this remarkable entertainer.

LENA HORNE: A FORCE OF NATURE.......2002-06-08

AT LAST THE PERFORMANCE OF MISS HORNE AT THE WALDORF & THE SANDS ON CD. THIS ONE IS DEFINITELY WORTH HAVING! NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO SAY WHAT A GREAT TALENT SHE IS AND AN AMERICAN TREASURE. SHE IS SIMPLY THE VERY BEST AND THESE PERFORMANCES PROVE IT.

Average customer rating: Lena at her Best SOULFUL PERFORMANCES FROM A LEGEND...BRAVO LENA!!! Classic Lena

Seasons of a Life Lena Horne Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Evening with Lena Horne Best Of Lena Horne: All Original Recordings At the Waldorf Astoria / At the Sands Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music (Original Cast) Lena Horne - RCA Victor: Greatest Hits ASIN: B00096S3I6 Release Date: 2006-01-24

Tracks:

1. Black Is
2. Maybe
3. I've Got To Have You
4. I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open
5. You're The One
6. Something to Live For
7. Chelsea Bridge
8. Singin' In The Rain
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. Stormy Weather

Customer Reviews:

Lena at her Best.......2007-06-10

This CD indicates to me that Lena Horne was singing better durning this period than at any time ithat I remember. This is magnificent.

SOULFUL PERFORMANCES FROM A LEGEND...BRAVO LENA!!!.......2006-05-16

Lena Horne continues to have a remarkable career and this classic release flows beautifully and is compiled from various ninties recording sessions and finds this grand and Legendary DIVA in glorious voice singing with lots of pathos and passion...opening with the haunting and exotic "Black Is" with its full and lush orchestration, Lena is hypnotic and simply brilliant and this is the Dom Perignon of singing! Billy Strayhorn's "Maybe" is given a loose and funky reading and the same with a live version of Kris Kristofferson's "I've Got To Have You" which Lena gets deep inside of...these are amazing performances and timeless classics. Lena teases and turns "I'll Always Leave The Door A Little Open" inside out with great skill and wisdom in another wonderous live performance while back in the studio another Billy Strayhorn great "You're The One" is a swinging jazzy cooker and the grand diva's rhythm and timing are flawless! Two legends meet in the mesmerizing and classic Billy Strayhorn "Something To Live For" which Lena turns into a solid masterpiece with a performance of tremendous depth of emotion making this beauty something special to experience...this great collection will hopefully be greeted by a well deserved "Grammy Award" which would be just due for this legendary singer!!!!! Lena and Billy Strayhorn were a match made in a musical fantasy and another delight "Chelsea Bridge" is a magical music trip through life that is rare and completely engrossing...throughtout this magnificent set of classic songs Lena sings deep and from the heart and hits amazing notes along the way with a voice that remains strong, rich and full bodied and is a remarkable vocal and performing study for American Idol wannabes...this is the real thing!!! A jazzy tour-de-force is Lena's "Singin'In The Rain" and never has this standard sounded quite like this...Wow Lena...this one is a stunner!!!
4AM and classic blues happen with a brilliant "Willow Weep For Me" and when you think that these amazing performances are from the mid to late nineties from a performer who has been doing it since the thirties this is incredible....that is seventy years of doing it really great in her own way and this classic original is genius!!!!
Closing is yet another masterful classic performance and this time of a longtime Lena masterpiece "Stormy Weather" and this is a deeply soulful performance that Lena gets inside of and turns inside out and it is a thrilling ride on a truly great and classic voice...Bravo Lena and thank you!!!!! Pull out a chilled Dom Perignon and lay back and put this one on and get ready for the vocal magical musical experience of a lifetime.

Classic Lena.......2006-01-27

Any one who is not able to appreciate artist in their latter years should avoid this CD. That being said Season of a Life is a necesarry part of my Lena Horne collection, though it won't be my favorite. Just having what could be her last recorded version of Stormy Weather is worth it. Those of you who think she has done that enough may not know that it is not always the artist decision. Most of the CD's with Stormy Weather on it are compilations which have the same 1936 version on it. Except for the original Stormy Weather album which came to CD in 2002, and the Lena Goes Latin CD. Anyway, I think the arrangements on Seasons of a Life and Lena's take on the songs are refreshing. If only she had done these songw with the same band in her late a few years before when her voice was better. However some of Rodney Jones' dates incorrect. Tracks 2,5&6 (Classic Ellington CD)were recorded in 1999 not 2000, but released in 2000. And tracks 3&4 were done in 1994 but release in 1995 for an Evening With Lena CD. Singing In the Rain was done in 1997, but released in 1998 for the Soundtrack. That makes me question when Stormy Weather and the other tracks were really recorded. Also everyone says that this album was done in 1999, but not released. I read in a BET magazine interview with Lena in fall of 1999 and she said she completed 3 songs as a tribute to Billy Strayhorn;(Classic Ellington CD) and a disk of Harold Arlen and Cole Porter. So Seasons of a Life is not that album. And if you go to the All About Jazz website and type in Rodney Jones then click on Soul Manefesto, you will discover a msg. board in 1999 which he clearly says that summer he was working on a new Lena Horne album with her in the studio and the 3 Billy Strayhorn songs. So maybe she was too ill to promote it in 2000 or she didn't sound so good and they decided not to release it. But again, this is not that album. I guess they thought no one in the public would remember back that far. Anyway, enjoy Seasons of a Life. Maybe one day the real recording from 1999 will be released.

Average customer rating: THE ANCIENT MADE NEW -- IN BREATHTAKING FASHION "Simply Great!!" Utterly unparalled music!

Nordan Lena Willemark & Ale Möller Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Norway | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music Sweden | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Scandinavia | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Agram Frifot ASIN: B0000031YQ Release Date: 1994-10-11

Tracks:

1. Trilo
2. Kom Helge Ande
3. Gullharpan
4. Mannelig
5. Polska Efter Roligs Per
6. Hornlat
7. Sven I Rosengard
8. S:t Goran Och Draken
9. Tacker Herranom/Mats Hansu Polskan
10. Knut Hauling
11. Polska Efter Jones Olle
12. Svanegangare/Sven Svanehvit
13. Jemsken
14. Batsman/Turklaten
15. Vallsvit
16. Dromspar - Efterspel

Customer Reviews:

THE ANCIENT MADE NEW -- IN BREATHTAKING FASHION.......2001-11-11

Lena Willemark and Ale Moller are incredibly talented musicians, filled with the soul and spirit of their native Sweden. They have dedicated themselves to preserving their country's traditional music -- not by presenting straightjacketed recitals of textbook pieces, but by using these traditions as a foundation for new compositions and interpretations. This technique, in their hands, shows incredible reverence and respect for what is old, but at the same time allows it to live and breathe -- their love of this music, combined with their raging talent, enables this to happen.

Other contemporary bands have taken a similar approach, but with considerably more electrification and modern instruments -- bands such as Hedningarns, Garmarna, and Vasen have done some exciting things based on tradtional songs, tunes and forms. Willemark and Moller take a strictly acoustic approach -- and it allows the soul and spirit of this music to shine through so very brightly.

Lena Willemark's voice is one of the most beautiful instruments you will ever hear -- and she's an exceptional fiddler as well. Ale Moller is a multi-instrumentalist of admirable scope -- he plays mandola, natural flutes, folk-harp, shawm, cow's horn, hammered dulcimer and assorted percussives. The great Palle Danielson, veteran of so many fine ECM sessions, is here on double-bass -- and other fine musicians add drone-fiddle, kantele, fiddle, Swedish bagpipes, saxophone and percussion to great effect.

The arrangements are sparse -- only 5 of the disc's 16 tracks feature the entire ensemble, with most pieces being played by 2-4 people. The recording is exactly what the listener has come to expect from ECM -- crystal-clear, with no unnecessary (or distracting) hype or studio trickery. The music is allowed to shimmer in its own beautiful light -- and it is incredibly evocative of its place of origin. You can almost feel the cold wind blowing off the grey sea. Even the cover photograph (again, perfectly up to ECM's standards) adds to the spirit of the recording.

There are both vocal and instrumental selections here, a very effective mix. The notes in the booklet are brief but informative, giving the listener the sources of the tunes, and, in the case of the songs, a glimpse at their meaning.

This is not just a recording for afficianados of Swedish or Scandinavian music -- although those listeners will undoubtedly appreciate it from that point of view as well -- its beauty and appeal are of such a level as to be universal. It can touch the spirit of anyone who is fortunate enough to hear it.

This talented duo have several recordings available -- this is one of their finest efforts.

"Simply Great!!".......1999-04-20

I've just bought the Nordan CD, and I must say it's one of the best records I've ever listened to. It's a perfect blend between modern and traditional music, and there's a lot of feeking in it. My favourites are "Sven i Rosengard" because Lena Willemark's singing really conveys the pain and anguish the song's main character experiences, and "Gullharpan". This CD really is extraordinary because it it no everyday record; really something special. The only thing which I rather disliked was that they didn't print the lyrics. My Swedish is not too good, and I had trouble understanding the contents of the songs. Can anybody help me?

Utterly unparalled music!.......1998-08-24

I've few words to describe either the depth, intensity, and virtuosity of this recording, or the quality of its production. Even those who are unfamiliar with Swedish folk music will enjoy this multi-faceted jewel, which seamlessly melds atmospheric tapestries of instrumentation and rich vocal harmonies. I feel lucky to have heard it on public radio in Los Angeles, though it deserves non-stop radio play around the world. Bravo, Lena Willemark and Ale Moller! Please give us all the gift of a new cd as soon as possible!

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