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Release Date: 1993-06-01, Audio CD, Curb Records

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Start spreading the news. Frank Sinatra has returned to the recording studio for the first time in 15 years, and he's bringing along some friends, including Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Carly Simon, Anita Baker, Bono, Kenny G and Liza Minnelli.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: SINATRA,FRANKTitle: DUETSStreet Release Date: 11/02/1993

What we have here is the mating of honey and molasses. Or is it the sound of melted butter over gravel? Never mind--sweeter, more joyous music has never been recorded (although the follow-up, Ella and Louis Again, may be even better). You can't listen to these two without smiling. It's such an inevitable pairing that you wonder what titanic forces of nature could have kept Ella and Satchmo apart until they made this record together in 1957, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio and Buddy Rich on drums. The songs are standards--extraordinary standards, of course, like "Moonlight in Vermont" and "A Foggy Day"--but nirvana is reached on "Cheek to Cheek." Heaven. --Jim Emerson

Shirley Horn made her recording debut in the early 1960s then returned home to Washington, D.C., to raise a family. She came back to the studio in the late '70s and early '80s, but it wasn't until this 1991 recording--her third Verve release--that she finally received the recognition she was due. You Won't Forget Me features Horn's trio of bassist Charles Ables and drummer Steve Williams, plus guest soloists Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Toots Thielemans, and fellow D.C. legend Buck Hill. The album projects a warm musical vision that elevates lyrical storytelling over fancy scatting. Here, maturity enhances rather than diminishes romantic longing. --Rick Mitchell

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Media Type: CD
Artist: PAUL/FORD
Title: ALL-TIME GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 04/27/1994
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Genre: JAZZ

Encouraged by the massive sales of 1993's Duets, Capitol went back to the well a year later for a sequel. The pairings are a little more inspired this time around, with Willie Nelson ("A Foggy Day"), Lena Horne ("Embraceable You"), Chrissie Hynde ("Luck Be a Lady") and Antonio Carlos Jobim ("Fly Me to the Moon") all turning in satisfying performances. Unfortunately, there's also a heaping helping of forgettable cuts (including duets with Luis Miguel, Jimmy Buffett, Jon Secada, and Lorrie Morgan), and Phil Ramone's arrangements continue to grate. And the overwrought duet with Neil Diamond on "The House Live In (That's America to Me)" has to be heard to be believed. Hardly a necessary addition to your Sinatra collection. --Dan Epstein

Release Date: 1998-05-26, Audio CD, Capitol

Release Date: 2001-02-27, Audio CD, Ecm Records

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Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 15-JUL-1994