Nat King Cole Trio - Related / Similar Products and Compilation Appearances

Charles Brown - Groovy. CD. (Rev Ola Bandstand - CRBAND 13) The incredible piano skills and laid back vocal delivery have remained mesmerising over the half century he performed for. These thirty tracks are a highlight of his beginnings in 1945 with Jonny Moore's Three Blazers and his early post war solo work. Together with his band he created a sophisticated, jazz inflected sound that was ultra mellow and highly popular. While the Nat King Cole Trio were the ones that hit the big time, it was Brown and his band that played the cooler clubs and proved a hit with the cooler black audiences of the time. His solo stuff was far more commercial successful, with ten R&B hits in three years before early rock n roll tunes brushed his laid back style aside. A high number of these more uptempo tracks have never madeit to CD before nw.

GI. Jukebox Jive - Various. CD. (Giant Step Records - GIST 002) Twenty track anthology of all of the best moments from the V-Disc label, set up during 1943 after the American Federation Of Musicians had called a national strike which banned commercial recordings for over a year. Designed specifically for the personnel of the American armed forces (who were given these recordings free on a regular basis), the Union granted the US government special dispensation to boost moral. V-Disc went about it's business well, pulling in al of the biggest stars of the day. Featured here are tracks by the Nat King Cole Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Count Basie Orchestra and Glenn Miller. Recorded over the six years the label existed, this represents the very best in war era Jazz / Swing.

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