 | Jazz for Kids: Sing, Clap, Wiggle and Shake [Read More ...]
Description: The fun songs here are timeless classics that appeal to kids of all ages. By featuring childhood favorites such as "Old McDonald" and "The Muffin Man," both sung by Ella Fitzgerald, as well as more offbeat songs ("Mumbles" by Oscar Peterson featuring Clark Terry), Jazz for Kids ... |
 | Putumayo Presents: Jazz & Blues Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: Putumayo delivers the perfect package of soulful jazz and blues to liven up the holiday season. A Jazz & Blues Christmas offers a memorable array of classic holiday songs by jazz and blues legends and lesser-known artists. B.B. King opens the album with "Christmas Celebration," ... |
 | Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music [Read More ...]
Description: This five-CD box set soundtrack to filmmaker Ken Burns's 10-part, 19-hour documentary Jazz spans nearly a century of jazz styles, from the martial rhythms of James Reese Europe to the soul-jazz of Grover Washington Jr. It includes time-tested classics like Benny Goodman's 1938 cl... |
 | Songs That Got Us Through WWII [Read More ...]
Description: They may have rationed meat, milk, canned goods, and gasoline, but there was no limit to the musical talent during World War II. Morale-boosting sounds on the home front and "over there" were one of the Allies' most potent weapons. WWII gave birth to many of the 1940s' most popul... |
 | Miles from India (TWO CD SET) [Read More ...]
Description: In a startlingly original recreation of music associatedwith jazz legend Miles Davis, producer-archivist BobBelden, renowned for his Grammy Award-winningreissue work on a series of Miles Davis boxed sets forSony/Columbia, along with co-arranger Louiz Banks(celebrated keyboardist ... |
 | Verve Presents: Very Best of Christmas Jazz [Read More ...]
Description: Skip the Christmas caroling this year and slide in the new Verve Music compilation The Very Best of Christmas Jazz. This jolly collection features fourteen of the world's favorite holiday jingles previously recorded by the legendary vocalists and musicians of jazz. Jazz divas Shi... |
 | Sleepless In Seattle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Read More ...]
Description: A romantic's collection if ever there was one, this cachet of songs graced the equally heart-tugging film. King of the Croon and Swoon, Nat King Cole's "Stardust" is probably the most obvious of the young lovers' themes here. Louis Armstrong and Jimmy Durante, ordinarily not the ... |
 | A Winter's Solstice II [Read More ...]
Description: The Winter Solstice series from Windham Hill is an appealing souvenir from the label's early days, when guitarist Will Ackerman still served as its chief guiding light and fount of original thought. For years Ackerman shunned the overt commercial trappings of traditional Christma... |
 | The Only Big Band CD You'll Ever Need [Read More ...]
Review: great music even after all these years:The Only Big Band CD You'll Ever Need isn't completely comprehensive; but as a single CD retrospective it works. The quality of the sound is rather good and the artwork is excellent. We get a good sampler of what made people dance back in th... |
 | 2008 Grammy Nominees [Read More ...]
Description: The ultimate CD from Music's Biggest Night! Featuring the best songs and artists of the year across your favorite Grammy® categories. Including hits from Justin Timberlake, Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, Beyonce, Maroon 5, and more. The 50th Grammy Awards airs live on February 10th.... |
 | A Winter's Solstice: Silver Anniversary Edition [Read More ...]
Description: Since the Windham Hill imprint's Winter Solstice series was born in 1985, the concept has gone through some changes, bottoming out with 1999's abysmally kitschy Winter Solstice on Ice. With this Silver Anniversary Edition, Dawn Atkinson, who produced the first Winter Solstice dis... |
 | Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Part One [Read More ...]
Description: A perfect martini-and-mistletoe combo, Christmas Cocktails will gaily seduce you with its bevy of nostalgic and occasionally campy holiday fare. Vocal vixens Peggy Lee, Julie London (her "I'd Like You for Christmas" will melt the ice cubes in your fridge), Kay Starr, and Nancy Wi... |
 | A Winter's Solstice, Vol. 4 [Read More ...]
Description: In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label's artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter's Solstice IV lend credence to the label's unfair stereotype as the home for new age background ... |
 | Merry 1940's Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: Christmas always has been and always will be an important holiday, but during the ’40s it took on a special meaning. For some, it meant the cessation of hostilities and a chance for a good meal; for others, it was the time of the year when the pangs for a missing loved one were... |
 | Windham Hill Christmas II [Read More ...]
For those wanting a quiet Christmas album:This is my 5th Christmas cd from Windham Hill. While not my favorite of the five, it still fits the Windham Hill sound and I recommend it for a quiet "Night before Christmas". |
 | A Windham Hill Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: The songs are familiar carols, but A Windham Hill Christmas retains the Windham Hill Winter Solstice series tradition of unusual arrangements and performances that evoke the mood of the season, especially if your take on that mood is a Northeast, snow-covered landscape, like that... |
 | New Orleans Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: New Orleans Christmas captures the unique and vibrant voice of this city with a collection of holiday favorites decked in the blues, jazz and swing flavors the Crescent City is famous for. The album opens with a familiar favorite as Big Al Carson and Academy Award-winning Lar... |
 | Ultra-Lounge: Christmas Cocktails, Pt. 2 [Read More ...]
Not your typical Christmas jingle.....:Ultra-Lounge has a very nice selection of music and it's great background music for get-togethers. Makes you crave a Martini, even if you're listening to it in the car! |
 | On a Starry Night [Read More ...]
Description: The party line on most Windham Hill products seems to be that it's either the greatest stuff since wave machines, or that it all sounds alike. On a Starry Night, with its collection of world songs and reputable artists such as Flora Purim, Airto Moreira, the Turtle Island String ... |
 | De-Lovely [Read More ...]
European version of 19-track soundtrack includes the bonus track 'Easy To Love' - Kevin Kline. Columbia. |
