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Nat King Cole & Friends: Riffin'—The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings
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Artist
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Nat King Cole, piano & vocals. Wesley Prince, bass. Oscar Moore & Les Paul, guitars. Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, & others.
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Label
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Verve
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Format
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3 CDs, boxed
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Runtime/Release Date
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74'18,75'52,65'36/2010
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Label Number
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B001338402
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Daedalus Item Code
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19022
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Description
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A stellar jazz pianist, Nat Cole pioneered the piano-bass-guitar trio in the years before he focused on pop vocals, so this anthology is catnip for collectors. These early 1940s sides with his famed trio include—a JazzTimes Top 10 reissue for 2010—"Honeysuckle Rose," "Scotchin' With the Soda," "Slow Down," "Early Morning Blues," "This Will Make You Laugh," and "Hit That Jive, Jack"; with many other all-stars he performs "I've Found a New Baby," "Rosetta," "Sweet Lorraine," "I Blowed and Gone," "Lester Leaps In," "Tea for Two," "Body and Soul," "The Man I Love," "Bugle Call Rag," "One O'Clock Jump," "Oh, Lady Be Good!" "My Old Flame," "Somebody Loves Me," "I Want to Be Happy," "Mean to Me," and more. "Four stars…. You get all possible Coles … the singer with his trio singing 'Sweet Lorraine' and a bunch of jump blues and jukebox jive, the firebrand virtuoso pianist at the Jazz at the Philharmonic Concerts who was expected to keep up with the insane squealing and showboating of tenor master Illinois Jacquet and also trade phrases with guitarist Les Paul, the immaculate and celestial accompanist to some of the great jazz saxophonists, whether Count Basie's alto man Willie Smith or the legendary … Lester Young…. A first-rate release all the way."—Buffalo News "It could honestly have been called 'the best of the early Nat Cole'…. His fine piano displayed in a variety of contexts demands repeated rewarding playing."—International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal
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