Riffin: The Decca Jatp Keynote & Mercury Recording

Nat King Cole & Friends
Label: Hip-O Select
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Audio CD
Release date:29th June 2010

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Track Listing

1. Sweet Lorraine
2. This Side Up
3. Honeysuckle Rose
4. Gone With The Draft
5. Gone With The Draft - Alternate Take
6. Babs
7. Early Morning Blues
8. Scotchin' With The Soda
9. Slow Down
10. This Will Make You Laugh
11. Hit The Ramp
12. I Like To Riff
13. Stop! The Red Lights On
14. Call The Police
15. Are You Fer It?
16. That Ain't Right
17. Hit That Jive, Jack
18. Honey Hush
19. Thunder
20. Stompin' At The Panama
21. (Bedtime) Sleep, Baby Sleep
22. Honey Hush - Alternate Take
23. The Way You Look Tonight
24. Airiness A La Nat
25. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
26. My Old Flame
27. Lester Leaps In
28. Tea For Two
29. Blues
30. Body And Soul
31. Sweet Lorraine
32. The Man I Love
33. I've Found A New Baby
34. Rosetta
35. Bugle Call Rag
36. One O'Clock Jump
37. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
38. I've Found a New Baby
39. Sweet Lorraine
40. Rosetta
41. I Blowed and Gone
42. I Cover The Waterfront
43. Somebody Loves Me
44. I've Found A New Baby
45. Back To The Land
46. I Want To Be Happy
47. Peg O' My Heart
48. Mean To Me
49. The Man I Love
50. I Cover The Waterfront - Alternate Version
51. The Way You Look Tonight - Alternate Version
52. Airiness A La Nat - Alternate Version
53. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me - Alternate Version

Product Description

Nat King Cole was surely a smooth singer and a gentle swinger. But he was also a consummate jazz piano player who recorded secretly as a sideman for Keynote and Mercury - using amusing pseudonyms - even as he rose to fame recording hit after hit for Capitol Records. Riffin: The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings, a 3-CD box set, features Nat backing his many friends in the 1940s, as well as his original King Cole Trio singles on Decca - a total of 53 tracks significantly restored and remastered, and housed in a beautiful 7 3/8" square box set with a 30-page book stuffed with rare photos, a brilliant essay by David Ritz, detailed session notes and reproductions of the original releases' artwork, from 78 RPM labels to 10-inch LP covers and much more.

Disc 1 includes Nat's first recordings with his brother Eddie's band the Solid Swingers, then in his own King Cole Trio in the early 1940s, when he was first heard vocalizing; best known among them is his first hit, "Sweet Lorraine." Bonus tracks include four swingin' Keynote label recordings from '46, "Keynoters" band sessions led by saxophonist Willie Smith and featuring one "Lord Calvert" - a.k.a. Nat King Cole on piano.

Nat was also the pianist for Norman Granz's first Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) concerts, trading solos with the future legend Les Paul and others in the summer of '44 - while he's otherwise a headlining superstar - and those rousing live jam sessions make up Disc 2. The set's Disc 3 features Nat as "Aye Guy," playing behind Dexter Gordon, and Lester "Pres" Young and Buddy Rich - significant sessions that are Dex's first as a leader and Pres' first after a horrific Army stint. Bonus tracks are alternates of the Keynoters tracks.

All of these display what the late great Oscar Peterson called Nat's "relaxed sense of melody and rhythmic genius."

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