Cole Porter - It's De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection
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Artist: Cole PorterBrand: RCA
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Anything Goes - Vince Giordano, , Cole Porter
- You're the Top - Vince Giordano, , Cole Porter
- Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
- From This Moment On - Lena Horne
- You Do Something to Me - Sonny Rollins
- It's De-Lovely
- Night and Day - Frank Sinatra
- Let's Misbehave - Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
- Don't Fence Me In - Roy Rogers
- You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Dinah Shore
- I Love Paris - Manny Albam, Coleman Hawkins
- Easy to Love
- Just One of Those Things - Lena Horne
- What Is This Thing Called Love? - Leo Reisman & His Orchestra
- I've Got You Under My Skin - Paul Desmond
- I Get a Kick Out of You - Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey
- Night and Day [*] - Fred Astaire, Joe Reisman
- You Do Something to Me [*] - Rosemary Clooney, P?rez Prado
- Night and Day [*] - Esquivel
Music reviews of It's De Lovely - The Authentic Cole Porter Collection
Music Review: Very good Porter collection, wide range of artists and musical styles
Rating: 4 Stars
This collection presents a wide array of top jazz and jazz/pop artists performing some of Cole Porter's best songs, in recordings from 1928 to 1962.
The recordings range from late 20s and early 30s renditions that were probably some of the first recordings of those songs (Irving Aaronson & His Commanders on the excellent "Let's Misbehave"; Fred Astaire's masterful "Night and Day," which he introduced on Broadway) TO 40s swing and 50s pop (very young Frank Sinatra on "Night and Day"; Roy Rogers' "Don't Fence Me In"; Rosemary Clooney on a latin-tinged "You Do Something To Me") TO straight jazz and jazz/pop from the 50s and early 60s (Lena Horne, "Just One of Those Things"; Sonny Rollins, "You Do Something to Me").
The tracks on this CD aren't chronologically ordered by recording date, so, for example, you jump from Paul Desmond's 1962 sax/strings arrangmement of "I've Got You Under My Skin" back to Tommy Dorsey's late big-band version of "I Get a Kick Out of You" from 1950. While it can be fun to go from one style to another and then back around again, I also like programming the disc to play according to the recording dates, which produces a more consistent development of jazz-based styles.
I understand how the significant variations in style and genre brought on by the broad range of recording dates may dismay folks who were looking for a collection of, maybe, the earliest versions of each of these songs, which would have been more consistent in style. If you want something that's more strictly chronological and historical, I'd strongly recommend looking for a used copy of the Smithsonian's excellent (but out-of-print) 4-CD Cole Porter box set from the early 90s, or maybe one of the 3-CD boxes that the Indiana Historical Society and Koch issued (although the cuts are arranged by the date of the song, not the dates of the recordings). There's also "Cole Sings Porter," out-of-print but available used, which has Porter's own recordings of his songs. Or, look for a single-artist Porter collection that will be more stylistically consistent, like the excellent Sinatra/Porter disc on Sony/Columbia, one of Bobby Short's Porter albums, or Ella Fitzgerald's "Cole Porter Songbook."
One of the unusual aspects of the "De Lovely" disc is that it has Cole Porter's original 1934 voice/piano recordings of "Anything Goes" and "You're The Top" with an instrumental backing added in 2004 by Vince Giordano and His Nighthawks. I usually don't like tampering with original recordings, but here, Giordano has done an outstanding job of embellishing Porter's bare-bones recordings with historically accurate arrangements and a recording production that comes close to blending seamlessly with the originals. Since I have the unembellished recordings in the Smithsonian box set mentioned above, I like having the Porter/Giordano "collaborations" here.
Although Porter is remembered primarily for his work in the 30s and 40s, he lived into the 60s, so he was indeed around when all of the renditions on this disc were recorded. I don't know whether he actually did listen to these artists, but he might well have admired their undoubtedly superb artistry. Although some of the recordings here are instrumental and therefore omit Porter's marvelous lyrics, I'd like to think that Porter might have enjoyed jazz renditions of his songs, like his peer George Gershwin did.
These are all great artists, so if you want a collection that shows the wide-ranging jazz and pop styles that have been applied to Cole Porter's songs, this is a very good one.
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