Catalogue Number:
589 5462
Barcode:
0731458954620
Label:
Verve CD
Release date:
7 August

TRACKLISTING
Happy to Make Your Acquaintance
Tea for Two
They Didn't Believe Me
You're the Top
Cheek to Cheek
Baby, It's Cold Outside
People Will Say We're In Love
There's a Small Hotel
A Fine Romance
The Things We Did Last Summer
Two Sleepy People
Who Cares
I Go for You
Summertime
A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
My Man's Gone Now
I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
It Ain't Necessarily So
I Loves You, Porgy
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way

By the time they joined forces in the late 1950s, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Carmen McRae had both fought long and hard to transcend their early influences -- Frank Sinatra for Davis, Billie Holiday for McRae. With Boy Meets Girl and the Gershwins' magnum opus, Porgy and Bess, they finally emerged as distinctive voices in their own right, laying claim to everything from classic Tin Pan Alley material to one of the most socially relevant works in the American canon. From tender and touching to full-throttle exuberance, both sang as if there very lives were on the line.

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Catalogue Number:
988 2877
Barcode:
0602498828779
Label:
Verve CD
Release date:
2 1 August

TRACKLISTING
•  All I Need
featuring Roy Hargrove trumpet and Joey DeFrancesco Hammond B-3
•  Hey Young World
featuring Gerald Albright   saxophone   and Kevin Toney Wurlitzer, vibes
•  Can I Get A...
featuring Jeff Lorber Wurlitzer, vibes and Dwight Sills guitar
•  Doin' It
featuring Dwight Sills guitar and Audra Bryant vocals
•  Bring Da Pain
featuring Hubert Laws flute and Kevin Toney Moog
•  The Rain
featuring Ledisi vocals and Oran "Juice" Jones vocal rap
•  Ghetto Jam
featuring Rick Braun trumpe and Dwight Sills guitar
•  Gotta Get You Home
featuring Gerald Albright saxophone and Ach vocals
•  Backseat Of My Jeep
featuring Dwight Sills guitar and Jeff Lorber Moog, piano
•  Give It Up
featuring Joey DeFrancesco Hammond B-3 and Scott Mayo saxophone

A jazzy touch on R&B and hip-hop classics featuring some of the hottest names in Jazz & Smooth Jazz today!

Def Jazz is the brainchild of record producer Tony Joseph, a former radio and club DJ who has enjoyed breakthrough sales with Unwrapped, a series of largely instrumental CDs fusing smooth jazz and hip hop. In honour of the 20th anniversary of Def Jam® Records, Joseph pays tribute to the label and its artists with ten finely crafted tunes.