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Music CD - Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & the Orchestra: Sinatra at the Sands
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Music CD: Sinatra at the Sands
Artist: Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & the Orchestra
List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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Tracks:
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1. Come Fly With Me
2. I've Got A Crush On You
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. The Shadow Of Your Smile
5. Street Of Dreams
6. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
7. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
8. One O'clock Jump
9. Frank Sinatra Monologue
10. You Make Me Feel So Young
11. All Of Me
12. The September Of My Years
13. Luck Be A Lady
14. Get Me To The Church On Time
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. Don't Worry 'bout Me
17. Makin' Whoopee
18. Where Or When
19. Angel Eyes
20. My Kind of Town
21. A Few Last Words (Monologue)
22. My Kind Of Town (Reprise)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624694724
Format: Live
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Release Date: 1998-05-26
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: You feel like you're there!
Comment: I listen to this CD almost every day, especially when I need to escape from my current reality. That says a lot because I HATE it when things are overplayed, even if I love them in the beginning.
This CD, for me, can be summed up in one word: FUN.
Just pop this in the player, sit down with a Jack Daniel's on the rocks (or whatever your poision of choice is) close your eyes, and picture Sinatra on stage, right in front of you. You can hear glasses tinkling, people murmuring, but above all you hear the clash of cymbals, the pounding of the piano, and most importantly, you hear The Voice.
You can tell that Sinatra had a ton of fun throughout this taping, especially during the second track, "I've Got A Crush On You," where he's flirting and interacting with the audience. The "Tea Break Monologue" alone is worth the price of the CD for me. Sinatra is in his natural element, being charming and funny with his stories and jokes. Everytime I hear it, I stop and grin and wish I could have been there that night.
The instrumental on "Makin' Whoopee!" is beyond excellent and "Luck Be A Lady" is probably one of my favorite tracks. I can practically see Sinatra rolling a pair of dice across the table and praying that Lady Luck is still with him.
I highly recommend this CD and I know you won't regret it!
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Summary: MAKE IT ONE FOR MY BABY AND ANOTHER ONE FOR THE ROAD
Comment: JUST IMAGHINE IT'S 1966, YOU'RE IN VEGAS, AT THE SANDS HOTEL (THE HIPPEST CASINO IN TOWN), SEEING FRANK SINATRA IN CONCERT WITH THE COUNT BASIE ORCHESTRA, WITH ARRANGEMENTS BY QUINCY JONES. YOU'D FEEL LIKE YOU DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN, RIGHT? WELL, THIS CD WILL TAKE YOU RIGHT THERE......'NUFF SAID.
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Summary: As good as music gets
Comment: You can't get better than this, originally a double LP, now released on a single CD. There is is no recording date on the CD but the LP was released in September 1966, and Sinatra references his own 50th year during the concert ("I think I better sing before I turn 51"), so it was undoubtably recorded in 1966. This means Sinatra was still in peak form at the time.
The great Count Basie Orchestra launches the show and then Sinatra enters saying "How did all these people get in my room"! The Basie Orchestra is fabulous providing the sort of backing that Sinatra should have used more in his career. They do a couple of instrumentals the best of which is "All of me" where I imagine most of the room jumped out of its skin when after a typical minimilist Piano statement of the tune the band enters unexpectedly with a fantastic crescendo chord.
Sinatra is amazing, and there are so many great moments on this disc that its hard to pick out favourites in a short review. However I'll pick two, the swinging version of "Get me to the church on time" and "You make me feel so young". These two tracks alone demonstrate that the man had everything you could wish from a great singer. Beautiful phrasing, immaculate timing and an ability to hold an audience that few others have matched.
There are 21 tracks on the CD, including a couple of monologues from Sinatra which are the two weakest tracks. The arranger and conducter is Quincy Jones, so no loss of quality on that front. This is an absolutely essential purchase for anybody interested in good music regardless of genre.
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Summary: An Indescribably Brilliant Album.
Comment: There are always certain movies, books and in this case albums whose ecellence is hard to describe in words. Such is the case for me with "Sinatra At The Sands". Many times have I tried to write a concise, detailed review of how wonderful this 1966 concert album is, but I always wind up with a stinging case of writer's block.
For "Sinatra: At The Sands" is quite simply, the best live album I've ever heard, as well as one of the best in general. The energy, the performances, the audience - everything clicks so perfectly here that it's almost scary.
Recorded during his early 1966 engagement at the famed Sands Hotel & Casino with Count Basie and his orchestra, this is Sinatra in top form. He is loose, relaxed and clearly having fun, but at the same time he is focused, professional and dangerous. His voice is still close to the condition it was at his peak, so he sounds fantastic on each song, his trademark breath control and diction skills in pristine condition.
As I said earlier, the energy level on this album is quite high. Becasue Count Basie and his orchestra were accustomed to the Big Band, swing-style music, most of the crooner-type songs Frank is associated is tossed aside for rougher, heavier, more uptempo numbers. This means typically faster numbers such as "I've Got You Under My Skin" (arguably the definitive version), "Luck Be A Lady", "My Kind Of Town" and "Fly Me To The Moon" more pumped up and lively than originally conceived in the studio, while typically reserved numbers such as "Come Fly With Me", "You Make Me Feel So Young" and "Where Or When" are reworked (with excellent results) to work within the swingin' mood of the rest of the set.
The rare times Frank cools things down a bit for a slower tune is welcome. "I've Got A Crush On You" is playful and sincere, his cover of Tony Bennett's "The Shadow Of Your Smile" is lovely, while "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) and "Angel Eyes" are typically heartwrenching, and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" also works quite well. "The September Of My Years" and "It Was A Very Good Year" don't quite succeed at recapturing the emotion poignancy of their studio precursors, but go over well enough.
Basie also takes on a few instrumentals while Frank catches his breath, and they are great to hear. Basie ranks right up there with Ellington and Satchmo as one of the premiere jazz bandleaders of his time. The great Quincy Jones, still fairly young and new here, does a greayt job conducting Basie's fabulous band.
Frank's monologues are hilarious, if a bit off color and sometimes just plain cruel.
The sound quality on this remastered edition is excellent, as is the liner notes by Stan Cornyn, which perfectly detail the magic of seeing Sinatra in concert (something I never had the chance to do). This is a classic recording that I all Sinatra fans, as well as music fans in general, should not go without.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Now I get it
Comment: Maybe you're like me, a little younger, you grew up on stuff like Rush and Black Sabbath. Frank Sinatra was that old guy on the Jerry Lewis telethon. He was joke fodder on SNL. But you're getting a little older and you're tastes are branching out a bit. If so, buy this album. It will explain in no uncertain way why Sinatra is the icon he still is, and deserves to be. Backed by the amazing Count Basie and his orchestra Sinatra never misses a beat. He works the crowd, sings flawlessly, and takes you through every emotion from laughter (his monologue is a riot) to sadness (One For My Baby) and hits every point in between. Unlike so many of todays prepackaged and self proclamed celebrities, Sinatra got where he was through sheer force of talent and personality. He didn't just show up for the gig, he delivered a master performance. It's just lucky for us the tape was rolling.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Pop this on, close your eyes, and you'll be instantly transported back to the Vegas of 1966. The Sands Hotel was still the "class joint" where Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies partied, held court, and occasionally even performed. This priceless document (Sinatra's first official live album) captures the Chairman of the Board in performance mode, ably supported by conductor-arranger Quincy Jones and Count Basie and his Orchestra. The set list comprises 16 Sinatra classics--including "Come Fly with Me," "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "Angel Eyes"--along with two Basie instrumentals and some seriously un-P.C. stage banter. Essential. --Dan Epstein
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