Mel Torme and George Shearing – A Vintage Year (1988) [Reissue 2003] [MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:36 minutes | Basic Covers | 3,76 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Basic Covers | 1,03 GB
Features Stereo & Multichannel Surround Sound / Concord Records Inc. # SACD-1026-6 | Genre: Jazz

Singer Mel Tormé and pianist George Shearing make a perfect team, bringing out the best in each other. With the assistance of bassist John Leitham and drummer Donny Osborne, the swinging, witty duo performs a variety of standards, including Noël Coward’s “Someday I’ll Find You”, “The Way You Look Tonight”, and “Anyone Can Whistle”, and a couple of medleys highlighted by a humorous six-song “New York, New York Medley”. All of the Tormé/Shearing collaborations are quite enjoyable and highly recommended as some of their best work of the 1980s.Velvet-toned vocalist Mel Tormé and elegantly swinging pianist George Shearing were, quite simply, an unrivaled pairing of talents. And 1987—the year in which this timeless, Grammy®-Award nominated recording was made—was indeed A Vintage Year for this dynamic duo, finding both gentlemen at the peak of their creative and artistic powers. Consummate entertainers, Mel Torme and George Shearing possessed a collective wit and sense of humor that perfectly matched their peerless musical virtuosity and artistry. Their humorous, now-famous “New York, New York Medley” is a classic example of their signature melding of talents—one of many highlights in this masterful Torme/Shearing outing. Now on Hybrid SACD, you’re invited to pull up a front row seat at the Paul Masson Winery, and witness first-hand the undeniable fact that, like a fine bottle of wine, this vintage recording only gets better with age.

Tracklist:

01. Whisper Not / Love Me Or Leave Me
02. Out of this World
03. Some Day I’ll Find You
04. The Midnight Sun
05. New York, New York (Medley: 1. For Me And My Gal/ 2. Mack The Knife/ 3. Birth Of The Blues/ 4. Send A Little Love My Way/ 5. How High The Moon/ 6. New York, New York)
06. Folks Who Live on the Hill
07. Bittersweet
08. Since I Fell for You
09. The Way You Look Tonight
10. Anyone Can Whistle/ A Tune For Humming
11. When Sunny Gets Blue
12. Little Man You’ve Had A Busy Day

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Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Beauty And The Beat! (1959/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 33:25 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Released in 1959, Beauty and the Beat! is an album by Peggy Lee, accompanied by the George Shearing Quintet. It was produced by Dave Cavanaugh.

Peggy Lee was accompanied by George Shearing and his quintet for a performance at a music industry convention in Miami in May 1959, marking the first time the two would work together. It has remained uncertain over the years how much of this album was actually recorded live during that technically-plagued concert and how much was reconstructed in the studio later. Nonetheless, it’s a swinging session including standards by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Rodgers and Hart.Upon its first release Beauty and the Beat! was billed as a live recording from a Miami convention of disc jockeys. Though Peggy Lee and George Shearing did in fact perform there (and attempts were made to record them for later release), the songs heard on the subsequent LP were recorded in the studio and overdubbed with rather obvious canned applause, announcements, and even post-production echo. Lee and Shearing, who had never recorded before, conceived a set of completely new arrangements that played to their strengths: stately blues and effervescent swing. The best of the former comes on a pair of locale-referencing quasi-blues, “I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City” and “You Came a Long Way From St. Louis,” both of which Lee and Shearing are able to transform into languorous, respectable torch songs. The usually downcast “Blue Prelude” is actually taken at a laissez faire tempo that Lee treats well, and the original set ends with “Get Out of Town” and “Satin Doll,” a pair of bemused, affectionate performances that perfectly suit the pair. Lee and Shearing’s only collaboration on record — though both would occasionally perform together thereafter — is a supremely chilled session of late-night blues from two masters of the form. –AllMusic Review by John Bush

Tracklist:

01. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Do I Love You (03:50)
02. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City (02:41)
03. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – If Dreams Come True (02:54)
04. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – All Too Soon (03:16)
05. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Mambo In Miami (Instrumental) (01:57)
06. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Isn’t It Romantic (Instrumental) (02:58)
07. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Blue Prelude (02:24)
08. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – You Came A Long Way From St. Louis (03:16)
09. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Always True To You In My Fashion (02:16)
10. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – There’ll Be Another Spring (02:28)
11. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Get Out Of Town (02:30)
12. Peggy Lee, George Shearing – Satin Doll (Instrumental) (02:50)

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