Essential Matt Monro [Import]

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20 track budget price collection from EMI. Copy Controlled. 2003.

Essential Matt Monro, Music, Matt Monro, Easy Listening/Vocal, Vocal

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Essential Matt Monro

Masterful phrasing and swing...

Essential Matt Monro
Matt Monro
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008O8CD
Release Date: 2006-02-28

My Kind Of Girl
Portrait Of My Love
From Russia With Love
Who Can I Turn To
Lets Face The Music And Dance
Jeannie
April Fool
Cheek To Cheek
Softly As I Leave You
Here And Now
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
How Little We Know
Stardust
Small Fry
Skylark
One Morning In May
I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
Memphis In June
Blue Orchids
I Have Dreamed

Album Description

20 track budget price collection from EMI. Copy Controlled. 2003.

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Digitally Remastered Colleciton of 20 Great Recordings from the Famed Singer who was Most Popular in the Early 1960's.

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Essential Matt Monro.......2007-04-18

If you're not familiar with Matt Monro he was one of the top vocalists of the 60's in England. This album is a gem, great jazz/pop vocals. If you like Sinatra but want something different, this is a good place to start, "From Russia With Love" alone is worth the price of the album. Also, find the song "This Is The life", it's on a few other albums of his.

Masterful phrasing and swing..........2005-10-20

He was the "British Sinatra" and sings with beautiful phrasing on these recordings from the early '60s. This is Monro at his most Sinatra/Riddle-like. Several of the tracks are from his Hoagy Carmichael album (virtually the entire Matt Monro catalog is made up of compilations) -- and his renditions of "Skylark," "Blue Orchids," and "Stardust" are masterful ballad treatments. His "One Morning In May" and "Small Fry" swing with Basie-like big-band arrangements behind him (note especially the hip and attentive drumming on these swing charts).

His breath control is one of the most extraordinary in all of popular singing; there is at least one phrase in each ballad performance that is nearly impossible to speak, let alone sing, in one breath. But there's subtle swing phrasing with great breath control too -- notice the second time he sings the bridge on "Let's Face the Music and Dance" after he sings a 4-bar lead-in and then the ENTIRE bridge on one breath. Literally breathtaking singing, and mature phrasing that does not call attention to the technical prowess (very much like Sinatra). "My Kind of Girl" was Monro's swing masterpiece, a record so fine that even Sinatra had to record it -- the ultimate tribute.

The Essential Matt Monro

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The Essential Matt Monro

Manufacturer: EMI
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009JXTG4

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Track Listing: 1. My Kind of Girl 2. Portrait of My Love 3. From Russia with Love 4. Who Can I Turn To 5. Let's Face the Music and Dance 6. Jeannie 7. April Fool 8. Cheek to Cheek 9. Softly As I Leave You 10. Here and Now 11. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing 12. How Little We Know 13. Stardust 14. Small Fry 15. Skylark 16. One Morning in May 17. I Get Along without You Very Well (Except Sometimes) 18. Memphis in June 19. Blue Orchids 20. I Have Dreamed

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