Les Double Six

I would say I've _easily_ listened to Volume 5 at least 100 times, and I'm still not tired of it. That's amazing for me, because I'm also a musician (singer/pianist) and I get bored easily. I actually found the Volume 5 CD at a Thrift store, and loved it so much that I bought the whole set recently. So I've only listened to a few of the other CD's in this set, so far, and they're also great.

This is NOT boring music. My clients and family have heard it also, and they've also mentioned how soothing and wonderful these pieces are. Most of you will probably recognize a lot of these songs! You'll be saying, "OH! I remember THIS one! I haven't heard this for YEARS!!!"

It's well worth the money for 10 very full CD's!!! Try it! You won't be disappointed!

Happy listening!
Betty, Owner of Betty's Desk Typing Service and Quality Resumes

Meditative, But Not Boring.......2002-06-21

Here's the deal: If you check out the individual CDs of this collection, you'll pay way too much. That said, compare this price, and realize it is a steal at twice the price.

The list of selections is immense. 101 selections. Most of it you've heard before, but that's OK. Despite the various cute names -- quite creative -- "Vol. 9"!... you can load your CD player and enjoy them without feeling a transition of style.

It's true these aren't meditative in the sense of a Gregorian chant. Anyone familiar with classical music will recognize the composers and various movements to know this. What is true is that you can sit down and write Amazon reviews with it in the background quite comfortably. No weird interpretations, just the music as you know it.

It is also meditative in the sense of popping on it your portable player as you go for a Sunday afternoon walk. The music has just the right pacing: no quite aerobics class, but not ready for the office elevator either.

The box and jewel cases are not that flimsy kind of thing often associated with box sets. It sounds silly to review the jewel cases, but I'm frustrated with the ones I've received lately that have no meat to them. This'll do the job.

I fully recommend "Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 10 Volume Set [BOX SET].

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

A Bargain and Beautiful.......2002-02-28

This is a wonderful collection of some of my most favorite classical selections. Most I already own, but still like having these all together. I could only wish that the recording level was the same for all selections. Yes, some are written to be softer, but I found it often necessary to turn the volume up or down for different selections. But aside from this minor preference, the quality, the choices, and the price are all super.

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Les Double Six helped revolutionize group vocal Jazz

Les Double Six
Les Double Six
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

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Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

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Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris

ASIN: B00002MIQM
Release Date: 2005-05-17

Tracks:

For Lena And Lennie
Rat Race
Stockholm Sweetnin'
Boo's Bloos
Doodlin'
Meet Benny Bailey
Evening in Paris
Count 'Em
Tickle Toe
Early Autumn
Sweets
Naima
Westwood Walk
A Night In Tunisia
A Ballad
Scrapple From The Apple
Boplicity
Moanin'
Fascinating Rhythm
Walkin'

Album Description

Les Double Six of Paris was a French Lambert, Hendricks and Ross-times-two, and the striking-looking singer/lyricist Mimi Perrin was their Jon Hendricks. They had a thicker, more intricately arranged texture, impeccable diction, a fine sense of swing and

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Les Double Six helped revolutionize group vocal Jazz.......2001-01-12

In 1958, Mimi Perrin of France had an idea - form a vocal Jazz group to sing Count Basie tunes, arranged by a young, relatively unknown artist named Quincy Jones. The vocal group she had in mind would have six members. She would use the recording technology of the time to double-record each member, therefore creating 12 voices - hence the name of the group - Les Double Six. Each member would take a different instrumental from the original song, such as saxophone or trumpet, and sing it. Not in a scatting style, but with actual lyrics. Mimi would write the words herself, from scratch. In French. Sounds crazy, right? Between 1959 and 1966, when the group won the Downbeat Poll as the best vocal Jazz group, Les Double Six helped revolutionize group vocal jazz. This CD is a compilation of their first two albums - `Meet Quincy Jones' of 1960 and `Les Double Six' of 1962. Due to the layering of vocals, the group has a dense, heavy sound. This is tempered by the frequent solos by each member, which mimic in every way the original instrumental recording. There are some amazing solos here - one of the standouts is the bass solo by Roger Guerin on the 10:37 version of `Walkin'. After hearing it, you'll swear it's the closest anyone can get to the sound of the bass instrument, while singing words with the human voice! Although all of the lyrics are in French, the sound is universal. After a few minutes, it doesn't matter if you can't understand the lyrics. In fact, I think that is part of what makes this CD special - the words just become another sound, another instrument. Quincy Jones said it best himself: "When I listen to this magnificent group, I think of Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald. Like Sarah and Ella they think like Jazz musicians first and vocalists second". This CD is an excellent time capsule of group vocal Jazz.

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Meditation: Classical Relaxation (Box Set)

Manufacturer: Delta
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Minuets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000001W1A
Release Date: 1991-03-12

Tracks:

Canon
Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan': Andante
Coppelia: Notturno
String Quintet In C: Adagio - Schubert
Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air - Bach
Clarinet Concerto: Adagio
Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished': Andante con moto - Schubert
Concerto, Op. 9, No. 2: Adagio
Orpheus And Eurydice: Dance Of The Blessed Spirits

Tracks:

Thais: Meditation
Romance In G, Op. 26
The Last Spring
Minuet
Serenade, Op. 3, No. 5
Poeme, Op. 41, No. 6
Elegiac Melody No. 1
Serenade For String Orchestra: Elegia
I Love You
La Gioconda: Dance Of The Hours

Tracks:

Adagio
Romance In F Minor, Op. 11
Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song
Romance For Violin No. 2 In F, Op. 50
Rosamunde: Ballet Music In G
Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

Tracks:

Peer Gynt: Morning
Standchen (Serenade)
Mozartiana Suite: Preghiera (Ave Verum)
Moonlight Sonata: Adagio sostenuto
Piano Concerto No. 23 In A,, 2nd Movement
Rosamunde: Intermezzo
Violin Concerto In E Minor, 2nd Movement
Serenade For String Orchestra, 1st Movement
L'Arlesienne, Suite No. 2: Intermezzo
Concierto de Aranjuez, 2nd Movement
Trout Quintet: Theme And Variations

Tracks:

The Tales Of Hoffman: Barcarolle
Valse Triste
Liebestraum No. 3 In A Flat
Minuet
Oboe Concerto In D Minor (Excerpt)
Piano Sonata, No. 8 'Pathetique', 2nd Movement
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo sinfonico
Christmas Oratorio: Sinfonia
Ave Maria
Horn Concerto No. 3, 2nd Movement
Symphony No. 1, 3rd Movement
Traumerei
Peer Gynt: Ase's Death
Xerxes: Largo
Symphony No. 9, 'From The New World', 2nd Movement

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Panorama: Festive Baroque

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Septets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00004XT2J
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

Adagio - Orpheus CO
Con 'Winter': 1. Allegro Non Molto - Simon Standage
Con 'Winter': 2. Largo - Simon Standage
Con 'Winter': 3. Allegro - Simon Standage
Canon & Gigue: Canon - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Canon & Gigue: Gigue - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Orchestral Ste No.2: Badinerie - Stephen Preston
Italian Con: 1. (Allegro) - Trevor Pinnock
Italian Con: 2. Andante - Trevor Pinnock
Italian Con: 3. Presto - Trevor Pinnock
Con in B flat: 1. Allegro - Peter Westermann/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
Con in B flat: 2. Largo - Peter Westermann/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
Con in B flat: 3. Allegro - Peter Westermann/Michael Niesemann/Piet Dhont
Dido And Aeneas: 'Thy Hand, Belinda - When I Am Laid in Earth' - Ann Sofie Von Otter
Organ Con 'The Cuckoo And The Nightingale': 1. Larghetto - Simon Preston
Organ Con 'The Cuckoo And The Nightingale': 2. Allegro - Simon Preston
Organ Con 'The Cuckoo And The Nightingale': 3. Larghetto - Simon Preston
Organ Con 'The Cuckoo And The Nightingale': 4. Allegro - Simon Preston
Con in b: 1. Allegro - Simon Standage/Elizabeth Wilcock/Micaela Comberti/James Golding
Con in b: 2. Largo - Larghetto - Largo - Simon Standage/Elizabeth Wilcock/Micaela Comberti/James Golding
Con in b: 3. Allegro - Simon Standage/Elizabeth Wilcock/Micaela Comberti/James Golding
Zadok The Priest - Choir Of Westminster Abbey

Tracks:

Orchestral Ste No.3: Air - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Ombra Mai Fu - Bryn Terfel
Con in C: 1. Allegro - Hannes Laubin/Wolfgang Laubin
Con in C: 2. Largo - Hannes Laubin/Wolfgang Laubin
Con in C: 3. Allegro - Hannes Laubin/Wolfgang Laubin
Toccata & Fugue in d: Toccata - Simon Preston
Toccata & Fugue in d: Fugue - Simon Preston
Te Deum: Prld - Les Muciciens Du Louvre/Marc Minkowski
Le Coucou - Trevor Pinnock
Battalia: 1. Son. Allegro - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 2. Allegro. Die Liederliche Gesellschaft The Dissolute Company La Compagnie Libertine - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 3. Presto - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 4. Der Marsch (March/Marche) - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 5. Presto - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 6. Aria - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 7. Die Schlacht (The Battle/La Bataille) - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Battalia: 8. Adagio. Lament Of The Wounded Musketeers - Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
'Christmas Con': 1. Vivace - Grave - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
'Christmas Con': 2. Allegro - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
'Christmas Con': 3. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
'Christmas Con': 4. Vivace - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
'Christmas Con': 5. Allegro - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
'Christmas Con': 6. Pastorale. Largo - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Tpt Voluntary - Michael Laird Brass Ens/Peter Hurford
Fl Con 'La Tempesta Di Mare': 1. Allegro - Patrick Gallois
Fl Con 'La Tempesta Di Mare': 2. Largo - Patrick Gallois
Fl Con 'La Tempesta Di Mare': 3. Presto - Patrick Gallois
Christmas Oratorio: Sinf - The English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner
Brandenburg Con No.3: 1. (Allegro) - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Brandenburg Con No.3: 2. Adagio - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock
Brandenburg Con No.3: 3. Allegro - The English Conc/Trevor Pinnock