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I bought another windup gramophone from a very sweet elderly couple the other day - it is becoming a sickness like with guitars. 
They called me back a day or so later to ask if I was interested in some records. I went and looked and bought some stuff from them, including a 1953 release of Capitol Presents Nat King Cole and His Trio Vol. 1. (They will call me again when they find their boxes of 78s - sweet!)
The Nat King Cole disk is a 10" microgroove LP compilation of stuff from the 40s, things that had been previously released on 78s - the LP was not introduced until 1948. Although, you would most definitely not know it from his later MOR output, Cole was a great and very influential Jazz pianist, something he largely abandoned in favour of Pop vocal celebrity His wonderful voice was sort of an afterthought: "Oh, and BTW I can sing, too."
The material here below, seemingly one side of the microgroove LP, only starts a bit towards a flirtation with MOR Pop. Most of it is quite Jazzy.
And there is some very nice playing from guitarist Oscar Moore.
Oh, and his voice ... like a Sam Cooke with a better knowledge of changes and scales but without the Gospel influence - smokey, smooth, elastic, and effortless. Gorgeous!
Oscar Moore:
en.wikipedia.org
They called me back a day or so later to ask if I was interested in some records. I went and looked and bought some stuff from them, including a 1953 release of Capitol Presents Nat King Cole and His Trio Vol. 1. (They will call me again when they find their boxes of 78s - sweet!)
The Nat King Cole disk is a 10" microgroove LP compilation of stuff from the 40s, things that had been previously released on 78s - the LP was not introduced until 1948. Although, you would most definitely not know it from his later MOR output, Cole was a great and very influential Jazz pianist, something he largely abandoned in favour of Pop vocal celebrity His wonderful voice was sort of an afterthought: "Oh, and BTW I can sing, too."
The material here below, seemingly one side of the microgroove LP, only starts a bit towards a flirtation with MOR Pop. Most of it is quite Jazzy.
And there is some very nice playing from guitarist Oscar Moore.
Oh, and his voice ... like a Sam Cooke with a better knowledge of changes and scales but without the Gospel influence - smokey, smooth, elastic, and effortless. Gorgeous!
Oscar Moore:
Oscar Moore - Wikipedia
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