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Those ubiquitous CD box sets are not only a wildly successful marketing tool, they can also be a true boon to music lovers -- provided the artist is worthy of such enshrinement. Consider the recent compilations of two of the century's most formative singers. BESSIE SMITH: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS VOL. 2 (Columbia/Legacy) showcases this humongous godmamma of the blues in full cry, scorching the earth with New Gulf Coast Blues and Dixie Flyer Blues, marvelously backed by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from...
...latest Englishman to have a go is Paul McCartney, the erstwhile "cute" Beatle and Wings captain, whose quasi-autobiographical Liverpool Oratorio is soaring on the classical charts (Angel/EMI Classics has shipped 350,000 copies of the two-CD album worldwide). Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the 97-minute work for soloists, chorus and orchestra was first performed in McCartney's native city last July and recently got its U.S. premiere at New York City's Carnegie Hall...
...resolution was so fine that the image of the five executives cutting a ceremonial ribbon looked almost three dimensional. The occasion: the expansion of Japan's HDTV broadcasting to eight hours a day, up from the one-hour tests begun in 1989. With its sharpness of picture and CD-like crispness of sound, Japan's HDTV has all the outward appearances of another grand success about to wash over the world...
PHIL SPECTOR: BACK TO MONO (1958-1969) (Phil Spector Records Inc./Abkco). The Wagner of rock, celebrating his own Wall of Sound glory, in a four-CD box featuring 60 of his biggest hits and wildest productions. This is rock at its grandest and giddiest. Spanning nearly a quarter-century, classics like Be My Baby and Then He Kissed Me are three-minute operas of teen passion, which have endured because of the grandeur and unapologetic delirium of the Spector style. His production techniques are elaborate and near legendary, but even if they could be duplicated, it wouldn...
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