Kenny G reatest Hits

Kenny G exploring jazz music. This guy can carry a melodic tune to any of his compositions that is definitely always have an immense impact to everyone. This video is not actually a concert. These are compilations of his greatest hits. Songs like, Songbird, Don't make me wait for love. Going home , Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas and many more. 40 minutes of commercial cool jazz!

Ricky Lee Jones Live at Wiltern Theater

Ricky Lee Jones has been known as a folk singer with a very distinct voice. Her compositions are a bit lyrical with a little taste of Jazzy tune. Very melodic phrases with lots of loveness. Very ambitious approach and cool, cool voice phrasing. Critics are comparing her to Joni Mitchell 's style but I can vouch for this singer that she's a good one. 60 minutes of pure entertainment. Playing along with her recent band and singing mostly her popular tunes. Lee songs include "Well You Needn't," "Making Whoopie," "Texaco," "Must Be Love," "Don't Like Goodby," "White Boy's Cool."

Michael Franks - Live at The Blue Note - Japan

Michael Franks (1944) is a jazz singer and songwriter from the United States. Born in La Jolla, California, he began singing folk-rock, accompanying himself on guitar, in High School. He studied music in college, earned an M.A. from UCLA in Comparative Literature and a PhD from the University of Oregon and teaching undergraduate music courses.
He was on records with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and recorded an eponymous CD now titled Previously Unavailable (originally Brut, now DRG Records) before landing a contract with Warner Brothers Music in 1973. Since then, Michael has recorded over 15 more albums.
His best known works include in the Rain,” “Rainy Ni“Popsicle Toes,” “Monkey See-Monkey Do,” “The Lady Wants To Know,” “When the Cookie Jar is Empty,” “Tiger ght in Tokyo” and “Tell Me All About It”. His biggest hit came in 1983 with 'When Sly Calls (Don't Touch That Phone)', from the album Passionfruit. Through his entire career of singing he has accomplished 18 albums since he started. Upto now, his latest CD release is the Rendevouz in Rio 2006. Women really just love his singing mellow voice. In This concert you will witness and listen mostly to his popular songs. You will easily fall for this Heartrob Michael Franks. 1 hour and 30 minutes of entertaining jazz.

Dionne Warwick - Live at Syracuse - Jazz Festival 2003

Marie Dionne Warrick (born December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey), known professionally as Dionne Warwick, is an American singer best known for her work with Hal David and Burt Bacharach as songwriters .

Born to parents Mansel Warrick and Lee Drinkard, Dionne Warrick began singing gospel with her family, and started her professional career after graduating from the University of Hartford. In the earliest stage of her career, she sang backing vocals on records by Chuck Jackson, Dinah Washington and Solomon Burke, among others. Her first solo single was 1962's "Don't Make Me Over", supplied by Warrick herself when she snapped the phrase at producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David during an arduous recording session producers. In this concert she sung some of her most memorable greatest hits. Celebrating her 40th year in the music industry.

Julia Fordham - That's Live - 2003

Julia Fordham (born August 10, 1962, Portsmouth, England) is a singer-songwriter based in California. Her professional career started in the early 1980s, under the name "Jules Fordham," as a backing singer for the likes of Mari Wilson & the Wilsations and Kim Wilde.
In 1988, she released her first album on Circa Records, Julia Fordham. The album, which contained a pair of UK top 40 singles, introduced her as a singer with considerable vocal range, and her deeply emotional lyrics endeared her to a small, committed audience. Licensed to Virgin Records America, the album was a minor hit and paved the way for the success of 1989's Porcelain. The lead single from this LP, "Manhattan Skyline," was an adult contemporary radio and VH-1 hit. Her music can be considered and categorized as Jazz music. In this concert she has guested multiple -jazz singers which resulted a very entertaining one.

Laura Fygi Live at Royal Theatre Carre, Amsterdam - 1998

Laura Fygi ( August 27, 1955 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch singer.
For the first eight years of her life, she lived with her parents in South America. She is the daughter of a Dutch father (a manager at Philips) and an Egyptian mother.
Between 1987 and 1991, Laura Fygi was a member of one of the most popular Dutch girl-bands, Centerfold. During performances, the ladies dressed themselves in sexy lingerie. They had hits in the Netherlands and all over Europe. In Japan, they were considered famous.
In 1991, the ladies of Centerfold stopped performing and Laura (together with Rowan Moore) started a band called The Backlot. After one performance in Dutch theatre Paradiso, an album was expected, but Mercury Records had already asked Laura to make a solo album. This first album of hers was called Introducing (album), produced by Ruud Jacobs. On this album, she was accompanied by famous Belgian musician Jean 'Toots' Thielemans. Most of the songs on the album are jazz. In this concert she sang classic jazz music such as Bewitched,Let there be love,and I've got you under my skin. Some are Antonio Carlos Jobims compositions. Known for her Bossa Nova melodies which made her popular singing to the tunes of some Brazilian jazz music. 1 hour of samba music.

Herbie Hancock Quintet - Live in France - 2002

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Award winning jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hancock is one of jazz music's most important and influential pianists and composers. He embraced elements of rock, funk, and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz.

As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet", Hancock helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section, and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound. Later, he was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk. Yet for all his restless experimentalism, Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences. In this concert he has invited Michael Brecker- tenor Saxophone player-performing his best- ala John Coltrane. Along with him are Rey Hargrove, George Mraz and Willie Jones at Theater Antique de Vienne on July 8, 2002. 1 hour of mainstream jazz.