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Sinatra at his RAREST and JAZZIEST best!

Comic Online | Washington, DC United States | 01/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Perfectly Frank" (Bravura 103) is an incredible CD of Frank Sinatra's small jazz combo sides from his early '50's Radio Show, ""To Be Perfectly Frank." Nearly all songs are with just trios, quartets, quintets, or solo piano. It contains a whopping 31 tracks of wonderful small group jazz with Sinatra singing on every track. Many of these songs he NEVER recorded commercially. He was at the HEIGHT of his career & vocal talents at this point in his life. The sound quality is really quite good, considering this was just a radio show. ALL songs are pure music, with no chatting or applause throughout the songs (as it was recorded in a small studio, with just Sinatra and the band). All you get is the wonderful music.



If you are lucky, and can find this wonderful CD, you must also find "After Hours" on the Artistry label. It contains 33 more tracks from this same radio show. Every song is different on each CD, so there's no overlap, and they have the same sound quality.



Both are out-of-print, and quite difficult to find. That's unfortunate, because you will not hear a better representation of Sinatra's JAZZY vocal abilities elsewhere."