Various Artists: The Leopard Lounge Original Album Series
Author: Andy Robson
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Musicians: |
Ray Charles (p) |
Label: |
Rhino |
Magazine Review Date: |
June/2012 |
Catalogue Number: |
2564661600 |
RecordDate: |
1957-1973 |
Shake, stir or pour a long one and settle back on that leopard skin chaise longue: chilled? Then we shall begin… or rather beguine. Of course, you may not be amused if you bought separately the five CDs that comprise this lounge core collection of all that is eternally hip. But the rest of us can coo contentedly while we're royally entertained, whether our taste is for the sublimely daft (ah, ‘Daktari’ – where now the cross-eyed lions of our youth?) or the ridiculously good, like Betty Carter swooning through ‘'Round Midnight’. Indeed, between the schlock there are buried treasures, from Ray Charles' ‘Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin”, to, um, more Betty Carter. And let's face it, without such classics, where would Ian Shaw and Lea DeLaria be today? Right, off with the mules, on with the boa, let's shimmy – because you're worth it.

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