Chanter. Mais chanter comme l’on respire. Chanter comme peu savent le faire en bouleversant pourtant l’histoire et l’audience de leur siècle. Car s’il est des musiciens qui marquèrent à jamais la pratique d’un instrument par leur virtuosité, il est juste de dire que les chanteuses et les chanteurs ont une place à part dans la tradition populaire que la musique de jazz renouvela puissamment tout au long du XXe siècle. Une place à part dans le cœur d’un public toujours plus touché par le reflet de l’âme qu’est simplement l’art du chant.
Saga All Stars vous permet de retrouver dans les meilleures conditions, les immenses figures que furent entre autres la reine de la soul Aretha Franklin, le juvénile mais déjà dynamiteur de groove James Brown, les pionniers du rock’n’roll Elvis Presley et Gene Vincent, le fantastique crooner Nat King Cole, l’irrésistible Marilyn Monroe ou encore l’envoûtante Nina Simone.
Un panorama concentré sur le formidable support de propagation que fut le single pour redécouvrir la simplicité et la force des grandes chansons. L’occasion immanquable de s’ouvrir aux possibilités révolutionnaires qu’avaient ouvert les avènements successifs du rhythm & blues, du rock’n’roll et de la soul music. De quoi chanter soir et matin !
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Singing. But to sing as one breathes. To sing as few know how, and yet to revolutionize the history and audience of their century. For if there are musicians whose virtuosity forever marked the practice of an instrument, it’s fair to say that singers have a special place in the popular tradition that jazz music so powerfully renewed throughout the 20th century. A special place in the hearts of an ever-increasing public, touched by the reflection of the soul that is simply the art of singing.
Saga All Stars lets you rediscover, in the best possible conditions, the immense figures who were, among others, the queen of soul Aretha Franklin, the youthful but already groove-dynamic James Brown, rock’n’roll pioneers Elvis Presley and Gene Vincent, the fantastic crooner Nat King Cole, the irresistible Marilyn Monroe and the spellbinding Nina Simone.
A panorama focused on the single as a formidable propagation medium, rediscovering the simplicity and power of great songs. An unmissable opportunity to open up to the revolutionary possibilities opened up by the successive advent of rhythm & blues, rock’n’roll and soul music. Something to sing along to morning to night!
01 FATS DOMINO Blueberry Hill / Selected Singles 1955-56
02 RAY CHARLES I Got a Woman / Selected Singles 1952-55
03 JAMES BROWN vs. LITTLE WILLIE JOHN Soul Fever / Selected Singles 1955-56
04 LITTLE RICHARD Tutti Frutti / Selected Singles 1951-1956
05 BILL HALEY R-O-C-K / Selected Singles 1954-55
06 CHUCK BERRY Roll Over Beethoven / The Singles 1955-56
07 ELVIS PRESLEY The Birth of the King / Selected Singles 1954-56
08 GENE VINCENT Be Bop a Lula / 1956
09 FRED ASTAIRE I Won’t Dance! / 1952
10 FRANK SINATRA I’ve Got the World on a String / Selected Singles 1953-56
11 DEAN MARTIN Dino Swings! / Selected Singles 1949-56
12 NAT KING COLE Unforgettable / Selected Singles 1949-56
13 CHARLES TRENET Swing Troubadour / 1937-47
14 EDITH PIAF La Vie en Rose / 1935-51
15 YVES MONTAND À Paris / 1948-49
16 THE GOLDEN GATE QUARTET Gospel Train / 1939-1957
17 BB KING Sweet Little Angel / Selected singles 1956-1957
18 BO DIDDLEY I’m Bad! / The Singles 1955-1957
19 RAY CHARLES Hallelujah I Love Her So / Selected Singles 1955-1957
20 SAM COOKE Around the World / 1957
21 SOLOMON BURKE No Man Walks Alone / The Singles 1955-1957
22 HANK WILLIAMS Honky Tonk Man / 1947-1952
23 JOHNNY CASH I Walk the Line / 1956-1957
24 ELVIS PRESLEY Love Me Tender / Selected Singles 1956
25 JERRY LEE LEWIS Great Balls of Fire / Singles & EPs 1956-1957
26 FRANK SINATRA Learnin’ the Blues / Selected Singles 1954-1955
27 ELLA FITZGERALD Let’s Do It / The Singles 1956-1957
28 MARYLIN MONROE Heat Wave / Selected Film Tracks 1950-1957
29 CHET BAKER You Don’t Know What Love Is / 1953-1955
30 EDITH PIAF Sous le ciel de Paris / 1946-1957
31 SCREAMIN’ JAY HAWKINS I Put a Spell on You / The Singles 1954-1957
32 JAMES BROWN Try Me / The Singles 1957-1958
33 ETTA JAMES Good Rockin’ Daddy / Selected Singles 1954-1956
34 ELVIS PRESLEY Jailhouse Rock / Elvis at the movies 1957-1958
35 BUDDY HOLLY Peggy Sue / Selected Singles 1956-1958
36 EDDIE COCHRAN C’mon Everybody / Selected Singles 1956-1958
37 LOUIS ARMSTRONG C’est si bon / 1949-1951
38 FRANK SINATRA Love and Marriage / Selected Singles 1955-1956
39 DINAH WASHINGTON Teach Me Tonight / Love Songs 1954-1956
40 EDITH PIAF Hymn to Love / 1950-1958
41 MAURICE CHEVALIER Louise / Maurice Chevalier at the Movies 1929-1958
42 JEAN SABLON The French Crooner in America / 1937-1949
43 SERGE GAINSBOURG Le Poinçonneur des Lilas / The EPs 1958-1959
44 ARETHA FRANKLIN Today I Sing the Blues / Selected Singles 1960-1962
45 JOHN LEE HOOKER Boom Boom / Selected Singles 1955-1962
46 NINA SIMONE My Baby Just Cares for Me / Selected Singles 1959-1962
47 BOB DYLAN Song to Woody / 1961
48 LOUIS PRIMA Just a Gigolo / The EPs 1956-1957
49 PEGGY LEE Fever / The Singles & EPs 1958
50 FRANCOISE HARDY Le Temps de l’Amour / The Singles 1962
51 JULIE LONDON Cry Me a River / The EPs 1954
52 JULIETTE GRECO Jolie Môme / The EPs 1961
53 BRENDA LEE I’m Sorry / The EPs 1960
54 ROY ORBISON Oobie Doobie / The Singles 1956-1959
55 ROY ORBISON Only the Lonely / The Singles 1960-1962
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