2002
1/25/2002
An Evening with Natalie Cole:
1/30/2002
NATALIE COLE SIGNS TO VERVE RECORDS;
PR Newswire 01-30-2002
DEAL REUNITES COLE WITH TOMMY LIPUMA, PRODUCER OF HER
GROUNDBREAKING
'UNFORGETTABLE'
LEGENDARY SONGSTRESS NATALIE COLE HAS SIGNED TO VERVE
RECORDS. THE DEAL
REUNITES COLE WITH THE VERVE MUSIC GROUP'S CHAIRMAN, TOMMY
LIPUMA, WHO
PRODUCED HER GROUNDBREAKING 1991 RELEASE
"UNFORGETTABLE."
COLE AND LIPUMA ARE CURRENTLY PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON
COLE'S
VERVE DEBUT, WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR A FALL 2002 RELEASE.
"WORKING WITH TOMMY AGAIN IS LIKE RETURNING HOME,"
COMMENTED COLE. "HE IS
SO GOOD WITH THIS KIND OF MUSIC. I FEEL VERY FORTUNATE THAT HE
REALLY
UNDERSTANDS WHAT I DO, WHICH IS EVIDENCED BY 'UNFORGETTABLE' AND
THE NEW
ALBUM. WE HAVE GROWN TOGETHER AND WE ARE VERY COMPATIBLE. I AM
LOOKING
FORWARD TO MORE GREAT WORK WITH TOMMY AND VERVE," SHE SAID
OF HER MOVE TO THE
STORIED LABEL, HOME OF SUCH GREATS AS ELLA FITZGERALD AND SARAH
VAUGHAN.
"IT IS AN HONOR TO WORK WITH NATALIE AGAIN AFTER ALL THESE
YEARS," SAID
TOMMY LIPUMA, CHAIRMAN, THE VERVE MUSIC
GROUP. HE CONTINUED, "I AM THRILLED
THAT SHE HAS JOINED THE VERVE FAMILY AND THAT SHE WILL BE
CONTINUING IN THE
GREAT TRADITION OF VOCALISTS THAT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A CORNERSTONE
OF VERVE
RECORDS."
SINCE WINNING THE BEST NEW ARTIST GRAMMY(R) IN 1975 FOR HER
DEBUT ALBUM,
"INSEPARABLE," NATALIE COLE HAS BEEN ONE OF THE
MOST RECOGNIZED VOICES IN
POPULAR MUSIC. THROUGHOUT HER MORE THAN 25 YEARS IN THE
BUSINESS, COLE HAS
CREATED SUCH MEMORABLE SONGS AS "THIS WILL BE,"
"OUR LOVE," AND "MISS YOU LIKE
CRAZY." SHE HAS EARNED NUMEROUS AWARDS, INCLUDING EIGHT
GRAMMYS(R), AND
COUNTLESS GOLD AND PLATINUM ALBUM CERTIFICATIONS.
BUT PERHAPS COLE IS BEST KNOWN FOR THE LIPUMA-PRODUCED
"UNFORGETTABLE,"
WHICH EARNED SIX
GRAMMY(R) AWARDS, INCLUDING ALBUM OF THE YEAR, AND HAS SOLD
OVER 14 MILLION UNITS WORLDWIDE.
PICTURED AT
NATALIE COLE; DAN CLEARY, NATALIE COLE'S MANAGER,
DAN CLEARY MANAGEMENT
ASSOCIATES; RON GOLDSTEIN, PRESIDENT AND CEO, THE VERVE MUSIC
GROUP. SEATED:
TOMMY LIPUMA, CHAIRMAN, THE VERVE MUSIC GROUP.
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2/2/2002
TONY BENNETT "PLAYIN' WITH MY FRIENDS: BENNETT
SINGS THE BLUES" (
TONY BENNETT "PLAYIN' WITH MY FRIENDS: BENNETT SINGS THE
BLUES" (
Byline: Bill White Of The Morning Call
Edition: FIRST
Section: ENTERTAINMENT
Type: DISC REVIEWS
BLUES Tony Bennett doesn't really fit my image of a blues
singer. He's a 74-year-old white guy in a tuxedo. But with a lot of help from
his "friends," and typical Bennett enthusiasm, he turns out a winner
on his late 2001 disc. This is no old warhorse cranking another by- the-numbers
album out for a quick buck. He's having fun, and even when he feels a little
out of place, you're inclined to make allowances. The strongest cuts on "Playin' With My Friends," not surprisingly, are the
ones where he collaborates with his heavyweight duet companions, who include
B.B. King, Ray Charles, Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, Kay Starr (who's even
older than Tony), Stevie Wonder, Diana Krall and Natalie Cole. The first
single is a bluesy version of "New York State of Mind" with Billy
Joel, but my favorite cut is Bennett's collaboration with Sheryl Crow on
"Good Morning Heartache," in which Crow channels Billie Holliday in
an achingly bruised voice that was a revelation for me. Also worth special
mention are Wonder's harmonica solo on "Everyday (I Have the Blues)"
and Bennett's duets with King ("Let the Good Times Roll"), Charles
("Evenin"') and Cole ("Stormy
Weather"). To cap it off, they all get together for the rollicking title
tune. Let the good times roll.
Bill White
Illustrations/Photos:
PHOTO by UNKNOWN;
Caption: TONY BENNETT ... let the good times roll.
(Copyright 2002)
2/12/2002
CORRECTION;
Morning Star (
CORRECTION
Section: Front Page
Tickets to the Natalie Cole concert during the
N.C. Azalea Festival are $40. There will be an additional $5 processing fee per
order, not per ticket. An article in Tuesday's Today section misstated the
ticket price.
Morning Star
Category: Lifestyle
Published: 02/12/2002
Page: 1D, 2D
Keywords: Natalie Cole; Azalea Festival
CORRECTION DATE: 02/13/2002
CORRECTION: Tickets to the Natalie Cole concert during
the N.C. Azalea Festival are $40. There will be an additional $5 processing fee
per order, not per ticket. An article in Tuesday's Today section misstated the
ticket price.
Natalie Cole to perform at Azalea Festival
Byline: By Amanda Greene, Staff Writer
This year's Azalea Festival concert will feature the daughter of
an Unforgettable jazz singer.
Natalie Cole will be the featured performer for the 2002 festival concert at 8
p.m. April 4 at Trask Coliseum on the campus of the
Ms. Cole's upcoming visit to the
"We're so pleased to have a nine-time Grammy Award-winning
artist because we've been negotiating several months to get her here,"
Paula Lentz, Azalea Festival president, said.
Ms. Cole is the daughter of Nat "King" Cole, a smooth
big band singer of the 1940s and 1950s. She made her debut singing on Mr.
Cole's Christmas album in 1975 and earned her first gold record and two Grammy
awards two years later with Inseparable.
But she likely is best known for her multi-platinum tribute to
her father in Unforgettable, With Love, which sold 14 million copies. With the
aide of technology, she was able to sing a duet of Unforgettable with her
father on the album.
More than 20 albums later, Ms. Cole still is going strong in
both her personal and professional lives. In October, she married Bishop
Kenneth Dupree, and her autobiography, Angel on My Shoulder, was released in
November. If you want to learn more about her life, VH1 will air a Behind the
Music special and Livin' for
Love: The Natalie Cole Story back-to-back at noon and 1 p.m.
Friday.
2/27/2002
Musicians sing out for Billy Joel and charity;
Steve Jones
USA Today 02-27-2002
LOS ANGELES -- Billy Joel was in a buoyant mood Monday after
being serenaded with his own songs at the Century Park Plaza Hotel -- and being
honored as MusiCares' person of the year.
The annual pre-Grammy charity event, hosted by the National
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, featured performances by Stevie Wonder, Rob Thomas, Garth Brooks, Natalie Cole, Melissa Etheridge, Nelly Furtado, Tony
Bennett, Don Henley, Diana Krall, and Jon Bon Jovi with bandmate Richie Sambora. NARAS
president/CEO Michael Greene said the evening's event, attended largely by
industry types, raised "$2 million and counting" for MusiCares, which provides medical and financial help for
musicians in need.