With his comeback secure, Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and a set of 12 commissions from eight composer/arrangers. With the poetry of radio writer Norman Sickel as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upon, with Victor Young, Jeff 6/

This was an LP released in , now a digitally enhanced CD, of pieces composed by eight of America's top popular music composers: Victor Young, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Jeff Alexander, Alec Wilder, Nelson Riddle, Elmer Bernstein and Andre Previn. Between them they have composed 12 tone poems based on literary poems of colour by Norman Sickel/5(13).

Frank Sinatra Album Covers Concepts —> The Dream —> The Reality —> The Experience —> The Wisdom “ The beauty of the music that embraces the concept of The Experience is enhanced by the pairing of Sinatra's vocals with the arrangements of his three chief collaborators from the Capitol era: Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins. Their value to Sinatra's work is .

Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color is a album of short tone poems by eight notable midth century Hollywood composers. The album was conducted by Sinatra and marked the first musical collaboration between Sinatra and Gordon Jenkins. Each composition was inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel.

Mar 21,  · “Concepts” also includes “Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color,” which features Frank behind the podium, not behind the microphone. “Sinatra 80 th: All the Best”-2 discs I don’t own this set, but it has a really weird track selection.

Product description “Tone Poems of Color” is the classic instrumental album with Frank Sinatra conducting a full symphony orchestra. Eight of Hollywood’s leading composers and arrangers were commissioned to write twelve pieces of music based upon poems by Norman Sickel (a writer on Frank Sinatra’s radio show)/5(13).

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of Tone Poems Of Color on Discogs/5(4).

Frankly Sentimental is the fourth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released on June 20, as a set of four 78 rpm records and a 10" LP album. The tracks were arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl and his orchestra. The album is composed of eight songs recorded in eight separate sessions in and Track listing.

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