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Favorite Collaborations

Your favorite collaborations.  Not song writers who compose together (Lennon, McCartney; Becker, Fagen....).
Two or more extraordinary talants who come together to create  extraordinary music.
Some of my favorites
Joe Sample, Randy Crawford
Linda Ronstadt, Nelson Riddle
Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn
Jobim, Sinatra/ Jobim, Gal Costa 

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tooblue
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As @viridian  said. I was going through my personal list to pair with her and he nailed it.
big_greg
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I was listening to Radio Paradise today and they played Tom Jones and the Cardigans doing a cover of Burning Down the House.  It was amazing!  I looked it up and it came out in 1999.  I'd never heard it before, not really a fan of either artist, but I liked what they did with that song.
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roxy54
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Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks. Just kidding...
frogman
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Just a few:

Aaron Copland/Leonard Bernstein
McCoy Tyner/John Coltrane
Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein
Stan Getz/Kenny Barron
Neville Marriner/Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Count Basie/Neil Hefti
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis
Joe Zawinul/Wayne Shorter
Tony Bennett/Bill Evans
Tony Williams/Ron Carter
Stan Getz/João Gilberto
James Levine/Renee Fleming
Ry Cooder/Buena Vista Social Club
Duane Allman/Dicky Betts
Gil Evans/Miles Davis
Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa
Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays
Wayne Shorter/Milton Nascimento
Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter
Jobim/Ellis Regina







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bdp24
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In the mid-80’s I saw & heard The Blasters back Big Joe Turner live at Club Lingerie on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. Dave Alvin was of course at that time still in the band, as was the legendary Lee Allen, tenor sax player on all Little Richard’s 1950’s Specialty Records sides. What a singer, what a band! You can keep your Led Zeppelin, THIS is Rock ’n’ Roll!

The worst collaboration I have witnessed was Keith Richards’ disgusting behavior towards Norah Jones during their duet at The Gram Parson’s Tribute Show at Universal Studios Amphitheater (late-90’s, I think.). They performed a terrible rendition (Norah was okay, Keith simply awful. He was doing his whole "Aren’t I charming?", sloppy-drunk routine. Pathetic.) of the Everly Brothers’ classic "Love Hurts", and Keith was all over Norah like a cheap suit. What a pig. Norah’s facial expressions ranged from stunned bewilderment to outright embarrassment. I was myself embarrassed to be witnessing it.

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