Nat 'King' Cole Trio - Transcriptions, Vol. 3 (1939)

Even by contemporary standards (there was then a trend for jazzing the classics) the Trio's repertoire is remarkable in its diversity, possibly a reflection of Nat's catholic tastes and early assimilation of many styles -serious and mundane. Time-honoured standards newly revived, new material from films (e.g. Some Like It Hot, the Frank Loesser title-song of a 1939 Paramount 'light comedy' starring Bob Hope and Shirley Ross) stand unself-consciously next to Nat's own light-hearted rhythm arrangements of semi-classics (e.g. Johann Strauss II's "Blue Danube" or Franz Liszt's Liebestraum No.3)