Essential Ray Conniff
The Essential Ray Conniff
There have been countless Ray Conniff collections over the years, with most of them covering the same familiar hits, but few of them have been as ambitious and comprehensive as Columbia Legacy s double-disc 2004 release The Essential Ray Conniff At 36 tracks, it's much larger than most CD-era Conniff comps, which tended to be budget-line releases like 16 Most Requested Songs and it also covers more territory, opening with 1957's "S'Wonderful" and ending a previously unreleased version of "My Way" from 1998. Between those two points, his biggest hits, including "Somewhere, My Love (Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago)," are covered, but as his daughter Tamara makes clear in her liner notes, unlike some Conniff collections, the focus here isn't on the charts. Instead, she has chosen a range of songs that convey the scope of his musical achievements, so it samples his work as a classical arranger, film composer, soft-pop arranger, and trombonist. The result is the best Conniff collection to date, since it's not only the only compilation that attempts to tackle his entire body of work, it succeeds in doing so. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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Credits »
Ray Conniff - Arranger
Ray Conniff - Conductor
Ray Conniff - Producer
Ray Conniff - Adaptation
Ray Conniff - Soloist
Billy Butterfield - Soloist
Mitch Miller - Producer
Steven Berkowitz - A&R
Ernie Altschuler - Producer
George Avakian - Producer
Didier C. Deutsch - Compilation Producer
Jack Gold - Producer
Al Ham - Producer
Don Hunstein - Photography
Don Hunstein - Cover Photo
Don Hunstein - Tray Photo
Howard Fritzson - Art Direction
Darcy Proper - Compilation Producer
Darcy Proper - Mastering Engineer
Laura Grover - Product Manager
Ron Kellum - Design
Jen Wyler - Mixing Engineer
Snuff Garrett - Producer
Lily Lew - Packaging Manager
Amanda Tozzi - Product Manager
Liz Reilly - Photo Research
Adam Farber - A&R
Tamara Conniff - Liner Notes
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