Close Your Eyes and Your at the Sands with Sinatra

A great live album. Put this in the CD player and close your eyes. Have a scotch on the rocks and light a cigarette, and boom, you are at the Sands listening to Sinatra in concert. One of the great live albums that I have in my collection.

my view...

Sinatra at the Sands embodies what it must have been like to sit in the showroom of the Sands hotel and casino in the late fifties early sixties. Frank on this album is like a glass of good scotch. His voice, the whiskey, warm and powerful at the same time, reminiscent of the first sip his melodic tone sweeps over your body leaving a glow you can feel in your cheeks. Punctuated with his humor and onstage banter, similar to good ice in a drink they serve to suspend the experience with just the right contrast of warm and cold. Accompanying Frank in this drink is the big band styling of Count Basie and his Orchestra, like adding good mineral water to the drink, Count Basie only enhances the performance with what can not be described but only experienced. A concert set sound system, like the BOSE, is not the only way to enjoy an album like this but to get the full effect; turn the lights down low, pour yourself a slow drink and relax in your favorite leather chair and close your eyes. From the introduction by the stage manager of the Sands thru the escapism of "Come fly with me" to "I've got you under my skin' to the bluesy bistro sounds of "One more for the road" to Franks final refusal to play just one more encore, Sinatra at the Sands is truly the closest thing to a time machine we have today.

SINATRA CONCERT MASTERPIECE~BRAVO FRANK!!!

Sinatra singing superb in Concert at The Sands with Count Basie And THE Orchestra arranged and conducted by no less than Quincy Jones and it really doesn't get better than this! Opening with a hot sounding Basie band, Frank smoothly launches into a superb "Come Fly With Me", then an engaging and fun "I've Got A Crush On You" and onto a killer version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" that finds Frank at his sophisicated and soulful best!!! Torch time is sublime with a richly sung "The Shadow Of Your Smile" then to a riveting "Street Of Dreams" that shows why Sinatra is King!! Four A.M. in a saloon and the master serves a classic "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) and the audience goes crazy for this masterpiece!!! Sinatra is incredible throughout this legendary event and swings "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) like it was never swung before and you can feel the excitement from the audience and the great time they were having. Mr. Sinatra's fun monologues were thankfully left in and what special moments these are that never grow tired taking us back to another time and space in a very special way...Frank does a routine that is fun and funny about his friends Dean and Sammy that are priceless...Frank had just turned 50 and gives a personal view that is revealing and highly entertaining flowing into the definitive version of "You Make Me Feel So Young" that is so brilliantly sung showing the master at his absolute peak in magnificent voice!!! Basie does a gorgeous "All Of Me" then Frank returns with a hauntingly brilliant "The September Of My Years" that is amazing. A hot cooker "Get Me To The Church On Time" is another amazing vocal as is the stunning "It Was A Very Good Year". Frank Sinatra is so great in this concert making this event the male equilivant of "Judy At Carniege Hall" which is the other legendary concert album from the great musical sixties! "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" is another masterpiece in a remarkable collection which finds Frank so loose and soulful and it is clear that the audience is having a great time and so will you! Basie does a mesmerizing "Makin' Whoopee!" then Sinatra returns and nails classics such as the swinging "Where Or When", a haunting "Angel Eyes", and a soulfully sung "My Kind Of Town" which all show the master at his captivating best! This musical journey is the greatest concert performance released in Frank Sinatra's long and brilliant career..BRAVO Frank and we miss you!!! This masterpiece is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys vocal artistry at its peak in a live concert setting...