Альбомы исполнителя
Lounge Legends: James Last
2001 · сборник
Country Roads
1998 · альбом
The Best Of Classics Up To Date
1998 · сборник
The Best Of Käpt'n James
1998 · сборник
Macarena
1996 · альбом
My Soul - Motown's Best
1995 · альбом
The Best Of Non Stop Dancing
2023 · сборник
Non-Stop-Dancing ABBA Medley
2021 · сингл
Die schönsten TV- und Filmmelodien
2020 · сборник
The Very Best Of
2019 · сборник
Beachparty (Vol. 1)
2015 · сборник
Beachparty (Vol. 2)
2015 · сборник
Beachparty (Vol. 3)
2015 · сборник
Beachparty (Vol. 4)
2015 · сборник
The America Album
2012 · альбом
James Last - 80 Greatest Hits
2010 · сборник
James Last - Live In Europe
2008 · альбом
James Last In Los Angeles
2008 · альбом
Live at The Royal Albert Hall
2008 · альбом
Live in Europe 2004
2006 · альбом
Gentleman Of Music (Live)
2002 · альбом
New Party Classics
2002 · альбом
A World Of Music (Live)
2002 · альбом
James Last Plays Abba
2001 · альбом
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Биография
James Last was a German big-band leader with a large fan base in Europe, although he never had a comparable following in the United States. Last's trademark was arranging pop hits in a big-band style; his series of "party albums" became equally well-known. Over the course of his career, he sold well over 50 million albums. Last learned how to play piano as child, switching to bass as a teenager. He joined Hans-Gunther Oesterreich's Radio Bremen Dance Orchestra in 1946, when he was 17 years old. In 1948, he became the leader of the Becker-Last Ensemble, which performed for seven years. During that time, he was voted as the best bassist in the country by a German jazz poll for three consecutive years, from 1950-1952. After the disbandment of the Becker-Last Ensemble, he became the in-house arranger for Polydor Records, as well as for a number of European radio stations. For the next decade, he helped arrange hits for artists like Helmut Zacharias and Caterina Valente. In 1965 Last released his first album, Non-Stop Dancing, a record of brief renditions of popular songs, all tied together by an insistent dance beat and joyous crowd noises. It was a hit and helped make him a major European star. Over the next two decades, Last released over 50 records, including several more volumes of Non-Stop Dancing. On these records, he varied his formula by adding different songs from different countries and genres, as well as guest performers like Richard Clayderman and Astrud Gilberto. Though his concerts and albums were consistently successful -- especially in England, where he had 52 hit albums between 1967-1986, which made him second to Elvis Presley in terms of number of charting records -- he only had one hit single with "The Seduction," the theme from American Gigolo (1980). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi