[Dixielandjazz] Sinatra as conductor

[Ric Giorgi]

Forgive my jumping into this fascinating discussion but the following is the
Wikipedia item on Sinatra as conductor - is it correct?

Sinatra as a conductor

Between 1946 and 1983 Sinatra conducted seven albums and occasionally
conducted live orchestras on stage. His first recordings on which he wielded
the baton were instigated by producer Mitch Miller, who approached Columbia
boss Maine Sachs to request that Sinatra conduct some of the work of Alec
Wilder, later released as Frank Sinatra Conducts The Music Of Alec Wilder.
In 1956 Sinatra recorded the first album in the Capitol Records tower, not
as a vocalist, but as a conductor on the album Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone
Poems of Color. In 1957 and 1959 he conducted albums for Peggy Lee - The Man
I Love - and Dean Martin - Sleep Warm - the latter, charting inside
Billboard's Top 40. A lesser-known project for his own label, Reprise,
entitled Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays remains
relatively obscure, and it was 20 years before Sinatra conducted in a studio
again, for Sylvia Syms on the album Syms by Sinatra, which featured the
final arrangements of Don Costa. The following year Sinatra conducted for
trumpeter Charles Turner on the album What's New?.