Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool".

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross were an American vocalese trio formed by jazz vocalists Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. From 1962 to 1964, Ross was replaced by vocalist Yolande Bavan.

Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 - February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist, particularly excelling in the bebop style. She is recognizable by her fresh and childlike voice as well as by a game with a refined harmonic sense, impeccable rhythmic spring, precise and delicate touch.

‘Mingus’, the album by Joni Mitchell from 1975 is the result of a 45-minute meeting arranged by Mingus’s wife between Mitchell, who was drifting towards a style of music jazzier than her previous output and Charles Mingus. Mingus was sadly waiting to die from motor neurons disease. Unable to play, he was bored, and his wife was keen to get him interested in something. Mingus sang the melodies into a tape recorder, chords were added by Sy Johnson, and Joni wrote the lyrics and organised the recording sessions. The band on the album were members of Weather Report. Mingus died before the project was complete. To ensure enough material was ready for the album, Joni added a song of her own ‘Wolf’. The album was cooly received by admirers of both musicians.

Francis Albert Sinatra (English: December 12, 1915, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA - May 14, 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an American singer (singer) of Italian descent, film actor, film director, producer, showman, conductor, political activist.

Swiss vocal acrobat Andreas Schaerer and Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima have some things in common. As artists, each is essentially in a category completely of his own. Both are musicians who can always conjure something special from their chosen instruments.

Four is a winner: that was the unanimous opinion of critics and audiences alike on the first album from German-Swedish supergroup 4 Wheel Drive. The eponymous debut disc from this band of bandleaders went straight to the top spot as best-selling jazz album in Germany for2019. And the media didn’t hold back with their praise either: “Four first-league jazz musicians with pure joy of playing and a love of good pop music”, said ZDF’s “heute-journal” about this spirited and enjoyable group, which combines trombonist/singer Nils Landgren, pianist Michael Wollny, bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson and drummer Wolfgang Haffner. AllAboutJazz, a leading American jazz website, asked whether this album might be worth adding to a listener’s collection, and answered the question succinctly:”4 sure”.

One of Norways’s leading ladies of jazz teams up with Europe’s most exciting Swing band for a cinematic tour de force. For singer and songwriter Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen, this album was an urge as natural as breathing. Recorded for a 2020 live gig, she dives headlong into hand-picked songs from her decades-spanning career. Gathering “all the threads of inspiration through my years as a songwriter and jazz singer”, this is the way they were always meant to be heard.

Astrid Engberg’s masterful sophomore album Trust finds the Danish singer, producer, composer and DJ paying tribute to intuition and new motherhood. Spanning contemporary soul, nu jazz, electronic and more, the LP sees her collaborating with a line-up of Nordic talent as well as Los Angeles-based Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, a venerated multi-instrumentalist, conductor and composer known for works with Ray Charles, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Dr. Dre, Mary J. Blige as well as his esteemed orchestral reimagining of J Dilla’s back catalogue titled Suite For Ma Dukes. Trust will be released through the Danish record label Creak Inc. Records which specialises in groundbreaking Danish music.

Fine vocals and arrangements are the hook for this set by Anita O'Day, one of jazz's best interpretative singers. These weren't her most impressive swing or improvising numbers, but they were among her strongest ballad performances.

Nina Simone (bürgerlich Eunice Kathleen Waymon; * 21. Februar 1933 in Tryon, North Carolina, USA; † 21. April 2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, Frankreich) war eine US-amerikanische Jazz- und Bluessängerin, Pianistin, Songschreiberin und Bürgerrechtsaktivistin.

Tigers, pigeons and festivals. There's something about him that we just can't get over. Maybe it's these incredibly funny, evil songs from our beloved Vienna. Maybe it's a small corner of his view of the world that we share. Although of course we grew up in a completely different place. Maybe he says what we wouldn't have dared to think.

We do not live our lives in straight lines. At any given age, we are both our current self and each of our past moments; an accumulation of every emotion, experience, or connection that has brought us closer to ourselves and our communities.

Braun's affection for the work of the masterful songwriter has now reached full bloom with Night And Day (The Cole Porter Songbook)- Adi Braun's love affair with the music of Cole Porter runs long and deep. The acclaimed Toronto jazz and cabaret chanteuse has long covered his tunes in her performances and on record. She describes the music of her favorite Great American Songbook writer as "delicious, a great combination of naughty, provocative, sensuous, witty and devastatingly beautiful.

Vocal sensation Veronica Swift took the jazz world by storm with her critically acclaimed 2021 release This Bitter Earth, landing on the cover of DownBeat, topping the year end lists for vocal releases and wowing audiences with her eclectic stage show at the Hollywood Bowl and beyond.