When Simone Kopmajer got together with Terry Myers (leader of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) last year for a „Vienna Session“, they didn´t expect to come out a whole new album. „HOPE“ contains brand-new original material in a smooth and relaxing, jazzy mood as well as cover songs like „Sittin´ on the Dock of the Bay“ (Otis Redding), „Careless Whisper“(George Michael) and jazz standards such as „Pick Yourself Up“, „What a Difference a Day Makes“ and „Old Devil Moon“.

A collection of standard songs overflowing with love, dedicated to Nancy Wilson by Italian diva Claudia Zannoni.

With the release of her second recording, Mai-Liis has come into her own with a fresh set of tunes that are signature to her compelling musical storytelling.

Love Is the Thing is a 1957 album released by American jazz vocalist Nat King Cole. It is the first of four collaborations between Cole and influential arranger Gordon Jenkins.

Gabrielle Goodman (born 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American jazz singer, composer, author, and associate professor of voice at Berklee College of Music. She began working as a backup vocalist for Roberta Flack while at the Peabody Institute and later sang with Michael Bublé and Chaka Khan.

Enjoy Vocal Jazz's finest in the best possible audio quality with our selection of legendary tracks in Hi-Res, featuring Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Blossom Dearie, Dizzy Gillespie, Anita O'Day, Chris Connor, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé, Melody Gardot, Gregory Porter, Kat Edmonson…

This is vocalist Elaine Delmar's first album in many years, It features some of the real treasures from her repertoire. The songs span the decades, from the 1920s to the 2000s, in arrangements by many of Elaine's wonderful musical collaborators over the years. The album features the musicians whom Elaine considers her musical family and highlights Elaine's unique ability to communicate the meaning of the lyric, the beauty of the melody and the reflective side of jazz.

Vintage George Benson vocals float over orchestral reimagining of beloved American Standards & Soul Classics in this incredible collaboration with renowned composer and conductor, Robert Farnon. This 10-track collection, once thought to be lost to history, was recently discovered in Benson's personal vaults and remastered to their original glory. With this release, Benson marks a musical return to the Warner Family - a homecoming to the place where he had his most profound commercial success.

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned more than seventy years and covered film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway.

Jazz was one of Lucy Yeghiazaryan’s first languages. When in 2001 her family moved to New York from Armenia, she sang American jazz, before she could master an English sentence. Eventually, she grew into The Big Apple’s most exciting jazz vocalist but always kept the Armenian melodies close to her heart. Her upcoming project, Beside the Golden Door, merges the two worlds, pairing Armenian folk songs with jazz standards that tell very similar stories, connecting the two beautiful but far-removed cultures.

The vocal-piano duo has always been one of my favorite configurations to listen to as well as perform. Timeless recordings from pairings like Abbey Lincoln & Hank Jones's "When There Is Love" and the Tony Bennett / Bill Evans album have remained a fixture in my rotation since my first listen many years ago.

3X GRAMMY Nominee Lakecia Benjamin to Release First Live Studio Album, Phoenix Reimagined (Live), on July 12, 2024 via Ropeadope

More than just another ‘unreleased recording’, Louis In London captures the last great performance by the most influential American musician of all time. On his personal copy of the tapes, Louis affixed a note to the tape box. On it he wrote, ‘FOR THE FANS’. Therein is our mandate, our privilege, and collective charge: To share Louis’ message and these recordings with the World. Louis’ music has the widest global appeal and the music release is supported by live video footage of every track, capturing some of the most inspired singing and trumpet playing of Louis’ career.

The aesthetic sound of FIVE FAUNS is the focus and is fed by the counterpoint of the Renaissance and Baroque. This music is sensual and transparent. Singer Almut Kühne is featured in this quintet by drummer and composer Tilo Weber. It is all about the most famous of all song themes, love, with unusual lyrics, from the Bible's Song of Songs or from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula alike.

Previously unheard Ra culled from the archives and compiled based on their association to that children's film corporation with the cartoon rodent.