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Dianne Reeves
When You Know
Singer Dianne Reeves has proven herself one of the most popular and enduring jazz performers of the `00 decade. (Her appearance in the George Clooney film GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK certainly didn’t hurt.) WHEN YOU KNOW is more a “pop” album with jazz overtones however. This time, Reeves wraps her compassionate, slightly dusky voice around such classic `60s/’70s radio hits as Minnie Riperton’s first hit “Lovin’ You” and the Temptations’s “Just My Imagination.” The set is a nice mix of acoustic (a string quartet) and electric (Russell Malone’s bluesy guitar) elements, making for an attractive and thoughtfully varied listen....
Alexz Johnson
Voodoo
The recording process began in mid-2009 when Johnson revealed on her website that she was dropped from Epic Records, and that the album she recorded and planned to release with them, was now shelved due to contractual complications. Some tracks were written as far back as 2005 with intent to be released through the album she planned with Capitol-EMI, but that deal shortly ended as the executives who signed Johnson to the label had been released from their contracts....
Olivia Ong
Olivia
Olivia is a Singaporean singer who made her debut with songs in the English vernacular. She subsequently progressed to singing in Japanese upon the progression of her career in Japan.
Likened to Keiko Matsuda, she won a singing contest and was signed to a Japanese recording company at the age of 15....
ABBA
Gold: Greatest Hits
In seemingly random order, GOLD contains fourteen of Abba’s twenty American hits (the remainder are on MORE ABBA GOLD); which is to say, it contains fourteen of the most delectable pop productions of the ’70s and early ’80s. “Dancing Queen,” “Waterloo,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You” and the other landmarks of upbeat melancholy are complex concoctions–all layered harmonies and brilliant keyboard arrangements. These songs don’t easily fit into any pop timeline, which may be why Abba received much of their acclaim long after breaking up. What may have seemed like Euro-pop fluff in its day, has been revealed by time to be truly classic studio pop....
Gabriella Cilmi
Ten
On paper, Gabriella Cilmi is quite the force to be reckoned with. She’s won six ARIA Awards in her native Australia and performed on the main stage at Glastonbury. But despite this, she’s known for little more than one runaway single and several ad soundtracks. Whether second album Ten will redress the balance remains to be seen, but it certainly comes with a very clear message....
Billy Cobham
Palindrome
Billy Cobham, born May 16, 1944 in Panama, is one of the world’s most influential drummers, best known for his jazz fusion in the 1970s, with John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, where he pioneered a powerful style of drumming with jazz, rock and funk influences.
He is the first drummer to unseat Buddy Rich in the Down Beat music polls....
Gabin
Third And Double
Gabin (pronounced GAAH-ban) is the Italian based duo of Filippo Clary and Max Bottini. Their name is a reference to the most popular French actor of the ’30s and ‘40s- Jean Gabin, a classic world-weary screen antihero. It has now been two years since the release of their self-titled debut album featuring the international hit “Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap”. Quite unexpectedly, this Italian duo found themselves with not only a Top Ten hit in their homeland, but international success around the globe, encompassing over 35 countries from the US to New Zealand; Argentina to Russia. Now, Gabin are back with a seductive new album of blues and blue note-influenced uptempo grooves entitled, Mr. Freedom....
Cesaria Evora
Adriana Rios 
Giusy Ferreri
Deborah Cox 
