Billie Holiday - Body and Soul

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter.

Nicknamed ''Lady Day'' by her sometime collaborator Lester Young, Holiday was was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singers' critic John Bush[2] wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." Her vocal style -- strongly inspired by instrumentalists -- pioneered a new way of manipulating wording and tempo, and also popularized a more personal and intimate approach to singing. Learn more about Billie Holiday

Track List of Billie Holiday - Body and Soul

01. Good Morning Heartache
02. Strange Fruit
03. All of Me
04. Am I Blue
05. Body and Soul
06. Detour Ahead
07. Easy Livin'
08. Falling Myself
09. Fine and Mellow
10. He's Funny that Way
11. How Could You
12. I Wished on the Moon
13. Romance in the Dark
14. Let's Do It
15. Mean to Me
16. My Man
17. On the Sunny Side of the Street
18. The Man I Love
19. The Way You Look Tonight
20. These Foolish Things

Billie Holiday - Body and Soul
Billie Holiday - Body and Soul

Yanka Rupkina - Keranka The Voice of Bulgaria

George Harrison called her "The best singer all over the planet!"

Yanka Rupkina played a major role in the growing popularity of Balkan music in the 1980s. Together with Stoyanka Boneva and Eva Georgieva, Rupkina formed the Trio Bulgarka, a vocal group affiliated with La Mystere Des Voix Bulgares. In addition to recording their own albums, Rupkina and Trio Bulgarka provided vocal harmonies for Kate Bush's albums, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes. Rupkina subsequently performed as a solist for the national television and radio Bulgaria group, the Balkana. This year she will be back with a new album released in October 2005.

Track List of Yanka Rupkina - Keranka The Voice of Bulgaria :

01 - Dafino Libe
02 - Conteri
03 - Keranka A
04 - Dai Si Vase Ruchitata
05 - Ai Da Idem
06 - Bogdan
07 - Angel In The Morning [featuring Linda Ronstadt]
08 - Keranka B
09 - Poxvali
10 - Peperuda
11 - Funeral Song
12 - Its Raining Hard Outside
13 - Skies Are Blue [featuring Positive Black Soul]
14 - Tanka Prachka
15 - Stratigo
16 - Keranka C


Yanka Rupkina - Keranka The Voice of Bulgaria

Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee - El Rancho Grande

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. Read More about Bing Crosby

Peggy Lee (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an American jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Oscar-nominated performer. Read More about Peggy Lee


Track List of Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee - El Rancho Grande:

01. It Takes A Long Long Train With A Red Caboose
02. El Rancho Grande
03. Just An Old Love Of Mine
04. Love Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere
05. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
06. What Is This Thing Called Love
07. Exactly Like You
08. They Can't Take That Away From Me
09. On A Slow Boat To China
10. A Little Bird Told Me
11. Then I'll Be Happy
12. Cuanto Le Gusta
13. I Got Lucky In The Rain
14. Maybe You'll Be There
15. Trouble Is A Man
16. So In Love
17. When A Man Is A Man
18. When Is Sometime
19. Once And For Always
20. Easter Parade
21. Bebop Spoken Here
22. How It Lies
23. Bali Ha'i

Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee - El Rancho Grande

Gunnel Mauritzson - Silhuette

Gunnel Mauritzson is one of the foremost folk singers in Sweden.

She is a musician with the ability to express music and lyrics in a new way, and she has sung with a number of the most prominent musicians in Sweden within folkmusic and jazz. Her musical roots are in folk music from Gotland (the island situated in the Baltic sea outside the Swedish mainland), and earlier she was for more then ten years a member of the folk music group Gunnfjauns Kapell.


As a singer Gunnel works both in her own band Gunnel Mauritzson Band, the group Nåra and in projects as church masses and big band conserts. She is often invited to perform as a soloist with the repertoar from old Swedish church hymns to jazz standards.

Gunnel is also a composer of new songs and tunes, often build upon the style of traditional folk music. And with the ear of a contemporary musician she brings in new elements such as new lyrics, old poems, wordless singing, jazzimprovisation, world music and so on.

For her work she has been awarded with several scholarships amongst others from SKAP (Swedish Composers of Popular Music) 2001, Stockholm county council 2003, and the Scholarship of Lars Gullin 2002.

Track List of Gunnel Mauritzson - Silhuette :

01 Nattviol
02 Julvisa
03 Far och son
04 Gullebarns vaggsang
05 Mazurka
06 Fagel, fisk och mittemellan
07 Paradisets timma
08 I natten
09 Ensamhetens tankar
10 Manniskans dagar
11 Silhuette
12 Allt ar bingolotto


Gunnel Mauritzson - Silhuette

Johnny Ray / Las Estrellas De Nueva York | Camino De Fama - Descarga Salsa Jazz

Two great slices of work from Johnny Ray; one a salsa set from the 70s, the other a batch of boogaloo tunes from the 60s! The first 5 tracks here are from a studio set directed by Charlie Palmieri, and done in the best New York salsa mode of the time with vocals from Yayo El Indio and Adalberto Santiago, and other players who include Barry Rogers on trombone, Ray Maldonado on trumpet, and Manny Corchado on timbales all grooving tightly in soaring, soulful formation on tracks that include "La Guerra", "Oye Nicola", "Que Risa Me Da", "Descarga No 2", and "Descarga El Tres". The second half of the CD features some real killers from Johnny's boogaloo years as Johnny Zamot, tracks from his Decca albums and other indie sides that bristle with tight, jazzy energy! Tracks include 3 great Pat Patrick compositions: "Catfish Bag", "Gaboom", and "Mambo Village" plus "Descarga Zamot", "Guadajaljara", "Alma Llanera", and "Kool & The Gang

Track List of Johnny Ray / Las Estrellas De Nueva York Camino De Fama - Descarga Salsa Jazz

01. Oye Nicola
02. La Guerra
03. Descarga El Tres
04. Que Risa Me Da
05. Descarga No. 2
06. Catfisch Bag
07. Descarga Zamot
08. Mambo Village
09. Gaboom
10. Alma Llanera
11. Kool & The Gang
12. Guadalajara


Johnny Ray / Las Estrellas De Nueva York Camino De Fama - Descarga Salsa Jazz
Johnny Ray / Las Estrellas De Nueva York Camino De Fama - Descarga Salsa Jazz

Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird [1956]

Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins' long, prolific career began at the age of 11, and he was playing with piano legend Thelonious Monk before reaching the age of 20. Rollins is still touring and recording today, having outlived most of his contemporaries such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Max Roach, and Art Blakey, all performers with whom he recorded. Learn more about Sonny Rollins

Track List of Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird :

1. Bird Medley: I Remember You / Star Eyes / My Melancholy Baby / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Old Folks / Just Friends / My Little Suede Shoes [George Gershwin, Earl Robinson, Gene DePaul, Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Charlie Parker, Don Raye, Norton, Victor Schertzinger, John Klenner, Public Domain] (26:55)
2. Kids Know -- Sonny Rollins (11:39)
3. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face -- Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe (4:52)

Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird [1956]