While technique, control and tone are important aspects of jazz singing, it is a performer's individual style that gets them recognized. You can learn technique, but not style. Throwback torch singer Linnzi Zaorski understands the importance of style as her debut album is brimming with it.Throughout, Zaorski is backed by a sympathetic quartet including Ryan Burrage on reeds, Jackson Square Band veteran Seva Venet on guitar,Charlie Fardela on trumpet and Robert snow providing the backbone on upright bass. Unlike her other gig with the New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Delta Royale veers away from the Hot Club swing into more of a singer's repertoire of popular standards made famous by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday. But Zaorski finds a voice outside of these singing giants on oft-covered classics like "Lullaby of Birdland" and"Stars fell On Alabama." Eschewing the pathos of Billie Holiday and the studied perfection of Ella, Zaorski evokes the great mildred Bailey (especially on the Bailey vehicle "Rockin Chair") with her stylized enunciation and bright tone. While it is Zaorski's affair, the band takes the spotlight swinging mightily on a hotversion of "What A Little Moonlight Can Do." But it is to the band's credit as accompanists that the focus remains on the voice of Zaorski.Even when singing laments like "Why Was I Born?" you get the impression thatbeneath the pout, there is an assured smirk, that when she declares "Our Love Is Here To Stay," shes crosing her fingers. This girl's definately got style. --Christopher Blagg

It was nearly 20 years ago, back in 1997, that the Buena Vista Social Club became an improbable worldwide sensation: a group of mainly elderly (and some younger) Cuban musicians, performing traditional son music for an album produced by Ry Cooder. The combustible success of that first project — which only transpired by accident to begin with — led to a cottage industry of lovely artifacts, including a beautiful 1998 documentary by Wim Wenders and a string of solo albums from its leading artists (not to mention 2010’s Afrocubism, the fruit of World Circuit chief Nick Gold’s original idea for what became the Buena Vista Social Club’s first album).
Since the group’s initial successes, several of its unforgettable artists — including guitarist and singer Compay Segundo, pianist Ruben Gonzalez, singer Ibrahim Ferrer, percussionist Miguel “Anga” Díaz (father to the sensational new twin-sister duo Ibeyi) and bassist Orlando “Cachaíto” López — have passed away. The remaining Buena Vista artists are saying farewell with an international “Adiós” tour this year, so it must have seemed like a good time for World Circuit to dig through its archives.
The result is Lost and Found, a compilation of studio recordings (from the original Buena Vista Social Club sessions made at Havana’s Egrem Studios in 1996, and from a string of dates through the late 1990s and early 2000s) and live cuts from throughout the artists’ touring career. These tracks have all been taken out of the vault and dusted off only for this occasion, but fans of the Buena Vista artists’ earlier projects will find more than enough gems here. They include “Macusa,” featuring guitarists and singers Eliades Ochoa and Compay Segundo; the cool, trancelike Afro-Cuban jazz of “Black Chicken 37″ with Díaz and López; smoky-voiced singer Omara Portuondo in “Tiene Sabor” and the 1930s Cuban chestnut “Lágrimas Negras”; the blazing horns in “Mami Me Gusto,” featuring Ibrahim Ferrer; and the razor-sharp dance rhythms in “Guajira En F,” featuring Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos, one of Buena Vista’s younger performers (now 63).
If it turns out that this is the year we do say a final goodbye to the Buena Vista collective, Lost And Found provides a gorgeous reminder of what made it so famous to begin with — and what we’ll all be missing.

这是Ibrahim Ferrer（依伯拉海姆·费热）的首张个人专辑(1999 World Circuit 出品)，虽然他在古巴十分着名，但他出色的嗓音是在BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB（BVSC，美景社交俱乐部）专辑出版后才声名远播的。除了BVSC原班人马鼎力相助外，还有其他音乐人的加入（将近五十人），使得Ibrahim FERRER能够从不同角度展现其独特的魅力，和非常个人化的古巴音乐体验。
专辑开篇的“BRUCA MANIGUA”是传奇人物ARSENIO RODRIGUEZ用西班牙俚语和非洲土语写成，是30年代的改编版本，讲述一个黑奴逃离苦难生活，逃向MANIGUA（大山）的故事，先看看这歌词：
“我来自Carabali海岸（尼日利亚），一个非洲的国度，我不能活在没有解放的日子里// 现实已经结束了，我曾受到那么多残酷的对待，我快疯了// 敌视我的世界啊，要把我抓回去，无论如何困难，我必须力争自由// 现在我是多么地疲倦！几乎不想说话// （答案在在大山深处）//大山啊，告诉我通向自由的道路，请帮我下定决心// STEP BY STEP，我要得到我的自由//……刚果！我满怀幸福！Bruca Manigua Ae yaeooo ...//我自由了，自由的行走在世界上// ……（可是）如果那个姑娘愚弄了我……（天哪！）Bruca Manigua Ae yaeooo ...”
这是从心里流淌出来的声音，这是音乐，这是跨越语言障碍带给我的对自由的渴望和斗争的勇气。这就是古巴的声音，苦难的历史并没有压抑人们乐观和勇敢……Bruca Manigua Ae yaeooo ...这声音让你想飞。
第二首是爱情，“Herido de sombras”,在60年代初期由四重唱乐队LOZ ZAFIROS唱红，他们就住在FERRER家附近。这首歌由Ibrahim FERRER主唱，吉他是来自的LOZ ZAFIROS的MANUEL GALBAN，和声由一个年轻的四重唱乐队GEMA CUATRO完成，弦乐和SAX由另一个大师DEMOTRIO MUNIZ负责，真是高手云集，仿佛京剧的名角汇瘁，听得人如痴如醉。
“Herido de sombras”歌词：没有你的生活就象破碎的阴影，只有黎明的晨曦陪伴我，你的爱消散了，我再也感觉不到幸福 // 我象轻烟一样漫无目的，四处游荡，寻找着你。也许我再也找不到你，我的爱人，也许我永远地失去了你 // 我记得你的眼睛，你的抚摩，我不能逃出记忆，我忍受着，渴望着昨天，我忘不了你 ...（重复）
多简单的歌词，直接的情感，这是民间的力量。感性的声音带着古巴特有的风情，让人摇摇摆摆……Ibrahim Ferrer 1927年生于圣地亚哥，1959年移居哈瓦那。他属于被称为“圣地亚哥COUNTRY-SON”的即兴歌手，专辑还有几首圣地亚哥的GUAJIRA舞曲，金山词霸的解释是古巴农民舞曲，：-）这个老头今年已经75岁了…… （2002）

'Boardwalk Empire Volume 2: Music From The HBO® Original Series’ features all new recordings from a wide range of vocalists including Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Patti Smith, Liza Minnelli, Rufus Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, St. Vincent, David Johansen, Matt Berninger from The National and more, singing timeless standards and forgotten gems from the 1920s. With instrumentation recorded by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks — the NYC jazz ensemble and Boardwalk Empire house band — the album also includes performances by cast members Stephen DeRosa (as song-and-dance man Eddie Cantor) and Margot Bingham (as a new character to be introduced this fall). Following up on their GRAMMY win for Volume 1, producer Stewart Lerman and Boardwalk Empire music supervisor Randall Poster have brought together a swinging, sauntering collection of big-band classics, Broadway dance tunes, sultry ballads and torch songs.

HBO高人气讲叙美国禁酒时期的黑帮电视剧--大西洋帝国原声第一弹！

在TRU里，QSO的专辑无疑是最值得期待的。在QSO上月的EP'She Said What?'大获成功后，随即在今天正式推出了他的07新专辑'Tropidelico'。整张专辑，QSO在保持其惯有的funk曲风不变的基础上，添加了大量拉丁旋律，如此一位以科学的发展观对待艺术的音乐人，着实令人刮目相看。

Caro Emerald (real name Caroline van der Leeuw, born April 26, 1981 in Amsterdam, NL) is a dutch singer. She released her first single Back It Up in July 2009. In December 2009 she release her second single A Night Like This. Her first album, Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor will be released on January 29, 2010. The album features a mix of ballroom jazz, tangos and mambo’s in a contemporary production

Jazz Tangeros:
Evgeny Pasechnik (accordion)
Platon Gazeleridi (keyboards)
Grigory Raspopov (guitar)
Arkady Klein (violin)
Andrei Ponomarev ( drums)
Roman Tokarev (bass)