Ali Bey My Finest Hour

Chuck Mangione - Chuck Mangione's Finest Hour (2000) is a compilation album that gathers some of the most popular and influential tracks from Chuck Mangione, an American jazz musician best known for his flugelhorn playing and his contributions to smooth jazz and pop music. Released in 2000, the album serves as a retrospective collection of Mangione's work, featuring a selection of his hits and signature tracks that span his career, highlighting his unique ability to blend jazz, pop, and easy listening styles.

While Antonio Carlos Jobim is an essential figure in the music of Brazil, he also created a significant place for himself in American music as a great songwriter and a key figure in the tremendous popularity of bossa nova. Apart from his unique melodic gift, what makes Jobim's work memorable is the complexity of mood he could evoke – the touch of sadness that colors the brightest bossa nova, the irony in the midst of joy, and the mixture of delicacy and resilience in his voice and piano. He was an artist who worked primarily in pastels, but it was his sense of shadows that gave his work its most enduring qualities. Including his most famous tunes and collaborators – like "The Girl from Ipanema" with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto – Jobim's Finest Hour catches it all, from the standard-bearers to such gems as the playful "Aguas de Marco."

His prominence grew thanks to his debut single ‘I Don’t Want To Be’ being used as the title track to the hit TV show One Tree Hill. Since then, Gavin has captivated fans with his distinctive blue-eyed soul and piano-led tracks, picking up a Grammy nomination and multiple platinum certifications along the way. ‘Finest Hour: The Best of Gavin DeGraw’ is comprised of Gavin’s most renowned and notable hits to date, as well as two new songs - ‘Fire’, and ‘You Got Me’ (a Dianne Warren penned ballad from the film ‘Dolphin Tale 2’), and an unreleased version of fan favourite ‘In Love With A Girl’.