Dion Blues With Friends

Clearly there are two standards for evaluating a hits collection such as "Ultimate Divas," which proclaims that it has assembled the greatest female vocalists of our time. The first and most important standard is whether or not these are indeed the greatest female vocalists that you could put together on one album (the second caveat seems to be that the singers are of child bearing age as of 1999, since the wunderkind of the bunch is either Toni Braxton or Mary J. Blige, but I am not looking up dates of birth). This album starts with Billie Holiday and ends with Aretha Franklin, it has Lena, Horne, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald, you get Tina Turner and Diana Ross, there is Annie Lennox and Toni Braxton, and you have Patti LaBelle and Whitney Houston and that still leaves four more.

His concerts are a full immersion of jazz, rithm & blues, gospel soule. His voice wonderfully harmonious, refined, elegant of all notes, it produces an intense musical energy charge of an overwhelming feeling and capable of fusing different styles in perfect Afro-American tradition. Discovered by Dexter Wansel, producer, arranger and director of the Philadelphia International Records, Denise King has conquered the public with four CDs of success and masterful live-show in the most prestigious jazz clubs, festivals and theaters of Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New York.

'To Be Held' (Silent Wish Records) is the first single from the 'utterly brilliant' ('Time Out') singer and songwriter, the multi-award winning Ian Shaw. This song, co-written and produced by Jamie Safir (Kylie, Birdy, Will Young) is from the brand-new collection 'Greek Street Friday' released later this year on all formats. With an ace band, which includes drummer Ian Thomas (George Michael, Van Morrison, Celine Dion) and guitarist David Preston (Melody Gardot, Curtis Stigers), this collection will also feature, on a beautiful new take of Rickie Lee Jones' 'Blinded By The Hunt', the world-renowned saxophonist Iain Ballamy (Everything But The Girl, Hermeto Pascoal, Loose Tubes).

Yes, it continues… Next year - 1961. I have no many words about this year, but, may be, you do? ;)

Friends, sorry for LoFi files, but original matherials was extracted from MAGNETIC TAPES 30-40 years old about 10 years before. Many of us remembers this time of lo-speed processors and huge amount of hours to restoring old audio and compressing it into the "this fantastic MP3 format"…