VA Leo Mas Presents Mediterraneo (2016)

Tony Bennett’s enormous range and impact on popular singing styles are honored on his joyous 90th birthday tribute. This collection features songs by vocalists like Michael Bublé, who channels the master by merging a smooth tone with bluesy feeling on "The Good Life," and Diana Krall, whose swinging but easygoing vibe on "I've Got the World on a String" rings old-school Bennett. Tony himself takes the stage, turning in an emphatic performance with Billy Joel before steering toward more familiar tunes on a closing mini-set.

Northern soul boy, crate digger and tastemaker, Keb Darge is a name which needs no introduction to lovers of rare music the world over. His ‘Legendary Deep Funk’ night at Soho’s seminal strip club turned music venue Madame Jojo’s introduced obscure dance-floor soul music to an eager London club crowd, sparking a global appetite for raw, visceral funk.

ABC Jazz presents The Dinner Sessions, an album that invites you into the very best kind of evening. Let the beguiling vocals of Sarah McKenzie and Michelle Nicolle help the day melt away, and the mellow instrumentals of James Morrison, Don Burrows and Jonathan Zwartz set the scene for a relaxing dinner.

Former member of A Forest Mighty Black and founder of Trüby Trio, Rainer Trueby presents his new compilation, Soulgliding, released on BBE Music. Starting life as a group on Facebook, ‘Soulgliding’ is a phrase coined by Rainer Trueby to describe the more languid, smoother side of 2-Step, Boogie, Modern Soul and even Jazz. This silky collection spans several decades and sums up what Soulgliding is all about: evocative airy music that feels like a dream-flight across a friendly sky.

Here you have a collection of great music by many of the finest singers ever to inhabit the world . Despite the album’s title, every song aboard is pure blues, but each and every one of the singers assembled here had the ability to turn even the cheesiest of ballads into something that dripped blues whenever they chose to heap up the required, highly personalised, emotion.