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French jazz-pop chanteuse Florence K was born in Montreal in 1983 to guitarist/composer Hany Khoriaty and opera singer Natalie Choquette. After making her television debut at six, at 16 she toured behind her mother as a pianist, a year later playing her first solo gig. Florence K spent the next several years as the house pianist at Montreal's Stash Café, amassing an extensive repertoire of songs sung in French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish via infrequent leaves of absence to play limited residencies everywhere from Atlantic City to Casablanca to Hanoi. In 2005, Florence K issued her debut LP, Live au Lion d'Or, on her own Red Blues label. Bossa Blue followed in mid-2006. ~by Jason Ankeny

Three CD collection from the legendary crooner. Though his commercial peak was in the '60s and '70s, Williams has continued to stay busy over the decades by touring, recording and headlining his own Moon River Theater in Branson, MO. He also remains popular in the UK and Europe, where he has frequently toured over the years. This triple disc set features 60 classics including 'Moon River', 'Can't Get Used To Losing You' and many more tracks including a dozen Christmas favorites.

A sleazy, funky, slick and snazzy collection of music swiped from adult cinema classics! 70's and 80's magic, passion and beats!! Sultry kitsch, remastered magic and lossless classics!

This gorgeous, over-sized hardcover has 220 pages packed with over 400 incredible color and black and white photos from some of cinemas best movies. To accompany these amazing photos are 8 cds containing the memorable music from the films that have left their mark on the silver screen. This book is an absolute must-have for any film/ music enthusiast. –blurrpy.com, July 2015
The book itself is great, but the music (included on eight accompanying CDs) is the real star.The book is arranged in a way that is aesthetically pleasing and makes logical sense you will never lose track of where you are in Movies because it's laid out so well. –rebeatmag.com, September 2015 Layer that impressive collection of sound with some 400 photographs from classics and 216 pages and the result is a highly desirable tome. [It] oozes production value and has a surprising amount of insight on the featured music themes and movies…what a perfect gift it would be for any cinema buff. –geeknative.com, September 2015

Introducing "#1s - 70s, 80s" the first installment in the highly-anticipated '#1s' series. Dive deep into the golden age of music with this compilation of chart-topping sensations from the 1970s. This disc collection captures the spirit, innovation, and charm of a transformative decade. Expect to be transported back in time with iconic tracks that still resonate today.

Gigi Gryce was a giant of the hard-bop movement in the 1950s, a celebrated and in-demand sideman but a bandleader insufficiently recognized for his skills in that arena. This collection brings together eight of his best recordings as a leader, originally issued on labels like Savoy, Riverside, and New Jazz. The first disc consists of material written or arranged for biggish bands, including some great tunes with Thelonious Monk, some of them relatively obscure Monk compositions like ''Shuffle Boil'' and ''Brake's Sake''; there is also a wonderfully hard-swinging uptempo version of ''Over the Rainbow.'' Disc 2 features two late-1950s albums that find Gryce leading tight, disciplined, and powerfully swinging small combos that include the likes of trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Hank Jones, and drummer Art Taylor and that continue his practice of playing ballads as up numbers note in particular his explosive bebop treatment of ''Love for Sale.'' On his self-titled album from 1958, he is multitracked on various saxophones and flutes, creating the sound of a much larger ensemble than the quartet in the studio; his tenor solo on ''It Don't Mean a Thing'' is especially noteworthy. (I'm not sure we really needed a celeste obbligato on ''My Ideal,'' but Gryce's playing on that cut is lovely.) And one of the things you really notice, listening to these eight albums end to end, is that while Gryce has always been justly celebrated for his writing, he was equally creative and adept as an arranger. This might not be an absolutely essential set for every jazz collection, but it's certainly recommendable. ~ Rick Anderson

U.S. vocal male soul quartet formed in 1953, in Detroit as The Four Aims. They made their recording debut in 1955 backing Carolyn Hayes on her Baby Say You Love Me / Really single. The four founding members remained together for over four decades, until 1997 without a single change in personnel.In the 60's they were the main male vocal group for the signwriting and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, the Four Tops were assigned to several producers, primarily Frank Wilson. When Motown left Detroit in 1972 to move to Los Angeles, California, the Tops stayed in Detroit and moved over to ABC Records, where they continued to have charting singles into the late-1970s. Since the 1980s, the Four Tops have recorded for, at various times, Motown, Casablanca Records and Arista.Inducted into Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 (Performer).