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"Hollywood Rio" blends the sounds of this Brazilian chanteuse's roots with the cinematic music of Los Angeles. The album is Ana Caram's tribute to the music of Hollywood. Combining her sultry voice and passionate Brazilian flare with L.A.'s cool electric sound, Caram sings such Hollywood classics such as "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca. Together with Michel Friedenson's rich electric orchestral arrangements, Hollywood Rio is a 21st century look at Hollywood's past.

Pristine vocals are the ultimate goal of every audiophile listener. You want to hear every breath, note, and nuance of the vocal performance. We've assembled for you on this compilation the greatest collection of audiophile vocal recordings ever made.

Phil Woods, the searing Alto saxophonist and clarinetist, calls his occasional expanded combo "the Little Big Band". Here's To My Lady, the octet's first recording, offers up a hot band with inventive solos and big-sounding, imaginative ensembles. This is an album with no let downs.

On Ink, the winsome singer-songwriter delights by paying homage to pop songwriting with a collection of richly-realized interpretations, including Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence", and Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street". Drawing inspiration from pop's different eras, Liv brings new life to diverse material, from the brilliant standard "The More I See You", to the Jackson 5's hit "Never Can Say Goodbye", to the great Ray Charles' "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" Add in a few of Liv's beguiling new originals, like the reflective and celebratory "Our Turn to Dance," and Ink reveals itself as a document of a man who knows what makes a song a memorable and moving experience. Great songs: That's what you've come to expect from Livingston Taylor.

Play On Words - a musical and lyrical masterpiece, with Sara K. on vocals and four string guitar - makes its way through a number of styles, such as country and blues, and invigorates these rather staid genres with a new content and meaning. Re-issued by Chesky Records on Multi-Channel SACD for the first time "K.'s band cooks".

Pianist McCoy Tyner and tenor-saxophonist Joe Henderson had not recorded together in over two decades when they finally met up for this Chesky Records' album. With strong assistance from bassist Ron Carter and drummer Al Foster, Tyner and Henderson make for a perfect team on four originals by group members and four superior standards.

The full title of this disc is "The Essence of Viennese Music - opera, operetta and dance..". Rather cumbersome, but a fair description of the contents. It is played by an orchestra from Linz, Austria's third city, with a conductor (Peter Guth) who specialises in music of Johann Strauss II and a pair of excellent young soloists in soprano Edith Lienbacher and tenor Herbert Lippert. While its programme contains many of the expected Viennese lollipops, it goes beyond the merely predictable, and the producers have come up with a diverse and very entertaining concert.

Leading an all-star Latin big band, Paquito D'Rivera unleashes the beloved music of his homeland on this Latin Grammy winning album. Following in the tradition of Havana's immortal jazz orchestras, D'Rivera infuses his own stylings with mambo, son, danz¢n and bolero to create an essential musical document. This album won "Best Latin Jazz Album" Grammy at 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards (2000).