Chet Baker London

Across 3CDs, come 66 of the coolest songs by the most suave and sophisticated artists in recorded music history. With the unmistakable smooth tones of world-famous crooners Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Perry Como and Elvis Presley alongside legendary female vocalists Dusty Springfield, Etta James and Doris Day as well as many well-loved international artists, this timeless collection will evoke the images of style and sophistication associated with a drive around the French Riviera or a scooter ride along the Amalfi Coast.

'Perfect Day' features 60 tracks selected to help you unwind, relax, and compliment your mood. Divided into three mood-based tracklists, 'Perfect Day' offers some musical solace as an anecdote to a busy everyday life.

Time for something new! Dressed in the finest velvet and exquisite silk, the Horst Hansen Trio celebrates the emancipation of intense “Überjazz” with their third studio album, Sophisticated (In this latest gourmet bouquet, the world's largest trio presents a bold fusion of jazz, rock, hip-hop, and avant-garde elements - more focused than ever, and above all, defined by one thing: pure class. “Sophisticated – Krefeld, London, and Paris.”

This 60 track collection is a wonderful review of jazz singing styles and a chance to hear both the most well known "names" along with the jazz singers that fans would travel miles to see and hear. The earliest recordings comes from the Second World War era and it will not surprise you to know that it is the band and voice of Cab Calloway CD1/16 & CD3/10. Louis Jordan offers one of his well known numbers CD2/18 & CD3/6.

Here is a wonderful collection of songs in the style of vocal jazz. Label Ap Music brought us a collection of the best tracks in this style. Let us listen to the charming vocal performed by Louis Armstrong, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and many other jazz stars.

Along with June Christy, Helen O'Connell, and Julie London, Chris Connor epitomized cool jazz singing in the 1950s. Influenced by Anita O'Day, the torchy, smoky singer wasn't one for aggression. Like Chet Baker on the trumpet or Paul Desmond and Lee Konitz on alto sax, she used subtlety and restraint to their maximum advantage. At the University of Missouri, Connor (who had studied clarinet at an early age) sang with a Stan Kentonish big band led by trombonist Bob Brookmeyer before leaving her native Kansas City for New York in 1947.

A welcome comeback after the flaccid dance-pop of 1987's insipid Love, Stray is among Roddy Frame's most assured and diverse collections of songs. Unlike previous Aztec Camera albums, there's not one unifying style to the disc, and the variety makes Stray one of Frame's better collections.