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Montreal-based jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky today announces her new album ‘Nikki By Starlight,’ via MNRK Music Group. A celebration of jazz for purists and new generations alike, ‘Nikki By Starlight’ is comprised of 15 standards from legends Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday and more.

2008 three CD digipak release that features many recordings by Burt himself as well as a stellar supporting cast including Dionne Warwick, Christopher Cross, Neil Diamond, the Carpenters, Rufus Wainwright, Frankie Avalon, Cilla Black, Nat King Cole and Will Young. It also contains sleeve notes written by Elvis Costello. The album includes all the major hits and some sought after rarities. Stand out tracks include 'What the World Needs Now Is Love', 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head', 'Walk on By', 'I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself', 'A House Is Not a Home', 'I Say a Little Prayer', 'That's What Friends Are For' and many more. 75 tracks. Rhino UK.

FooR are a four-piece collective of producers, musicians & DJs who are at the forefront of the new UK Garage revival. Their releases have been supported onRadio 1, 1Xtra and Kiss FM. The collective have also remixed for the likes of Wretch 32, Alesha Dixon, Tinchy Stryder, Ghetts and IV Roxx. In 2017 FooR can be seen performing in Big Top at Isle Of Wight festival, the main stage at Mutiny festival before 50 Cent and the main stage of Downtown festival before Rudimental proving that garage is bigger and more relevant than ever.

Spanning over 250 years of history, Black Ink traces black literature in America from Frederick Douglass to Ta-Nehisi Coates in this masterful collection of twenty-five illustrious and moving essays on the power of the written word.