After an eight-year absence from the music industry, actress and singer Hilary Duff released her fifth studio album "Breathe In. Breathe Out," an upbeat dance album that touches on themes of self discovery, romance and failed love.

Cassandra Wilson, coming off a three-year recording break, returns to our ears with a tribute of sorts to one of the most alluring voices of the 20th Century in Billie Holiday. The current performer wisely avoids challenging her icon's renditions of jazz and blues standards, opting instead to take the singles best known by Holiday fans and reprocess them for her own vocal style. It would be difficult to label Coming Forth By Day as a Holiday tribute if Wilson herself hadn't told us that it was.