Clearly there are two standards for evaluating a hits collection such as "Ultimate Divas," which proclaims that it has assembled the greatest female vocalists of our time. The first and most important standard is whether or not these are indeed the greatest female vocalists that you could put together on one album (the second caveat seems to be that the singers are of child bearing age as of 1999, since the wunderkind of the bunch is either Toni Braxton or Mary J. Blige, but I am not looking up dates of birth). This album starts with Billie Holiday and ends with Aretha Franklin, it has Lena, Horne, Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald, you get Tina Turner and Diana Ross, there is Annie Lennox and Toni Braxton, and you have Patti LaBelle and Whitney Houston and that still leaves four more.

6CD Box Deluxe Digipack filled with 77 key tracks from the best Jazzmen. Each CD is featuring one of the legends of the golden age of Jazz: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck.

Really, the title says it all. The classic Bop era is alive and well in the form of Bop, the new CD by veteran musicians Jeff Lorber and Chuck Loeb. The disc was put together to help find a cure for PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease) which inflicts Lorber and members of his family. Bop is a fantastic jazz album from a group of exceptional players who have risen to the occasion to help out a friend.

After 2012’s "Love Bossa", a latin-styled collection sung mainly in Brazilian Portuguese, Edie Daponte returns with "Young at Heart", her second studio album. A collection of Edie’s own original material alongside some of her and her fans' favourite standards, this new album showcases the strength of Edie’s beautiful and versatile voice. Young at Heart is truly a love- affair, reflecting all Edie’s passions including the west-coast of Canada, sailing and her personal relationships; all expressed through her other passion, music.