The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! vol. 4
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The Best Smooth Jazz... Ever! vol. 4 is fifteenth part of "The Best... Ever!" series. It contains more than 240 minutes of jazz songs. This compilation was released by EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 on May 22, 2009.

CD 1

  1. Dean Martin
    Dean Martin
    Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

     – "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
  2. Chet Baker
    Chet Baker
    Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.Though his music earned him a large following , Baker's popularity was due in part to his "matinee idol-beauty" and "well-publicized drug habit."He died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the...

     – "I Fall In Love Too Easily
    I Fall in Love Too Easily
    "I Fall in Love Too Easily" is a 1944 song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh...

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  3. Danny Williams
    Danny Williams
    -Music:*Danny Williams , South African-born popular musician*Danny Williams , Australian singer, member of CDB-Sports:...

     – "I’ve Got You Under My Skin"
  4. Dinah Washington
    Dinah Washington
    Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...

     – "Lover Man"
  5. Matt Monroe – "What A Wonderful World"
  6. Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones
    Quincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...

     – "Soul Bossa Nova"
  7. Rosalia de Souza
    Rosalia de Souza
    Rosalia de Souza is a Brazilian bossa nova singer. She was born in Nilópolis in the state of Rio de Janeiro, an area famous for Beija Flor Samba...

     - "D'Improvviso"
  8. Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan
    Marc Jordan , is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has written songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, and Josh Groban...

     & Molly Johnson
    Molly Johnson
    Molly Johnson, OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz.-Biography:Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts...

     – "Let's Waste Some Time"
  9. Aaron Tesser & The New Jazz Affair - "My Love Is A Song"
  10. Amos Lee
    Amos Lee
    Amos Lee is an American singer-songwriter whose musical style encompasses folk, rock and soul. Lee has four albums on Blue Note Records and has toured as an opening act for Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Norah Jones, Paul Simon, Merle Haggard, Van Morrison, John Prine, Dave Matthews Band and Adele. In...

     – "Careless"
  11. Lynda Lovett & Philip Calder - "Close to You"
  12. Nicky Holland – "Ladykiller"
  13. Peter White
    Peter White
    Peter White, PC was a Canadian parliamentarian.White was born into a family that had established its homestead at the junction of the Muskrat and Ottawa Rivers where the town of Pembroke, Ontario was soon established...

     & Basia – "Just Another Day"
  14. Pepe Jaramillo – "She"
  15. Perry Como
    Perry Como
    Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943. "Mr...

     - "Catch a Falling Star"
  16. Joe Whiting - "You Don't Know Me"
  17. Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad O'Connor
    Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

     - "Black Coffee"

CD 2

  1. Doris Day
    Doris Day
    Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...

     - "Sentimental Journey"
  2. Emme St. James - "Make Love to Me"
  3. Jonny Blu
    Jonny Blu
    Jonny Blu is a singer/songwriter who was born and raised in Los Angeles, but made his professional debut into the music world in China. Jonny successfully entered the music scene in Hong Kong and became the first ever non-Chinese pop star in the Chinese music world...

     - "Girl From Ipanema"
  4. Coralie Clement
    Coralie Clément
    Coralie Clément is a French singer.-Biography:Clément was born into a family of musicians, her father a clarinetist, and studied the violin from the age of six but later quit. Her brother, Benjamin Biolay, also a singer, has written for Henri Salvador and wrote and produced her own debut, as well...

     – "L’ombre Et La Lumiere
  5. Steve Tyrell
    Steve Tyrell
    Steve Tyrell is an American jazz musician.-Early career:Upon moving to New York City at the age of 18, he was made head of A&R and promotion at Scepter Records...

     - "It Had To Be You"
  6. Edvard Larusson feat. Gudrun Gunnars - "Love Me Tonight"
  7. Lizz Wright
    Lizz Wright
    Lizz Wright is an American jazz/R&B singer and composer.Wright was born in the small town of Hahira in the US state of Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the musical director of their Church. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child,...

     – "Goodbye"
  8. Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson
    Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. Described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating country, blues and folk music into her...

     - "Lay Lady Lay"
  9. Sabrina Starke
    Sabrina Starke
    Sabrina Starke is a Surinam-Dutch singer/songwriter from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her style is a mix of soul, folk, rhythm & blues and jazz.-Career:...

     – "Do for Love"
  10. Traincha – "The Look of Love"
  11. Norah Jones
    Norah Jones
    Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...

     – "Sunrise"
  12. Pete Belasco - "Without Within"
  13. Gladys Knight
    Gladys Knight
    Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...

     & The Pips - "Midnight Train To Georgia"
  14. Luther Vandross
    Luther Vandross
    Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...

     - "Never Too Much"
  15. Molly Johnson
    Molly Johnson
    Molly Johnson, OC is a Canadian Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter of pop and jazz.-Biography:Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts...

     - "I Must Have Left My Heart"

CD 3

  1. Joss Stone
    Joss Stone
    Jocelyn Eve Stoker , better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist...

     – "Bruised But Not Broken"
  2. Aimee Allen
    Aimee Allen
    Aimee Allen is an American pop/rock singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. She is known for her work on the dance song "Cooties" made for the soundtrack of the 2007 version of the movie Hairspray...

     - "What The Senses Know"
  3. Lloyd Marcus - "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
  4. Jeanne Gies - "I Love Paris"
  5. Jack Hoban & Wendy Reizer - "Moonlight On The Sand"
  6. The Lou Donaldson Quartet - "The Things We Did Last Summer"
  7. Corinne Bailey Rae
    Corinne Bailey Rae
    Corinne Bailey Rae is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist from Leeds, who released her debut album Corinne Bailey Rae in February 2006....

     - "Till It Happens To You"
  8. June Christy
    June Christy
    June Christy , born Shirley Luster, was an American singer, known for her work in the cool jazz genre and for her silky smooth vocals. Her success as a singer began with The Stan Kenton Orchestra. She pursued a solo career from 1954 and is best known for her debut album Something Cool...

     - "Looking For A Boy"
  9. Freddie Jackson
    Freddie Jackson
    Frederick Anthony "Freddie" Jackson is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s...

     - "I Could Use A Little Love"
  10. Holly Cole
    Holly Cole
    Holly Cole is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for both her versatile and distinctive voice, along with her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.-Holly Cole Trio:In 1983, Cole travelled to Toronto to seek a...

     - "Invitation To The Blues"
  11. S-Tone – "Negro"
  12. Ronnie Laws
    Ronnie Laws
    Ronald Wayne "Ronnie" Laws is an American jazz, blues and funk saxophonist. He is the younger brother of jazz flautist Hubert Laws.-Biography:...

     - "Love's Victory"
  13. Stacey Kent
    Stacey Kent
    Stacey Kent is a Grammy nominated American jazz singer.- Background :Kent attended Newark Academy in Livingston, New Jersey. Her paternal grandfather was Russian. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and moved to England after her graduation...

     - "The Ice Hotel"
  14. Ferid feat. Marcin Nowakowski - "Menduza"
  15. Elisabeth Withers
    Elisabeth Withers
    Elisabeth Withers is an American Neo-soul and R&B singer-songwriter.-Biography:Withers was born in Joliet, Illinois, and studied at the Berklee College of Music and then at New York University. She sang as a backup vocalist for Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez, among others, and released several...

     - "Simple Things"

CD 4

  1. Judy Garland
    Judy Garland
    Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...

     - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love"
  2. Erma Franklin
    Erma Franklin
    Erma Franklin was an American gospel and R&B singer. She was the oldest daughter of Barbara and the Reverend C. L. Franklin and the elder sister of Aretha Franklin...

     - "Piece Of My Heart"
  3. April Stevens
    April Stevens
    April Stevens is an American singer.She has recorded since she was 15 years old. Her most popular solo recording was her RCA Victor recording of "I'm in Love Again" . Accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Henri René, Stevens' recording peaked at No...

     - "Teach Me Tiger"
  4. Candi Staton
    Candi Staton
    Candi Staton is an American soul and gospel singer, best known for her 1970 remake of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and her 1976 disco hit "Young Hearts Run Free". In 2007, Staton was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

     - "How Can I Put Out The Flame"
  5. Shirley Bassey
    Shirley Bassey
    Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...

     - "I Get A Kick Out Of You"
  6. Jeri Southern
    Jeri Southern
    Genevieve Lillian Hering, known by her stage name Jeri Southern, was an American jazz pianist and singer.-Biography:...

     - "Isn't This A Lovely Day?"
  7. Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

     - "Blue Moon"
  8. Nina Simone
    Nina Simone
    Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...

     - "Willow Weep For Me"
  9. Horace Silver
    Horace Silver
    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

     - "Song For My Father"
  10. Irene
    Irene
    Irene is a name derived from the Greek word εἰρήνη meaning "peace". It may also be spelled or transliterated as "Irini", "Eirene", or "Eirini".It may refer to:-Mythical figures:* Eirene , one of the Horae...

     & Her Latin Jazz Band - "Summer Samba (So Nice)"
  11. Roy Ayers
    Roy Ayers
    Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...

     - "Everytime I See You"
  12. Anna Maria Flechero - "And I Love Him"
  13. Vanessa Williams
    Vanessa L. Williams
    Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...

     - "Sister Moon"
  14. Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....

     – "Don’t Make Me Over"
  15. Sammy Davis Jr - "The Way You Look Tonight"
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