First Class all the way, champagne cocktails, cashmere blankets, Rockefeller Center. These are the images that come to mind listening to Celia Berk’s elegant second album “Manhattan Serenade.” A tribute to her hometown, this collection is anything but renditions of the obvious New York songs. “Manhattan Serenade” is curated: a connoisseur’s compilation of one exquisite, undiscovered musical gem after another....

There are albums that are born classic and easily integrate into great works of Brazilian Popular Music. These are great musical achievements of our Brazilian music artists. The music is bright, colorful, full of gusto, exuberant, and most of all hyperbolic. It is impossible not to highlight the solar content of the music. The sunshine, luminosity, heat and ocean...