Gregory Porter, Donald Smith, Mansur Scott & Paul Zauner's Blue Brass - Great Voices Of Harlem (2014)

Harlem is a mythical place, the birthplace of many African-American dreams, a cultural melting-pot, and fuel for the imagination from the ''Cotton Club'' or the ''Apollo Theatre'' all the way up to Sugarhill. Think of this neighborhood in Upper Manhattan and names like Billie Holiday, James Brown, or Jay-Z, films like ''Across 110th Street'' or ''American Gangster'', plus Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Joe Louis will immediately come to mind. Fortunately, Harlem is not just a thing of the past, but more and more a cultural hotbed for things to come.