If you didn’t get into Queen Latifah’s first jazz set, The Dana Owens Album, you missed a real treat. Queen has turned herself into quite the quintessential lady. From endorsements with Cover Girl, producing and starring in major motion pictures, to still recording. And now she’s back with her sophomore jazz album, Trav’lin’ Light, taken from the 1940′s Billie Holiday classic, which she rerecorded for the album. Queen Latifah’s new album will be released by famed jazz label Verve Records in conjunction with Flavor Unit Entertainment on September 25. She explores many hits from PeggyLee, Etta James, Sarah Vaughn, Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae, Roberta Flack, Mary Wells, Phoebe Snow, and more.

“Poetry Man,” the track streaming above, is produced by Ron Fair and is QL’s mother’s favorite track. It’s sultry, smooth and soothing. Make sure you check it out.

Show Queen your support by hitting her up on MySpace.com, where you can also get into some more tracks from her second jazz album, Trav’lin’ Light Make sure you let her know CL sent you her way.

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I feel like Raheem didn’t get as much shine as he needed to last time around on his first album, The Love Experience. He had a quite a buzz going on about him, but he never garnered any true mainstream exposure. But he’s still been performing all over and is ready to release his sophomore set, Love Behind the Melody, which his first single, “Woman.”

Upon hearing it, “Woman” reminds me of Angie Stone’s anthem to black men, “Black Brother.” Raheem’s voice is very distinctive, and very strong. He rides his music so well, which is why I fell in love with a lot of the material on his first album. So make sure you show him to some love this time around with his new album, due out November 27th.

Add Raheem on MySpace so you can listen to more tracks from his upcoming album, Love Behind the Melody, which hits stores November 27th.