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Canada’s Snowbird gets the high-class treatment with this impeccable collection, featuring pairings with some of her favorite singers from home and abroad. Produced by duet mastermind Phil Ramone (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles), it features our Annie singing with divas ranging from Céline Dion, Shania Twain and Sarah Brightman to Shelby Lynn, Nelly Furtado and k.d. lang. Among the highlights is “I Just Fall in Love Again,” which magically stitches Murray together with the late, great Dusty Springfield. Nov. 13

Not many singers get name-checked in a Bob Dylan song, but Keys is the real deal, a gifted artist unspoiled by the Grammy wins and multimillion sales. Keys’ third studio album continues to showcase her classically-influenced style with shades of Chopin (the title track’s piano intro) and Aretha Franklin (the anthemic “Superwoman”). There are also hints of Stevie Wonder’s quirky keyboard on the infectious “No One” and Prince’s anguished falsetto on the tender “Like You’ll Never See Me Again.” Superbly soulful. Nov. 13

No longer the “hick from Mount Uniacke” in Nova Scotia, Buck 65 is now Canada’s avant-garde maestro. The rapper-MC-turntablist shifted away from his down-home rap with 2005’s Secret House Against the World, which incorporated jazz, trip-hop and French into his abstract mix. Here, drawing on the cultural ephemera of the Frisbee, the Beat Generation, China’s Great Leap Forward, Elvis Presley and Situationist International, he delivers an inspired hip-hop concept album dedicated to the year 1957. Oct. 30