(FORTUNE Magazine) – OMARA PORTUONDO Buena Vista Social Club Presents ... (World Circuit/Nonesuch) If the Social Club is Havana's version of the Rat Pack, tropical songbird Portuondo is its Shirley MacLaine--a graceful foil in a roomful of guys.

JOSEPH ARTHUR Come to Where I'm From (RealWorld/Virgin) Drowsy and shambling, Arthur's songs sound like that groggy Saturday morning when you sleep too late and never get around to mowing the lawn.

WEEN White Pepper (Elektra) If Weird Al Yankovic were truly weird, he'd sound like Ween. On their slickest disk yet, the warped duo scores with "Bananas and Blow," a scalding parody of Jimmy Buffett.

ROSENBERG 7 R7 (NorthSide) Unleash your inner Viking with a spectral batch of primeval Nordic folk songs performed by a Swedish strings-and-vocal septet. Helmet sold separately.

MEDESKI MARTIN & WOOD Tonic (Blue Note) MM&W whip up such a clanking, symphonic din on this live album that it's occasionally hard to believe you're hearing a bare-bones jazz trio.