Tune in to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight to catch k.d. lang and her band perform a song from her recent career retrospective, Recollection, released last month on Nonesuch. The show begins at 11:35 PM ET on NBC.

k.d.'s performance at the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver last month will long be remembered as a highlight of the 2010 Games. It's only fitting, then, that Jay's other guests on tonight's show are two Olympic athletes, each unforgettable in his own way: a standout athletes from the latest Games, figure skater Johnny Weir, and a member of the original basketball "Dream Team" from the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games, Charles Barkley.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently published a review of Recollection from Blogcritics writer Mark Saleski. "If an artist as great as Tony Bennett can refer to her as the best singer since Judy Garland," Saleski suggests, "you know she's got something special going on. There's surely the way I felt when I first heard her." For Saleski, the high point of the four-disc set is lang's take on Neil Young's "Helpless," which she originally recorded for her Nonesuch debut, Hymns of the 49th Parallel. "It's just gorgeous," he exclaims.

Liz Smith, that ever-in-the-know columnist, states in her column for Women on the Web what anyone who say the Vancouver performance could confirm: "her voice sounded better than ever." The new retrospective is "sensational," says Smith. "k.d. lets her art speak for itself, and it’s shouting mightily on Recollection. This is a masterpiece."

To pick up your copy of this "masterpiece," visit the Nonesuch Store.