The Music Pages | March 2009


	Cat. No.: 179 3110 Barcode: 0602517931107 Label: Verve CD Release Date: March			Diana Krall \| Quiet Nights ARTISTS Diana Krall TRACK LISTING 1 Where Or When 2 Too Marvelous For Words 3 I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face 4 The Boy From Ipanema 5 Walk On By 6 You're My Thrill 7 Este Seu Olhar 8 So Nice 9 Quiet Nights 10 Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 11 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart 12 Everytime We Say Goodbye Some music is intended to paint a romantic scene – a candlelit dinner, a walk along a moonlit beach. Quiet Nights – Diana Krall’s twelfth album – ain’t about that. Using Brazil as a musical point of reference, the award-winning pianist and singer is not suggesting a night out; she means to stay in. From Krall’s refreshing version of “Where or When,” to an utterly soul-stilling rendition of “You’re My Thrill,” the ten songs on Quiet Nights are disarming in their intimacy. Even those already familiar with the breathy vocals and rhythmic lilt in Krall’s music – and now there are millions – will be taken aback by just how far the music pushes, unabashedly, into the realm of sweet surrender. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 613 2722 Barcode: 0011661327221 Label: Rounder CD Release Date: March			Madeleine Peyroux \| Bare Bones ARTISTS Madeleine Peyoux TRACK LISTING 1 Instead 2 Bare Bones 3 Damn The Circumstances 4 River Of Tears 5 You Can't Do Me 6 Love And Treachery 7 Our Lady Of Pigalle 8 Homeless Happiness 9 To Love You All Over Again 10 I Must Be Saved 11 Somethin' Grand The third album in four years from song interpreter extraordinaire Madeleine Peyroux, Bare Bones is both an extension of the currents of 2004’s Careless Love and 2006’s Half the Perfect World and a bold step into previously unexplored psychological terrain. Produced, like its two predecessors, by Larry Klein, this fluid and enthralling new work, is Peyroux’s most personal yet, hardly surprising considering she had a hand in writing each of the 11 songs, marking the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. When asked to describe the sound of Bare Bones, Peyroux pauses to consider the question for several moments. “The lyrics and the sounds are both honest, so that they match each other. We’re really exploring the calm, relaxed attitude, because we tend to fall into a rhythmic pocket that is not exploited much in popular music. Everybody’s ahead of the beat, on top of the beat or trying to get to the next beat; everything is short and very repetitive; we’re just way slower than all that.” RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 179 9501 Barcode: 0602517995017 Label: ABC Jazz CD Release Date: March			Michelle Nicolle \| The Loveliest Night ARTISTS Michelle Nicolle vocals Geoff Hughes guitar Tom Lee bass Ronny Ferella drums TRACK LISTING ADLER/ROSS Hey There SIGMAN/DAMERON If You Could See Me Now GOLDEN/HUBBELL Poor Butterfly LERNER/LOEWE On the Street Where You Live FEATHER/SILVER Lonely Woman HART/RODGERS Lover DAVIS/MITCHELL You Are My Sunshine PORTER So In Love BURKE/VAN HEUSEN Here’s That Rainy Day FIELDS/MCHUGH I’m in the Mood for Love WEBSTER/AARONSON The Loveliest Night of the Year Michelle Nicolle is an exceptional singer, an original and inspiring jazz artist with a voice of awesome seductive power. Soulful, adventurous or wickedly humorous, Michelle Nicolle gets right to the heart of the music, bringing her unique touch to the well-known jazz standards. In this new album, she dives into the classics of stage and screen, with favourite songs from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s including Hey There, If You Could See Me Now, On the Street Where You Live and So in Love. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 0896 Barcode: 0888072308961 Label: Concord CD Release Date: March			Raul Malo \| Lucky One ARTISTS Raul Malo TRACK LISTING 1 Lucky One 2 Moonlight Kiss 3 Something Tells Me 4 Hello Again 5 Ready for My Lovin' 6 Crying for You 7 You Always Win 8 Lonely Hearts 9 One More Angel 10 Rosalie 11 Haunting Me 12 So Beautiful Raul Malo’s Fantasy Records label debut album, Lucky One, finds him fully shedding his musical shackles. “I have been fighting my whole life against people who want to pigeonhole music. I feel like I’ve got no restrictions anymore.” Malo is known for his work as the frontman of the Grammy Award-winning, globally platinum- and gold-certified band the Mavericks. Following two albums of covers, Lucky One is Malo’s first album original material in seven years. Malo has earned much critical respect over the years. USA Today applauded “a voice that seems to have no limits of range or versatility.” The New York Times said, “Malo has an exceptional voice, a burnished tenor that harks back to Roy Orbison and the great Cuban singer Beny Moré.” Rolling Stone added, “Raul Malo has a voice on par with the best of ‘em: Sinatra, George Jones and Orbison.” And The Wall Street Journal opined: “Malo’s superb voice is big and melodic with a natural vibrato. Exquisite.” Malo wrote Lucky One over a two-year period at his Nashville home and was so happy with the results that several of his home demos appear as final versions on the CD. For the balance of the album, he once again enlisted Steve Berlin, best known for his work with Los Lobos and who worked on Malo’s 2001 Today album, as co-producer. “I trust Steve musically,” Malo says. “Art comes first with him. That’s the most important quality of all. Nothing gets in the way of that.” Songs on Lucky One range from the upbeat “Moonlight Kisses,” to songs like “One More Angel” and “Rosalie,” which take on mortality and the loss of life. “Hello Again” is a deceptively upbeat, swinging tale of heartbreak, and the closing track “So Beautiful” is an ultimately uplifting benediction influenced by events in and outside Malo’s home. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 723 1398 Barcode: 0888072313989 Label: Concord CD+DVD Release Date: March			JAMES HUNTER \| The Hard Way – Tour Edition ARTISTS James Hunter TRACK LISTING 1. The Hard Way 2. Tell Her 3. Don’t Do Me No Favours 4. Carina 5. She’s Got A Way 6. Til The End 7. Hand It Over 8. Jacqueline 9. Class Act 10. Ain’t Goin' Nowhere 11. Believe Me Baby 12. Strange But True Bonus DVD Soul deep Brit James Hunter - who possesses a "tight, slithery soul groove" and a "sweet growl" (NY Times), is making his way to Australia this April to perform at the Bluesfest and Sydney’s The Vanguard. To celebrate his arrival, we are releasing a very special tour edition of ‘The Hard Way’. Tour edition includes the current cd and comes with a bonus DVD of 5 live performances including ‘Carina’, and ‘The Hard Way’. Hunter is an Essex born retro/pop/soul artist with an extraordinary soul voice. Think Sam Cooke, think Jackie Wilson and Hunter is your modern day equivalent. The Hard Way is his 2nd album release, but his first under the Hear Music/Concord label. His previous album “People Are Gonna Talk’ was released in 2006 by Rounder Records and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. Hunter has been a musician for the last 20 years touring with his own band as well as back up singing for the likes of Van Morrison in the 90s. Since his first album release Hunter and his band have toured extensively from hole-in-wall clubs to the Hollywood Bowl; they have headlined in small venues and supported the likes of Aretha Franklin, Los Lonely Boys, Box Scaggs and Van Morrison. With his arrival in Australia in April, and the tour edition release of The Hard Way, Hunter is one to watch in as Australians are exposed to a truly remarkable artist. 'The Hard Way' was produced by Liam Watson (The White Stripes) at famed analogue haven Toe Rag Studios in London. The instrumental palette is rich and the arrangements sharpened for 'The Hard Way.' Allen Toussaint joins Hunter on the sultry "Til The End," the rhumba "Believe Me Baby," and the title track. The gorgeous Echo Strings buoy "The Hard Way" and the romantic "Carina," with accompanying pedal steel. The jumping "Don't Do Me No Favors" is designed for the dance floor. This album is a joy to experience. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 7230815 Barcode: 0888072308152 Label: Concord CD Release Date: March			Boney James \| Send One Your Love ARTISTS Boney James TRACK LISTING 1. Wanna Show U Sumthin’ 2. Send One Your Love 3. Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) 4. Touch 5. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 6. Hold On Tight 7. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby 8. City Of Light 9. Butter 10. I’ll Be Good To You Send One Your Love, the new CD from sax icon Boney James claimed the top spot on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart in its first week. Showing James’s crossover appeal, the record also debuted at #21 on the Billboard R&B Chart and entered the Billboard Top 200 chart at #76. The album is being powered by 2 current singles. “Stop, Look, Listen” has rocketed to #4 on the Smooth AC Chart and “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight “(introducing Quinn) debuted among the Most Added at Urban AC this week. Released 27 March, Send One Your Love is the bestselling, Grammy nominated sax man’s 12th C.D. It features a collection of romantic and sensuous songs by Stevie Wonder (the title track), The Stylistics (“Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart),” Barry White (“I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby”), John Klemmer (“Touch”) and a stunning cover of James Taylor’s “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.” On this track, Boney introduces the world to Quinn. This new R&B vocalist has performed background vocals for artists such as Kelly Price and K-Ci & JoJo and was working as an Atlanta-based session singer when discovered by James. RETURN TO THE TOP