Cat. No.: 174 1601
Barcode: 0602517416017
Label: Verve CD + DVD
Release Date:
8 September

DIANA KRALL | The Very Best of Diana Krall

TRACK LISTING

S Wonderful" ('The Look Of Love' 2001)

Peel Me a Grape" ('Love Scenes' 1997)

Pick Yourself Up" ('When I Look In Your Eyes 1999)

Frim Fram Sauce" ('All For You'1993)

You Go To My Head" - written by Coots and Gillespie *

Let's Fall in Love" ('When I Look In Your Eyes 1999)

The Look of Love" ('The Look Of Love' 2001)

East of the Sun (West of the Moon)" ('When I Look In Your Eyes 1999)

I've Got You Under My Skin" ('When I Look In Your Eyes 1999)

All or Nothing At All" ('Love Scenes' 1997)

Only the Lonely " - written by Van Heusen and Cahn *

Let's Face the Music and Dance" ('When I Look In Your Eyes 1999)

The Heart of Saturday Night" - written by Tom Waits *

Little Girl Blue" ('From This Moment On' 2006)

Fly Me To The Moon" ('Live in Paris 2002)

* Denotes never before released recordings.

DVD TRACK LISTING

1.What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

2. Almost Blue

3. Narrow Daylight

4. Fly Me to the Moon

5. The Look of Love

6. Let's Face the Music & Dance

7. Abandoned Masquerade

8. Temptation

'The Very Best of Diana Krall', the first career retrospective of the GRAMMY award-winning star's music is set for release on Verve Records. Over the past fourteen years, the platinum-seller has released eleven records, including 'The Look of Love', 'When I Look In Your Eyes' and most recent 'From This Moment On', which debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200 Chart.

The San Francisco Chronicle just wrote that Krall is "taking jazz places   it has never been before" (6.11.07) in a rave convert review. She has topped both the pop and jazz charts, played sold-out amphitheatres in multiple countries and sold millions of records worldwide. Krall has proven her genuine talent and credibility as a mold-breaking jazz musician time and time again, from her original musings on classic love songs 'When I Look In Your Eyes' to the American songbook 'From This Moment On'.

"The Very Best of Diana Krall" features selections from six albums of the multi-platinum vocalist's extensive repertoire. In addition to the songs that her fans have come to know and love, "The Very Best of Diana Krall' also features three previously unreleased versions of songs made popular by the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tom Waits.

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Cat. No.: 173 8885
Barcode: 0602517388857
Label: Verve DVD
Release Date:
15 September

VARIOUS ARTISTS | WE LOVE ELLA

TRACK LISTING

1. A-Tisket, A-Tasket – featuring Natalie Cole

2. Ain’t Misbehavin – featuring Wynonna

3. Do Nothin’ till You Here >From Me – feauturing Dave Koz & Ruben Studdard

4. Performance footage of Ella Fitzgerald

5. Oh, Lady Be Good! – featuring George Duke, Jon Faddis & James Moody

6. How High the Moon – featuring Patti Austin & Take 6

7. Blues in the Night – featuring Ledisi

8. Reaching for the Moon – featuring Lizz Wright with Pasha & Dean Parks

9. Too Close for Comfort – featuring Stevie Wonder

10. Midnight Sun – featuring Natalie Cole

11. Cry Me a River – featuring Ella Fitzgerald and the USC Thornton Jazz Orchestra

12. Just in Time – featuring Take 6

13. Performance footage of Ella Fitzgerald

14. But Not For Me – featuring Monica Mancini & Dave Koz

15. Lullaby of Birdland – featuring Lizz Wright

16. Someone to Watch Over Me – featuring Nancy Wilson

17. (If You Can’t Sing It) You’ll Have to Swing It (a.k.a. Mr. Paganini)

– featuring Natalie Cole & Patti Austin

Featuring a powerhouse gathering of music icons and sensational new voices spanning jazz, rock, R&B and gospel. The show premiered on PBS (American Public TV)– June 6th, after the Verve Records CD release of We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song, featuring Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, Gladys Knight, Diana Krall, Lizz Wright and many others.

This once in a lifetime event, taped on April 29th at the University of Southern California’s Galen Center, was co-hosted by Natalie Cole and Quincy Jones as part of Thirteen/WNET New York’s Great Performances series.

The DVD also includes archival performance footage of Ella Fitzgerald herself.

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Cat. No.: 172 0023
Barcode: 0602517200234
Label: Universal CD
Release Date:
8 September

DEBORAH COX | Destination Moon

TRACK LISTING

1 Destination Moon

2 What A Difference A Day Made

3 Misery

4 Baby, You've Got What It Takes

5 This Bitter Earth

6 Squeeze Me

7 New Blowtop Blues

8 Blue Skies

9 I Don't Hurt Anymore

10 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

11 September In The Rain

If you think you've figured out where Deborah Cox fits into today's music scene, you've got some more figuring to do.

Having conquered the pop and R&B charts as another of ace record executive Clive Davis' discoveries and starred on Broadway in Elton John's and Tim Rice's "Aida," the 32-year-old Toronto-born singer/actress now takes a leap into something entirely different. She has paid effusive tribute to a childhood idol of hers, the beloved, troubled Dinah Washington, on her new Decca debut album, Destination Moon , that will surprise her fans and catapult her into the ranks of the leading jazz singers of our time.

  Dinah Washington is one of those iconic names that trip off the tongue when one brings up the subject of the great female vocalists of the 20th century who were associated with jazz.   But she stood apart from Ella, Billie, Anita, Sassy and most of the rest in one important way; she did not like to be labeled and placed in a box for convenient file-keeping.   Her absolutely clear-cut, tart, high-pitched voice could fit comfortably into just about any style of her era - be it R&B, blues, straight-ahead combo or big band jazz, or easy-listening pop. This versatility made her controversial as well as beloved, especially after she crashed the Top 10 pop charts with a series of lushly-orchestrated hits after 1959.

Deborah's homage to Dinah Washington doesn't lean overwhelmingly toward one particular style. It was designed from the beginning to be a compendium of several of Dinah's idioms -   the big-band swing of "All Of Me" and "Destination Moon,"   swaggering R&B ("I Don't Hurt Anymore)," the blues that earned her the misleading nickname "Queen of the Blues" ("Misery," "New Blowtop Blues"), the lush ballads that put her on the jukeboxes of Middle America ("What A Diff'rence A Day Made," "This Bitter Earth"). Deborah unleashes a powerful, swinging, jazzy vocal style that will pleasantly surprise many.

"This is a complete labour of love, a concept album that I've had in mind for years," she says.   "This is a project that's an introduction to all of the styles that I grew up with. It's a way to expose another side of me that I've kept quiet.   It's a chance to look inside my history of influences and hear where I'm coming from as an artist. I think people will be pleasantly surprised."

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Cat. No.: 173 4085
Barcode: 0602517340855
Label: CD
Release Date:
8 September

JOHN SCOFIELD | This Meets That

A principal innovator of modern jazz guitar, John Scofield has expressed himself in the vernacular of bebop, blues, jazz-funk, organ jazz, acoustic chamber jazz, electronically tinged groove music and orchestral ensembles with ease and enthusiasm. From early on, his versatility and technical mastery won him sideman gigs with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker and Cobham/Duke among many. Regardless of the stylistic setting, his distinct guitar sound and compositions are unmistakably Scofieldesque, always coupled with an improvisational excellence dedicated to the finest in jazz tradition.

Following celebrated runs on the Enja, Arista, Gramavision, Blue Note and Verve labels, Scofield is proud to release his first project for Emarcy, This Meets That, which will be available September 3 rd . The album finds Scofield once again in the company of what he calls his "A-Team" - bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bill Stewart.

The originals on This Meets That are tunes that Scofield and company first performed as a trio, and they retain their loose and jazzy immediacy here. This Meets That is textural and   lush, but also has a raw and visceral impact thanks to Scofield's often biting guitar tone and the trio's rhythmic energy. "All these tunes swing," Scofield points out. "One may be funky, another may be country, but the swing element is important to all of them."

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Cat. No.: 173 3001
Barcode: 0602517330016
Label: CD
Release Date:
15 September

LEDISI | Lost and Found

TRACK LISTING

1. Been Here (Intro)

2. Joy

3. You And Me

4. Best Friend

5. Alright

6. Think Of You

7. Today

8. Get To Know You

9. Upside Down

10. In The Morning

11. I Tried

12. Lost And Found (Find Me)

13. We Are One

14. The One

15. Someday

Lost & Found, the highly anticipated new album from critically-acclaimed soul vocalist Ledisi, features 16 original songs that take a poignant look at life and love in all its phases. The album showcases Ledisi's exceptional talent as a vocalist and songwriter, seamlessly blending classic R&B, jazz, funk, and gospel in order to create a piece of art.

While this is Ledisi's debut album on Verve Forecast, she is definitely not a newcomer to the music scene. With two previously released albums on her own label, she has also been featured on several multi-artist tribute albums including Forever, For Always, For Luther, singing the Luther Vandross hit "My Sensitivity (Gets In The Way)" and "Blues in the Night" on the recently released We All Love Ella: Celebrating The First Lady of Song. She has also gained a loyal following through her high energy live shows. Giving all that she has on stage, her shows are not to be missed.

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Cat. No.: 174 1610
Barcode: 0602517416109
Label: Verve CD
Release Date:
15 September

VARIOUS ARTISTS | The Best of Newport '57

TRACK LISTING

CD1

1. Bourbon Street Parade  

2. Blue for Louis  

3. Basin Street Blues - Jack Teagarden  

4. Muskrat Ramble - Kid Ory  

5. Airmail Special - Ella Fitzgerald  

6. Love for Sale  

7. Between Me and Myself - Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio  

8. I Never Knew  

9. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Pee Wee Russell  

10. Blue Lou  

11. Love Is Here to Stay - Carmen McRae  

12. Moonglow - Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins

CD2  

1. There Will Never Be Another You  

2. Nona's Blues - Cecil Taylor Quartet  

3. 'S Wonderful  

4. St. James Infirmary  

5. Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday  

6. My Funny Valentine - Gerry Mulligan Quartet  

7. Doodlin' - Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra  

8. I Got Rhythm  

9. Roy's Son - Roy Eldridge, , Oscar Peterson Trio, Sonny Stitt  

10. Swingin' at Newport - Count Basie Orchestra  

11. Comeback - Count Basie Orchestra, , Joe Williams  

By its third year in 1957, the Newport Jazz Festival had doubled its length to four days and had moved from the local casino complex to Newport's more spacious sports stadium, Freebody Park, and expanded its line-up to include virtually every existing jazz niche then in vogue, from New Orleans roots to swing, bop, post-bop, and even the defiantly avant-garde and rather unimaginably named "new thing." Columbia Records had done some hit or miss recording at the previous year's festival, but in 1957 Verve's Norman Granz, never one to think small, opted to record the whole thing from start to finish, and this two-disc set is a wonderful (and wonderfully recorded) snapshot of what may have been the most inclusive and expansive Newport Jazz Festival ever. The list of names appearing is beyond impressive, including horn men Jack Teagarden, Roy Eldridge, Donald Byrd, Pee Wee Russell, Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Sonny Stitt, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and a young Steve Lacey, pianists Oscar Peterson, Cecil Taylor and Bill Evans, and vocalists Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday and Joe Williams, among dozens of other noted musicians and singers. Choosing high points with such an array of talent on display is difficult, but several of the performances Granz captured are true treasures, including Jack Teagarden's (with the Red Allen Band) characteristic laconic vocal on yet another version of "Basin Street Blues," Turk Murphy's New Orleans roots revival rendition of "St. James Infirmary," Coleman Hawkins' sweet ballad turn on "Moonglow," the Oscar Peterson Trio's (augmented by Roy Eldridge, Sonny Stitt and Jo Jones) bubbling and bouncing "Roy's Son," and Cecil Taylor's nervous and fascinating (and quite accessible) "Nona's Blues." The sound is marvelous throughout, with the sonic clarity of a studio session yet retaining all the intimacy and freshness of a live outdoor performance. The end result is a timeless look at jazz at its most diverse, before things really began to splinter into non-interacting camps and warring schools of musical thought. Yeah, there was the new thing, which by definition meant there had to be an old thing, and beyond that, an even older thing, but for four days at Newport in 1957 (and thanks to Norman Granz we have the recorded proof), there was just the one thing, and it was called jazz.

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