• DIGIPACK EDITION

With This Bitter Earth, 26-year-old Veronica Swift casts aside her designated trajectory as the next great up-and-coming pure-jazz singer to embrace something grander, more pop-oriented and profound. The daughter of late pianist Hod O’Brien, Swift belted her first album out of the club as a precocious nine-year-old. Four albums later, Confessions cemented her rep as a jazz lioness with a pure tone, large lungs, a knowing sense of repertoire, and sure swing style.

PERSONNEL:

• Veronica Swift - vocals
• Emmet Cohen - piano
• Yasushi Nakamura - bass
• Bryan Carter - drums

TRACKS:

• 01. This Bitter Earth
• 02. How Lovely to Be a Woman
• 03. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
• 04. Getting to Know You
• 05. The Man I Love
• 06. You're the Dangerous Type
• 07. Trust in Me
• 08. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
• 09. As Long as He Needs Me
• 10. Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong
• 11. Prisoner of Love
• 12. The Sports Page