Veronica Swift

• 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

• Additional instrumentation:
• Lavinia Pavlish - violin
• Meitar Forkosh - violin
• Andrew Griffin - viola
• Susan D. Mandel - cello
• Aaron Johnson - alto sax
• Armand Hirsch - acoustic guitar
• Steven Feifke - background vocals
• Ryan Paternite - background vocals
• Will Wakefield - background vocals
• Stone Robinson Elementary School Choir: background vocals
• Walton Middle School Girls Choir -background vocals.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. This Bitter Earth
• A2. How Lovely to Be a Woman
• A3. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught

• SIDE B
• B1. Getting to Know You
• B2. The Man I Love
• B3. You're the Dangerous Type

• SIDE C
• C1. Trust in Me
• C2. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
• C3. As Long as He Needs Me
• C4. Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong

• SIDE D
• D1. Prisoner of Love
• D2. The Sports Page
• D3. Sing