• 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