JD Walter - What the World Needs Now (2023)
Artist: JD Walter
Title: What the World Needs Now
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Arkadia Records
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 49:18
Total Size: 237 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: What the World Needs Now
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Arkadia Records
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 49:18
Total Size: 237 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. JD Walter & Jean-Michel Pilc – Golden Lady (feat Steve Varner & Greg Hutchinson) (04:30)
2. JD Walter – I Was Telling Her About You (feat Steve Rudolph) (05:19)
3. JD Walter & Orrin Evans – What The World Needs Now (05:00)
4. JD Walter – Dressed In A Song (feat Taylor Eigsti) (03:25)
5. JD Walter & John Swana – Beautiful Moons Ago (feat Steve Varner) (04:14)
6. JD Walter – Tell Her I Said Hello (feat Tony Marino & Steve Varner) (06:26)
7. JD Walter & Gilad Hekselman – And I Love Her (feat Taylor Eigsti, James Genus & Obed Calvaire) (03:41)
8. JD Walter & Dave Liebman – Keisha's Coy (feat Jim Ridl, Ari Hoenig & Steve Varner) (05:53)
9. JD Walter & Jean-Michel Pilc – It Never Entered My Mind (feat Steve Varner & Greg Hutchinson) (04:50)
10. JD Walter – Now It's Time To Go (feat Steve Rudolph, Steve Varner & Marko Marchinko) (05:58)
This album of overlooked gems reveals JD Walter’s skills as a composer, his mastery of the intimate ballad, his talent for reinventing pop and jazz Standards to bring a new depth to these songs, and his ability to swing, scat, and harmonize like no one else.
The album delivers a mix of three JD original compositions, reinterpretations of three pop hits (Stevie Wonder’s Golden Lady, Lennon and McCartney’s And I Love Her, Burt Bacharach & Hal David’s What the World Needs Now, and four poignant romantic Jazz Standards.
The implicit hope for this album is a plea for peace and love, as highlighted by the title song What the World Needs Now. Although the words seem quite simple as a pop hit, it took Hal David two years to complete them, given that the controversy of the Vietman War was an underlying meaning of the Hal David lyrics.
The album delivers a mix of three JD original compositions, reinterpretations of three pop hits (Stevie Wonder’s Golden Lady, Lennon and McCartney’s And I Love Her, Burt Bacharach & Hal David’s What the World Needs Now, and four poignant romantic Jazz Standards.
The implicit hope for this album is a plea for peace and love, as highlighted by the title song What the World Needs Now. Although the words seem quite simple as a pop hit, it took Hal David two years to complete them, given that the controversy of the Vietman War was an underlying meaning of the Hal David lyrics.
