Album Info
| Artist: | Van Morrison |
| Album: | Versatile |
| Released: | Europe, 01 Dec 2017 |
Tracklist:
| A1 | Broken Record | 3:16 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| A2 | A Foggy Day | 3:33 |
| Written-By - George & Ira Gershwin | ||
| A3 | Let's Get Lost | 3:38 |
| Written-By - Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh | ||
| A4 | Bye Bye Blackbird | 3:45 |
| Written-By - Mort Dixon, Ray Henderson | ||
| A5 | Skye Boat Song | 4:01 |
| Arranged By - Van Morrison | ||
| Written By - traditional | ||
| B1 | Take It Easy Baby | 4:07 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| B2 | Makin' Whoopee | 4:52 |
| Written-By - Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson | ||
| B3 | I Get A Kick Out Of You | 4:10 |
| Written-By - Cole Porter | ||
| B4 | I Forgot That Love Existed | 3:37 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| C1 | Unchained Melody | 4:33 |
| Written-By - Alex North, Hy Zaret | ||
| C2 | Start All Over Again | 4:40 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| C3 | Only A Dream | 5:29 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| D1 | Affirmation | 6:03 |
| Written-By - Van Morrison | ||
| D2 | The Party's Over | 3:10 |
| Written-By - Betty Comden And Adolph Green, Jule Styne | ||
| D3 | I Left My Heart In San Francisco | 6:01 |
| Written-By - Douglass Cross, George Cory | ||
| D4 | They Can't Take That Away From Me | 3:33 |
| Written-By - George & Ira Gershwin |
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Description
Following the massive success of his 37th studio album 'Roll With the Punches' (which charted at No 4 in the UK this September), Van Morrison prepares the release of his 38th, 'Versatile!'
'Versatile' is positive proof that Van Morrison is built differently to other artists. One of very few British recording artists to warrant the description 'living legend', Van is currently working at a rate to put musicians a third of his age to shame; an ethic that harks back to his early days as a recording artist who'd easily release multiple brilliant long players within the space of a year.
While 'Roll With The Punches' saw Van revisit many of the definitive rhythm and blues records that have stayed with him all his life, Van's latest album sees him delve further back into recorded music's archives to interpret some of the 20th century's greatest vocal jazz standards.
Across 'Versatile's sixteen tracks, Van Morrison interprets some of the very building blocks of modern music in his own utterly unique style. As well as songs originally made famous by the likes of Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, the Righteous Brothers, Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole, Versatile features six stunning new Van compositions, including Broken Record – a timeless piece of late-night swing.
Van says of 'Versatile:' "Recording songs like these - especially the standards - gave me the chance to stretch out vocally and get back to the music that originally inspired me to sing - jazz!"
A joy from start to finish, Versatile is a completely different record to Roll With the Punches yet it's incontrovertibly Van and proof, if ever it were needed, that at 72 years of age, he's not going to slow down any time soon. Buy your copy today!
