Five years after making her professional debut with the late, great British jazz lynchpin Humphrey Lyttelton, vocalist Verona Chard has wrapped her sultry tones around a clutch of classic compositions on her own offering, Fever, due for release on July 21. Inspired by the music of another of the nation's great jazz stalwarts, John Dankworth--and his 1964 release Shakespeare and All That Jazz--the West Country chanteuse is now set to take the album on the road.
The London-based siren will launch the album with a show at Chelsea jazz institution the 606 Club on the day of its release before playing a series of intimate shows across England and Scotland.
On the record, which features her refreshing take on Peggy Lee's title track, Verona was joined by a cluster of renowned musicians, including the award-winning saxophonist Alan Barnes and harpist Fiona Clifton-Welker as they breathed new life into the work of Elton John, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim plus Lyttelton and Dankworth themselves.
The London-based siren will launch the album with a show at Chelsea jazz institution the 606 Club on the day of its release before playing a series of intimate shows across England and Scotland.
On the record, which features her refreshing take on Peggy Lee's title track, Verona was joined by a cluster of renowned musicians, including the award-winning saxophonist Alan Barnes and harpist Fiona Clifton-Welker as they breathed new life into the work of Elton John, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim plus Lyttelton and Dankworth themselves.
