For those unaware, Jazz artist, Kristina Koller, has just brought forth her modern interpretation of the iconic songs by legendary American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist Burt Bacharach.

Her fourth album, Walk on By, is a collaboration with her longtime bassist, James Robbins. Together, they’ve crafted fresh arrangements of Bacharach’s timeless songbook that will have you grooving, swinging, and singing along!

Vocalist, songwriter and arranger Kristina Koller is drawn to crafting music that crosses generations while still embracing the history and mood of classic jazz. Now, on Walk on By, she reimagines the Burt Bacharach songbook with hip, new, genre-bending arrangements.

Although Bacharach, who passed away in 2023, composed some of the most iconic songs of the past 65 years, many young people are not familiar with his name even if they are familiar with some of his songs.

1. I’ll Never Fall in Love Again (4:36)
2. Close to You (4:19)
3. A House is Not a Home (3:55)
4. That’s What Friends are For (4:38)
5. Say a Little Prayer (3:02)
6. Don’t Make Me Over (3:32)
7. Walk on By (3:25)
8. Reach Out For Me (2:54)
9. Loving is a Way of Living (5:33)
10. What the World Needs Now (4:23)

The native New Yorker opens her mesmerizingly impassioned new recording with a spirited I’ll Never Fall in Love Again and then we get the lushly sculpted Close to You, the atmospheric A House is Not a Home, the joyful finger-snapper That’s What Friends are For and then a free flowing Say a Little Prayer is upon us.

Along next is the languishing beauty within Don’t Make Me Over which is itself backed seamlessly by the foot-tapping elegance of Walk on By, a simply divine Reach Out For Me, the music rounding out on the veritably shimmering Loving is a Way of Living, closing on the rhythmically melodious What the World Needs Now.

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