Artist's First New Studio Collection Since 2005 Features Intimate Jazz Settings by Diana Krall & Arrangements by Johnny Mandel Love Is The Answer Available Everywhere Tuesday, September 29 NEW YORK, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Love Is The Answer, the eagerly-awaited new studio album from Barbra Streisand, available everywhere on Tuesday, September 29. The first full-length collection of new studio recordings from eight-time Grammy award winner Barbra Streisand since 2005's Guilty Pleasures, and first new Barbra Streisand album since Live In Concert 2006, Love Is The Answer presents the artist as a cabaret and jazz singer of emotional clarity, depth and maturity, offering the listener a warm and intimate selection of late night meditations on love's powers, heartbreaks and solaces. Love Is The Answer provided an opportunity for Streisand to work for the first time with the Grammy-winning Canadian jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and h

By Jim Harrington, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 26--The Sonoma Jazz + festival offered more than its share of musical thrills over Memorial Day weekend.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Verve Music Group has announced its newly-launched web site, updated to include more interactivity, community building, and social networking among fans and listeners.

BRAZILIAN GIRLS "Talk to La Bomb" (Verve) 3 stars With drummer Aaron Johnston and bassist Jesse Murphy laying the trance, techno and tango beats down fast and furious, Brazilian Girls are the best dance-music act in America.

Jazz chanteuse Diana Krall has tied the knot with her beau of one year, Elvis Costello, in a wedding held outside London. The pair was married Saturday night in a ceremony held at Elton John's castle, the Globe and Mail reported Tuesday.