01 Me And Mrs Jones (Bossa Version) Gamble/Gilbert/Huff 3:30
02 Do It The Hard Way (The Jazz Renegades) Hart/Rodgers 4:08
03 Never Gonna Give You Up White 5:31
04 Don't Leave Me This Way (The Communards) Gamble/Gilbert/Huff 4:31
05 Ever Gonna Make It Barker/Morris 5:00
06 Piece Of My Heart (Live In Rome) Burns/Ragovoy 7:30
07 Sunny Hebb, Bobby 4:55
08 I'm Missing You Cocciante/Morris/Moskovitz/Mogol 5:22
09 River Man Drake 3:52
10 Butterfly Kravitz 2:36
11 Mercy Mercy Me Gaye 4:59
12 Only To Be With You Dzidzornul/Morris 3:52
13 Mad Woman Blues Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 3:39
14 Move On Up (Live In Montreal) Mayfield 4:17
15 I Don't Wanna Know About Evil (Live In Rome) Martyn 4:18
16 The Right Track Cannel/Morris 4:58
17 Cowboys Junkies Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 3:55
18 Don't Smoke In Bed Robeson/Willard 1:10
02 Do It The Hard Way (The Jazz Renegades) Hart/Rodgers 4:08
03 Never Gonna Give You Up White 5:31
04 Don't Leave Me This Way (The Communards) Gamble/Gilbert/Huff 4:31
05 Ever Gonna Make It Barker/Morris 5:00
06 Piece Of My Heart (Live In Rome) Burns/Ragovoy 7:30
07 Sunny Hebb, Bobby 4:55
08 I'm Missing You Cocciante/Morris/Moskovitz/Mogol 5:22
09 River Man Drake 3:52
10 Butterfly Kravitz 2:36
11 Mercy Mercy Me Gaye 4:59
12 Only To Be With You Dzidzornul/Morris 3:52
13 Mad Woman Blues Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 3:39
14 Move On Up (Live In Montreal) Mayfield 4:17
15 I Don't Wanna Know About Evil (Live In Rome) Martyn 4:18
16 The Right Track Cannel/Morris 4:58
17 Cowboys Junkies Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 3:55
18 Don't Smoke In Bed Robeson/Willard 1:10
01 Get High (Live In Rome) Barker/MacColl/Morris 6:40
02 The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Live In Montreal) MacColl 4:06
03 Fragile (Live In Rome) Sting 6:32
04 A Horse Named Janis Joplin Backer/Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 5:20
05 Heaven Marshall/Morris 5:45
06 Chelsea Hotel Cohen 3:04
07 Innocence Barker/MacColl/Morris 3:56
08 Tomorrow Marshall/Morris 4:22
09 She's Leaving Home Lennon/McCartney 5:54
10 Fields Of Wheat Barker/Crompton/MacColl/Morris 5:49
11 Dirty Woman Blues [Max Sedley Remix] Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 4:38
12 Nothing Comes From Nothing [At Jazz Remix] Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 5:00
13 Visions Of You [C: Real] Real, C./Takis, Damashis 4:02
14 Don't Believe (The Republic) Baptiste/Jean/Fienburgh 5:41
15 Don't Go To Strangers (Mornington Lockett) Grays/Kevitz/Mann 5:30
16 On Suicide (Happy End) Brecht/Eisler 2:38
02 The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face (Live In Montreal) MacColl 4:06
03 Fragile (Live In Rome) Sting 6:32
04 A Horse Named Janis Joplin Backer/Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 5:20
05 Heaven Marshall/Morris 5:45
06 Chelsea Hotel Cohen 3:04
07 Innocence Barker/MacColl/Morris 3:56
08 Tomorrow Marshall/Morris 4:22
09 She's Leaving Home Lennon/McCartney 5:54
10 Fields Of Wheat Barker/Crompton/MacColl/Morris 5:49
11 Dirty Woman Blues [Max Sedley Remix] Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 4:38
12 Nothing Comes From Nothing [At Jazz Remix] Barker/Brown/MacColl/Morris 5:00
13 Visions Of You [C: Real] Real, C./Takis, Damashis 4:02
14 Don't Believe (The Republic) Baptiste/Jean/Fienburgh 5:41
15 Don't Go To Strangers (Mornington Lockett) Grays/Kevitz/Mann 5:30
16 On Suicide (Happy End) Brecht/Eisler 2:38
Released in 2006 on the IRMA label to celebrate Sarah Jane’s 25 years in the business, it is a life story in music, including her days with The Republic, Happy End and The Communards in the eighties through to her tentative first steps in writing her own material to her blossoming as a powerful singer/songwriter.
Jazz Wise
‘Can it really be 20 years since The Communards' disco anthem Don't Leave me This Way topped the charts? Celebrating 25 years in music, this limited edition 34-track double album from Sarah Jane Morris embraces everything from intimate acoustic sessions (Nick Drake's haunting River Man) and live performances (Move on Up) to hip dancefloor remixes (It's Jesus I Love), huge stadium-sized arrangements (the anthemic Missing you and the outer-spacious Sunny) and the aforementioned number one hit.
Elsewhere, there's the shimmering luminescence of Mercy, Mercy Me and a number of co-written songs including the memorably titled A Horse Named Janis Joplin.
Heard continuously over a single sitting, this really is quite a mind blowing compilation, revelatory even.
Jazz Wise
‘Can it really be 20 years since The Communards' disco anthem Don't Leave me This Way topped the charts? Celebrating 25 years in music, this limited edition 34-track double album from Sarah Jane Morris embraces everything from intimate acoustic sessions (Nick Drake's haunting River Man) and live performances (Move on Up) to hip dancefloor remixes (It's Jesus I Love), huge stadium-sized arrangements (the anthemic Missing you and the outer-spacious Sunny) and the aforementioned number one hit.
Elsewhere, there's the shimmering luminescence of Mercy, Mercy Me and a number of co-written songs including the memorably titled A Horse Named Janis Joplin.
Heard continuously over a single sitting, this really is quite a mind blowing compilation, revelatory even.
The singer’s range - both in terms of register and emotional nuance - and the unusually large textural palette of her voice combine to striking effect. It does leave you with the following question. Now a big pop star in Italy, does the singer’s refusal to be corralled by genre and her absolute commitment to ploughing her own artistic furrow mean that she is, quite possibly one of the UK's great jazz singers manqué?'
