This I Know – love, health and happiness are the most treasured things I have. They are all the more precious because, at times, I have also experienced their absence. This is what influenced the selection of songs for this CD. At its core are some wonderful jazz songs, ones that are not often recorded, that reflect a range of emotions I have felt, but that are in no way unique to me – love, joy, pain, sadness. Live for Life, I’m Gonna Live Till I Die, The Man That Got Away, Don’t Cry Out Loud are beautiful songs that I can feel to my very core and I hope they resonate with you. As for Hit Me with a Hot Note and Rumour Has It/Fever, I just wanted to have some fun. And I did! I also felt a growing need to return, musically, to South Africa, the land of my birth. It’s such a beautiful country. Sadly, it’s a place to leave; but it never leaves you. I loved co-writing Underneath the Jacaranda Tree, a song that recalls so many wonderful im...