Diana Panton - If the Moon Turns Green (2007/2018) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Diana Panton's gifted voice has a direct penetrating power, full of an emotional conviction that her contemporaries lack. The combination of her ethereal and graceful singing skill, appealingly luscious voice and her ability to deliver the lyrics as a storyteller make Diana Panton simply irresistible.

Diana Panton has quietly become one of the brightest lights on the jazz scene today. Her work is consistently praised by listeners and music critics alike for her ethereal vocals, exceptional song selection and emotional intensity. "Her diaphanous vocal sound never insists and her high speed vibrato is like the beat of a hummingbird's heart - natural, untainted and pure." (Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, Wholenote Magazine)

Her keen aesthetic sense has attracted the attention of some of the jazz world’s most respected masters.

"if the moon turns green …" Diana’s sophomore album won the first place jury-selection to perform at the 2007 Jazz at Juan, Revelations in France where she was voted Première Dauphine by the Juan public. CBC radio host Tim Tamashiro named her one of Canada’s TOP 5 Jazz Vocalists.

"There has been a lot of buzz around Diana Panton since her first CD was released in 2005, and as all of us cynics know, sometimes buzz is justified and sometimes it isn’t. In Panton’s case, I am happy to add my voice to the chorus of praise and report that the buzz is utterly justified. Her second CD “If the Moon Turns Green” is a gorgeous collection of star-and –moon-themed standards." (Cathy Riches, WholeNote Magazine)

Tracklist:
1. Destination Moon (03:23)
2. I'm Old Fashioned (03:19)
3. It's Like Reaching for the Moon (02:45)
4. If the Moon Turns Green (04:36)
5. Reaching for the Moon (03:39)
6. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (05:10)
7. Moonlight Serenade (04:55)
8. There Ought to Be a Moonlight Savings Time (03:26)
9. A Little Girl, a Little Boy, a Little Moon (03:27)
10. Moon and Sand (03:45)
11. I've Told Ev'ry Little Star (02:54)
12. A Handful of Stars (03:30)
13. Oh, You Crazy Moon (03:51)
14. So Many Stars (05:02)
15. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) (04:27)
16. Moon River (03:29)

Personnel:
Diana Panton, vocals
Don Thompson, piano, bass
Reg Schwager, guitar
Neil Swainson, double bass

Recorded August 2006 at Inception Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada

Digitally remastered