New Streisand Album to Skew Towards Jazz

Columbia Records announced the September 29 release of Barbra Streisand's new album Love is the Answer. This is Streisand's first new studio album since 2005's Guilty Pleasures.

The album will be based around jazz and pop standards although a track list has not been announced. Streisand worked with Diana Krall and her quartet "who brought a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's spare and subtle accompaniments." Orchestrations for the album are by Johnny Mandel who has previously worked with both Streisand and Krall.

Today's press release from Columbia says that the album "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."

Barbra Streisand is the biggest selling female artist in recording history and one of the few performers to have won all four major entertainment awards (Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony).