For those unaware, Canadian vocalist and producer Juliann Kuchocki will release her brand new album Kuchocki Sings DiNovi – But, Only For You on November 6th, 2026.

Born from Kuchocki’s friendship with legendary jazz pianist and composer Gene DiNovi, the album celebrates a remarkable career spanning New York’s bebop era and more than five decades at the heart of Canadian jazz.

Born in Brooklyn in 1928, DiNovi began recording as a teenager in the mid-1940s and became part of one of jazz’s most consequential generations. His credits include work with Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Artie Shaw, Charlie Parker, Ben Webster, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett and Carmen McRae. He accompanied Lena Horne for seven years, and after moving to Toronto in 1972, became a beloved presence on the Canadian jazz scene as a pianist, arranger, composer and broadcaster.

DiNovi’s career also reaches deeply into the American songbook. His compositions have been recorded by Maurice Chevalier, Doris Day, Percy Faith, Peggy Lee and Nancy Wilson, and his collaborators as a songwriter included Johnny Mercer, Spence Maxwell, Tony Velona, Gary Michael Dault and Mary Ann Maurer. Kuchocki Sings DiNovi – But, Only For You places that work in the foreground, presenting cherished favorites alongside music that has never before been heard on record.

1. I Like What I See in You
2. One Like You
3. Once I Met a Day
4. One Very Small Wish
5. Have a Heart
6. But Only For You
7. It Might Just Be Spring
8. Love Can Do Anything
9. I Fall in Love in the Springtime
10. Boy, Do I Have a Surprise for You
11. Waltz of the Heart

Having begun this recording process back in 2019, only for it to fall by the wayside when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, and now with DiNovi having largely withdrawn from performing, Kuchocki refused to let it all go to waste and so bringing together some of the best musicians in Canada to complete the program, it kicks off with the spirited fare of I Like What I See in You, the demurely dulcet One Like You and the elegantly engaging Once I Met a Day, the veritably glistening One Very Small Wish, before both the sweeping magnificence of Have a Heart and the flourishing beauty of the titular But Only For You are brought forth.

Along next is the resplendent decadence of It Might Just Be Spring which is itself followed seamlessly by the affecting allure of Love Can Do Anything, the melodiously sculpted I Fall in Love in the Springtime, the new set rounding out on the sumptuous Boy, Do I Have a Surprise for You, coming to an all-too-soon close on the all-embracing refinement of Waltz of the Heart.

The ensemble includes pianists Brian Dickinson, Ewen Farncombe, Adrean Farrugia, Charu Suri and Nancy Walker, violinist Drew Jurecka, guitarist Rob Piltch, bassist Neil Swainson and drummer Mark Kelso. The closing bonus track, “Waltz of the Heart,” was written by Suri and Kuchocki.

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