Norika Ueda

High Standards

By Ted Rosenthal

Label: TMR Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jet Song; Skylark; Old Devil Moon; Everything Happens to Me; It Could Happen to You; To Life; One; Lover Man; The Cup Bearers.

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