Nicholas Spark

Left turns don't get much sharper than this one. Bitches features guest vocal appearances from Esperanza Spalding, N'dambi, Saunders Sermons, Cassandra Wilson, and Chinah Blac. Nicholas Payton does the rest – not just the trumpet, but all of the instrumentation, all of the songwriting, and most of the vocals. Those who have followed Payton's career as a jazz musician with no interest in left-field R&B of the previous several years – including but not limited to Sa-Ra, the Foreign Exchange, Dвm-Funk, and Bugz in the Attic – will be thrown.

Spark Of Light is the first album of original music co-written by Michael Bolton in almost 15 years. Michael worked with contemporary writers, producers, artists and DJs including Walk The Moon frontman Nicholas Petricca, Zac Barnett (American Authors), Justin Jesso (songwriter and featured singer on "Stargazing" with Kygo), producer Tushar Apte (Demi Lovato, ZAYN, Nicki Minaj, Adam Levine, Noah Cyrus) and many more. The first single "Beautiful World" debuted during NBC's American Song Contest and was also performed during the CBS primetime airing of the DayTime Emmys Awards. Deluxe edition includes two bonus tracks.