(Vocal Jazz) Clara Vuust - Here's to Love - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

Clara Vuust / Here's to Love Жанр: Vocal Jazz Год издания: 2013 Аудиокодек: MP3 Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps Продолжительность: 00:43:18 Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: нет Треклист: 01. Don't Care Much 02. Here's to Life 03. Once Upon a Summertime 04. Samba Em Preludio 05. Sicilian Lovesong 06. Time After Time 07. Evening 08. It's Happening Again 09. Smile 10. Você Vai Ver  Об исполнителе (группе) In October 2012 I recorded my debut album with, amongst others, great Italian jazz musicians Francesco Calì and Nico Gori. The album HERE'S TO LOVE is coming out in the fall of 2013. HERE'S TO LOVE is the title of the album, and it's also a line in the song Here's to life, which Francesco Calì and I recorded in duo. I first heard this song some years ago with the fantastic Shirley Horn and since then it's been one of my favorite standards - a tribute to life and to love.The album contains jazz evergreens from the American songbook like Styne & Cahn's Time after Time and Charlie Chaplin's Smile, but there is also a strong Mediterranean feeling in many of the songs. Like Evening, which has a romantic, Italian touch. Originally Francesco Calì wrote the melody for a beautiful poem called Sira, which means evening in Sicilian dialect. I immediately took to the song and wrote the English lyrics inspired by the poem. I would love to be able to sing it in Sicilian, but it's such a difficult dialect. Maybe someday...I grew up in the outskirts of Aarhus – the second biggest town in Denmark. My childhood was all about children's choir and classical piano until, at the age of 11, I discovered jazz music. For my eleventh birthday I got a real book filled with jazz standards and a new musical world had opened: Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley, Ella Fitzgerald and Joni Mitchell were put on repeat on the stereo.Later on I also fell in love with Latin American music, tango, bossa nova and folklore. Many travels made me appreciate the culture and the language as well. Since then, I have always loved to sing in both Spanish and Portuguese. It adds a certain melancholy and roundness to the sound which the Danish language doesn't hold in the same way.In 1999 I started to study singing at RMC – the Rhythmic Music Conservatory – in Copenhagen. Meeting Francesco Calì (Italian pianist and accordionist) over a common love for Brazilian music was the beginning of a new time. I discovered Italy and ever since we have played together in different projects - both here in Denmark and in Italy.  Об альбоме (сборнике)Denmark's Clara Vuust has a voice as clean and clear as the "ping" you get when you flick your fingernail against a piece of Scandinavian crystal glassware." She uses it to come up with a quite stunning debut album. Hitherto she was known in her homeland only as the sister of saxophonist Christian Vuust and for an educational show for children aged 2-6 called Jazzkatten På Tur (The Jazz Cat On Tour). Her metamorphosis to major league jazz vocalist seems to have come about largely as a result of her marriage to Sicilian pianist/arranger Francesco Cali. She has also been inspired by Cali's mother, Cara Anna Maria. Vuust describes her as "a seamstress at night, a cook during the day, a mother and a grandmother and last, but not least, a great singer." Sadly, Cara Anna Maria died shortly before this album was recorded. It is dedicated to her memory. Vuust opens with a fine version of the bitter/sweet "I Don't Care," written for Cabaret but dropped from the original production and not reinstated until the 1990s. In a duo with Cali, she wisely resists the temptation to over- dramatize Arnie Butler's modern standard, "Here's To Life," the title song in all but two letters, to produce a wonderfully stark understatement. It vies with Shirley Horn's otherwise classic interpretation and is far more palatable than Joe Williams' sub-Ray Charles tearjerker that Vuust names as her own particular favorite. She uses the Barbra Streisand version of "Once Upon A Summertime," which interestingly contains a verse in French from Michel Legrand's original song from 1956, "La Valse Des Lilas." There are two other standards, "Time After Time," by Sammy Cahn and Julie Styne and Charlie Chaplin's saccharine "Smile." Three Cali/Vuust originals, "Sicilian Love Song," "Evening" and "It's Happening Again" hold their own in such exalted company and the two bossa novas allow Vuust to display her linguistic talents by singing in Portuguese. Sometimes she could do with a tad more expression in her voice, occasionally Nico Gori's clarinet gets just a mite too flowery and Flemming Agerskov fluffs a few notes of his trumpet solo on "It's Happening Again." But these are minor complaints about what is otherwise an excellent and warmly recommended album. (Chris Mosey)  СоставClara Vuust: vocals Francesco Cali: piano Nico Gori: clarinet Jeppe Holst: guitar Daniel Franck: bass Flemming Agerskov: trumpet Доп. информация: http://www.claravuust.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If15L9z4uao