Anne Ducros - Either Way : From Marilyn To Ella

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 74:28
Size: 170.5 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:37] 1. You'd Be Surprised
[4:54] 2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
[5:22] 3. Summertime
[7:06] 4. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
[3:58] 5. Either Way
[4:24] 6. But Not For Me
[3:53] 7. You'd Be So Nice To Come To
[4:22] 8. A Fine Romance
[5:10] 9. Thou Swell
[3:53] 10. I Wanne Be Loved By You
[5:49] 11. I'm Through With Love
[6:04] 12. Diamonds Are The Girl's Best Friends
[5:19] 13. Laura
[6:57] 14. Dindi
[3:33] 15. It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)

You may think you have heard the songs from the Great American Songbook more than enough times so that you have no desire to hear them again. Think again. You haven't heard them like you'll hear them on Either Way: From Marilyn to Ella, the new album from French jazz singer Anne Ducros. That she makes these hoary standards her own doesn't come close to doing justice to what she does with them. She transforms them, and more important, her transformations are absolutely killer.

She takes the original song and pushes its musical possibilities as far as they will go. This is a singer who colors outside the lines. Her vocals are a perfect demonstration of what a jazz singer should be doing. Many jazz singers are content to interpret; Anne Ducros creates. In a sense, what she does with a song parallels what her deconstructionist countryman Jacques Derrida does with literature. The original song becomes a remembered shadow that marks just how far she's taken its ideas.

All this wouldn't make much difference if the lady couldn't sing. No problem, this is a lady with the chops to make her music work. If her performances don't quite make you forget the originals, they sure give them a run for their money.

Recording information: New Art Recording Studio, Milano, IT (01/11/2013-01/25/2013); Orfena Studio, Bruxelles, Bel (01/11/2013-01/25/2013); New Art Recording Studio, Milano, IT (05/19/2013); Orfena Studio, Bruxelles, Bel (05/19/2013).

Anne Ducros (vocals); Maxime Blesin (guitar, percussion); Benoit de Mesmay (piano); Nicolas Gilles (double bass, electric bass); Bruno Castellucci (drums).

Either Way : From Marilyn To Ella

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