Thursday, May 9, 2019

Jacqui Naylor - Sunshine and Rain

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:01
Size: 159,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:32)  1. Angel Eyes
(3:26)  2. Moon River
(4:28)  3. Sunshine and Rain
(2:53)  4. I Promise
(4:55)  5. Skylark
(3:18)  6. Back to Black
(5:47)  7. Black Coffee
(3:26)  8. Celebrate Early and Often
(5:07)  9. Losing My Religion
(5:27) 10. Ain't No Sunshine
(3:38) 11. Love for Sale
(3:42) 12. Blue Moon
(3:38) 13. Easy Ride From Here
(4:52) 14. Miss You
(4:25) 15. Once in a Lifetime
(4:20) 16. My Funny Valentine

Jacqui Naylor is not an easy artist to categorize. There are times when she performs straight-ahead vocal jazz, but at other times she favors more of a folk-rock/adult alternative approach. Depending on the mood she is in at a given moment, the northern Californian can bring to mind anyone from Cassandra Wilson or British jazz vocalist Claire Martin to Sarah McLachlan or Shawn Colvin she is as comfortable among jazz improvisers as she is in the singer/songwriter world.

During one of her live performances, Naylor has no problem singing smoky jazz one minute and folk-rock or adult alternative the next and there are times when she blurs the line between the two. Naylor, who is very jazz-friendly but far from a rigid jazz purist, brings a long list of influences to her introspective work influences ranging from Billie Holiday, June Christy, and Nina Simone to Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant, Carole King, and Sheryl Crow. That is an unlikely combination of influences, certainly, but it is one that works well for Naylor (who has used all of them to fashion a personal, recognizable style of her own). Naylor has a highly diverse repertoire; on-stage, she is likely to perform a Tin Pan Alley standard right after something by the Rolling Stones or Talking Heads (in addition to performing songs of her own). Naylor is not an overly aggressive or forceful type of singer; she favors subtlety, restraint, and understatement, which are things that Holiday and Christy (one of the goddesses of jazz's cool school) were both masters of. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Sunshine-Rain-JACQUI-NAYLOR/dp/B00WL8VTL8

Sunshine and Rain

4 comments:

  1. I also take this and that of Alessandro, thank you very much, dear friend

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  2. Mostly remakes of songs of other albums. Not a bad idea, cause some arrangements are pretty good. Also love the way she sings. Merci,

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