Anna Lauvergnac - Unless There's Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:21
Size: 108,8 MB
Art: Front

(6:47)  1. The Great City
(4:57)  2. Since I Fell for You
(2:44)  3. Senza fine
(5:57)  4. Speak Low
(5:19)  5. Why Don't You Do Right
(4:42)  6. Tell Me More and More and Then Some
(3:30)  7. Social Call
(4:37)  8. Traveling Light
(4:37)  9. You Know Who
(4:05) 10. Lonely Town

Jazz singer, traveler and social activist Anna Lauvergnac was born in Trieste -Italy, where she received a diploma as a primary school teacher and before choosing singing as the center of her existance, she studied Psychology for two years. In the meantime she took an impressive variety of different jobs: she’s been a private teacher, a model, a cloak room attendant, a telephone operator, a waitress, a book seller,a cleaner, a music manager and concert organizer, a carpenter (as she puts it “…I guess I wanted to be Bohumil Hrabal”). She started studying Jazz Singing in 1989 at the Berklee College Summer Clinics in Perugia -Italy, where she was offered a scholarship and received a special Artistic Mention. The same year she enrolled at the Art University for Music and Performing Arts of Graz  Austria, where she studied with Jazz Greats Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy, Andy Bey and Sheila Jordan. Masterclasses with Reggie Workman and Barry Harris in New York City. From 1999 to 2008 she’s been the vocalist of Europe leading international orchestra, the Vienna Art Orchestra. She toured extensively with the VAO, appearing on jazz festivals worldwide, and recorded on 12 of the band’s CD. In 2008 she started her lates project, the Anna Lauvergnac International quartet, that features the wonderful Claus Raible on piano, bass-master Giorgos Antoniou, and the great Steve Brown on drums. Their first CD “Unless there’s love” was released in 2012 and was nominated for the German Critic Prize the same year, ranking number 2. Collaborations include extraordinary musicians such as Andy Bey, Bojan Zulfikarpasic, Julien Lourau, Pete Bernstein, Franco Vallisneri, Fritz Pauer, Francesco Bearzatti, Paolo Fresu, Bumi Fian, Andy Scherrer, Marc Buronfosse, Till Martin, Claus Raible,Thomas Stabenow, Paoulo Cardoso, Henning Siewert, Alegre Corrèa, Steve Kirby, Wolfgang Puschnig, Bruno Cesselli, Florian Bramboeck, Hank Gradischnig, Karl Sayer, Willi Resetarits, Oliver Kent to name a few. Theater and Festival performances include Umbria Jazz, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Havanna, Berlin, Guimares, Paris, Freiburg, Milano, Varna, Madrid, Moskaw, Essen, Kiev, Vilnius, Vienna, Moers, Le Mans, Dresden, Nord Sea JazzFestival, Joragua do Sul, Joinville, Hamburg, Beijing, Oporto, Amsterdam, Angouleme, Zaragozza, Belfast, Zagreb, Lugano, Brugge, Orleans, Essen, Salamanca, Luzern, Salzsburg, Budapest, Berlin, Munich, Bolzano, Mantova, Nevers, Red Sea Jazz Festival, JVC festival, Time in Jazz, Barcelona, London, Luxenburg, Auxerre, San Sebastian, Graz, Gdynia, Prag, Zurich, Couches, Granada, Sevilla, Junas, Sarajevo, Sibiu, Bern, Cannes, Bergen, Lisbona, Basel. She teaches workshops and masterclasses in various European countries, from 2000 to 2002 she’s been teching jazz repertoire and body work at the Bruckner Konservatorium Linz-Austria.  She wrote six soundtracks (tv and cinema) for the Austrian director Xaver Schwarzenberger. As a lyricist she’s been writing for different bands and projects, including the Vienna Art Orchestra. She practice yoga, and Vipassana Meditation, loves flowers and doesn’t eat meat. https://jazztimes.com/artists/anna-lauvergnac/

Unless There's Love

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Anna Lauvergnac & Claus Raible - Free Fall

Size: 117,8 MB
Time: 50:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (4:43)
02. Angel Eyes (6:59)
03. Lover Come Back To Me (4:46)
04. Detour Ahead (6:27)
05. I'll Remember April (6:19)
06. Autumn Nocturne (5:58)
07. Blow Top Blues (6:13)
08. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me (3:11)
09. Never Let Me Go - For All We Know (6:06)

The music you hear on this album is the result of an incredibly courageous recording session.

Italian singer Anna Lauvergnac and her musical soul mate, German pianist Claus Raible, entered the studio with a well-rehearsed program, ready to start the complex metamorphosis that transforms music from an intangible vision to physical reality.

For her new release Anna has chosen the most intimate and demanding of any musical line up: the duo. The dim lighting in the studio created a candle-light setting that enhanced the closeness of “being just two”.

Anna’s interpretation of each song is instinctive and passionate and her dark and rich sound blends perfectly with the pianist’s harmony and rhythm.
Breaking out of the common pattern of accompanying a soloist, Claus’s playing sounds like an orchestral work enhancing and surrounding Anna’s melody lines.

There is such a strong emotional connection between the two that you can feel and hear this bond in every breath, every word, every chord and every note.

The distinctive trait of this duo and this beautiful album is grounded in the awareness of the jazz idiom and the freshness of authenticity and individuality. Indeed this recording required -and re ects- “passion, intuition, freedom, faith and some madness”

Claus Raible is one of bebop’s modern lifeguards, resuscitating the music with a newfound vitality. He is among those piano maestros who feel especially indebted to the musical heritage of bebop pioneers Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. Raible merges into this tradition and it merges into him. His music is vital, gripping, and moving. Raible never comes across as a musician who scoops things up second hand, slavishly copying and than regurgitating it back. Rather, he lives what he plays. He has internalised bebop so that it is now an integral part of his nervous system.

“Wherever he performs, the band members, other musicians in the audience, and last but not least the audience itself are amazed by his confidence in style, his fantasy of improvisation, and the stupendous virtuosity of his performance” -Claus Regnault

Free Fall

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