Showing posts with label Brigitte Zarie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brigitte Zarie. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2015

Brigitte Zarie - Make Room For Me

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:26
Size: 93,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. See You Again (feat.RandyBrecker)
(3:40)  2. What's Wrong With Me
(3:21)  3. Make Room For Me
(3:44)  4. Take It Easy (Featuring Jeff Golub)
(3:41)  5. Happiest Day Of My Life
(4:19)  6. The Story Of Love
(3:21)  7. Call On Love
(4:17)  8. Money,Money,Money,Money
(3:21)  9. Make Room For Me (French Vers.)
(3:37) 10. Dance With You
(3:21) 11. I Love Las Vegas

From the beginning, Brigitte Zarie has been as unforgettable as her music. Hailing from Toronto, Canada, she had the benefit of being raised in a home that thrummed with the rhythms and melodies that shaped her into the artist she would become. With parents originally from Casablanca, Morocco her father was a multi-instrumentalist while her mother was a singer she was exposed to the world of jazz at an early age, and developed a love for classic artists like Frank Sinatra and Stan Getz. “I used to go to sleep listening to ‘Strangers In The Night’ or break up with a boyfriend and cry myself to sleep with the music of Stan Getz in the background,” she says. And as one of ten children, there was no shortage of other people to play and sing with. “My brother Joe used to play guitar and make me sing and make up words to everything he would play,” says Brigitte. “So I was writing songs since day one.” 

A defining moment for Brigitte occurred when her family traveled to Buffalo, NY when she was a child. “My parents had a big van so we slept in it one night, and across the street was a jazz club. I remember hearing this be bop music, and loving it while my folks were asleep. I was really stunned by what I heard. I tried to stay up and listen to every note that was played. I can still hear and see that night as clear as day. I know I was supposed to be in that exact spot, listening to that music for a reason.” From that moment on, Brigitte answered her calling, knowing exactly what she wanted to do with her life: devote it to creating the music that she was so struck by as a young girl. She kept singing and crafting songs, many of which were recorded by other artists. 

She played in bands and was a featured vocalist in films and commercials. She even explored other musical genres. But throughout it all, jazz remained her utmost passion, and soon she chose to focus exclusively on her own material. “Douglas Cross wrote ‘I Left My Heart In San Francisco,” she states, unabashedly, “but it was his heart that he left, not mine.” Seeking to express the experiences of her own life, she penned the songs that would become her debut CD “Make Room For Me,” a searingly emotional collection that offers a freshness and originality uncommon in the world of jazz. Brigitte Zarie carries forth the classic jazz musical tradition in her own unique and distincive way. She brings bold determination, sassiness, originality, and unwavering insight to every song she writes. The result is a listening experience that is warm and uplifting. And a work of art that is timeless. Brigitte Zarie. A songwriter who moves the heart, stirs the soul, and is the voice of whole new generation of jazz. http://brigittezarie.com/bio/

Make Room For Me

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Brigitte Zarie - L'amour

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:19
Size: 107,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:59)  1. Where There Is Love
(3:46)  2. Lamour (French Vers.)
(4:04)  3. Walk the Line
(4:09)  4. Good to Be Home
(3:44)  5. I Just Love You (feat. Randy Brecker)
(4:02)  6. Quiet Nights (Corcovado)
(3:01)  7. Nobody Else
(4:14)  8. How Can It Hurt
(3:47)  9. Lamour (English Vers.)
(3:49) 10. Don't Forget Me
(4:06) 11. Celebrate
(3:32) 12. Get Me Through

To paraphrase Peter Bonventre of Newsweek magazine on his leaving the Boston Garden and a Hagler fight in November 1978, “Marvelous Marvin is a beautiful fighter!” – well, “Brigitte Zarie is a beautiful singer.” Oh, that bass!  And Randy Brecker featured on 2 tunes.  

Oh, that horn!  First class production.  Big orchestra sound.  Nice instrumentation.  Now, Brigitte, it’s Good to Be Home listening to this on Quiet Nights with Nobody Else 12 tunes impeccably swinging crisp and beat. My favorite female vocalist Anita O’Day.  Brigitte is a new favorite not the edge of a Miss O’Day, but as full voiced and vibrant and lyrical.  And sincere.  I see myself at Charlie’s Gone By listening to both.  Whoa!  Wow!  Outstanding!  And elegant! 

Brigitte is an extraordinary songwriter too except for Walk the Line and Quiet Nights (Corcovado), she wrote all of the songs on L’amour music by Brigitte Zarie and Neil Jason; lyrics by Brigitte Zarie.  I’m hearing standards all over the place. To paraphrase Bonventre again, “Brigitte is a beautiful songwriter.”  L’amour highly highly recommended.  It is a story.  And it is jazz. ~ Peter DeVeber  http://www.nejazz.com/Wordpress/2013/12/cd-lamour-brigitte-zarie/