Showing posts with label Clara Vuust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clara Vuust. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Clara Vuust - Before You Walk Away

Size: 103,2 MB
Time: 44:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Some Other Time (6:16)
02. Estate (4:37)
03. I Will Wait For You (3:59)
04. Out Of Nowhere (4:13)
05. Sea Lady (4:02)
06. One November Day (2:53)
07. I Wish You Love (3:46)
08. Watch What Happens (2:51)
09. Tomorrow (4:01)
10. When I Look In Your Eyes (4:23)
11. Joana Francesa (3:18)

Clara Vuust is a Danish jazz singer from Copenhagen, a capital of jazz in Northern Europe and once home to great musicians such as Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon...

In September 2018 she is releasing her third studio album "Before You Walk Away" - recorded in both Copenhagen and Catania - from the very north to the very south of Europe. The sound combines a Nordic, lyrical vocal tradition with the Mediterranean warmth in the arrangements by Italian composer and arranger Francesco Calì - and as such it makes sense to have created the album in the two places that also come together in the music.

Clara was born in the outskirts of Aarhus – the second biggest town in Denmark. Her childhood was all about children's choir and classical piano until, at the age of 11, she discovered jazz music. For her eleventh birthday she got a Real Book filled with jazz standards and a new world opened: Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderley and Ella Fitzgerald were put on repeat on the stereo. Clara continued with classical singing, but slowly the love for the jazz genre took over and after a breif encounter with medical school she decided to pursue a career as a jazz singer and vocal trainer.

Clara Vuust did her musical education as a singer at RMC – the Rhythmic Music Conservatory – in Copenhagen. There she met Francesco Calì, pianist and composer from Italy. They quickly became partners, both in music and in life, and he co-writes, arranges and produces all of Vuust's albums.

Clara is currently an artist at Storyville Records - the oldest independent jazz label in Europe - where she has released two albums "Here's to Love" and "A Winter Tale", and has a third one coming September 2018. The Storyville "family" counts numerous great Danish Jazz musicians.

Before You Walk Away

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Clara Vuust - A Winter Tale

Size: 106,9 MB
Time: 42:03
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Xmas
Art: Front

01. Mork Er November (3:21)
02. In The Bleak Midwinter (4:57)
03. Forunderligt At Sige (4:06)
04. Skyerne Grane Og Lovet Falder (4:30)
05. Christmas Time Is Here (4:11)
06. Der Er Ingenting I Verden Sa Stille Som Sne (2:36)
07. Tit Er Jeg Glad (3:00)
08. Det Er Hvidt Herude (3:32)
09. Den Yndigste Rose Er Funden (2:56)
10. Sorrig Og Glaede De Vandre Til Hobe (5:54)
11. Bliv Hos Os, Nar Dagen Haelder (2:53)

A WINTER TALE:
A year ago in the fall of 2014, I went to the studio with some of my my favorite musicians Francesco Calì, Nico Gori, Jeppe Holst and Andreas Hatholt to record my second album. The project started many years ago when Francesco, Jeppe and I toured Danish churches doing concerts with new arrangements of old Danish traditionals and hymns. These arrangements evolved over time, and when Nico Gori added his beautiful clarinet to the mix - we decided to record an album solely devoted to this these old songs.

I grew up singing all the songs that you find on my new album "A Winter Tale". But with the new arrangements by Francesco Calì the music comes to life in a different way. The melodies are the same, but everything else completely different. The idea was to bring the songs into a new setting with modern jazz reharmonisation without ruining, yet rather underlining, the feeling of the original tune.

A Winter Tale

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Clara Vuust - Here's to Love

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:18
Size: 99,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:42)  1. Don't Care Much
(4:27)  2. Here's to Life
(4:09)  3. Once Upon a Summertime
(6:54)  4. Samba Em Preludio
(2:58)  5. Sicilian Lovesong
(3:31)  6. Time After Time
(3:09)  7. Evening
(5:03)  8. It's Happening Again
(5:14)  9. Smile
(3:06) 10. Você Vai Ver

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  
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=45861#.UqdvsuIufkc

Personnel: Clara Vuust: vocals; Francesco Cali: piano; Nico Gori: clarinet; Jeppe Holst: guitar; Daniel Franck: bass; Flemming Agerskov: trumpet.