Colette Wickenhagen - Just Friends Jammin'

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:32
Size: 126,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:13) 1. Agua De Beber
(4:55) 2. More Than You Know
(5:54) 3. Days Of Wine And Roses
(2:10) 4. Just Friends
(6:15) 5. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(3:27) 6. No Moon At All
(4:05) 7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(5:11) 8. What A Difference A Day Made
(5:32) 9. The Nearness Of You
(2:19) 10. 'S Wonderful
(3:37) 11. Just One Of Those Things
(5:01) 12. Jetlag Jam
(2:49) 13. A Night In Tunesia

Trained as a dancer, singer, actress & entertainer in the UK and the Netherlands.Born in a family of music lovers, Colette was brought up with jazz, as her father played and loved it! That love continues into the next generation. Colette has sung many different styles of music as she worked as an entertainer for many years, but singing jazz is like “coming home” to Colette. “One of the greatest gifts my father gave me was his enthusiasm, dedication to and love for music, in particular jazz music. I inherited that love and am forever grateful. We used to listen to Benny Webster, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, the Bosswell Sisters, Miles Davis and many others and went through all the emotions those fabulous musicians led us through. Once I started singing jazz I found that I just love singing those old wonderful songs with their timeless lyrics.” https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/colettewickenhagen

Personnel: Colette Wickenhagen - vocals; Hans Kwakkernaat - piano; Wiro Mahieu - double bass; Ben Schrder - drums; Clous van Mechelen - tenor saxophone; Saskia Laroo - trumpet; Rinus Groeneveld - tenor saxophone; Frits Kaatee - baritone saxophone; Michael Gustorff - violin

Just Friends Jammin'

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Colette Wickenhagen - Songs For Sale

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:07
Size: 154,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:40)  1. Once I Loved
(5:34)  2. Frim Fram Sauce
(4:18)  3. No More Blues
(5:06)  4. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
(4:14)  5. That Old Devil Called Love
(4:14)  6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(3:43)  7. Too Close For Comfort
(5:22)  8. Love For Sale
(4:45)  9. Everything Happens To Me
(5:06) 10. Night And Day
(3:32) 11. It's All Right With Me
(4:08) 12. On Green Dolphin Street
(3:34) 13. Lush Life
(4:28) 14. Can't We Be Friends
(3:16) 15. Too Darn Hot

She has a voice like a luxuriously upholstered bridal suite. Pleasant, sumptuous, warm. Complete with exciting nooks and soft carpets in subdued shades sings a wonderful story jazz standards at their best. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/coletteclous

Personnel: Colette Wickenhagen - vocals; Clous van Mechelen - tenor sax; Nick van den Bos - piano; George van Deijl - bass; Menno Veenendaal – drums

Songs For Sale

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Colette Wickenhagen - The Kick Of The Blues

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 73:31

Size: 168.3 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 1994

Art: Front

[7:20] 1. Isn't This A Lovely Day

[8:22] 2. Billie's Blues

[3:38] 3. Love Me Or Leave Me

[7:11] 4. The Shadow Of Your Smile

[7:15] 5. Cheek To Cheek

[5:31] 6. I Was Born To Be Blue

[5:22] 7. Nature Boy

[3:55] 8. I Thought About You

[7:31] 9. All Blues

[7:38] 10. Stormy Monday

[9:42] 11. 'round Midnight

Even if we would call Colette Wickenhagen just a singer, we wouldn't do her any justice at all. Even if we don't see her, if we only listen to the music on this cd, we can hear that she does a lot more than just use her vocal chords. She is one piece of dynamite that can make any stage rock and explode. She just forces the audience to listen. In view of the varied course of her career, it is not so strange.

She studied successively at the Conservatoir in The Hague (NL), the Arts Educational Scool in London / Tring Park (GB), at the renowned (amongst ex-students the cherished as well as notorious) Nel Roos Academy and the Art of the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam. Furthermore she worked as a dancer with the ballet company Intro Dans (NL), as an actrice in the tv-series "De weg naar Peruwelz" (TROS / NL), as a Dramatic Arts & Musical teacher at cultural centres in Nijmegen and Harderwijk (NL) and as a singer in her own ensembles as well as in other peoples bands, ranging from trio's to big bands.
Of course she brings this enormous amount of stage experience with her; she knows how to move, how to send the right mimicry, in short she knows how body language can enhance her musical expression. Still, while performing she gives a lot more than just a professional sophisticated show; she gives herself.

That enormous physical expressiveness, the willingness to throw herself deeply into a song, the art of swingingly taking in tow a full concert hall, is part of her being. From the top of her head to the tip of her toes, she ís music. Even if we have to "make do" with just listening to this cd, she is an almost tangible presence. Especially since she won the Soloist / Polaroid Award in 1990 together with the Big Band Nijmegen, and was awarded the Breukelen Jazz Award in 1992, people often asked in vain about a cd of this impressive singer. The cd was of course recorded 'live' in the intimate jazz club atmosphere of the eminent CNM Studio in Hilversum (NL), situated in a stylishly altered farmhouse.

It is only logical that Colette Wickenhagen in her choice of repertory had a preference of songs that fit in with her extrovert radiation; bob-pieces saturated in blues like the swinging "Love me or leave me", the overly well known but still freshly interpreted "Cheek to Cheek", the humorous "I was born to be blue", or the passionate and in a somewhat slower tempo sung "Nature Boy". But also real ballads fit well into her program. You only have to listen to "Billie's Blues", (it is no coincidence that the word blues was used in the title of this cd) or with the slightly latin touch brought "The Shadow of your Smile". After the warmly coloured "'Round Midnight" with the melancholy sound of Jan Verwey's mouth-organ - which is the last song on this cd - there's only óne possibility left; to just start the cd all over again. ~jan Rensen

The Kick Of The Blues

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