Fay Claassen & David Linx & Wdr Big Band - And Still We Sing

Styles: Vocal, Big Band
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:01
Size: 129,4 MB
Art: Front

(5:32) 1. Sum It up (Disturbing the Peace)
(5:17) 2. Along Goes Betty
(5:48) 3. Waterfalls
(5:19) 4. Good Times
(5:55) 5. Tackle and Dabble
(6:30) 6. In a Sentimental Mood
(5:04) 7. Feel the Beat
(6:35) 8. J’me Prépare
(6:12) 9. I Will Build Myself a Nation (Biding My Time)
(3:43) 10. Rebirth

The Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen and her Belgian colleague David Linx sing some passages in unison, in others their voices cross or shine on their own. A congenial duo that harmonizes almost perfectly with each other, without a doubt, two all-round complementary timbres that already made for exclamation marks on the album “One Heart, Three Voices” with Diederik Wissels in 2005. But Claassen and Linx only experience the fine finishing touches through the dynamism of the WDR Big Band, which Magnus Lindgren navigates through ten songs. You never tire of singing the Song of Songs to this brilliantly nuanced body of sound, which is once again able to fully serve the two protagonists,without directing the spotlight on his famous soloists such as trombonist Andy Hunter or tenor saxophonist Paul Heller (Claassen's husband) at the right moments. Exciting: In the opener “Sum It Up (Disturbing The Peace)” the vocalists build a stable bridge from scat to rap in the form of spoken recitations. I would love to have more of it! Translate By Google https://www.jazzthing.de/review/fay-claassen-david-linx-and-still-we-sing/

And Still We Sing

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David Linx - Be My Guest: The Duos Project

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:30
Size: 157,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:48) 1. Letter to Trevor
(3:59) 2. Hunter
(4:26) 3. Página de Dor
(3:59) 4. Close to You
(5:19) 5. Waves
(4:46) 6. Making Do, Making New
(7:50) 7. Round Midnight
(5:25) 8. My Bee
(2:28) 9. Tonight You Belong to Me
(4:20) 10. By the Seine
(2:59) 11. The Bystander Effect
(6:51) 12. Vanguard
(3:28) 13. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
(3:18) 14. Emportez-moi
(5:27) 15. Como la Cigarra

By turns visceral, touching, transporting and illuminating, this set of 15 duets featuring the Brussels-born, Paris-based vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist David Linx is a collection that stays with you long after the final bar of the extraordinarily powerful ‘Como La Cigarra’ fades away. Penned by the Argentinean writer and composer, Maria Elena Walsh, Linx is accompanied on this particular song by the gorgeous playing of pianist Gustavo Beytelmann.

Appropriately, Linx describes the album as being “a way of continuing to evolve over and over again and remind me of my youth when I rushed into everything I didn't know, with a curiosity that is still intact”. And it’s this incredible artistic curiosity which makes Be My Guest such an enriching listening experience. Whether it’s the nearly eight-minute meditation on ‘Round Midnight’ in the company of pianist Tigran Hamasyan, the intricate polyphonic web of interlocking lines that Linx creates with fellow vocalist Theo Bleckmann in ‘Waves’, or the incredibly poignant album opener, ‘Letter to Trevor’, in which writer and filmmaker Trevor Baldwin recites a letter penned to him when he was a two-month-old baby by his uncle, the late, great writer and playwright, James Baldwin, Linx’s unerring choice of collaborators enables each song to take flight in a magical way.

Other highlights include the exquisite sound of the cavaquinho(a small, four-stringed member of the guitar family) in ‘Pagina De Dor’, courtesy of Rio-born musician Hamilton De Holanda, the incredibly beautiful timbre of cellist Éric-Maria Couturier in ‘Making Do, Making New’, and the understated electronica of ‘The Bystander Effect’, featuring keys player Diederik Wissels, which sees Linx’s increasingly stacked-up vocal riff panning left to right and back again.
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/david-linx-be-my-guest-the-duos-project

Be My Guest: The Duos Project

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David Linx - 7000 Miles

Size: 107,1 MB
Time: 45:47
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Poses (5:23)
02. From One Family To Another (3:22)
03. 7000 Miles (6:05)
04. America (5:32)
05. A Fool To Never Know (4:55)
06. Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay (4:45)
07. Night And Day (3:15)
08. Distortions (2:32)
09. The Promise Of You (4:53)
10. Out On A Limb (5:02)

Personnel:
David Linx, chant
André Ceccarelli, drums
Pierre-Alain Goualch, piano
Diego Imbert, double bass

David Linx (1965) is a Belgian singer of jazz and chansons, composer and lyricist. He studied percussion and worked as a drummer with the American jazz singer Mark Murphy, which motivated him to take up singing himself.
In 1996, together with a group of musicians, including Pierre Van Dormael and Slide Hampton, he made a recording with the American writer and activist James Baldwin, who recites poetry on this album.

With pianist Diederik Wissels David Linx recorded various duo albums over the years. Additionally, he recorded with among others Toots Thielemans, the quartet of guitarist Tam De Villiers, the quartet of pianist Ivan Paduart and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra.

David is also active as a singer of the French chanson. He recorded an album with chansons and collaborated with the singer Maurane. Addtionally, he composes music for film and dance theatre. In 2005, he was awarded the Prix Bobby Jaspar by the Académie du Jazz in Paris.

David Linx has been a jazz voice teacher at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels since 1993 and is a regular guest teacher at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

7000 Miles

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David Linx & Diederik Wissels - Winds Of Change

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:40
Size: 130,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:18)  1. Force Of Habit
(6:51)  2. In Search Of Proper Shelter
(4:43)  3. You
(5:21)  4. Just You Stand
(4:56)  5. Make Today Today
(4:27)  6. Run A Race Or Two
(4:04)  7. On A Slow Train
(2:21)  8. Speak Up
(5:07)  9. Come Around
(2:56) 10. One Mile A Day
(4:03) 11. Winds Of Change
(4:38) 12. I Don't Know, Do You
(3:49) 13. I Will Dance For You

Winds of Change marks twenty-five years of artistic collaboration between David Linx and Diederik Wissels. Their repertoire is known to have given a new place and a new breath to the voice in contemporary jazz. Since 1992, the duo has recorded ten albums and collaborated with such artists as Paolo Fresu, Fay Claassen, Maria Pia de Vito, Maria Joao and Mario Laginha. Linx and Wissels have received all of Europe's major awards for jazz recordings. Many of their songs have become standards that have been adopted by many vocalists in the world. 

On the thirteen tracks of Winds of Change, Linx and Wissels are accompanied by Christophe Wallemme on bass and Donald Kontomanou on drums. They are also joined by star trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf. These songs are a reflection of the times, steeped in nostalgia. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Winds-Change-David-Linx/dp/B00B8XC25Y

Personnel: David Linx (vocals); Diederik Wissels (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Wurlitzer organ); Christophe Wallemme (acoustic bass); Donald Kontomanou (drums). 

Winds Of Change

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David Linx & Diederik Wissels - Up Close

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:49
Size: 133,2 MB
Art: Front

(1:10)  1. I Tell My Heart...
(5:07)  2. Sojourner
(4:50)  3. Lord Of The Groundless
(3:47)  4. Ease Of Sunrise
(3:35)  5. Lunch At Midnight
(6:01)  6. What Goes Around Comes Around
(3:21)  7. The Tale ...
(3:44)  8. Meaning
(5:57)  9. Spoken Silence
(2:59) 10. Upon My Soul
(5:24) 11. In Between The Roses And The Ashes
(4:37) 12. Greying Roofs
(3:58) 13. One Morningstar Away
(3:11) 14. Poughkeepsie

Born in Brussels (Belgium), march 22, 1965, Singer, composer lyricist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Lives in Paris (France). David Linx recorded over fifteen albums as a leader or co-leader and is a regular guest in the world of jazz and other projects (John Cage, Mr. Kagel). On tour and / or studio has worked since the early 1980's with: Harry "Sweets" Edison, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, slide Hampton, Natalie Dessay, the Count Basie Orchestra, Frank Foster, Toots Thielemans, Mino Cinelu, Marc Ducret, Philippe Catherine, Paolo Fresu, Erik Truffaz, Aka Moon, Billy Taylor, Khalil Chahine, Roy Ayers, Oumou Sangaré, Meshell Ndegeocello, Billy Cobham, Lena Willemark, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen Didier Lockwood, Richard Galliano, Bernie Worrell, Michel Portal, Abraham Laboriel, Kenny Wheeler, Claude Nougaro, Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Ivan Lins, Daniel Humair, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Omara Portuondo, Fay Claassen, Agnès Jaoui, Maria Pia de Vito, Irene Jacob, Rhoda Scott, John Clayton, Nguyen Lê, Craig Street, Ernie Wilkins,The Dutch Metropole Orchestra, Orchestra Jazz Della Sardegna, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, Steve Coleman, Jon Faddis, Ray Lema, Marc Ribot, Charles Trenet, Horace Parlan, Sahib Shihab, Andy Sheppard, Juan Mosalini, Laika Fatien, Aldo Romano, Charlotte Rampling, Jeanne Added, Viktor Lazlo, Bob Stewart, Minino Garay, Hanna Schygulla, Maria Joao, Mario Laginha, Hector Zazou, Gustavo Beytelman, Maria Medeiros David Gilmore, Philippe Baden Powell, Sergio Krakowski, Maurane, Juliette, Greg Cohen, Michel Fugain, Tetê Espindola, Ray Lema, Kevin Breit, Claudio Roditi, Norma Winstone, Ibrahim Maalouf, Nicole Garcia, Lenine, Mederic Collignon, Cristina Zavalloni, Nathalie Baye, Magic Malik , Hamilton de Holanda, Tigran Hamasayan, Jacques Schwartz-Bart, Youn Sun Nah, Elisabeth Kontomanou, Hugh Koltman, Ran Blake, Jason Scheff, Keith Olson,...More..http://www.davidlinx-official.com/biography.html

Personnel: David Linx (vocals); Diederik Wissels (piano); Hans Van Oosterhout (drums, cymbals).

Up Close

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David Linx & The Brussels Jazz Orchestra - Changing Faces

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 80:42
Size: 184.7 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[6:11] 1. Deep Night
[6:53] 2. Down On Lovers Lane
[8:09] 3. Black Crow
[5:47] 4. Bilhete
[4:12] 5. Then We'll Be Home
[9:46] 6. A Day's Journey
[4:54] 7. Home, In The Spring
[5:33] 8. The Land Of Joy
[2:17] 9. Por Toda Minha Vida
[5:32] 10. Miziane
[5:34] 11. There Is You
[9:33] 12. Sweet Suite
[6:15] 13. For The Time Being

Never thought I’d be mentioning that pre-Crosby crooner, Rudy Vallee, in this space, but one of the tunes associated with the megaphone meister, “Deep Night,” receives a surprisingly hip, propulsive makeover. It typifies the extremes to be found here. Linx, the Belgian jazz singer, will resort to any idiom, any language, any time signature. Occasionally he seems to dispense with bar lines altogether, or he will go beyond lyrics, as he abandons his own words on “A Day’s Journey,” for some free-wheeling scat. “Home, In the Spring” features Linx and the wordless Natalie Dessay in a wistful duet. While he strains for falsetto, she leaps octaves effortlessly. The most impressive tour de force is “The Land of Joy,” in which Linx resorts to jet-speed unison scat with pianist Nathalie Loriers. Linx wrote some of the tunes, which compete quite well against entries by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joni Mitchell. He can do it all, at the highest level of professionalism, like the superb Brussels Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece band, used to the coloristic effects that accrue from their apparently endless doublings. ~Harvey Siders

Changing Faces

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David Linx, The Brussels Jazz Orchestra - Changing Faces

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 80:42
Size: 184.7 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals, Big band
Year: 2007/2013
Art: Front

[6:11] 1. Deep Night
[6:53] 2. Down On Lovers Lane
[8:09] 3. Black Crow
[5:47] 4. Bilhete
[4:12] 5. Then We'll Be Home
[9:46] 6. A Day's Journey
[4:54] 7. Home, In The Spring
[5:33] 8. The Land Of Joy
[2:17] 9. Por Toda Minha Vida
[5:32] 10. Miziane
[5:34] 11. There Is You
[9:33] 12. Sweet Suite
[6:15] 13. For The Time Being

Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Dieter Limbourg; Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Art Direction – Frank Vaganée; Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Bo Van Der Werf; Bass Trombone – Laurent Hendrick; Double Bass – Jos Machtel; Drums, Cajón – Martijn Vink; Guitar – Hendrik Braeckman, Manu Codjia; Percussion – Minino Garay; Piano – Nathalie Loriers; Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Bart Defoort; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute – Kurt van Herck; Trombone – Ben Fleerakkers, Frederik Heirman; Trombone [Lead] – Marc Godfroid; Trumpet [Lead], Flugelhorn – Serge Plume; Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Gino Lattuca, Nico Schepers, Pierre Drevet. Recorded at Hogent Studios, Ghent (Belgium).

Never thought I’d be mentioning that pre-Crosby crooner, Rudy Vallee, in this space, but one of the tunes associated with the megaphone meister, “Deep Night,” receives a surprisingly hip, propulsive makeover. It typifies the extremes to be found here. Linx, the Belgian jazz singer, will resort to any idiom, any language, any time signature. Occasionally he seems to dispense with bar lines altogether, or he will go beyond lyrics, as he abandons his own words on “A Day’s Journey,” for some free-wheeling scat. “Home, In the Spring” features Linx and the wordless Natalie Dessay in a wistful duet. While he strains for falsetto, she leaps octaves effortlessly. The most impressive tour de force is “The Land of Joy,” in which Linx resorts to jet-speed unison scat with pianist Nathalie Loriers. Linx wrote some of the tunes, which compete quite well against entries by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joni Mitchell. He can do it all, at the highest level of professionalism, like the superb Brussels Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece band, used to the coloristic effects that accrue from their apparently endless doublings. ~Harvey Siders

Changing Faces

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David Linx & Brussels Jazz Orchestra - Brel

Size: 182,9 MB
Time: 79:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz Vocals, Chanson
Art: Front

01. Quand On N'a Que L'amour (8:00)
02. La Chanson Des Vieux Amants (5:43)
03. Vesoul - Amsterdam (7:34)
04. Ces Gens-La (6:48)
05. Mathilde (6:25)
06. Ne Me Quitte Pas (4:24)
07. Le Plat Pays (8:02)
08. Bruxelles (8:51)
09. Isabelle (5:00)
10. La Valse A Mille Temps (5:12)
11. Bruxelles (Radio Edit) (Bonus Track) (4:12)
12. La Ville S'Endormait (Bonus Track) (8:55)

While David Linx's name may not be writ large here in the States, the fifty-one year-old singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist is a mega-star in his native Belgium, and in 2005 was named Best Jazz Musician in Europe, which covers a whole lot of territory. On Brel, Linx sings music composed by his Belgian forerunner, the late and legendary Jacques Brel, accompanied by the world-class Brussels Jazz Orchestra (whose personnel are not listed on the bare-bones promotional copy save for saxophonist / music director Frank Vaganee).

The music is for the most part cerebral and debonair, lending itself quite well to a jazz milieu (one of the few French words salvaged from high school). As for the lyrics, they are generally sung in the aforementioned Gallic tongue; in other words, incomprehensible. Linx employs the universal jazz "language"—scat—on the flag-waving "Mathilde" and sings in English on "Vesoul -Amsterdam" and "Isabelle," reminding the listener why he doesn't choose to do so often. Elsewhere, like most other French singers, he sounds exceedingly French (or Belgian). Those who've heard Brel, Maurice Chevalier, Georges Guetary, Charles Aznavour, Sacha Distel and other standard-bearers should grasp the allusion.

The session opens quietly with the melodious "Quand on n'a Que L'Amour" and ends on a dynamic note with "La Valse a Mille Temps," which must translate into "waltz, fast and loud." Even though the lyrics (in most cases) are foreign, there's no doubt that Linx sings them well, with excellent diction and phrasing. As for the BJO, it plays its ancillary role to perfection, giving Linx a hermetic framework from which to operate while weighing in with a number of brief yet persuasive solos along the way. In spite of his prominence, there haven't been a great number of tributes to Jacques Brel and his music, which makes this one by David Linx and the BJO that much more enticing. ~Jack Bowers

Personnel: David Linx: vocals. Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Frank Vaganee: artistic director.

Brel

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David Linx - Rock My boat

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:12
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Rock My Boat
(5:09)  2. I Never Went Away
(3:13)  3. Just Give Me Time
(5:57)  4. Letter To My Son/Aos Nossos Filhos
(4:52)  5. Childhood
(2:06)  6. Foolkiller
(5:22)  7. Northern Star
(4:01)  8. Where Rivers Join
(5:14)  9. A Quiet Place
(5:41) 10. Even Make It Up
(2:48) 11. Yesternow
(3:42) 12. On The Other Side

Belgian vocalist David Linx is to jazz what Rufus Wainwright is to pop, a chameleonic avant-gardist of the first order. Though Linx has been recording since the mid-1980s, a survey of just his 2010 projectsthe richly imaginative tribute Follow Jon Hendricks… If You Can, with Michele Hendricks and the French singer-songwriter André Minvielle; the clever quasi-travelogue Follow the Songlines, with Portuguese vocalist Maria João; and One Heart, Three Voices, a magnificent summit with Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen and pianist Diederik Wissels is enough to illustrate his remarkable dexterity. Throughout Rock My Boat, featuring Rhoda Scott on Hammond B3 and André Ceccarelli on drums, Linx’s adventurous eclecticism continues unabated. At various points, Linx suggests Kurt Elling channeling Jimmy Scott and Allen Ginsberg by way of Smokey Robinson, with shades of Hendricks and George Benson. Half of the dozen tracks are given over to a wide-ranging assortment of covers, extending from the hushed glory of Christian music pioneer Ralph Carmichael’s “A Quiet Place” and a bruised, bilingual exploration of Ivan Lins’ “Aos Nossos Filhos,” to a coolly swinging reading of Mose Allison’s “Foolkiller” and an arresting treatment of Miles Davis’ “Yesternow,” fitted to a Tejan Karefa poem, that suggests a lost, smoke-filled night at San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore. 

The six originals are equally heterogeneous. There’s the rollicking Carnaby Street-esque title track, the sweet innocence of “Childhood,” the stealthily romantic “Where Rivers Join,” the joyful, fresh-from-Sunday-service closer, “On the Other Side,” and, most arresting, the swirling carnival of “Even Make It Up.”~Christopher Loudon http://jazztimes.com/articles/29194-rock-my-boat-david-linx

Personnel: David Linx (vocals); André Ceccarelli (drums); Rhoda Scott (Hammond b-3 organ).

Rock My boat

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David Linx, Maria João & Brussels Jazz Orchestra - A Different Porgy & Another Bess

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:24
Size: 166,2 MB
Art: Front

(7:06)  1. A red-headed woman
(4:59)  2. A woman is a sometime thing
(6:00)  3. I love you, Porgy
(7:16)  4. Buzzard song
(8:09)  5. My man is gone now
(6:32)  6. Oh Lord, I'm on my way
(6:53)  7. Clara, Clara, don't be downhearted
(5:48)  8. Bess you are my woman now
(7:04)  9. Oh, doctor Jesus
(7:04) 10. I've got plenty of nothing
(5:28) 11. Summertime

The French classical label Naive has made a successful foray into jazz with recordings like Mina Agossi's Red Eyes (2012); and Tania Maria's Tempo (2012). A Different Porgy and Another Bess is the first thematic big-band offering from the label. Drawing from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward opera, Porgy and Bess (1935), A Different Porgy highlights eleven vocal pieces from the book. The music performed by the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, under the direction Frank Vaganee, features David Linx in the role of Porgy and Maria Joao as Bess. The arrangements are bright and progressive, courtesy of a wide swath of people in and outside the band. A portion of the eleven pieces chosen for recital are expected. "I Love You Porgy," "My Man is Gone Now," "I Got Plenty of Nothing" and "Summertime" are all present and accounted for. But there are also Lesser-heard songs here: "A Red-Headed Woman," "Oh Lord, I'm On My Way" and "Oh, Dr. Jesus" are included to great effect in breaking up preconceptions and expectations that might cloud a Porgy and Bess-based disc. That said, there is actually no danger in this simply being one more interpretation of an over-interpreted collection of songs; the songs' arrangers and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra see to that.

A first listen sounds like a wild ride in one of those hover-cars from Luc Besson's 1997 film, The Fifth Element. Songs that should be familiar sound about as foreign as they possibly can: think playing "The Maple Leaf Rag" backwards in the Star Wars (1977) bar scene. Well, maybe not that jarring, but certainly provocative. Subsequent listens bear out the relationships of these songs with those Gershwin penned. This is where the invention of arrangement and free spirit benefit the old book, making it new again. This, coupled with a crack and very big band, makes A Different Porgy and Another Bess a valuable contribution to understanding the evolution of jazz.~C.Michael Bailey http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-different-porgy-and-another-bess-david-linx-naive-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php
 

Personnel: David Linx: vocals; Maria Joao: vocals; Frank Vaganee: artistic director, lead alto and soprano saxophones, flute; Dieter Limbourg: alto and soprano saxophones, clarinet, flute; Kurk Van Herck: tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet; Bart Defoort: tenor saxophone, clarinet; Bo Van Der Werf: baritone saxophone; bass clarinet; Serge Plume: lead trumpet, flugelhorn; Nico Schepers: trumpet, flugelhorn; Pierre Drevet: trumpet, flugelhorn; Jeroen Van Malderen: trumpet, flugelhorn; Marc Godfroid: lead trombone; Lode Mertens: trombone; Ben Fleerakkers: trombone; Laurent Hendrick: bass trombone; Hendrick Braeckman: guitar; Nathalie Loriers: piano, Fender Rhodes; Jos Machtel: double bass; Martijn Vink: drums; Chris Joris: congas; Carlo Willems: glockenspiel, tam tam gong.

A Different Porgy & Another Bess

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