Greetje Kauffeld - A Song For You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:55
Size: 110,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:55)  1. A Song For You
(4:18)  2. (Up A) Lazy River
(3:59)  3. Sweet Georgia Fame
(5:51)  4. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
(5:29)  5. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
(4:08)  6. Alright, Okay, You Win
(3:25)  7. If
(3:17)  8. You Turned The Tables On Me
(5:12)  9. Because Of You
(2:34) 10. Just One Of Those Things
(4:41) 11. For All We Know

Born 26 November 1940, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As a very small child Kauffeld would sing along with records by artists such as Doris Day and Frank Sinatra. When she was aged 13 she sang on radio and also with a local band, the Raindrops. Her professional career was launched early in 1957 with an appearance on a national radio programme with the Skymasters big band. Not long after this, she sang in Berlin as a guest with Werner Müller and the RIAS Big Band. Her career developed in the Netherlands and Germany and in these years she appeared with many artists, including Toots Thielemans, Kurt Edelhagen, and Svend Asmussen. A move to the USA found her working in Los Angeles and Las Vegas with jazz musicians such as Ray Brown and Herb Ellis. Back in the Netherlands, through her new husband, producer Joop de Roo, she met and sometimes sang with many visiting jazz luminaries, among them Thad Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson, Jiggs Whigham and Phil Woods. She also recorded My Favorite Ballads with the Metropole Orchestra under the direction of Rob Pronk and Fernand Terby; one track thereon, ‘Yesterday I Heard The Rain’, features a guest appearance by Stan Getz. In addition to working with large orchestras and small groups, such as Cees Slinger’s Diamond Five, Kauffeld has also sometimes worked in unusual formats as she did on sets with a guitar-tenor saxophone duo: The Song Is You and I’m On My Way To You. Kauffeld continued to tour internationally, meanwhile also teaching at the Hilversum Conservatory of Music, an activity she ceased in the early 00s to allow more time for performing. During her career, Kauffeld has received many awards, including, in the 80s, Best Soloist at the Euro-Nordring Radio Festival and the Rotterdam Golden Heart culture prize; in the 90s, De Gouden Notenkraker and Hertogenbosch Duke of Duketown Award; and in the 00s, she received the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and her 40th anniversary as a professional musician was celebrated when she was honoured with a Dutch knighthood, the Ridder In De Orde Van De Nederlandse Leeuw. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-song-for-you/1394946556

A Song For You

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Greetje Kauffeld - Dutch Jazz Giants Vol 1

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:22
Size: 137,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:16)  1. Route 66
(3:26)  2. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(3:10)  3. I Get Along Without You Very Well
(3:47)  4. It Might As Well Be Spring
(2:36)  5. I'm gonna Sit Right Down
(3:53)  6. So Many Stars
(2:42)  7. When You Wish Upon A Star
(6:31)  8. All The Things You Are
(3:58)  9. Nice 'n' Easy
(3:51) 10. Smile
(3:32) 11. Fly Me To The Moon
(4:01) 12. Tenderly
(4:06) 13. It Had To Be You
(2:51) 14. Poor Buttefly
(4:01) 15. The Shadow Of Your Smile
(3:30) 16. I Wish You Love

Born. 26 November 1940, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As a very small child Kauffeld would sing along with records by artists such as Doris Day and Frank Sinatra. When she was aged 13 she sang on radio and also with a local band, the Raindrops. Her professional career was launched early in 1957 with an appearance on a national radio programme with the Skymasters big band. Not long after this, she sang in Berlin as a guest with Werner Müller and the RIAS Big Band. Her career developed in the Netherlands and Germany and in these years she appeared with many artists, including Toots Thielemans, Kurt Edelhagen, and Svend Asmussen. A move to the USA found her working in Los Angeles and Las Vegas with jazz musicians such as Ray Brown and Herb Ellis. Back in the Netherlands, through her new husband, producer Joop de Roo, she met and sometimes sang with many visiting jazz luminaries, among them Thad Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson, Jiggs Whigham and Phil Woods. She also recorded My Favorite Ballads with the Metropole Orchestra under the direction of Rob Pronk and Fernand Terby; one track thereon, ‘Yesterday I Heard The Rain’, features a guest appearance by Stan Getz. In addition to working with large orchestras and small groups, such as Cees Slinger’s Diamond Five, Kauffeld has also sometimes worked in unusual formats as she did on sets with a guitar-tenor saxophone duo: The Song Is You and I’m On My Way To You. Kauffeld continued to tour internationally, meanwhile also teaching at the Hilversum Conservatory of Music, an activity she ceased in the early 00s to allow more time for performing. During her career, Kauffeld has received many awards, including, in the 80s, Best Soloist at the Euro-Nordring Radio Festival and the Rotterdam Golden Heart culture prize; in the 90s, De Gouden Notenkraker and Hertogenbosch Duke of Duketown Award; and in the 00s, she received the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and her 40th anniversary as a professional musician was celebrated when she was honoured with a Dutch knighthood, the Ridder In De Orde Van De Nederlandse Leeuw. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/greetje-kauffeld-mn0000155934

Dutch Jazz Giants Vol 1

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Greetje Kauffeld - My Shining Hour

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:00
Size: 143,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Happiness Is A Thing Called Love
(4:33)  2. It's Only A Paper Moon
(4:15)  3. A Sleepin' Bee
(5:01)  4. Harold Arlen Medley
(4:10)  5. My Shining Hour
(6:44)  6. Over The Rainbow
(4:24)  7. That Old Black Magic
(5:14)  8. Ill Wind
(6:13)  9. Out Of This World
(4:32) 10. Last Night When We Were Young
(5:07) 11. Let's Fall In Love
(6:40) 12. One For My Baby

This album brings together a superb team to pay eloquent tribute to a man who made more contributions to the Great American Songbook than any other composer - Harold Arlen. The twelve classic songs on this album are beautifully interpreted by Greetje Kauffeld, who receives excellent support from a quintet led by Paul Kuhn. Says Paul: "Greetje is a wonderful singer who belongs to the elite of the jazz vocalists. He singing is very soulful and her warm voice is perfectly suited to Harold Arlen's ballads." http://www.inandout-records.com/records/greetje-kauffeld/My+Shining+Hour/00000257

Personnel:  Greetje Kauffeld (vocal);  Paul Kuhn (piano & vocal);  Paulo Morello (guitar);  Kim Barth (alto saxophone & flute);  Paul G. Ulrich (bass);  Willy Ketzer (drums) 

My Shining Hour

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Greetje Kauffeld - Heaven's Open

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:59
Size: 93.8 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. The Way We Were
[3:57] 2. Miss Otis Regrets
[3:31] 3. Dear Death
[4:25] 4. You Must Believe In Spring
[2:25] 5. Spring Is Here
[3:28] 6. Andorinha
[5:52] 7. Vincent
[3:07] 8. Polka Dots & Moonbeams
[3:55] 9. The Way You Look Tonight
[3:22] 10. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
[3:26] 11. The Way We Were [wordless]

b. 26 November 1940, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. As a very small child Kauffeld would sing along with records by artists such as Doris Day and Frank Sinatra. When she was aged 13 she sang on radio and also with a local band, the Raindrops. Her professional career was launched early in 1957 with an appearance on a national radio programme with the Skymasters big band. Not long after this, she sang in Berlin as a guest with Werner Müller and the RIAS Big Band. Her career developed in the Netherlands and Germany and in these years she appeared with many artists, including Toots Thielemans, Kurt Edelhagen, and Svend Asmussen. A move to the USA found her working in Los Angeles and Las Vegas with jazz musicians such as Ray Brown and Herb Ellis. Back in the Netherlands, through her new husband, producer Joop de Roo, she met and sometimes sang with many visiting jazz luminaries, among them Thad Jones, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pederson, Jiggs Whigham and Phil Woods. She also recorded My Favorite Ballads with the Metropole Orchestra under the direction of Rob Pronk and Fernand Terby; one track thereon, ‘Yesterday I Heard The Rain’, features a guest appearance by Stan Getz. In addition to working with large orchestras and small groups, such as Cees Slinger’s Diamond Five, Kauffeld has also sometimes worked in unusual formats as she did on sets with a guitar-tenor saxophone duo: The Song Is You and I’m On My Way To You. Kauffeld continued to tour internationally, meanwhile also teaching at the Hilversum Conservatory of Music, an activity she ceased in the early 00s to allow more time for performing.

During her career, Kauffeld has received many awards, including, in the 80s, Best Soloist at the Euro-Nordring Radio Festival and the Rotterdam Golden Heart culture prize; in the 90s, De Gouden Notenkraker and Hertogenbosch Duke of Duketown Award; and in the 00s, she received the Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and her 40th anniversary as a professional musician was celebrated when she was honoured with a Dutch knighthood, the Ridder In De Orde Van De Nederlandse Leeuw.

Heaven's Open

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Greetje Kauffeld - Young Girl Sunday Jazz

Size: 96,5 MB
Time: 40:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Almost Like Being In Love (Version 1) (2:17)
02. Saturday Night (2:10)
03. Fever (2:55)
04. Handful Of Soul (2:27)
05. Orange Coloured Sky (2:29)
06. Love For Sale (2:04)
07. Shiny Stockings (4:01)
08. Deed I Do (2:01)
09. My Kinda World (2:30)
10. My Blue Heaven (2:14)
11. Day In Day Out (2:49)
12. Makin' Whoopee (2:00)
13. You And I (2:12)
14. It's Alright With Me (1:23)
15. Who Knows Why (4:20)
16. Almost Like Being In Love (Version 2) (2:16)

This new compilation "Young Girl Sunday Jazz" makes Greetje Kauffeld's lost jazz songs from the 1960s available on CD and vinyl LP. Mainly included are recordings from the private vaults of the singer or from musicians' and collectors' archives, with music performed between 1960 and 1969 at concerts, in the studio or at sessions for radio and tv. Greetje in top form, accompanied by some of the most excellent Dutch and German jazz musicians! Moreover, all four tracks of her first and only jazz EP from 1960, entitled "Makin' Whoopee", are reissued here for the first time.

The 16 remastered songs fill a major gap in her discography. Not even one jazz record by Greetje Kauffeld was released during the course of the 60s, although she regularly performed on stage as a truly gifted jazz singer. Her story of a recorded but never released Bossa Nova album, produced 1967 with Oscar Castro Neves in Los Angeles, and its corresponding master tape that somehow landed in the trash bin, fits well into the picture: Until today, she remains one of the great European jazz voices of the 1960s, but without accompanying releases from that period.

Young Girl Sunday Jazz

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