Halie Loren - Dreams Lost and Found

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2024
Time: 50:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 119,1 MB
Art: Front

(4:09) 1. For All We Know
(3:30) 2. How High the Moon
(4:05) 3. Dance Me to the End of Love
(3:22) 4. Sabor a Mí
(4:07) 5. All I Want
(3:36) 6. More
(2:22) 7. C'est le printemps
(3:01) 8. It Might as Well be Spring
(5:07) 9. All Night Long
(3:49) 10. Stop This World
(4:02) 11. The Fool on the Hill
(2:37) 12. Under the Same Moon
(3:56) 13. Sukiyaki (You Took Your Love Away)
(2:52) 14. I'll Be Seeing You

"A stellar voice with great tone and marvelous command of phrasing sets Loren apart from myriad of female vocalists. Old school becoming new cool in the hands of a gifted artist is a beautiful thing." Critical Jazz Halie Loren is an international, award-winning jazz vocalist/songwriter based in Eugen, Oregon. She brings a fresh and original perspective to time-honored musical paths, channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe.

She sings in multiple languages including; Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Korean as well as her native English. On Dreams Lost and Found Halie's 11th album, she explores themes of longing, seeking, and seeing with new eyes - the falling away of old illusions and outgrown desires, finding new visions for love and life, allowing some dreams to die to make space for new dreams to be born.By Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Lost-Found-Halie-Loren/dp/B0CVY1RM9T

Personnel: Vocals, Producer, Mixed By [Mixing Assistance], Artwork, Design, Liner Notes – Halie Loren; Drums – Jim Doxas; Guitar – Sam Kirmayer; Piano – Taurey Butler

Dreams Lost and Found

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Halie Loren - They Oughta Write A Song

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
Time: 69:37
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 160,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:08) 1. They Oughta Write A Song
(4:44) 2. A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(3:37) 3. Blue Skies
(3:51) 4. Autumn Leaves
(4:09) 5. Fever
(6:15) 6. God Bless This Child
(3:28) 7. My Rainbow Race
(2:22) 8. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
(3:59) 9. How Should I Know
(5:08) 10. Summertime
(2:51) 11. I Don't Miss It That Much
(4:52) 12. Dock Of The Bay
(4:39) 13. As Time Goes By
(3:58) 14. Free To Be Loved By Me
(5:44) 15. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
(3:19) 16. Danger In Loving You
(3:27) 17. Sunny Afternoon

They Oughta Write a Song sees the 24-year-old Halie Loren getting back to her roots as a jazz singer. The album consists of 13 tracks, including not only jazz standards, but three originals and a half-handful of "jazzified" classic covers. Those new to jazz would be hard-pressed to tell one from the other, so deftly do Loren and her backing band pianist Matt Treder, bassist Mark Schneider, percussionist Brian West and trumpeter Tim McLaughlin on trumpet dive in and make themselves home in a sea of lush, jazzy warmth.

The opening title track sounds like a standard (and, if there is any sense of fairness in the world, it will be someday) but is actually an original, co-written by Loren at the tender age of 18 in Nashville. The other two originals, "How Should I Know?" and "I Don't Miss It That Much" sound remarkably similar to tracks from the soundtrack to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil(1997), but are likewise a well-balanced mixture of classic jazz and modern sass.

Loren's interpretation of non-jazz classics is equally competent, taking familiar songs from other genres and reinterpreting them in novel ways. Procol Harem's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" dials back the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" vibe and replaces it with something smokier, sassier, and quite different. Pete Seeger's "My Rainbow Race" loses the folksy focus and goes a bit more Latin, with percussion and bass underlining Loren's thick, rich vocals. Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" gets a somewhat less melancholy interpretation, retaining the song's soulful wistfulness while adding a bit more bounce and sway.

The bulk of the album, however, is composed of jazz standards, which necessarily draw comparisons with other such covers. "Autumn Leaves," covered by everyone from Nat King Cole to Paula Cole, is, by way of comparison, minimalist. While other versions of the song contain layers of instrumentation Paula Cole's version, on the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Warner Bros., 1997) soundtrack, even adds percussion to mimic the sound of rustling leaves—here it's just Loren and Treder, voice and piano, boiling the song down to its basics. Osvaldo Farres' "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" appears as well, sung half in Spanish and half in English and, while clocking in at about the same length as Cake's cover on Fashion Nugget(Capricorn, 1996), is distinctly more traditional and definitely sexier.

George Gershwin's "Summertime" is also worth a special mention. Originally composed for Porgy and Bess (1935), the jazz standard has been covered by everyone from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Janis Joplin, always serving to frame each singer's particular vocal talents regardless of instrumentation Joplin's mournful shrieks atop electric guitar; Fitzgerald's warmth contrasted with Armstrong's growl. Here, Loren's clear-as-a-bell lilt and tease is half "drifting off to sleep" lullaby and half "stay up till sunrise" striptease, allowing her to make the song her own. By Some One https://www.allaboutjazz.com/they-oughta-write-a-song-halie-loren-white-moon-productions-review

Personnel: Halie Loren: vocals; Matt Treder: piano, keys; Mark Schneider: bass; Brian West: drums; Tim McLaughlin: trumpet.

They Oughta Write A Song

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Halie Loren - Live At Cotton Club

Styles: Vocal

Year: 2022  
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:16
Size: 164,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:14) 1. It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)
(6:21) 2. A Whiter Shade Of Pale
(4:08) 3. Fly Me To The Moon
(2:59) 4. Hit That Jive, Jack
(3:48) 5. Our Love Is Here To Stay
(4:58) 6. For Sentimental Reasons
(3:26) 7. L-O-V-E
(3:46) 8. Blue Skies
(4:58) 9. Butterfly
(4:29) 10. I've Got To See You Again
(3:45) 11. Too Darn Hot
(3:58) 12. Is Your Is You Ain't My Baby
(5:02) 13. Feelin' Good
(2:36) 14. Perhaps, Perhaps,Perhaps
(5:21) 15. What A Wonderful World
(4:00) 16. Everything Is Beautiful
(4:18) 17. Ellie My Love

Recorded during Loren’s 2015 Japan tour, “Live at Cotton Club” was recorded from the stage of Tokyo’s famed Cotton Club, and features her long-time musical collaborators Matt Treder on piano, Mark Schneider on bass, and Brian West on drums. It includes live renditions of some of her most well-loved takes on American Songbook, pop/rock, world music, and original pieces. Streaming singles from “Live at Cotton Club” (including Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby, It Don’t Mean a Thing, Too Darn Hot, and Fly Me to the Moon) were released to streaming throughout summer 2022.

Originally recorded in hi-resolution, the sonic experience of the album simultaneously captures the electricity and spontaneity of the live concert experience while also exhibiting studio-quality clarity. It was initially released exclusively by JVCKenwood in Japan, Korea, and across parts of eastern Asia in 2016. On September 30th, “Live at Cotton Club” will be released globally on all streaming platforms through Justin Time Records
https://halieloren.com/live-at-cotton-club-global-release-on-september-30./

Personnel: Halie Loren – Vocals, Percussion; Matt Treder – Piano, Keyboards, Background Vocals; Mark Schneider – Bass; Brian West – Drums

Live At Cotton Club

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Halie Loren - After Dark

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:03
Size: 140,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:56)  1. After Dark
(4:27)  2. Waters of March
(4:17)  3. Gray to Grand
(4:28)  4. La Vie En Rose
(4:17)  5. Thirsty
(4:06)  6. Bye Bye Blackbird
(5:50)  7. Ode To Billie Joe
(3:53)  8. Tango Lullaby
(4:17)  9. Beyond the Sea
(3:38) 10. In a Sentimental Mood
(4:36) 11. Happier Than the Morning Sun
(4:35) 12. Give Me One Reason
(4:38) 13. It's You
(3:56) 14. Time to Say Goodbye

Halie Loren conceives a new style of jazz singer on her fourth album, After Dark. While the lively alto is not averse to putting her own stamp on evergreens like "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "In a Sentimental Mood," her conception also extends to songs borrowed from various branches of the pop/rock era including folk-rock singer/songwriters (Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason" and Joni Mitchell's "Carey"), pop/R&B (Stevie Wonder's "Happier Than the Morning Sun"), and country-pop (Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe"). She is also willing to take on material closely associated with notable interpreters (Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Waters of March," Edith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose"), and to mix in the occasional composition of her own. The package is not as eclectic as all that might make it seem, since Loren sticks to one of two sets of backup musicians, either cutting in her own studio in Eugene, Oregon, with her stage trio (pianist Matt Treder, bassist Mark Schneider, and percussionist Brian West) or outside Nashville with such noted local jazzers as guitarist Jack Jezzro and bassist Jim Ferguson. They find the jazz feel in such seemingly unlikely material as "Ode to Billie Joe," given a bass/drums accompaniment with some sax work by Bryan Cumming, and "Give Me One Reason," which actually is simple enough to provide a platform for improvisation. Throughout, Loren sings with a light touch, even when she's dipping into Portuguese, French, or Italian. When she takes on the classical crossover standard "Time to Say Goodbye," the nominal closing song ("Carey" is billed as a "bonus track"), it has none of the histrionics applied by the likes of Andrea Bocelli. Loren and her musicians never lose sight of their duty to entertain, and that keeps this lengthy, varied set floating along to its conclusion. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/after-dark-mw0002073052

Personnel: Vocals – Halie Loren, John Shipe (2) (tracks: 9); Baritone Saxophone – Bryan Cumming; Bass, Backing Vocals – Mark Schneider (6); Cello – Dale Bradley; Clarinet – Denis Solee (tracks: 9); Drums, Percussion – Brian West (2); Piano – Matt Treder

After Dark

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Halie Loren - From The Wild Sky

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:26
Size: 104,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:00)  1. Roots
(3:15)  2. How To Dismantle A Life
(4:14)  3. Wild Birds
(4:04)  4. Paper Man
(4:21)  5. I Can't Land
(3:07)  6. Well-loved Woman
(4:36)  7. Painter's Song.
(4:15)  8. August Moon
(3:32)  9. Noah
(4:06) 10. Wisdom
(3:50) 11. A Mi Manera

The album features 10 of Loren’s original songs, as well as a stunning rendition of Roberto Livi’s ‘A Mi Manera’. “From the Wild Sky” puts the spotlight on Loren’s songwriter side, exploring themes of letting go, flight, finding the heart’s “True North”, and seeing beauty within the chaos of life. It is both her most personal and creatively dynamic release to-date, and the project that has pulled from the farthest reaches of the music world: The album was recorded and mixed in London and New York, and produced by acclaimed British producer Troy Miller (Gregory Porter, Laura Mvula, Jamie Cullum). Fun fact: many of the songs were inspired by travel, and written in hotel rooms, trains, and planes while Loren was on tour across the globe in 2016/2017. The album was funded by pledges from Halie’s fans around the world through her successful Kickstarter campaign last fall. http://halieloren.com/

The recording features performances from an international group of all-star musicians: Troy Miller (drums), Femi Temowo (guitars), Michael Olatuja (bass), Ben Williams (bass), Becca Stevens (guest artist), and Nathan Schram and  Andrew Yee (viola and cello – 1/2 of the Attacca String Quartet)

From The Wild Sky

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Halie Loren - Butterfly Blue

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:48
Size: 119,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:36)  1. Yellow Bird
(4:03)  2. I Wish You Love
(4:43)  3. Blue
(5:10)  4. Stormy Weather
(4:36)  5. Butterfly
(4:11)  6. After the Fall
(3:34)  7. Our Love Is Here to Stay
(4:10)  8. I've Got You Under My Skin
(3:27)  9. Danger In Loving You
(4:23) 10. Boulevard of Broken Dreams
(5:13) 11. Carry Us Through
(3:35) 12. Peace

All About Jazz collegue R.J. Deluke published a lengthy piece on Alaska-now-Oregon native vocalist Halie Loren. In that piece, DeLuke concludes: "Loren is also in a place vocally where her sound has moved away from influence and is her own. Emulating her favorites, and learning from that in years, are behind. Her phrasing and her presentation are seasoned. They move to unexpected places. It is Halie Loren's voice." And in that, lies what is most exceptional about Loren...that voice. For her considerable and impressive training, Loren retains an authenticity, a realness that is usually the first causality of focused study. Not so with Loren. Her voice is the one you heard next door while raking the yard. It is simple and tuneful and full of those original, personal, and internally-focused elements that are as specific as a fingerprint or personal genome. Loren brings that voice, her compositional and arranging skills, and a damn good band to the opening, "Yellow Bird" on her eighth recording, Butterfly Blue. It is a piece with a gentle melody that owes as much to the Beatles as to Weimar Berlin Cabaret. 

She knows how to use the low brass of Joe Freuen and Rob Birdwell to cushion a song full of whimsy and love. Loren is daring in her choices for standards. Who in their right mind chooses "Stormy Weather" as a vehicle? Loren does, and she turns its arrangement on its ear, turning the warhorse into a 21st Century cabaret performance that is, at once, well behaved and beautifully genre-depraved. Long-time partner pianist Matt Treder draws from influences far and wide to effect the heady potion presented here. Loren's "Butterfly" reveals itself as the lovechild of James Taylor and Roebuck Staples at Midnight Mass" with Aretha Franklin. Guitarist David Gallo finds his Stax Records jones and recasts its spirit at the tip of the Delta. "Our Love is Here to Stay" comes in high in a groove auction, freshly arranged. David Larsen adds a smoky baritone sax solo to this scrubbed terrain that sports a grand duet between Treder and bassist Mark Schneider. Loren transforms "I've Got You Under My Skin similarly, but saves her best for her recasting of Horace Sliver's Peace, replete with her newly minted lyrics. This recording almost got away this year. I and we would be less if that had happened. ~ C.Michael Bailey https://www.allaboutjazz.com/butterfly-blue-halie-loren-justin-time-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php

Personnel: Halie Loren: vocals; Daniel Gallo, William Seiji Marsh: guitars; Matt Treder: piano; Mark Schnieder: bass; Brian West: drums; David Larsen: tenor saxophone; Dana Heitman: trumpet; Joe Freuen: trombone; Rob Birdwell: flugelhorn; Katheryn Dudney: cello.

Butterfly Blue

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Halie Loren - Stages

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 64:21

Size: 147.3 MB

Styles: Vocal

Year: 2010

Art: Front

[3:15] 1. Danger In Loving You

[3:24] 2. Sunny Afternoon

[5:40] 3. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

[4:03] 4. More

[4:47] 5. Cry Me A River

[4:29] 6. The Girl From Ipanema

[3:53] 7. Free To Be Loved By Me

[4:21] 8. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby

[3:34] 9. Love Me Like A River Does

[3:35] 10. They Oughta Write A Song

[3:40] 11. High Heel Blues

[6:00] 12. Summertime

[3:30] 13. My Rainbow Race

[5:04] 14. I'd Rather Go Blind

[4:57] 15. Nearness Of You

The studio is a safe place for musicians looking to birth an album in a controlled environment, but the stage is the real proving ground for performers. These people make their mark when lights are low, nerves are tested and safety nets are removed. This is where the real deal musicians get separated from the great pretenders and vocalist Halie Loren is as real as they come.

Loren, who may be the best-kept vocal secret in the Pacific Northwest, put out this low-key live album in 2010, but her reach was limited and it went largely unnoticed. Now, with the release of her head-turning Heart First (Justin Time, 2012), Loren's new label is fanning the flames of interest by reissuing this album with a few bonus tracks tacked on for good measure.

Her three-pronged approach to programming, which includes standards, pop pieces co-opted for jazzier purposes and originals, serves her well here. She jumps from U2 ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For") to Antonio Carlos Jobim ("The Girl From Ipanema") to Hoagy Carmichael ("The Nearness Of You") with apparent ease. She delivers classic material like "Cry Me A River" with polish, unlocks the potential that exists within The Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" and taps into her inner-Sarah McLachlan on "Free To Be Loved By Me," which proves to be the most memorable original on display. Risky material choices occasionally meet with mixed results, as "High Heel Blues" proves to be a triumph while a tropically-infused take on Pete Seeger's "My Rainbow Race" is a bit too sugary, but Loren's willingness to move beyond the overdone is ever admirable.

Loren occupies the space that exists between pop and jazz, but that dual allegiance hasn't done her any favors in the past. Neither camp seemed willing to stake claim on her, but she deserves to be embraced by both. Now, with this live reissue following on the heels of her strongest studio album to date, this matter will hopefully be rectified. ~Dan Bialwsky

Halie Loren: vocals; Matt Treder: keyboards; Mark Schneider: bass; Tim McLaughlin: trumpet; Brian West: drums.

Stages

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Halie Loren - Heart First

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:23
Size: 140,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:47)  1. Taking A Chance On Love
(3:41)  2. A Woman's Way
(2:59)  3. C'est Si Bon
(4:59)  4. Waiting In Vain
(3:45)  5. Sway / Quien Sera
(3:14)  6. Heart First
(4:03)  7. My One And Only Love
(4:10)  8. Feeling Good
(4:31)  9. Tender To The Touch
(3:32) 10. Fly Me To The Moon
(3:18) 11. Lotta Love
(3:36) 12. In Time
(2:54) 13. Smile
(3:49) 14. Crazy Love
(4:03) 15. Ellie My Love
(4:54) 16. What A Wonderful World

Though vocalist Halie Loren has made a name for herself by bringing her warm and inviting alto to bear on a mixture of pop and jazz classics, she has received far too little attention in the United States. Much of the praise heaped upon her comes from Japan, where her fan base is strong and plentiful, but this Alaska-born, Eugene-based beauty may finally be able to make major inroads in the U.S. market with Heart First. This fourteen-track program is heavy on the heart theme, her diverse material drawn from disparate sources that fit this overall concept. Nevertheless, it all comes together to perfection. Depending on the song, Loren can be sweet, sly, or sultry, but she always finds the right read. All of the covers on Heart First have been done ad infinitum, but Loren's ability to find something new in the old makes this a fun ride. 

She finds the middle ground between Bob Marley's impassioned delivery and Annie Lennox's pop sheen on "Waiting In Vain," strips "Sway (Quién Será)" to its seductive core, and removes any hint of Eartha Kitt from "C'est Si Bon." "All Of Me," underscored by a slow burning bass and tom groove, receives a reading that's far more provocative than the norm. In Loren's able hands, Neil Young's twang is nowhere to be found on his "Lotta Love," which sounds like a cross between a Michael Buble pop hit and "Everyday Is A Holiday (With You)" from Esthero and Sean Lennon. While innovation is present in many of the arrangements, Loren doesn't mess with some standards on some standards. "Taking A Chance On Love" and "My One And Only Love" both receive fairly routine deliveries, giving the young vocalist a chance to shine in a more straightforward manner. 

While Loren's talents as a songwriter are downplayed here (there are only four originals sprinkled amongst the fourteen tracks), she does make an impact with her self-penned pieces. "In Time," the most moving of Loren's originals, crosses Hem-like serenity with a Sophie Milman-leaning sound, while the title track mixes country inflections with traces of barroom informality. "Tender To The Touch," with its strong R&B influence, is the most pop-leaning of the bunch, and the album-opening "A Woman's Way" proves to be the most breezy, in music if not in words. The backing band on this album does a fine job throughout, even if it largely serves as window dressing for Loren. Pianist Matt Treder, who regularly brings class, charm and his own instrumental voice into the picture, and trumpeter Rob Birdwell, who makes an impact with only a scant presence on a few tracks, are the notable exceptions. Heart First should help to elevate Halie Loren's profile on the home front. She's deserving of more attention, and this record is pure magic. ~ Dan Bilawaky  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/heart-first-halie-loren-justin-time-records-review-by-dan-bilawsky.php#.U8ipd7FryM0
 

Personnel: Halie Loren: vocals, piano (12); Matt Treder: piano, Rhodes piano; Mark Schneider: bass; Brian West: drums; William Seiji Marsh: guitar; Sergei Teleshev: accordion (1), button accordion (13); Rob Birdwell: trumpet (2), flugelhorn (4, 11); Hank Shreve: harmonica (7); Dale Bradley: cello (12).

Heart First

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Halie Loren - Simply Love

Styles: Jazz Vocals
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:41
Size: 118,3 MB
Art: Front

(4:36)  1. For Sentimental Reasons
(5:02)  2. Cuando Bailamos
(3:24)  3. L-O-V-E
(3:11)  4. On the Sunny Side of the Street
(3:52)  5. I Feel the Earth Move
(4:47)  6. My Funny Valentine
(4:13)  7. I'Ve Got To See You Again
(3:29)  8. Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
(3:46)  9. Moon River
(3:47) 10. Bare Feet
(3:19) 11. Happy Together
(4:17) 12. Dream a Little Dream of Me
(3:53) 13. Simply Love

The core element of vocal artistry is the ability to capture the essence of a song and interpret it in a way that is totally personal, highly compelling and intended to make the composer smile in agreement. The outstanding jazz vocalist Halie Loren does all of that, as her latest Justin Time Records release, Simply Love (available September 10), vividly demonstrates. It also provides a clear understanding as to why she's received so many critical accolades and worldwide popularity. At 28-years-old, the multi-lingual vocalist has performed at major festivals and in sold-out concert halls in North America, Asia and Europe. In July of 2012, Loren traveled to Palermo, Italy to perform as a featured soloist with the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana. She has recorded seven critically acclaimed albums garnering best song and best album awards, while consistently placing at the top of the jazz charts in Japan. Simply Love is her third release on Justin Time Records. "With Simply Love, I wanted to meet the mood of the season," the Eugene, Oregon-based songstress says. "What kind of soundtrack would I want to listen to in the warmer months?" There is an intimacy in her singing that makes the listeners feel that her message is only intended for their own ears, heart and soul. 

With a voice that is so warmly and deeply lyrical, and an ability to articulate lyrics that draws every iota of meaning out of each syllable, Loren accomplishes what every singer strives for - to make every song, regardless of who wrote it or performed it previously, entirely her own.  "Synergy is so essential to my music" Loren explains, "and this longevity has really helped us to achieve that over all these years. http://www.justin-time.com/albums.php?lang=en&pid=5871&aid=384&anid=8581

Simply Love

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