Ida Landsberg - Jazz Sessions

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 92,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:57)  1. Blue Moon
(3:26)  2. They Can't Take That Away from Me
(3:34)  3. Angel Eyes
(4:20)  4. Fly Me to the Moon
(3:40)  5. From This Moment On
(4:09)  6. Close to You
(3:42)  7. How High the Moon
(3:43)  8. Cry Me a River
(3:54)  9. Don't Take Your Love from Me
(4:25) 10. Night and Day

Music is in my life since I can think.In my case music always had been present but for a long time it wasn’t at the centre of my thinking and activities yet. It was more an accompaniment of every of my daily actions, an accessory, an atmosphere, a song to sing or an open ear for sounds and noises. I always had a very sensible ear that hated rumors and couldn’t tolerate notes that weren’t perfectly clean. Who loved high and clear voices and memorized melodies quickly. I didn’t grow up in an artist environment even though my grand-grandmother, from which I had my name Ida, was a sculpturist and lived surrounded by famous 19th Century painters in Kleinmachnow just outside Berlin. One of her friends were Max Liebermann. I know her only from my father’s tellings.

I passed my childhood and adolescence by studying languages, literature and science, but music was my everyday companion, my friend, my breathe. That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t have been in constant contact with music making. In my earliest childhood, I sang on my grandmother’s balcony and the neighbors listened to me. At the age of 6 I started to play piano, to sing in a church choir and to be part of a children dance theatre.  Also my family enjoyed music. My grandmother played piano, my father accordeon and my mother guitar. They wanted to give us a good musical education. My mother was the one who raise my love for classical music as she took me to the opera house since I was a child. I knew all the arias of Mozart’s “Magical Flute” by heart and sang them the whole day long. She was also the one who forced me to practice piano everyday when I was about to quit at the age of 13. I couldn’t be any more thankful that she insisted.

I was very active at school performances. After a long and intense 70s musical rebel period in my adolescence at the sound of the The Doors, Janis Joplin and the Beach Boys, I discovered jazz music which would have been my strongest passion. Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck had become my new heroes, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald my idols.  Soon the desire of letting music be a central part of my life became concrete. I was admitted to the Berlin University of Fine Arts and studied music pedagogy there until I left Germany for a student exchange program. My time at the UdK was one of the greatest I can remember. I had a female a cappella trio, sang in different choirs and we made plenty of University productions. It was a busy and fun period. http://www.idalandsberg.net/about-me/

Jazz Sessions

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Ida Landsberg - Acoustic Bossa Nova

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:27
Size: 97.2 MB
Styles: Bossa Nova, Jazz vocals
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:20] 1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
[2:41] 2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
[3:03] 3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
[2:35] 4. Venus
[3:48] 5. The Look Of Love
[3:21] 6. It's Too Late
[3:34] 7. Walk On The Wild Side
[3:44] 8. Sunny
[4:34] 9. Maniac
[3:11] 10. Jammin'
[3:51] 11. Fragile
[3:41] 12. You Are Not Alone

Guitar – Simone Salvatore; Vocals – Ida Landsberg.

After a long and intense 70s musical rebel period in my adolescence at the sound of the The Doors, Janis Joplin and the Beach Boys, I discovered jazz music which would have been my strongest passion. Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck had become my new heroes, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald my idols. Soon the desire of letting music be a central part of my life became concrete. I was admitted to the Berlin University of Fine Arts and studied music pedagogy there until I left Germany for a student exchange program. My time at the UdK was one of the greatest I can remember. I had a female a cappella trio, sang in different choirs and we made plenty of University productions. It was a busy and fun period.

I had the pleasure to collaborate with many wonderful musicians. And then one day I received an email from Singapore that I was about to move to the spam folder. But then I read it and after I read it again, and it sounded quite serious. They were asking for some music samples for their label and I decided to send them. And they liked them and wanted to release my works. This was the beginning of a great collaboration with EQ Music Singapore, Hitman Jazz and later Irma Records with whom I released 4 solo albums for now – jazz and bossa nova as well as one album with my own compositions – and many compilations. And others are about to be realized.

Music is my aim and ambition, my continuous research and look to the future. No day passes without having some idea or project to realize, something new to create or experience, some unexperienced music style to live. Some notes left to write or to sing. Music for me is not a passion. It is a necessity.

Acoustic Bossa Nova mc
Acoustic Bossa Nova zippy

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Ida Landsberg, Francesco Moraca - Jazz Moments

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:39
Size: 88.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:18] 1. Blue Moon
[3:50] 2. Moon River
[4:28] 3. Cheek To Cheek
[4:30] 4. Over The Rainbow
[2:56] 5. Fly Me To The Moon
[2:12] 6. Alice In Wonderland
[2:30] 7. Beautiful Love
[2:40] 8. Polka Dots And Moonbeams
[2:34] 9. Here's That Rainy Day
[4:16] 10. I Wish You Love
[3:06] 11. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
[3:13] 12. Time Remembered

Music is in my life since I can think. In my case music always had been present but for a long time it wasn’t at the centre of my thinking and activities yet. It was more an accompaniment of every of my daily actions, an accessory, an atmosphere, a song to sing or an open ear for sounds and noises. I always had a very sensible ear that hated rumors and couldn’t tolerate notes that weren’t perfectly clean. Who loved high and clear voices and memorized melodies quickly.

I didn’t grow up in an artist environment even though my grand-grandmother, from which I had my name Ida, was a sculpturist and lived surrounded by famous 19th Century painters in Kleinmachnow just outside Berlin. One of her friends were Max Liebermann. I know her only from my father’s tellings. In my earliest childhood, I sang on my grandmother’s balcony and the neighbors listened to me. At the age of 6 I started to play piano, to sing in a church choir and to be part of a children dance theatre.

After a long and intense 70s musical rebel period in my adolescence at the sound of the The Doors, Janis Joplin and the Beach Boys, I discovered jazz music which would have been my strongest passion. Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck had become my new heroes, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald my idols. Soon the desire of letting music be a central part of my life became concrete. I had the pleasure to collaborate with many wonderful musicians. Music is my aim and ambition, my continuous research and look to the future. No day passes without having some idea or project to realize, something new to create or experience, some unexperienced music style to live. Some notes left to write or to sing. Music for me is not a passion. It is a necessity.

Jazz Moments

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Ida Landsberg - Acoustic Bossa Nova, Vol. 2

Styles: Vocal, Bossa Nova
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:18
Size: 92,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:18)  1. When My Guitar Gently Weeps
(4:25)  2. Fantasy
(2:52)  3. Fame
(4:04)  4. Good Vibrations
(3:14)  5. Street Life
(4:37)  6. Can't Take My Eyes off You
(2:42)  7. Riders on the Storm
(4:03)  8. Black Hole Sun
(3:15)  9. Blame It on the Boogie
(3:14) 10. Crazy
(3:29) 11. Smoke on the Water

Music is in my life since I can think. In my case music always had been present but for a long time it wasn’t at the centre of my thinking and activities yet. It was more an accompaniment of every of my daily actions, an accessory, an atmosphere, a song to sing or an open ear for sounds and noises. I always had a very sensible ear that hated rumors and couldn’t tolerate notes that weren’t perfectly clean. Who loved high and clear voices and memorized melodies quickly. I didn’t grow up in an artist environment even though my grand-grandmother, from which I had my name Ida, was a sculpturist and lived surrounded by famous 19th Century painters in Kleinmachnow just outside Berlin. One of her friends were Max Liebermann. I know her only from my father’s tellings. I passed my childhood and adolescence by studying languages, literature and science, but music was my everyday companion, my friend, my breathe. That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t have been in constant contact with music making. In my earliest childhood, I sang on my grandmother’s balcony and the neighbors listened to me. At the age of 6 I started to play piano, to sing in a church choir and to be part of a children dance theatre.

Also my family enjoyed music. My grandmother played piano, my father accordeon and my mother guitar. They wanted to give us a good musical education. My mother was the one who raise my love for classical music as she took me to the opera house since I was a child. I knew all the arias of Mozart’s “Magical Flute” by heart and sang them the whole day long. She was also the one who forced me to practice piano everyday when I was about to quit at the age of 13. I couldn’t be any more thankful that she insisted.  I was very active at school performances. After a long and intense 70s musical rebel period in my adolescence at the sound of the The Doors, Janis Joplin and the Beach Boys, I discovered jazz music which would have been my strongest passion. Charlie Parker and Dave Brubeck had become my new heroes, Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald my idols. Soon the desire of letting music be a central part of my life became concrete. I was admitted to the Berlin University of Fine Arts and studied music pedagogy there until I left Germany for a student exchange program. My time at the UdK was one of the greatest I can remember. I had a female a cappella trio, sang in different choirs and we made plenty of University productions. It was a busy and fun period.

In Italy I continued my musical studies at the Siena Jazz School, took private singing and improvisation lessons and attended different master classes. I knew my guitarist and now husband Simone Salvatore and I remained in Tuscany for sentimental reasons. We started to play gigs in clubs, theatres and festivals.  From now on I experienced the completest fulfilment as a singer: sharing my music with other people and letting them feel what I always felt. The sensation of feeling alive by making music. Of stopping time by letting music be the protagonist of the moment. Of giving words to the unpronounceable. The joy to feel its unifying and enhancing power. Of being one. Its endless beauty. Pure emotion. Art. Sometimes. We played also at numerous weddings and private partys. Some of the funniest and most memorable moments are linked to some strange or unusual musical situation. I had the pleasure to collaborate with many wonderful musicians. And then one day I received an email from Singapore that I was about to move to the spam folder. But then I read it and after I read it again, and it sounded quite serious. They were asking for some music samples for their label and I decided to send them. And they liked them and wanted to release my works. This was the beginning of a great collaboration with EQ Music Singapore, Hitman Jazz and later Irma Records with whom I released 4 solo albums for now jazz and bossa nova as well as one album with my own compositions and many compilations. And others are about to be realized. Music is my aim and ambition, my continuous research and look to the future. No day passes without having some idea or project to realize, something new to create or experience, some unexperienced music style to live. Some notes left to write or to sing. Music for me is not a passion. It is a necessity. http://www.idalandsberg.net/about-me/

Acoustic Bossa Nova, Vol. 2

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Ida Landsberg - Acoustic Bossa Nova

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:32
Size: 99,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:22)  1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
(2:39)  2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(3:01)  3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
(2:37)  4. Venus
(3:50)  5. The Look Of Love
(3:19)  6. It's Too Late
(3:36)  7. Walk On The Wild Side
(3:42)  8. Sunny
(4:36)  9. Maniac
(3:13) 10. Jammin'
(3:49) 11. Fragile
(3:44) 12. You Are Not Alone

Despite the fact that bossa nova is often composed and played on a guitar the number of acoustic bossa nova albums produced presently, as in the past, are surprisingly relatively small in number. It is possibly due to this fact, that singer Ida Landsberg could release her album titled “Acoustic Bossa Nova,” without the worry of ambiguity. Safe to say there is no ambiguity from a musical aspect either; Ida Landsberg sounds like no one else on this record. As the acoustic nature of the album provides it with a theme already, the song selection was allowed to be a varied one. Several popular songs from artists of all times and genres were covered, though there does seem to be a focus on nostalgic songs from the pre 90’s era. Different moods are also explored throughout the album.

Simone Salvatore’s skillful playing ensures that the absence of other musical instruments is not missed. His virtuoso moments are impressive and well adopted to the specific songs. As well, he provides enough variety to ensure that the background never gets repetitive. Ida sounds comfortable on each track and has the controlled subtlety needed to sing bossa nova. These qualities ensure that the album is a pleasant one and Ida’s modest charisma makes the experience more memorable This quality is brought out on several occasion such as when Ida tones down the 80’s cult classic anthem “Maniac”. Whereas the original was a pulsating song that became synonymous with aerobic work outs, this version is what would be played after the exercise. The aggressive examinations are replaced with a softer approach but not one lacking in energy. She manages to be colorful in expression while always sounding in control and the same can be said about a number of songs on the album.

Ida Landerg’s choice to make an album from an unusual combination of songs is one that pays off. Most of the tracks on the album have rarely, if ever, been done in the bossa nova style and the decision to make the whole album an acoustic one is just as unique as it is effective. ~ http://bnovamusic.com/acoustic-bossa-nova/

Acoustic Bossa Nova

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Ida Landsberg - Cherry Tree Lane

Size: 88,8 MB
Time: 37:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Bossa Nova, Vocal Pop/Jazz
Label: Irma Records
Art: Front

01. Lagoon (3:31)
02. Afternoon Delight (2:47)
03. Fireflies (3:15)
04. Yesterday Dreams (4:42)
05. This Is What I Feel For You (3:45)
06. Playin' (3:52)
07. The House On The Land In The City (3:49)
08. A Little Yellow Boat (4:39)
09. You're So Beautiful (3:24)
10. Hey Love (4:09)

I am a Berlin jazz singer, piano player and songwriter living in Italy. Music is present in my life since I can think.

Whether it was singing on my grandmother’s balcony in the early childhood, my musical activities with piano and voice at school or in the parish or later on, while studying music with Renate Dasch or at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin) (with Jutta Schlegel, Jolyon Brettingham-Smith, Harald Schwarz, Marek Bobéth, Martin Ripper) and the Siena Jazz School (with Roberto Nanetti and Mariano di Nunzio), attending different master classes (Cheryl Porter, Marco Tamburini, Carl Verheyen, Greg Koch…) or taking vocal lessons (jazz improvisation with Susanna Stivali from Saint Louis College of Music or belcanto with Anastasia Tomaszewska from Istituto Rinaldo Franci) , I always felt that music was something really essential to me.

In Berlin I played gigs with Katie Mullins and Haruko Ota in a trio “a cappella” presenting jazz, barbershop, gospel and 20th centry classical music to our audience. I was a member of different choirs who also used to sing in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, the “Neuköllner Oper” or the theatre of Baden Baden.

After I moved to Italy in 2000 my musical activity became very rich and I made a lot of gigs in clubs, theatres, at festivals, music shows and in the radio.

Just to name some of them, I played at “Villa Celimontana Festival” (Rome), “Cantiere Musica” (Anguillara), “Note di Montecucco” (Campagnatico), “Festival del Giornalismo” (Orbetello), Teatro Eliseo and Teatro Anfitrione (Rome), Disma Music Show (Rimini), “Capalbio Libri” with Tony Renis, at Massimo Nunzi‘s radio programme “Jazz a Nota Libera” together with Lino Patruno and many others.

In these past years I had the opportunity to collaborate with many talents of the national and international jazz and independent scene such as Frank Gambale, Ferruccio Spinetti, Emilio Soano, Mirco Mariottini, Lino Patruno, Francesco Poeti, Andy Gravish, Roberto Schiano, Lello Pareti, Piero Borri, Marco Caudai, Marco Guidolotti, Angelo Ferrua, Giampiero Grani, Katie Mullins, Stefano Bagnoli, Olivier Renne, Romano Pratesi, Nico Pistolesi, Angelo Olivieri, Giovanni Bataloni and many more.

In 2010 I signed with the German music company Salto Recordings and am now under contract with the Singapore record label EQ Music, partner of the jazz label Hitman Jazz from Bangkok and the Italian music label Irma Records. Since then I started to release different solo albums, soundtracks for iPhone games from Agharta Studio, compilations, club music tracks and had guest appearences in independent musical projects.

My repertoire includes jazz standards, bossa nova songs, international pop, musical and gospel classics as well as some Italian and Napolitan songs.

But in all these years I never stopped writing my own songs so that after a long period passed in the recording studio I just released my first album with original songs “Cherry Tree Lane” with Irma Records, available on all the main digital music stores (iTunes, Amazon, Beatport etc.).

I found out that creating, in life, is one of the most gratifying things and I really feel blessed when I have the opportunity to share my work with other people.

Cherry Tree Lane

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