Jeanette Lindström - Queen on the Hillside

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:37
Size: 112,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:45) 1. Queen on the Hillside
(4:38) 2. Fragments
(5:09) 3. Falling
(4:24) 4. Vem
(4:10) 5. That Cloud
(4:21) 6. This Is How
(5:09) 7. Somehow
(2:08) 8. Commence
(6:34) 9. Breathe
(5:13) 10. Try to Be
(3:00) 11. North

Jeanette Lindström is one of those artists who gained my admiration and recognition just moments after hearing a few phrases. She is also one of those that comes from my favorite Scandinavian world saturated with female jazz. Often compared to Dianne Reeves, Lindström is one of the leading singers there.

The latest album " Queen on the Hillside " is exactly a decade away from the last " Attitude & Orbit Control ". This album, released in 2009, was a huge commercial success, and the critics admired and admired it, which could also affect the long waiting time for the next material. Once the extreme is caught up, it's very hard to hold that position, let alone improve it. In 10 years, a lot has happened in music. Returning too late is always associated with a greater risk of failure. Unless, like with Jeanette, it is not necessary to ask for applause and approval. Her voice is so noble and dignified that the mere appearance of it is a promotion in itself.~ Translate By Google https://jazzsoul.pl/2020/03/11/recenzja-jeanette-lindstrom-queen-on-the-hillside/

Queen on the Hillside

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Jeanette Lindstrom - Whistling Away The Dark

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:32
Size: 157,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:22)  1. Whistling Away The Dark
(5:26)  2. My One & Only Love
(6:05)  3. You Go To My Head
(4:43)  4. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
(3:04)  5. Jitterbug Waltz
(4:46)  6. The Nearness Of You
(5:42)  7. Lush Life
(2:17)  8. Misty
(3:55)  9. Nature Boy
(4:49) 10. Peace
(6:07) 11. Night & Day
(3:27) 12. Too Marvelous For Words
(5:57) 13. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
(4:14) 14. When There Is Love
(3:30) 15. Grow Old With Me

Jeanette Lindström was born and raised in Sweden, but there have been times when her phrasing might lead those who haven't seen her picture to think she could be African-American, although one would have been unlikely to make that mistake if they'd heard her singing jazz in Swedish with bassist Anders Jormin. African-American singers have clearly had a great impact on Lindström, whose impressionistic approach brings to mind Dianne Reeves and Abbey Lincoln, and whose Caprice CDs are best described as post-bop with R&B overtones. Born in Östersund, Sweden, a few hours north of Stockholm, Lindström studied at the University of Lund and earned a degree from the Royal Music Academy of Stockholm when she was 23 in 1995. After attracting attention on the Swedish jazz scene, where she sang with everything from big bands to more experimental groups, Lindström went to Copenhagen in neighboring Denmark in 1995 to record her debut album, Another Country, for Caprice. The following year, she was documented in more of an avant-garde setting when Jormin featured her prominently on his Dragon date, Once. While that disc found Lindström singing in both English and Swedish, she stuck to English on Another Country and her equally appealing sophomore effort, I Saw You (1997). ~ Alex Henderson https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/jeanette-lindstrom/id65885213#fullText

Personnel:  Double Bass – Palle Danielsson;  Drums – Magnus Öström;  Organ – Bobo Stenson (tracks: 12);  Piano – Bobo Stenson (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7), Jonas Östholm (tracks: 3, 10, 11, 13 to 15);  Vocals – Jeanette Lindström

Whistling Away The Dark

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Jeanette Lindstrom Quintet - Another Country

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:13
Size: 156.2 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz
Year: 1995
Art: Front

[7:24] 1. Greenwillow Never Will I Marry
[5:41] 2. Another Country
[5:39] 3. All The World's Stage
[6:15] 4. It Don't Come Easy
[1:46] 5. Cold
[3:53] 6. The Answer
[4:18] 7. Meeting
[5:09] 8. Street Scene Lonely House
[5:03] 9. Wives And Lovers
[8:01] 10. White Lady In The Window
[8:36] 11. Competition
[6:21] 12. One Touch Of Venus Speak Low

Double Bass – Dan Berglund; Drums, Percussion – Magnus Öström; Piano – Torbjörn Gulz; Saxophone – Örjan Hultén; Vocals, Producer – Jeanette Lindström.

Jeanette Lindstrom's promising debut album was titled Another Country because instead of being recorded in her native Sweden, it was done in Copenhagen with Danish players. But most of the time, this risk-taking CD sounds like it could have been recorded in New York or Chicago. Though slight traces of a Scandinavian accent come through on occasion, Lindstrom often sounds like she could be African-American. The jazz singers she brings to mind include Abbey Lincoln and Dianne Reeves, and Lindstrom's phrasing also gives the impression she has much spent time listening to a lot of 1970s and 1980s R&B. But while comparisons are well and good, Lindstrom never sounds like she's actually emulating anyone. Whether the impressionistic post-bop singer is interpreting the lyrics to "Speak Low," "Never Will I Marry" and "Wives and Loves" or scatting on her wordless "Competition," Another Country is clearly the work of someone who had developed a recognizable style of her own. ~Alex Henderson

Another Country

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Jeanette Lindström - Sinatra-Weill

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:19
Size: 131.2 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1999/2002
Art: Front

[8:16] 1. Speak Low
[8:01] 2. My Ship
[5:07] 3. The Tender Trap
[5:37] 4. Blame It On My Youth
[7:13] 5. Fly Me To The Moon
[6:10] 6. Lonely House
[4:52] 7. All My Tomorrows
[6:00] 8. The Lady Is A Tramp
[5:58] 9. Lost In The Stars

Swedish vocalist Jeanette Lindström once prompted legendary music producer Quincy Jones to voice the portentous words: “An old soul in a young singer”, and: “She really understands what jazz is all about!” In 1995, Lindström made her major breakthrough. After being awarded the “Jazz in Sweden” prize, she recorded her debut album, Another Country, on the Caprice record label that year. This was followed in 1997 by I Saw You. In 1998 she recorded and toured with Norrbotten Big Band, led by trumpeter Tim Hagans in collaboration with pianist Kenny Werner, resulting in a CD featuring music by Kurt Weill as well as repertoire associated with Frank Sinatra, which was released in 1999. For several years, Lindström worked with pianist Steve Dobrogosz as a duo. In 2000, they released Feathers (Prophone Records). She has also toured and recorded with bass player Anders Jormin (Once, Dragon Records, 1997).

Sinatra-Weill

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Jeanette Lindstrom & Steve Dobrogosz - Feathers

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:35
Size: 150,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:33)  1. Butterfly
(7:25)  2. Never Let Me Go
(4:12)  3. The Look Of Love
(3:49)  4. Love Makes You Suffer
(5:17)  5. Both Sides, Now
(5:14)  6. My Hands
(6:24)  7. Almost Blue
(5:09)  8. Like Water
(5:51)  9. Breakfast at Tiffany's  Moon River
(3:47) 10. To Whom It May Concern
(3:59) 11. Future Window
(5:27) 12. You Are There
(4:20) 13. Deep Space

Feathers travels a different road than Jeanette Lindström's previous albums. Where earlier releases have her sounding like an Afro-American singer with overtones of Abbey Lincoln and Diane Reeves, her newest is introspective and soft. There is no hint of soul, R&B, or anything resembling an up-tempo pace. This change of rhythms may have something to do with the label. Her earlier recordings were with Caprice, which has featured African/Middle Eastern music. Sweden's Prophone, on the other hand, not only records jazz, but classical as well, and probably is a bit more conservative. It may also have something to do with her fellow performer; Steve Dobrogosz's compositions and recordings are calm and collected as the listener will find out since there are four of his tunes on the 13 tune play list. His songs are also characterized by disconsolate, and in one case, cruel lyrics "So I reached out to rub off its color, break its small body, and pull off its wings" on "Butterfly." Maybe there's an allegory here somewhere. 

Then there's the not so appealing conclusion that "Love Makes You Suffer." Even tunes that one normally hears played if not in quick, at least in medium tempos, are offered in unusually slow measures. But there are gems here as well. Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" has an ethereal quality about it with Lindström's voice floating above the Mozart sonata-like piano of Dobrogosz. The Andy Williams' monster hit "Moon River" opens with a lengthy Dobrogosz introduction which changes the phrasing and accents of this tune, giving it a much different play than Williams'. The hopeful lyrics are sung with an appropriate feeling of longing. Every now and then, one needs to take down an album from the shelf if for nothing else than as a proper backdrop for quiet times. You could do a lot worse than purchasing this CD for that purpose. ~ Dave Nathan   http://www.allmusic.com/album/feathers-mw0001154452

Feathers

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