Size: 101,5 MB
Time: 43:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Pop, Jazz, Easy Listening, Classical
Art: Front
01. Autumn Leaves (Les Fueiles Mortes) (3:40)
02. Where Do I Begin (From Love Story) (4:49)
03. Gymnopedie 2 (2:46)
04. I Dreamed A Dream (From Les Miserables) (4:10)
05. How Do I Keep The Music Playing (3:50)
06. The Windmills Of Your Mind (Les Moulins De Mon Coeur) (3:28)
07. First Arabesque (5:16)
08. If We Only Have Love (Quand On N'a Que L'amour) (3:53)
09. Valse Lente (From Coppelia) (3:15)
10. Yesterday When I Was Young (Hier Encore) (3:19)
11. What Now My Love (Et Maintenant) (2:31)
12. Lullaby (From Jocelyn) (2:39)
Jeanne Newhall is rooted in change. As a vocalist, a composer of words and music, and a classically trained pianist, Newhall has always had a passion for new experiences and the fresh directions they can bring. Her explorations have led her to the realms of jazz and R&B—and even hip hop—and rock and pop , expanding her musical universe and revealing themselves in her warm, rich vocals, lyrical vocabulary and the immaculately nuanced notes of her piano. Common through the warp and weft of all her changes and adventures and endeavors is an enduring sense of spirit and the spiritual. “I have often been told that music brings peace, happiness and goodness,” says Newhall, who has practiced Ashtanga Royal Yoga daily for more than 10 years. “My charge is to always keep that in mind; it is. I go to it when I go to the instrument. It is there, waiting. It did not come from practicing hard or being a child prodigy. It came later and it came with long struggle and slow surrender. The only way I can gracefully take a bow to this sublime influence in my life is to sing and play to it and for it.”
Jeanne Newhall’s life has always been filled with words and music. Raised on a farm in Arizona, she grew up in the starkly beautiful shadows of the Sierra Estrella Mountains west of Phoenix. When her music-loving parents bought the six-year old Jeanne a piano, she could barely reach the keys. She made her professional debut at 14, and before she was 16, had graduated high school, mastered six Mozart concertos and moved to New York City to study piano with Nadia Reisenberg. Subsequently, she turned down offers from the Juilliard, Eastman and Curtis Institutes, opting to study piano with the acclaimed Abbey Simon at Indiana University, ultimately earning a degree in performance from Arizona State University.
In college, friends introduced her to jazz and the connection was immediate. “A whole new world of possibilities not limited by the boundaries of classical music suddenly opened up for me—melodies, voicings, improvisation,” she recalls. “I almost left school then and there.” She didn’t leave school, but she did alter her course. She listened to all the jazz she could find and she listened to R&B, which she had loved since grade school.
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