Joani Taylor - The Art of the Jazz Ballad

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:12
Size: 126,8 MB
Art: Front

(8:05)  1. I'm Glad There Is You
(6:25)  2. Forever Eyes
(6:55)  3. Make Someone Happy
(6:30)  4. Yesterday
(6:01)  5. Little Bridge
(3:22)  6. That Night
(8:49)  7. You Don't Know Me
(9:01)  8. 'Round Midnight

Joani taylor is canada's first lady of the jazz ballad. she has legendary status in canada's music circles. joani has practically lived in television and recording studios. she has sung solo and back up on literally thousands of film scores, commercials, and recordings with artists ranging from bryan adams, jon bon jovi, bruce fairburn, david foster, to tom jones and james galway, and producing herself as well as other artists. Joani has flown all over the world for special solo performances appearing in taiwan, san francisco, across canada, the 02/03/o4 vancouver international jazz festival and at the adelaide jazz festival in austraila. joani was nominated for the national jazz awards and the 03 juno awards for her fourth cd "the wall street sessions." the recognition has been earned and well deserved. she is a prolific lyricist and an excellent vocal arranger. sending her on teaching tours three to four times a year, joani's master classes for singers and musicians accompaning singers are compelling, inovative, and very well attended. her students love her approach and she covers areas of performance not delt with by other clinicians.constantly working on stage ms. taylor has opened for and performed with a real range of artists from stevie wonder and little richard, to lenny breau, p.j. perry, cannonball addrley, miles davis. don thompson, fraser macpherson, tommy banks, moe koffman campbell ryga, brad turner, ross taggart, john capon and many other artists. recently, joani recorded the opening song for  a feature film. With influences and encouragement from powerful artists such as ella fitzgerald, frank sinatra, bill evans. thelonious monk and cannonball adderly, joani has become a master of her own style. it has been roumored that joani's music is included in clint eastwood's personal collection. as a matter of fact you can clearly hear the impact and influence she's had on some of canada's best known singers. you can't miss the power of her spirit when deep into a song. joani taylor brings to her audience a truly personal and in the moment experience. this chick singer stirs up a compelling feast of vocal delights that lure and seduce the audience into a jazz buff born again conversion. joani taylor has arrived. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/joani2

Personnel:  Vocals – Joani Taylor;  Piano – Bob Murphy .

The Art of the Jazz Ballad

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Joani Taylor - In A Sentimental Mood

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:20
Size: 146,7 MB
Art: Front

(6:27)  1. This Can't Be Love
(4:58)  2. In A Sentimental Mood
(4:19)  3. Embraceable You
(5:24)  4. Alfie
(3:46)  5. Undecided
(3:14)  6. Sentimental Journey
(7:01)  7. Lover Man
(5:23)  8. Love Walked In
(3:57)  9. A Ghost Of A Chance / I Can't Get Started
(6:43) 10. More Than You Know
(6:41) 11. Be My Love
(5:19) 12. I Just Had To Hear Her Voice

About three years ago at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, I was standing in the back of a concert in studio B at CBC. Joani was singing a ballad to an audience of approximately three hundred people. She had the room in the palm of her hand and I was starting to get all choked up. I looked around the room and saw that I wasn't alone. There were a lot of people trying to pretend they weren't wiping away tears. Over the years, I've seen Joani do this many times. The first time was decades ago at the El Mocambo nightclub in Burnaby and I think she was only sixteen then. I've had the honour and privilege of witnessing and playing with some wonderful artists who can do this, who can connect to something deep inside themselves and touch something deep inside us. But still and all, they are relatively rare. To be able to do this an artist has to, as well as have the skill of their craft and of their art, go deep inside themselves to go beyond style, tradition, politics and personality, plus find a connection to their own essence. Then they need the willingness to be vulnerable enough to open up and connect with the people they are playing with and for. For me, Joani has always been a benchmark of this kind of intimacy. Every time I play with her she completely connects and any move I make moves her. When she performs for an audience, she takes them to someplace new and magical. Working on this project has been a great joy for me, especially the writing sessions with Joani and Miles. Things just seemed to fall into place naturally and the results are open and sincere. The beautiful original music by Sharon Minemoto, Ross Taggart and Jimm Taylor was a delight to play and I think show many different sides to Joani's “Own Voice”. Her original lyrics show the same intimacy as her performances. The three non-originals take us in different soul-stirring directions again. The recording sessions with all these beautiful players were so inspiring. Every cut is first or second take. For this reason, I think the music has a fresh, raw, and honest quality that I love. Every time I listen to these takes of Joani, Miles, Ross, Brad, Buff, Bernie and Doug, it makes me laugh and cry. I think this is a generous offering from a beautiful and continually developing, but maturing artist of great depth and breadth. I hope there is much more to come from Joani, my longtime friend, because I know she certainly has a lot more to say. ~ Bob Murphy http://www.joanitaylor.com/index2.html

Personnel:  Joani Taylor - Voice - Vocal;  P.J. Perry - Alto & Tenor Saxophones;  Miles Black - Piano;  Neil Swainson - Bass

In A Sentimental Mood

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Joani Taylor With Ross Taggart & Friends - A State Of Grace

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 61:30

Size: 140.8 MB

Styles: Vocal jazz

Year: 2002

Art: Front

[5:34] 1. All My Tomorrows

[5:49] 2. The Very Thought Of You

[5:29] 3. Imagine My Frustration

[4:40] 4. A State Of Grace

[5:19] 5. For All We Know

[4:37] 6. Seeing For The Very First Time

[3:23] 7. You Look Good

[5:32] 8. Answer My Questions

[5:35] 9. I Ain't Got Nothing But The Blues

[4:14] 10. You're Blase

[6:11] 11. Detour Ahead

[5:03] 12. You Must Believe In Spring

Joani is Canada's “First Lady of the Jazz Ballad”. She has legendary status in Canadian music circles and has sung on thousands of film scores, commercials and recordings…..working with a variety of luminaries from Bryan Adams and Stevie Wonder to James Galway, David Foster, Cannonball Adderley, and Miles Davis. Joani has flown worldwide to bewitch audiences in concerts and festivals. She has won nominations and awards for her work in both Canada and the U.S. She has had a hit single and recorded five albums, not including the compilations she has been featured on. Joani is releasing her explosive sixth product featuring her own profound and prolific writing, as well as her brilliant vocal performances.

A State Of Grace

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Joani Taylor - In My Own Voice

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 73:05
Size: 167,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:15)  1. Just Let Go
(3:34)  2. The Secret
(4:25)  3. Take Five
(5:36)  4. Thank You for Loving Me
(6:39)  5. Who's Gonna Hold Me Now
(3:19)  6. Lucky in Love
(6:43)  7. Peace Lullaby
(6:21)  8. Dance With Me
(7:24)  9. You Are My Sunshine
(4:07) 10. Photograph
(4:49) 11. Compared to What
(6:15) 12. Jim's Lament
(4:28) 13. Dance With Me
(4:02) 14. Just Let Go

Joani Taylor is a grand Dame among jazz singers, displaying a luster in her voice that glitters with the splendor of a Queen’s crown jewels. Taylor’s sixth album In My Own Voice shows her moving from spirited swing jaunts to sultry ballads while swigging a captivating R&B clef in her vocal holster that tells you this is a woman with a sturdy backbone who possesses the vulnerability of a maiden’s heart. Produced by Taylor and Miles Foxx Hill, In My Own Voice has chiefly original material co-written by Taylor with a handful of covers. The songs exhibit the multiple facets of Taylor’s vocals while honing her singing into sculptures for audiences to behold. She sings to a timing that she hears in head similarly to country music’s Faith Hill, which causes the lyrics to spill outside of the melodic lines making her voice move with authority and autonomy from the confines of her surroundings. She is not singing to the music scores but to someone whom she has in mind, which she puts on a pedestal and serenades with the charm of a love-soaked cockatoo. The Latin flare of “Dance With Me” brings out the sultry aspects of Taylor’s register while tracks like “Compared To What” and “Just Let Go” light up with the R&B intonations of her vocal nuances which infuse the melodies with a nice shot of adrenaline. 

Taylor holds her notes longer than humanly imaginable in “You Are My Sunshine” which penetrates deep into the listener’s skin, and the smooth way that she sings “The Secret” stokes a solace over the listener. Her remake of Paul Desmond and Dave and Lola Brubeck’s classic tune “Take Five” inflames a charming flirtation between herself and rapper Jay Kin. Afterwards, Taylor goes into a relaxing mode with a string of smooth torchlight melodies like “Thank You For Loving Me” featuring the lively trumpet curlicues of Brad Turner, and the “Who’s Gonna Hold Me Now” with its silk bedding of consoling piano keys played by Bob Murphy. “Lucky In Love,” penned by Taylor and Sharon Minemoto, has all the classic twinkles and cool cat strut which mark a memorable jazz standard, and the loving way that Taylor’s voice cradles the verses of “Peace Lullaby” is reminiscent of the feminine softness of Dena DeRose showing soulful caresses that feel ideal. In My Own Voice establishes Joani Taylor as a purveyor of love sonnets. Her voice delivers words of love as if they should be an everyday occurrence. Her songs seem more than wishful thoughts and ideal illusions. They seem so real as if these stories actually happened and are still happening everyday. Her album allows audiences to enter a world filled with blissful sensations and starry romances. No one in their right mind could say no to such temptation, and most of all, the human heart craves it. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joani5

Personnel: Saxophone - Ross Taggart, Trumpet - Brad Turner, Piano and Hammond B3 organ - Bob Murphy, Guitar - Doug Stephenson, Bass - Miles Foxx, Drums - Buff Allen and Berni Arai, Percussion - Jack Duncan, and Emcee - Jay Kin

In My Own Voice

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