Showing posts with label Lela Kaplowitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lela Kaplowitz. Show all posts

Friday, May 14, 2021

Lela Kaplowitz - To One

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:29
Size: 135,5 MB
Art: Front

( 4:04) 1. Liila
( 4:39) 2. Human Tapestry
( 5:03) 3. You Gave Me the Wings
( 4:27) 4. Everything Is Possible
( 4:42) 5. Love Is All There Is
( 3:59) 6. 300 Years of Silence
( 5:12) 7. Dreamland
( 4:32) 8. You Will See
( 5:44) 9. With Every Breath
( 5:58) 10. Love Prayer
(10:05) 11. Chant to One

Lela Kaplowitz gives something artistic to the world. It makes people look at the ordinary things in a new way. It stimulates them to see with a new perspective. Lela’s flood of creativity changes people’s lives for the better and raises beauty out of ordinary daily life. Lela’s mission is to stimulate, to entertain, to show beauty. She is a success because she loves her calling.

Lela began professionally singing at 16. She studied vocal improvisation with Sheila Jordan at the Jazz Conservatorium in Graz, Austria, and later in New York with world-renowned jazz musicians like Jay Clayton, Mark Murphy, Barry Harris, and Kate McGarry.

She also attended the Berklee Summer Music Workshop in Perugia, Italy, and studied at the New School in New York. Lela continues to study at Berklee Music online and with acclaimed vocal coach Dot Todman from LA.

She performed and recorded with prominent musicians and during the five years of her life in New York City, Lela was heard and seen at the most prominent places of the American musical history. In Europe, she travelled and performed in most prominent European jazz clubs and festivals.

In 2009, Lela won the title “Lady Summertime” at the one of the largest female vocal jazz competitions in the world in Kaajani, Finland. She recorded a few albums and appeared on several as a guest vocalist

On September 19th 2019she performed at the world renowned Carnegie Hall in New York City promoting her newest album “To One” published by Parma Recordings.

A piece of that concert's spirit she will bring to Lisinski and share with her audience. https://www.lisinski.hr/en/events/lela-kaplowitz-br-to-one/

On her concert she will be backed by a four-piece ensemble: Joe Kaplowitz –piano, organ; Elvis Penava – guitar; Vladimir Samardžic – bass; Dado Marinkovic – drums

To One

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Lela & Joe Kaplowitz - With Every Breath

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:20
Size: 165,2 MB
Art: Front

(6:36)  1. Blues In Red Hook
(8:18)  2. Keep On Going
(7:31)  3. With Every Breath
(6:35)  4. I Love Myself
(6:06)  5. Home
(8:21)  6. Please Say
(7:27)  7. I Celebrate The Life
(6:02)  8. Sisters
(6:32)  9. Sand Story
(7:48) 10. Bolero

Croatian singer Lela Kaplowitz sings con brio and gleeful abandon. Eastern Europe has always been a hotbed terrain for big band music, with creativity exploding after the end of the Cold War. Kaplowitz and her husband/pianist/arranger Joe Kaplowitz emerge fully formed and swinging on With Every Breath. The pair employ the wares of the Croatian Radio-Television Jazz Orchestra (think an Eastern WDR) and spin out ten finely crafted big band pieces. Joe Kaplowitz proves more than capable as arranger for a large ensemble. "Blues in Red Hook" bristles with swinging invention and a complex and sprawling solo by the pianist. "Keep on Going," the disc's first vocal raps a Latin vibe blistering voice and trumpet. Singer Kaplowitz's voice is resonant and robust, whether at full gale or sotto voce. These are the two aspects of the recording that stand out: the arrangements and singing. The arrangements are tight and the composing laces intricate with complex heads and solos woven together in an almost tactile manner. 

Kaplowitz's singing is simply superb. She draws forth all of the blues and church from "Sisters," a languid stroll that allows for torch singing of the flame-throwing variety. Kaplowitz scats a bluestreak with trumpets and guitar in a New Orleans orgy of broken counterpoint. "Sand Story" begins in a hail of free jazz, before a vocal refrain defines a direction that flows into a Caribbean groove tempered with a steady rimshot. Breezy, but intense, the piece possesses a provocative symmetry reflecting that of the entire recording. ~ C.Michael Bailey  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/lela-and-joe-kaplowitz-with-every-breath-lela-kaplowitz-self-produced-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php
 
Personnel: Lela Kaplowitz: vocals; Joe Kaplowitz: piano, arranger; Croatian Radio- Television Jazz Orchestra, Saša Nestorovic: director.