Louise Rogers - Come Ready and See Me

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:49
Size: 107,4 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Be My Baby
(6:54)  2. Islands
(5:43)  3. Conjunction
(3:11)  4. Come Ready and See Me
(5:13)  5. Shadows of Yesterday
(5:42)  6. The Song Is You
(5:35)  7. Poetic Song
(3:30)  8. Louise
(6:04)  9. Lass from the Low Countree

Louise Rogers proves absolutely infectious with her delightful vocals. Her expressive voice, playful scatting, and crystal-clear intonation strike the listener right off the bat. Her core group includes Rick Strong (her husband) on bass and Mathias Kunzli on drums, with pianist Matthew Fries, guitarist Paul Meyers, and saxophonist Gottfired Stoger added on a few tracks. Rogers and Strong wrote a hip tune to accompany poet Nikki Giovanni's "Be My Baby," with Kunzli's hand percussion initially serving as her sole accompaniment, adding the bass after the first chorus and scatting up a storm with it in octave unison. Jerry Bergonzi's melancholy "Conjunction" benefits from her hopeful lyrics. Rogers wrote both the words and music to the soft bossa nova "Shadows of Yesterday." Stoger's tense "Poetic Song" features demanding unison lines by the singer and saxophonist. Rogers also finds a fresh approach to the standard "The Song Is You" (adding Stoger on soprano sax) and a playful duet with Strong of the forgotten chestnut "Louise." But the biggest surprise is her setting of a traditional Celtic song, "Lass from the Low Countree," a haunting duet with Strong on electric bass. Highly recommended. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/come-ready-and-see-me-mw0001169217

Personnel:  Louise Rogers – vocals;  Gottfried Stoger – saxophones;  Paul Meyers – guitar;  Matthew Fries – piano;  Rick Strong – bass;  Mathias Kunzli - percussion, drums

Come Ready and See Me

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Louise Rogers - Black Coffee

Styles: Jazz, Vocal

Year: 2010

File: MP3@320K/s

Time: 58:21

Size: 134,1 MB

Art: Front

(4:26)  1. Comes Love

(2:57)  2. Alice in Wonderland

(4:53)  3. Easy to Love

(3:43)  4. Sentimental Journey

(2:42)  5. Lazy Afternoon

(4:45)  6. Pennies from Heaven

(3:47)  7. Alright Okay You Win

(5:55)  8. Black Coffee

(3:43)  9. Ain't Misbehavin'

(3:45) 10. Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe

(4:40) 11. Skylark

(5:16) 12. When the Sun Comes Out

(4:13) 13. Be My Baby

(3:32) 14. Gentle Rain

Jazz vocalist Louise Rogers has been gradually winning over converts with her beautiful burnished tone, clear diction, flawless intonation, and impeccable musicianship. Her natural, unforced delivery harkens back to such pure singers as Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Chris Connor, and Doris Day. And while she may possess considerable technique and a capacity to improvise and scat up a storm like her most significant role model, Ella, Rogers takes a more relaxed and restrained approach on Black Coffee, her fifth recording overall and first for Chesky Records. https://www.amazon.com/Black-Coffee-Louise-Rogers/dp/B003TT72LO

...a pure incandescent voice, free of affectation or obvious influence... ~ Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times

Personnel: Louise Rogers (vocals); Paul Meyers (guitar); Billy Drummond (drums).

Black Coffee

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