Mary Jenson - Close Your Eyes

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:20
Size: 124,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:06)  1. Close Your Eyes
(6:37)  2. It's All Right With Me
(4:53)  3. Cool
(5:13)  4. Fools In Love
(4:58)  5. You're Fine
(4:25)  6. The Hunter Get's Captured By The Game
(4:43)  7. Small Day Tomorrow
(4:16)  8. Dindi
(3:26)  9. Like Someone In Love
(5:19) 10. Besame Mucho
(3:09) 11. Pure Imagination
(4:10) 12. Les Feuilles Mortes

A vibrant vocalist with a love of both jazz and modern music, Mary’s repertoire includes the evolution of popular songs into the jazz context, as well as beautiful renditions of the traditional and familiar.

Mary Jenson's musical tastes were largely influenced by her stint as a radio disc jockey in her early years up on the Mendocino Coast. Exposed to the Bay Area Music scene through the eclectic library of a small market radio station and the left coast culture of Mendocino, those days in a studio lined with LPs had a profound effect on her taste in music. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/maryjenson

Close Your Eyes

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Mary Jenson - Beyond

Size: 128,6 MB
Time: 55:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Temptation (4:09)
02. Say My Name (4:36)
03. Come Together (4:50)
04. Beyond (5:39)
05. Flying, Falling… (6:17)
06. Too High (Feat. Darian Gray) (5:24)
07. Moon At The Window (4:19)
08. Anouman (6:13)
09. The Lamp Is Low (5:35)
10. Orange Blossoms In Summertime (4:32)
11. Things My Mother Said (3:30)

Vocalist Mary Jenson follows her well-received 2009 recording Close Your Eyes (Self Produced) with an homage to the dream state with Beyond. Coming from a large military family that never stayed put for long, Jenson developed a gypsy's soul and a musical taste for the world rhythmic and cosmopolitan. Her song selection is novel, including compositions by The Beatles ("Come Together"), Stevie Wonder ("Too High") and Joni Mitchell ("Moon at the Window").

But it is the opener, Tom Waits' "Temptation," that really captures Jenson's world music-jazz view. Pianist Frank Martin sets up swirling smoke over the poly-rhythms of drummer Will Kennedy and uber-percussionist Alex Acuna. The arrangement is light, with moments of inventive melodic grounding firmly in in the warm climes of the Caribbean rim. Jenson's pliable voice shares these characteristics of the arrangement. She transforms this Waits ballad (sung to great humid effect by Cote de Pablo in the opening episode of NCIS, Season 6). Jenson takes away some of the humidity and adds complex undulations, giving the piece a more urgent and visceral punch. ~C. Michael Bailey

Personnel: Mary Jenson: vocals; Frank Martin: keyboards; Mads Tolling: violin; Jose Neto: guitar; Ralphe Armstrong: bass; Will Kennedy: drums; Alex Acuna: percussion.

Beyond

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