Showing posts with label Rebecca Jenkins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rebecca Jenkins. Show all posts

Friday, February 3, 2017

Rebecca Jenkins - Blue Skies

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 29:57
Size: 69,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:19)  1. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(2:22)  2. Moon River
(2:02)  3. Like Someone In Love
(2:45)  4. Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)
(2:26)  5. Blue Skies
(2:41)  6. In My Solitude
(2:25)  7. Cheek To Cheek
(2:37)  8. Once I Loved
(3:06)  9. God Bless the Child
(2:42) 10. Night and Day
(1:36) 11. All of Me
(2:51) 12. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Rebecca Jenkins, one of Canada’s most beloved and accomplished actresses, returns to her jazz roots with the release of a new CD of jazz standards, Blue Skies. With Blue Skies Jenkins brings her pure and soulful voice, and her original phrasing and interpretations, to twelve jazz standards, backed by musicians, Alan Matheson (trumpet), Joel Bakan (guitar), and Liam MacDonald (drums and percussion). Blue Skies was independently co-produced by Jenkins with Bakan (writer of The Corporation book and film). Jenkins burst onto the Canadian film scene with her best actress Genie Award-winning performance as a 1940s jazz singer in Anne Wheeler's Bye Bye Blues (the soundtrack was released by Warner Bros. as an album). Her soulful and charismatic singing and acting in that film launched a career that has included numerous critically-acclaimed and award-winning roles in Canadian and American film and television. Among other things, she played the lead in the CBC series Black Harbour, starred alongside Oscar winners Tim Robbins (Bob Roberts) and Kevin Spacey (Darrow), and played lead roles in several recent feature films written and/or directed by Daniel MacIvor (Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Wilby Wonderful, Whole New Thing).

As a singer, Jenkins toured and recorded as back-up vocalist with the Parachute Club and Jane Siberry. Over the years she has performed original and other material, including the jazz repertoire, in front of symphony orchestras, on radio shows (among other things, she co-hosted and performed songs on CBC Radio’s Quiet There’s a Lady On Stage, broadcast from the Glenn Gould theatre), at music festivals, on compilation albums (such as Bruce Cockburn’s Kick at the Darkness), at clubs and concert halls, and for film and television soundtracks. Her original song Something’s Coming, which she performed on the feature film Wilby Wonderful soundtrack, was nominated for a Genie Award for best original song. She also co-wrote and performed, with Aaron Davis, the title track to The Sunrise, a television adaptation of a Margaret Atwood short story, in which she starred and was nominated for a Gemini Award. https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rebeccajenkins

Blue Skies

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Rebecca Jenkins - Rebecca Jenkins & Her Trio: Live At The Cellar

Size: 110,4 MB
Time: 47:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. My Favourite Things (4:06)
02. Night And Day (3:08)
03. How Much Love (3:41)
04. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (3:16)
05. Blue Moon (3:14)
06. Son Of A Preacher Man (2:54)
07. You Are (3:54)
08. I'm Beginning To See The Light (2:35)
09. Hallelujah (7:00)
10. Cheek To Cheek (3:03)
11. Ode To Billie Joe (5:59)
12. Am I Blue (4:18)

Rebecca Jenkins and Her Trio, Live at The Cellar was recorded at Vancouver’s storied Cory Weeds’ Jazz Cellar in February 2014, just weeks before the club closed its doors for the last time. It was a magical evening for both the musicians and audience as Rebecca and the trio swung and grooved their way through two sets of jazz standards, cool covers, and haunting originals, every tune infused with easy soulfulness and joy. Backed by her long-time trio this is Rebecca’s third solo album, after Blue Skies (2008) and Something’s Coming (2012), and adds to a body of work that includes albums with the Parachute Club, Jane Siberry, and Kevin Breit, among others, as well as a soundtrack album from the film Bye Bye Blues in which Rebecca played a 1940s jazz singer, a role for which she won a Genie Award for best actress. That film helped launch Rebecca’s career as one of Canada’s most beloved and accomplished film and television actors, with numerous starring and award-winning roles over the years (alongside the likes of Tim Robbins, Kevin Spacey, and Ellen Page), and most recently in Sarah Polley’s critically-acclaimed Stories We Tell (2012).

Live At The Cellar