Renee Yoxon & Chad Linsley - Impossible: Live At Musideum

Size: 119,7 MB
Time: 51:07
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. Age Of Not Believing (Live) (3:54)
02. Being Green (Live) (4:26)
03. Rip Van Winkle (Live) (4:13)
04. In My Own Little Corner (Live) (6:24)
05. Dear Bix (Live) (4:55)
06. Little Prince (Live) (5:03)
07. Mimosa And Me (Live) (4:03)
08. Wonder (Live) (5:21)
09. Never Never Land (Live) (3:43)
10. Impossible (Live) (4:27)
11. Far Away Places - My Ship (Live) (4:33)

On August 2015, Renée Yoxon & Chad Linsley released their first collaborative work, Impossible: Live at Musideum. Touching on magic, dreaming, and the urge to run away, Impossible features music from and inspired by film adaptations of children’s stories. Yoxon & Linsley’s interpretations are imaginative, intimate, vulnerable, and remind the listener of childhood – at once carefree, questioning, and melancholy.

This release marks Yoxon’s third full-length album and first live album. Never straying far from her roots in traditional jazz, Yoxon’s latest collection of songs will resonate with fans of her other works, collections of standards and standard-esque originals. She says, “In searching for the roots of the standards I know and love I found myself becoming attracted to jazz interpretation of stories from my childhood. Playing these songs with Chad has been a wonderful and unique experience because of how deeply he listens and how much he cares about this music.”

Linsley brings his years of professional experience and strong love of vocal music to the project. “One of my favourite formats is the piano-vocal duo” says Linsley, “a musically intimate setting where Renée and I can interact with the song more directly. One of my favourite things about improvising at the piano is the creation of textures and space for words. The songs revolving around the theme of childhood inspire deep feeling and memories of my earliest encounters with music, a place where anything was possible.”

Impossible: Live At Musideum

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Renée Yoxon & René Gely - Let's Call It A Day

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2010
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:45
Size: 97,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:08)  1. The Look Of Love
(4:37)  2. Willow Weep For Me
(3:42)  3. Never Let Me Go
(3:01)  4. Let's Call It A Day
(2:54)  5. Candy
(3:25)  6. Lovers' Lullaby
(3:50)  7. Centerpiece
(3:58)  8. The Masquerade Is Over
(3:06)  9. Par Ce Beau Jour De Printemps
(5:14) 10. Don't Explain
(3:47) 11. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

About Let's Call it a Day: As Yoxon's debut album, this work showcases her clear and unembellished lyrical delivery, poignant song choice, and emotionally charged performance. Using a wide variety of guitars, Yoxon & Gely create atmospheric, folk-influenced interpretations of jazz standards.

Artists' Bios: Young vocalist Renee Yoxon is quickly becoming one of the most in demand jazz singers in the Ottawa region thanks to her grace, captivating presence and beautiful voice. Introduced to jazz music in high school, her tastes and vocal repertoire range from bebop to contemporary favourites. After graduating from high school Renee studied voice with Tena Palmer while completing a degree in physics with minors in math and music from Carleton University. Recently, Renee has participated in the National Arts Centre's Manhattan on the Rideau masterclasses led by Theo Bleckmann and Peter Eldridge. 

Distinguished by more poise and assurance than most young women her age, Renee delivers unique interpretations of jazz standards. Hear her every Monday night at Bar 56 in Ottawa's Byward Market. Rene Gely has pursued his musical passions in San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Paris. A Parisian for 12 years, he studied with the French world music guitarist Pierre Bensusan and the acclaimed American expatriate, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. Rene has recorded with Toronto jazz musicians such as Perry White and George Koller, as well as with the Irish singer Mary Reidy. While in San Francisco in 2003, Rene started his world beat trio Pulse Mondiale. He later relocated to the Ottawa area where he is originally from. Here he has formed a new edition of Pulse Mondiale, as well as new collaborations with the city's best musicians. http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/reneeyoxonrenegely

Personnel: Renée Yuxon (vocals); René Gely (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, nylon-string guitar, piano).

Let's Call It A Day

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Renee Yoxon & Mark Ferguson - Here We Go Again

Size: 123,2 MB
Time: 53:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. So Far (4:38)
02. Drinking Coffee (4:28)
03. Here We Go Again (4:30)
04. Watching (5:52)
05. Just Say The Word (4:10)
06. Just As We Are (3:32)
07. Sao Paulo (5:05)
08. Canary (4:24)
09. 1-2-3 (3:58)
10. Have We Been In Love Before? (5:17)
11. Don't Go (3:43)
12. There's Only You (3:21)

Here We Go Again is Canadian singer/songwriter Renee Yoxon's follow-up to 2010's Let's Call It A Day (Self Produced). She teams with pianist/trombonist Mark Ferguson for a dozen original compositions that are refreshingly familiar, meaning they all have a traditional form and mainstream sensibility that softens the blow to even the most stalwart traditionalist deaf to any material composed after 1960.

But new material, this is. From afar, this is a collection of slow- and medium-tempo ballads that have a faint familiarity that is difficult to pin down. "Drinking Coffee" has a whiff of Jackson Browne in its structure (or is it Warren Zevon) and sounds as if Linda Ronstadt would have sung this 30 years previous. Craig Pedersen's pinched trumpet adds just enough jazz to keep things unbalanced, not a bad thing here as it curtails this music's predictability making it at once fresh but not out of reach. The title piece is a lyrically complex waltz that modulates through times and tempi providing the listener something continually new. "Watching" is a delicate pastoral, opened with Joel Kerr's arco bass delicately balanced upon Ferguson's piano. Yoxon's voice is confident and knowing, comfortable and intimate.

Intimate may best describe this recording. Yoxon's writing and voice are clearly out there with no net. Even on the more up-tempo "Just As We Are," Yoxon sings as if telling a humorous secret:

"We make such a pair; we match like a new pair of shoes
Why go spoil it all with a pair of "I dos."
And We stay just as we are, our love still shiny and new
No fuss no fight , stayin up all night, whispering dreamily
We should stay just as we are, just you and me..."

"Sao Paulo" is proto-Bossa Nova so fresh and humid, Yoxon's wordless singing equally fresh. the piece, "1-2-3" opens with a jaunty walking bass, Ferguson's trombone doubling with Yoxon's be bop voice that leads into a bit of impressive scat singing. Ferguson's solo is understated and bluesy, contrasting well with Yoxon's voice. Here We Go Again echos the method on Thisbe Vos' Under Your Spell (Self Produced, 2013), one where the mainstream is not forsaken but is tilled into itself making a richer foundation for the newly composed. The music will only grow deeper from such. ~Review by C. Michael Bailey

Personnel: Renee Yoxon: vocals; Mark Ferguson: piano, trombone; ; Joel Kerr: bass; Jeff Asselin: drums; Rene Gely: guitar; Craig Pedersen: trumpet; Frank Lozano: saxophone.

Here We Go Again

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Renee Yoxon & Rene Gely - Let's Call It A Day

Size: 105,8 MB
Time: 41:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. The Look Of Love (4:08)
02. Willow Weep For Me (4:37)
03. Never Let Me Go (3:42)
04. Let's Call It A Day (3:01)
05. Candy (2:54)
06. Lovers' Lullaby (3:25)
07. Centerpiece (3:50)
08. The Masquerade Is Over (3:58)
09. Par Ce Beau Jour De Printemps (3:06)
10. Don't Explain (5:14)
11. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (3:47)

About Let's Call it a Day:
As Yoxon’s debut album, this work showcases her clear and unembellished lyrical delivery, poignant song choice, and emotionally charged performance. Using a wide variety of guitars, Yoxon & Gely create atmospheric, folk-influenced interpretations of jazz standards.

Artists' Bios:
Young vocalist Renée Yoxon is quickly becoming one of the most in demand jazz singers in the Ottawa region thanks to her grace, captivating presence and beautiful voice. Introduced to jazz music in high school, her tastes and vocal repertoire range from bebop to contemporary favourites. After graduating from high school Renée studied voice with Tena Palmer while completing a degree in physics with minors in math and music from Carleton University. Recently, Renée has participated in the National Arts Centre’s Manhattan on the Rideau masterclasses led by Theo Bleckmann and Peter Eldridge.
Distinguished by more poise and assurance than most young women her age, Renée delivers unique interpretations of jazz standards. Hear her every Monday night at Bar 56 in Ottawa’s Byward Market.

René Gely has pursued his musical passions in San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Paris. A Parisian for 12 years, he studied with the French world music guitarist Pierre Bensusan and the acclaimed American expatriate, soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. René has recorded with Toronto jazz musicians such as Perry White and George Koller, as well as with the Irish singer Mary Reidy. While in San Francisco in 2003, René started his world beat trio Pulse Mondiale. He later relocated to the Ottawa area where he is originally from. Here he has formed a new edition of Pulse Mondiale, as well as new collaborations with the city's best musicians.

Let's Call It A Day

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