Sarah Moule - Stormy Emotions

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:16
Size: 111,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:29) 1. Nothing Is Mine Now
(4:04) 2. Are We Just Having Fun
(5:02) 3. Never That's When
(4:17) 4. Close To Tears
(4:48) 5. A Magician's Confession
(3:23) 6. Truly Unruly
(3:44) 7. After The Fall
(4:14) 8. On Hold Living In Limbo
(3:05) 9. Time Is The Beast
(4:17) 10. The Long Arm Of Love
(4:46) 11. Fool's Gold
(3:02) 12. Stormy Emotions

The lyrics here are by Fran Landesman. If you’ve encountered any of hers before, you’ll know that although they’re entirely at home in jazz, and mainly concern love, they can’t be tossed about like any old standard. They’re wary, suspicious, suggesting that the singer has been around the block too many times to fall for the usual line of chat. Occasionally there’s a secretive backward glance to lost innocence, hastily suppressed. That’s a lot of nuance for a composer to take on board and for a singer to convey. Landesman declared that she’d got lucky when she met Simon Wallace, her songwriting partner for 18 years until her death in 2011, and had collected a bonus when he married the singer Sarah Moule.

Listening to these 12 tracks, 10 of them previously unrecorded, you can hear what Landesman meant. Moule catches the shifting moods, touchingly in A Magician’s Confession, candidly in Are We Just Having Fun?, and always unerringly. Wallace’s music catches the spirit of each lyric, brilliantly played by his small band. The prize there goes to Mark Lockheart’s soprano saxophone throughout Close to Tears, moving from dialogue with the voice to solo and back again.

Personnel: Sarah Moule (vocals); Simon Wallace (piano & keyboards); Mick Hutton, Neville Malcolm (double bass); Paul Robinson, Rob Young (drums); Mark Lockheart (soprano saxophone & bass clarinet); Nigel Price (electric & acoustic guitar); Charlie Cawood (acoustic guitar)

Stormy Emotions

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Sarah Moule - Songs From The Floating World

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 52:25
Size: 120.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:52] 1. Lord I Wanna Be Good
[3:20] 2. Men Who Love Mermaids
[3:16] 3. Lots Of People Do
[3:58] 4. Scars
[3:20] 5. Cri Du Coeur
[3:42] 6. I've Got You Under My Skin
[3:09] 7. My Babe
[2:23] 8. Hell's Angel
[3:14] 9. Don't Fall In Love With Me
[2:30] 10. Love's Eyes
[3:19] 11. Looking For A Boy (Girl)
[4:23] 12. Stranger
[3:28] 13. I Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl
[2:57] 14. Noir
[3:01] 15. If You Believe That
[2:24] 16. Did I Break Your Heart

On her latest album, acclaimed jazz singer Sarah Moule has recorded six new songs by Simon Wallace and Fran Landesman, alongside a new lyric by Julie Burchill, two blues numbers and imaginative reworkings of classic songs. Songs from the Floating World reminds us that Sarah is a brilliant interpreter of both melody and lyrics.

‘The Floating World’ was the name given to the red light districts in 17th-19th Century Japan where geishas, Kabuki actors and Sumo wrestlers rubbed shoulders with artists and musicians against a backdrop of hedonism. Sarah discovered her own ‘Floating World’ where America’s Beat Generation crossed with London’s jazz nightlife when she met her husband Simon Wallace and Fran Landesman. Fran, who died in 2011, was a friend and peer of Jack Kerouac, Lenny Bruce and Ken Kesey. She was one of the finest lyricists of the last fifty years and her work with Wallace has been admired by critics and appreciated by the many singers who have recorded their songs. Sarah has championed their work since her 2002 Linn Records debut, ‘It’s A Nice Thought’, when journalists were quick to celebrate the artistic symbiosis of Sarah’s voice with Simon and Fran’s songs.

Songs From The Floating World

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Sarah Moule - It's A Nice Thought

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:58
Size: 135,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:35)  1. It's Cool To Be Cool
(4:54)  2. It's a Nice Thought
(4:03)  3. Jazz Alients
(4:14)  4. Feet Do Your Stuff
(3:56)  5. When Your Computer Crashes
(3:52)  6. This Tune In My Head
(4:14)  7. What Fools These Mortals Are
(4:01)  8. One Thing Leads To Another
(1:48)  9. Love Go Round
(4:03) 10. Real Life
(4:48) 11. A Suicide In Schenectady
(3:49) 12. Some Boys
(2:14) 13. The Heart Of Love
(4:19) 14. The Usual Suspects

In the past few years singer Sarah Moule has established a rapidly growing reputation as one of Britain's most exciting new jazz vocal talents. Her latest cd, 'A Lazy Kind Of Love' (Red Ram Records RAM001) released on 23rd June 2008, marks a new direction in her choice of material, including songs from unusual sources such as Julie Burchill, Clive James/Pete Atkin and Madonna's brother-in-law, composer and producer, Joe Henry, as well as her ongoing musical relationship with Landesman and Wallace. Developing from her previous work, 'A Lazy Kind Of Love' shows a new-found depth and character in her vocal approach and spotlights Sarah's interpretations, complementing them with exceptional playing from her regular trio, Simon Wallace, Mark Hodgson and Paul Robinson, and guests Alec Dankworth, Mike Outram, Alan Barnes, Paul Clarvis and Pete Atkin. Sarah's previous recordings include her highly acclaimed debut CD It's A Nice Thought (Linn records AKD192, Sept 2002) - a collection of new songs by lyricist Fran Landesman and composer Simon Wallace (”one of the finest songwriting partnerships alive” The Observer). The songs are literate, often witty and ruthlessly honest about human foibles, strengths and frailties, and they lend themselves to Moule's emotionally direct vocal style. 

Her 2nd album, Something's Gotta Give (Linn Records AKD239, Nov 2004) married further new material by Landesman/Wallace with classic songs by one of the greatest of the American Songbook lyricists, Johnny Mercer. Born into a large catholic family on the south coast of England, after university Sarah soon traded the refined atmosphere of Bloomsbury publishers Jonathan Cape for extensive travels in numerous steamy tropical locations. On returning to London in the early 1990s she met jazz singer Claire Martin who introduced her to pianist and composer Simon Wallace who had himself recently returned to London after several years writing for the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and touring with the equally steamy Lindsay Kemp Company. “As soon as Simon played me the songs he'd been writing with Fran I knew I wanted to sing them. They really touched me, musically and lyrically, as they seemed to be about how we live today and the emotional conflicts we all have to deal with. I immediately started singing them on the gigs I was doing in Soho and haven't stopped since. I've always felt that it's important to include new repertoire in what I'm doing and mix up a wide range of musical influences, as well as taking inspiration from the past, because I want the music I'm doing to be forward looking.” At the same time Sarah began to explore the music of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington along with the late-night lifestyle of the London jazz musician while continuing her vocal studies with English National Opera soloist Kenneth Woollam. 

She soon established a solid reputation for herself on the London jazz scene singing regularly at the 606 Club, The Vortex, Pizza Express Jazz Club, The Pizza On The Park and guesting at Ronnie Scott's Club. She has performed with many stalwarts of British jazz including: Ian Shaw, Claire Martin, Iain Ballamy, Tim Whitehead, Tim Garland, Steve Waterman and John Critishinson with whom she toured the Mediterranean with 'A Tribute To Ronnie Scott', performing opposite the legendary bebop duo Jackie & Roy. She was featured vocalist with The John Wilson Orchestra throughout the 1990s, performing extensively with them, including doing a concert for HM the Queen at the Royal College Of Music and recording their eponymous debut cd, 'This Is The John Wilson Orchestra'. Her television credits include The Paul O'Grady Show, Lenny Henry in Pieces and The Ben Elton Show. She is also currently featured vocalist with bandleader John C. Williams' Rockin' In Rhythm septet, specialising in the songs of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and performed with them at St David's Hall, Cardiff in July 2002 for the Welsh Proms. That year she and the group also premiered a suite of newly commissioned pieces by John Mayer, Barbara Thompson, Nikki Iles, Simon Wallace and Dick Walters at Leasowes Bank Arts Festival in Shropshire. Sarah performs in jazz clubs, theatres and festivals throughout the UK.  

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Personnel: Sarah Moule (vocals); Ian Shaw (vocals); Jim Mullen (guitar); Iain Ballamy, Tim Whitehead (tenor saxophone); Steve Waterman (trumpet); Fayyaz Virji (trombone); Mick Hutton (double bass); Roy Dodds, Paul Robinson (drums); Gary Hammond , Dawson Miller (percussion).

It's A Nice Thought

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Sarah Moule - Something's Gotta Give

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:54
Size: 114,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:28)  1. Something's Gotta Give
(3:56)  2. How Was It For You?
(3:19)  3. I'm Old Fashioned
(4:00)  4. Save The Photographs
(4:00)  5. That Old Black Magic
(3:23)  6. What Love Knows
(3:09)  7. Jeepers Creepers
(3:27)  8. Days Of Wine and Roses
(3:02)  9. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(4:29) 10. Down
(3:26) 11. You're So Now
(3:19) 12. Trav'lin' Light
(2:51) 13. High Noon
(3:59) 14. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

Not only does England's Sarah Moule boast a stunning vocal spectrum-simultaneously tough and tender, warm and cool, sweet and salty-but she's surely done more than any contemporary performer to preserve, protect and promote the stellar work of lyricist Fran Landesman. On her richly praised debut, It's a Nice Thought, Moule showcased Landesman's work with composer Simon Wallace. Now she's back with another half-nod to Landesman, whose songs fill seven of the 14 tracks on Something's Gotta Give (Linn), the balance of the album devoted to the words of Johnny Mercer.

Moule does a superlative job of interleaving such Mercer classics as "That Old Black Magic," "Days of Wine and Roses" and "Trav'lin' Light" with the poetic likes of Landesman's misty "Save the Photographs," wittily sophisticated "How Was It for You?" and self-indulgently desolate "Down." But the cherry on this rich layer cake is Moule's closing rendition of Landesman's most famous composition, the hauntingly gorgeous "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." ~ Christopher Loudon   http://jazztimes.com/articles/15773-something-s-gotta-give-sarah-moule

Something's Gotta Give

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Sarah Moule - A Lazy Kind Of Love

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 48:39
Size: 111.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[3:54] 1. A Lazy Kind Of Love
[3:24] 2. I Fall In Love Too Easily
[3:53] 3. It's Not Your Night
[4:13] 4. I Will Write Your Book
[3:33] 5. Secret Of Silence
[3:01] 6. Hyde Side Blues
[4:26] 7. I Was Lost
[3:20] 8. In A Matter Of Moments
[2:57] 9. Remind Me
[3:37] 10. Living In Overdrive
[2:18] 11. The Flowers And The Wine
[3:57] 12. Sounds Like Goodbye
[2:59] 13. Devil May Care
[3:00] 14. The Last Smoker

This is my third CD, the first two (It's A NIce Thought and Something's Gotta Give) having been released on Linn Records. But what with building our own studio and all we decided to put this one out ourselves. It's mainly Landesman & Wallace songs, but with a lyric contributed by Julie Burchill, a song from the Clive James/Pete Atkin canon, something by the maverick Joe Henry, and two jazz classics from Styne/Cahn and Dorough/Kirk. Together with my regular (but irregularly splendid) trio, Simon Wallace piano and Hammond, Mark Hodgson bass, Paul Robinson drums, we had some stellar guests - Alan Barnes on tenor sax, Alec Dankworth guesting on bass for a couple of numbers, Clive Bell on shakuhachi, Paul Clarvis on percussion, and Mike Outram on guitar. Simon produced and arranged as well as writing 10 of the tunes. ~SM

Not sure that Ms Moule's CD is a jazz album at all, for although the band boasts top guns like Alan Barnes and Mike Outram as well as occasional haunting colours from Clive Bell's shakuhachi, they are all deployed completely in the service of the songs by MD, pianist and organ player Simon Wallace, an absolute master of his craft. He can turn in those storytelling piano solos as well, check 'Remind Me'. Most of the material is from the growing canon of work by Wallace himself and that brilliantly sharp lyricist Fran Landesman, who specialises in wryly humorous appraisals of love and a certain kind of metropolitan angst - searching for chemical comfort, wondering why we're depressed - which peaks on the insinuatingly catchy 'Living In Overdrive'. Moule can actually strut, but you have to wait until track 10, Bob Dorough's 'Devil May Care' (boasting an insanely good bass solo from Alec Dankworth), for her to show it. So for once just forget about looking for jazz thrills and let the verbal intelligence, original tunes that you can actually remember and Sarah Moule's truly outstanding voice get under your skin. They certainly did mine. ~Brian Blain

A Lazy Kind Of Love

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