Typhanie Monique - Call It Magic

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 51:14
Size: 117,7 MB
Art: Front

(5:25)  1. Magic
(4:43)  2. Just Friends
(5:28)  3. This Bitter Earth
(3:31)  4. What Is This Thing Called Love/ This Thing
(5:05)  5. Heart of the Matter
(6:11)  6. Where Is Love / Love Is
(6:11)  7. Called Love
(6:41)  8. Sister/ Miss Celie's Blues
(4:52)  9. Letting My Love Go
(3:03) 10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Call It Magic is the fourth album from Chicago vocalist and educator Typhanie Monique. It is a long-awaited project that finds her channeling the passions, frustrations and complexities of love into a work of shimmering beauty. It is her most ambitious recording to date. It features her current quartet - pianist Ben Lewis, bassist Josh Ramos, drummers Dana Hall and Greg Arty - with special guests, clarinetists Ken Peplowski and Victor Goines, organist Tony Monaco and tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm. Call It Magic was produced by Jeff Levenson.  And though Monique surveys standards familiar to lovers of the Great American Songbook, Call It Magic contains quite a few surprises - including originals and tunes from the pop music playlists of Coldplay, Don Henley and Dinah Washington. It is a 10-act master class on the art of pure singing, and she endows it with deep-seated poignancy. Downbeat's Frank Alkyer says, "This is an album that's been years - heck, decades - in the making. It's where the road has taken her and it's a beautiful spot to take in the view. It's music made with great thought, even more care and, yes, a little magic. That's the artistry of Typhanie Monique."  Well known in Midwest jazz circles, Monique has studied with legendary vocalists Bobby McFerrin, Sheila Jordan and the late Mark Murphy. She has shared stages with foundational colleagues Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Mavis Staples and The Manhattan Transfer. All have made inspiring music that resides within her.  Which helps explain the richness of Typhanie Monique and the soulfulness of Call It Magic - an album that travels straight to the heart. http://www.jazzcorner.com/news/display.php?news=7923

Personnel:  Typhanie Monique - Vocals; Ben Lewis - Piano; Josh Ramos - Bass; Dana Hall - Drums (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6) ; Greg Arty - Drums (tracks 2, 8, 9, 10).

Special Guests: Ken Peplowski - Clarinet; Victor Goines - Clarinet; Tony Monaco - Organ; Joel Frahm - Tenor Saxophone.

Call It Magic

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Typhanie Monique and Neal Alger - In This Room

Styles: Vocal And Guitar Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:22
Size: 113,8 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Caravan
(5:11)  2. Never Can Say Goodbye
(4:11)  3. Soul Tread
(5:03)  4. Nothingness
(4:37)  5. This Feeling
(5:20)  6. Beautiful Love
(3:48)  7. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
(6:35)  8. Black Coffee
(4:53)  9. Smile
(4:38) 10. Wonderful

An estimable follow-up to 2005’s Intrinsic, this second pairing of Chicago-based singer Typhanie Monique and guitarist Neal Alger delivers, like its predecessor, both the expected and the unexpected. Expected, and delivered: solid soul-jazz vocals from Monique that suggest both Sarah Vaughan and Minnie Riperton, top-drawer acoustic and electric licks from the dazzlingly imaginative Alger, and achingly heartfelt readings of such wide-ranging ballads as Victor Young’s “Beautiful Love,” Sting’s “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free” and Annie Lennox’s “Wonderful,” coaxed along at a soulful mid-tempo. Unexpected, but utterly engaging: an electrified, scat-lined “Caravan” that soars into outer space, a supple bossa treatment of “Never Can Say Goodbye” that rescues the Gloria Gaynor anthem from its disco trappings while recalling the tender original from the Jackson Five, and a winking “Black Coffee” that, for the first time in my experience, toys with the narrator’s over-caffeinated state. Rounding out this cunning assemblage are three originals. Two-the yearning, angular “Soul Tread” (sort of a more youthful variation on “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most”) and the emotionally ponderous “This Feeling”-are terrific. The third, “Smile” (not to be confused with the Charlie Chaplin chestnut, and the only one of the three written by Monique without Alger), with its arresting swings between bouncy ebullience and hungry longing, is arguably even better. ~ Christopher Loudon https://jazztimes.com/reviews/vox/typhanie-monique-neal-alger-in-this-room/

In This Room

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