Mona Larsen: Grains of Sand

Wokalistyka jazzowa
premiera polska: 2010-03-08
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Dania
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
Audio Video, 2011-02
Mona Larsen jest jedną z najlepszych duńskich wokalistek jazzowych. Jej przygoda z jazzem rozpoczęła się w 1967roku. Jako 19-letnia debiutantka pojawiła się w szwedzkich nocnych klubach-śpiewała standardy z towarzyszeniem tria jazzowego. Był to ważny etap w kształtowaniu jej wrażliwości artystycznej i techniki wokalnej. Mona Larsen w latach 70-tych, bardzo udanie koncertowała z duńskim Radio Big Bandem oraz WDR Big Bandem z Kolonii. Spotkała na swojej drodze wielu znakomitych jazzmenów-Herbie Hancocka, Clarka Terry, Normę Winstone, Thad Jonesa, NHOP i Palle Mikkelborga, Ważnym episodem w jej muzycznej karierze była współpraca z Michaelem Mantlerem i nagrania dla ECM. Po kilkuletniej przerwie, firma Stunt wydała jej najnowszy album "Grains of Sand", który jest powrotem do żródeł jazzowej wokalistyki-partneruje jej trio pianisty Thomasa Clausena. Dojrzała płyta.
autor: Oskar Kowalczyk

Editor's info:
Denmark has many jazz singers, but very few divas. To be a diva, one must have authority and life experience, one must have endured hard days and nights on the road between gigs, and have the ability to fit into many musical settings without losing touch with ones self. One must have the raw power, and the experience to cut straight to the bone of a song, giving it a personal interpretation without betraying the original. One must have that extra something that allows the song to breathe, and the will-power to go on, because one has no other choice, but still have something to say. And finally, one must have that very special talent that touches us deeply, telling us something that we learn something from. Mona Larsen is such a singer. She has always followed an inner urge, always delivered that special something, and always given her music personal texture. She is not one of the slick divas, she is raw, lucid and robust like Betty Carter or Carmen McRae, but with a current of translucent Danish lyricism below the seemingly brooding atmosphere. But most importantly: She is one of the few vocalist to pass the goose-pimple test. The hairs on your arms stand up whenever she begins to sing a tune. Outside the world of jazz, she made her mark on the Danish pop scene with the Halberg/Larsen group, and at the opposite end of the scale, she has experimented in projects with composer Michael Mantler - one of them based on Italian poetry. She made her name as a jazz vocalist with the DR Big Band and the Radio Jazz Group, and later with the Emborg/Larsen Band. Through her work with the Radio Jazz Group, she met pianist Thomas Clausen, and they still collaborate more than 30 years later. Thomas Clausen's Trio appeared on Mona's last jazz album, NEVER LET ME GO, eight years ago. On GRAINS OF SAND, her new recording, they are together again, and credit is due to Clausen for the wonderful, stylized and sensitive backdrop of sound behind Mona Larsen's vocal. The repertoire consists of songs that we know from The Great American Songbook, including new interpretations of Bernstein's Something Coming from West Side Story, a tangoinspired Just One of Those Things, and the rarely heard verse in a lovely slow version of endurable All the Things You Are. We are also treated to four Mona Larsen originals. A new Mona Larsen release is a major event in Danish music.

muzycy:
Mona Larsen: vocal
Thomas Clausen: piano
Thomas Fonnesbaek: bass
Karsten Bagge: drums
Hans Ulrik: saxophones
Kristian Jorgensen: violin

utwory:
1. Something's Coming
2. All The Things You Are
3. Very Early
4. Dindi
5. She's Young
6. Crepuscule With Nellie
7. Sonet XIX
8. Lazy Afternoon
9. Grains Of Sand
10. Just One Of Those Things
11. Hymn (There Will Be Time)

wydano: 2009
more info: www.sundance.dk