What jazz music are you listening to?

[bart]

Changing style and pace!

Melanie De Biasio - Lilies
Qobuz 24/44.1




With this Belgian jazz singer, we spent many nice listening sessions already, and the concert we attended 2 years ago was gripping.

"For Lilies I just wanted to retreat to a cave with my Pro-Tools, my computer, and my cheap, 100Euro Shure SM-58 microphone. I could have gone to a big studio, made a big production – but I wanted none of that. I wanted to go back to the seed of creativity, the simplest materials. I was in this room where there was no light, no night or day at all, no heat. Very uncomfortable. But I felt free. I was happy to have this feeling – ‘I don’t need more, I have everything I need here.’” The spirit and the context in which Melanie De Biasio created Lilies are certainly in keeping with this unique artist's life and work... A singer-musician who is always ready to question and challenge herself anew and push the boundary markers which are so often set down between musical genres. Released in 2013, her album No Deal excelled as an atmospheric meeting of jazz, electro and rock. The Belgian who worships Nina Simone and Abbey Lincoln took another departure from the beaten track with what is commonly called vocal jazz, and wandered towards soul, trip hop, blues: into the most impalpable of ethers. In these weightless sequences, Lilies is firmly stamped with the De Biasio hallmark. This is a way of doing away with labels and playing with light and dark, day and night. © MD/Qobuz

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Melanie De Biasio - A Stomach Is Burning
via Qobuz

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Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities




Just one track, which lasts 24'16"...

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Melanie De Biasio - No Deal




This CD sounds good!

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Playing into my practice:

Ella wishes you a Swinging Christmas




Ella always did good things to a song, so surely also these Christmas songs were treated well.

[Antonmb]

Lee Konitz - Inside Hi-Fi
Atlantic 1258 (1956), Pure Pleasure Records (2018) reissue, 180g vinyl

This new reissue from Pure Pleasure Records sounds very good.

[bart]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

Lee Konitz - Inside Hi-Fi
Atlantic 1258 (1956), Pure Pleasure Records (2018) reissue, 180g vinyl

This new reissue from Pure Pleasure Records sounds very good.

Streaming it now Tony.

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The Modern Jazz Quartet - Concorde
Qobuz 24/44.1

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by bart

Streaming it now Tony.

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Here’s a nice new release, streaming via Tidal: