In a small café a cup of hot coffee with milk I meet one at three U.S. women who play exactly the music that is the mood in such a place is probably the most excellent, smooth jazz, orchestrated varied, restrained, attractive and exceptionally charming. " my baby dreams when he's awake - My baby laughs when he's asleep. "
(right side, Eleni Mandell)
(right side, Eleni Mandell)
The first of the three young ladies that I meet is a native of Georgia Madeleine Peyroux . It seems a bit aloof, never get direct eye contact, without the mid-thirties would be unsafe or look evasive, it remains elusive. Maybe you try it so with the ubiquitous Billie Holliday capture comparisons, which admit, it must be after the opening bars of each of their albums, can not be dismissed as mischief. Maybe waived Mrs . Peyroux therefore, in order to liberate themselves, in "Bare Bones" on the otherwise highly praised Cover versions and the interpretation of their four previous albums always enriched. But even without them stay here again all those hovering in a playful ease that is reinforced in addition to their charming voice by Hammond organ, slide guitar and horns. Content add one must, however, the pieces are rather insignificant when " you do " "get blue " on rhymes or you hear them sing romantically transfigured by Homeless Happiness and loses in the nostalgia of childhood. But she had indulged in quiet. Actually not shy and reserved in appearance, however, is ten years younger Melody Gardot , the Sex-And-The-City-affinity appearance can easily be aware of many eyes. Perhaps this is also a backlash with their own past, where she was run over than 19 years of a jeep and after a lengthy therapy still physical disabilities like, a walking stick to keep their balance and tinted lenses to reply to their sensitivity to light are probably the most striking external features of this circumstance. In addition to her impressive voice, of course, the one from the first sound of her new album "My One And Only Thrill" magic term. In addition to piano, bass and drums with many strings and winds perfect orchestration the eleven all of her self-written pieces - you can see of course on the great Interpration of Somewhere by Harold Arlen written Over The Rainbow at the end of the album - it understood While the atmosphere of a Viennese coffee house on a Sunday afternoon, bring forth, but ultimately it is Gardot always warm voice, a vertäumt and sigh happily leaves. With verve and finesse, the young singer can now label their celebrated colleague, Diana Krall look pale and monotonous.
The third lady, whose acquaintance I make a cup of coffee is the " unkalifornischste Californian " while " perhaps best unsigned artist in the business " as I was able to inform me in advance. Eleni Mandell seems timeless in the sense of Kim Gordon is the only one of the three Chanteuses who excels in addition to singing and on guitar. Even if elements of jazz are obvious here, rather it is rooted in folk and country and I know these moments to connect smart. This charming piece Right Side such that by the onset of the trumpet should convince any of his potential, the slightly melancholic It Was The Time (It Was The Color) dreamy or the glamorous Tiny Waist allow Mandell's name to create without a break with which to name the two previous ladies. The 15 tracks on "Artificial Fire," their seventh album already vary that allow various components of jazz even if they be much rougher and more pressure than Peyroux and Gardot and are more likely to (E) guitar than the piano to speak. The exceptions are the framework on the album, so especially the title track as the opener and the final oblique and surprising folk-punk-rock number Cracked if you will like the enfants terrible of this album.
A smile finally leaves each of the three ladies on my lips before I austrinke, pay and go into Sunday afternoon.
photo: Melody Gardot, Verve
"bare bones"
decca , 2009 cd
Madeleine Peyroux
Melody Gardot
"my one and only thrill "
verve , 2009 cd
Melody Gardot
Eleni Mandell
" artificial fire "
make my day records , 2009 cd
Eleni Mandell
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