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 Montreal Jazz Festival - 2007 |
 Juan-les-Pins 2007 - July 2007
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 Promo Shots - 2007
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 Promo Shots - 2006
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Le Journal de Montreal - July 2007. Please click here. |
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Amazon Canada September 5, 2007
Canada certainly has produced a healthy collection of females singing loungey jazz covers in the last decade (Diana Krall may well be the matriarch, with Holly Cole and Sophie Milman following behind) so the question remains... how does Emilie-Claire Barlow stand out from her competition? Well, creative control, for one thing, having produced and arranged The Very Thought of You, as well as writing the arrangements and conducting the string section on her disc. The end result is a collection that is a little more musically expansive than some of her traditionalist counterparts.
The title track oozes its way forward, lushly and restrained; on the second track, "Almost Like Being in Love" Barlow commandingly scats, as she does in and out of a number of tunes, including "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," that features a beguiling arrangement that's far more sexy than perky.
As for what the disc does best? That answer would have to be the way the Torontonian embraces jazzy samba and bossa nova rhythms on a number of different tracks, including the playful "Pennies from Heaven," "De Conversa Em Conversa" and the sensually breathy "So Many Stars."
- Denise Sheppard, Amazon Canada
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TheStar.com 4 1/2 stars
EMILIE-CLAIRE BARLOW
The Very Thought Of You (Empress Music Group)
The singer's in great form with a vocal offering that's mature and seriously enticing. She's more assured than ever, heading a solid band in Nancy Walker, Reg Schwager, Kieran Overs and Mark Kelso, plus a high-profile gaggle of guests, conducting a nine-piece string section and arranging all the music.
She trolls the American Songbook effectively, slips in swinging takes such as the breezy high-register "Almost Like Being In Love," dips into bizarre bossa nova in English and Portuguese ("O Pato," a.k.a. "The Duck," with words by Jon Hendricks), turns "Pennies From Heaven" into a samba and emotes in French, twice. Each song gets such a different, acutely personal approach that it seems she's not sure yet where she wants to be.
Top track: A tie between the voluptuous title tune and the sweetly elegant "So Many Stars" by Sergio Mendes, with non-simpering strings.
Geoff Chapman
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REVIEW-LE SOLEIL - Tout simplement divine
****1/2
Jazz chanté
The Very Thought of You
Émilie-Claire Barlow
Des critiques avaient prédit, éblouis par le précédent disque de la Torontoise en 2005, qu’elle était la prochaine grande voix du jazz au Canada. La jeune femme vient d’en faire la preuve éclatante avec ce nouvel album qui permet de découvrir l’une des plus talentueuses interprètes de l’heure, une chanteuse naturelle tombée toute jeune dans la musique.
Touchée elle aussi par le virus brésilien, elle y va d’arrangements et d’interprétations de pièces du royaume de la bossa-nova, notamment l’amusante et très entraînante O Pato (The Duck). À souligner aussi sa relecture de Pennies from Heaven et une interprétation de Dream a Little Dream of Me en version française (Les Yeux ouverts). Francophone par sa mère, Émilie-Claire a cédé à sa demande en incluant une fraîche version de C’est si bon sur son disque. Un groupe de musiciens hors pair appuie cette voix divine sur cet album parti pour être l’un des meilleurs de l’année en jazz chanté.
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VOIR Weekly - 21 juin 2007
Emilie-Claire Barlow - (Empress Music Group/Fusion III)
The Very Thought of You
Stanley Péan
«I don't need your photograph to keep on my bed / Your picture is always in my head.»
Dès l'intro peu usitée de la pièce éponyme du sixième album de la Torontoise, le ton est donné. La jolie dame a choisi une douzaine de chansons d'amour éprouvées - standards de Broadway et bossa-nova - dont elle signe des arrangements classiques mais élégants, mettant à contribution des tireurs d'élite de la Ville-reine: Nancy Walker (piano), Reg Schwager(guitare), Kieran Overs (contrebasse) et Mark Kelso (batterie), auxquels se joignent une section de cordes ainsi queKevin Turcotte (bugle) et Mike Murley (sax) en invités spéciaux.
Et puis, il y a cette voix, aérienne, posée et rompue aux exigences du swing. Avec son ambiance feutrée à la Nat Cole, idéale pour les soupers en tête-à-tête et autres rituels de séduction, The Very Thought of You confirme le statut d'étoile montante du jazz vocal canadien de Miss Barlow. Very classy.
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