Cyrille Aimee - It's A Good Day (2014)

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Artist: Cyrille Aimee
Title Of Album: It's A Good Day
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: 320 / FLAC
Total Time: 42:56 min
Total Size: 101 / 241 MB

Tracklist:

1. Where or When (02:46)
2. It's a Good Day (02:28)
3. Bamboo Shoots (03:51)
4. Twenty-Eight (03:20)
5. Caravan (03:16)
6. Nuit Blanche (04:11)
7. Young at Heart (03:30)
8. Off the Wall (03:02)
9. Love Me or Leave Me (02:33)
10. One Way Ticket (04:59)
11. Pourtant (03:32)
12. All Love (03:03)
13. Tricotism (02:25)

Cyrille Aimée (vocals)
Michael Valeanu, Adrien Moignard, Guilherme Monteiro (guitar)
Sam Anning (bass)
Rajiv Jayaweera (drums)

'It's a Good Day' is the major label debut by the widely acclaimed young French jazz singer Cyrille Aimée - yet another step forward for the rapidly rising vocalist. Winner of both the Montreux Jazz Festival's Vocal Competition and the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, Aimée explores a range of musical styles, eras, continents and moods on 'It's a Good Day' with a singular voice on inventive arrangements.

The musical accompaniment on 'It's a Good Day' is as novel as Aimée herself: three guitars (Jazz, Gypsy and Brazilian) with bass and drums. This captivating multi-guitar sound is provided by her close collaborator, Michael Valeanu, a player of French and Italian extraction on a contemporary jazz-style electric guitar; her countryman Adrien Moignard on the steel-string guitar gypsies favour due to its piercing, staccato sound; and the Brazilian guitarist Guilherme Monteiro, who relies on a nylon-stringed instrument which provides the bossa nova its soft and undulating sensuous sound.

Thoughtful arrangements of the thirteen songs - both standards and originals - ensure a sumptuous musical blend. "We worked hard to create a road map for each guitar to make the sound beautiful and exciting - without creating a musical traffic jam," explains Aimée. The flexible and fluid rhythm section of bassist Sam Anning and drummer Rajiv Jayaweera holds it all together. Seamlessly added to the mix are covers of Michael Jackson's "Off the Wall" and Duke Ellington's "Caravan."

Aimée appeared on Curtis Stigers' 2014 album 'Hooray for Love', with Stigers now tipping her for stardom.




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