Sarah Lancman - Inspiring Love (2016) [HDtracks]

“She is really the great new voice of Jazz“ this is what Quincy Jones said to Sarah Lancman when she won the Grand Prix of the International Competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012.
17 gold Records, Music awards, Django d’or, Grand Prix de l’Académie du Jazz Django Reinhardt, no need to introduce the italian pianist Giovanni Mirabassi.
They are now accomplices of their new album “Inspiring Love” released since November 18 whose 10 original compositions were recorded in New York, high place of this music.
Sarah Lancman: «All started with the improbable encounter with Giovanni Mirabassi near to the pub «Le Saint Jean» place des Abbesses.
I went there to listen to a concert of a friend and Giovanni had just returned from a Japan tour and was set up for a drink.
As a pianist myself, I always admired and listened to his music. I had just finished my first album “Dark“. I went to greet him to show my admiration and ask him if he could listen to my album. It happened a few months later. He then asked me if I was composing, because he saw an idea of an album to come.
I sent him by MMS on the old detuned piano of my parents, a draft of my song “Inspiring Love“.
He immediately loved the song and said, “Can you write me another 10 songs like that? “Which I set out to do afterwards.We then found a producer who dropped us at the last minute. We then had the idea of crowdfunding with “Kisskissbankbank”, and success exceeded our expectations, as we were able to exceed the target of more than 120%.
Giovanni Mirabassi also taught me to “dream big, otherwise it’s not funny” as he says and so we went to record the album in New York, mythical city of Jazz and cradle of my inspirations.
We have selected a prestigious rhythm section such as Gene Jackson (drummer including Herbie Hancock Trio), Alex Sipiagin (Michael Brecker trumpeter, Dave Holland, Mingus Big Band, etc.) and double bassist Gianluca Renzi.
We picked up a song by Charles Aznavour “Who?“ That we could later, make him listen. The dream went on, when I learned that he was going to do the preface of my album!
“Inspiring Love“ is for me a very personal album where I finally dared to reveal myself. I understood through the writing of the album that the title “Inspiring Love” could be read in both directions: love inspiring and being inspired by love. A duality that comes to the bottom of the same source: unconditional love. To love without waiting in return, without waiting, only to love and to be inspired, to create, to use it as a force.
Jacques Brel says so well in his song “The Quest“: “To love, even too much, even evil, to attempt, without strength and without armor to reach the inaccessible star …“»