Alex Golino - The Nearness of You (2019)

This album marks a decisive stage in Marie Carrié’s career, as it embodies a fruitful collaboration of a good ten years with the guitarist Yann Pénichou.
It reveals a vocalist who authentically extends the tradition of jazz singing by using a repertoire where compositions by Clifford Brown and Randy Weston harmoniously meet standards by Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin and Jimmy McHugh.

Marie Carrié has an expressive voice, a good diction and a phrasing generating a well-controlled swing that allows her to scatter with ease (Sandu). With such qualities, her singing, purified of all artifice, delivers the essence of interpretations elaborated with care.