Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon - A Moment of Now (2013) CDRip
Artist: Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon
Title: A Moment of Now
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: ACT
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 64:09
Total Size: 171/308 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: A Moment of Now
Year Of Release: 2013
Label: ACT
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 64:09
Total Size: 171/308 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. I Can Let Go (McDonald) - 4:46
02. Deep River (Hofseth) - 4:58
03. Red Rain (Gabriel) - 5:06
04. A Moment of Now (Metheny-Alerstedt) - 4:14
05. Against All Odds (Collins) - 4:27
06. Hand in My Pocket (Morissette-Ballard) - 3:38
07. Taking It All Too Hard (Banks-Collins-Rutherford) - 2:48
08. Lessons in Love (King-Badarou-Gould) - 5:35
09. Shadow and Light (Lang-Zawinul-Page) - 5:30
10. Satisfied (Taylor-Mondesir) - 4:44
11. I Concentrate on You (Porter) - 5:38
12. Scent of Snow (Karlzon-Alerstedt) - 4:25
13. Send One Your Love (Wonder) - 4:35
14. Northern Star (Faure-Alerstedt) - 3:45
Viktoria Tolstoy - vocals
Jakob Karlzon - Steinway grand piano, pump organ, celesta, Fender Rhodes
Jocke Bergstrom - vocals (#13)
Though there are many beautiful singing voices in jazz today, Viktoria Tolstoy is one of a kind. A great melodramatist of jazz who is also bipolar, she makes happiness sound fragile and threatened, and bitterness sweet and enchanting. She has framed and perfected this art on a conceptual level since becoming an ACT artist in 2003, whether concentrating on material from Esbjörn Svensson – whose e.s.t. began to some extent as her accompanying trio – or, most recently, on Herbie Hancock, classical originals, Swedish standards or repertoire from Russia, the home of her ancestors. Her latest album "A Moment Of Now" is her most frank recording yet – for one simple reason: "Jacob [Karlzon] and I are the concept this time," says Viktoria. Indeed it is an intimate album by the duo that focuses on their musical partnership....