Kronthaler - Some Call Him Johnny Grey (2024) Hi-Res

The trio of mezzo-soprano Theresa Kronthaler, guitarist Kalle Kalima, and bassist Oliver Potratz have reunited nine years after their debut album The Living Loving Maid, released by Sony Classical, for a new recording in the spirit of commitment to song. In the tracks of Some Call Him Johnny Grey, opera meets musicals and pop rock through jazz.
What do Henry Purcell, Billy Corgan, Georg Friedrich Händel, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, Antonio Vivaldi, Chris Cornell, John Dowland, Claudio Monteverdi, and Sting have in common? They all wrote songs. These composers lived (and live) in different times and cultural contexts, but their songs are not isolated from each other, which is also proven by this album. The trio makes it unmistakably clear that they aren’t curating a legacy here; they are singing these songs today and for today’s audience. Songs that have always been with us, and are immediately able to seduce the listener.
Theresa Kronthaler is an internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano who has appeared on many major stages in the world, notably in Baroque, Classical, and Italian Romantic operas, and recently sang her first Wagnerian role, Sieglinde. Kalle Kalima and Oliver Potratz both live in Berlin and have long demonstrated a musical openness that transcends genres. The multi-faceted Finnish guitarist is at the forefront of European jazz with his many different formations (Andreas Schaerer & Kalle Kalima, A Novel Of Anomaly, Klima Kalima, Kuu, etc.), while the Austrian bassist is a member of one of his country's most successful jazz bands, Shake Stew.