Sinne Eeg - The Beauty of Sadness (2012)(MP3@320Kbps) (TNT Jazz)

Sinne Eeg

The Beauty of Sadness

Artist: Sinne Eeg
Album: The Beauty Of Sadness
Label: Indies Japan
Year: 2012
Genre: Jazz, Vocals Audio format: [email protected]

Size Torrent:115 Mb

01 The Beauty Of Sadness 00:00
02 So Now You Know 05:32
03 Silence 09:48
04 Strawberry Fields Forever 15:44
05 The Peacocks (A Timeless Place) 21:17
06 I Have The Feeling I’ve Been Here Before 25:38
07 Love Is A Time Of Year 28:58
08 Waiting For Dawn 34:33
09 The Windmills Of Your Mind 40:50
10 With Or Without You 46:09

Sinne Eeg - vocal
Jacob Christoffersen - piano
Morten Ramsbol - bass
Peter Erskine - drums
Gustaf Ljungreen - guitars, lap steel
Marc Bernstein - bass clarinet
Martin Schack - hammond b3
Danish National Orchestra

Sinne Eeg

Sinne Eeg (born in Lemvig, Denmark in 1977) is a Danish jazz vocalist and composer.
Sinne Eeg was admitted at the Academy of Music in Esbjerg in 1997, from where she graduated in 2003.[2] She has received a number of positive reviews in the national[ and international press, and is considered among the best female jazz vocalists currently in Scandinavia. She has composed many of her own songs, and although she usually sings in English, she has also performed and recorded songs in Danish. As part of her musical studies, Sinne studied with American singer Janet Lawson in New York.
Sinne Eeg has won the Danish Music Awards prize in the category Best Danish Vocal Jazz Album of the Year three times: in 2007, 2010 and 2014, for her albums Waiting for Dawn, Don't Be So Blue and Face the Music. She also received the Ben Webster Prize on 28 March 2014, as the first vocalist ever. The Webster Foundation describes her as "a true jazz singer, who both shows sensitivity, improvisational skills, maturity, broad range and timing in her singing.". Sinne has toured Europe, Japan, China and the United States.[11] The 26th of January in 2012, she sang in Brussels, accompanied by the Danish Radio Big Band, at the celebration for the beginning of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In Denmark, she regularly performs at the jazz venue of La Fontaine in Copenhagen.

As Sinne says, "I always loved singing duo with bass. I've done that since my first CD from 2003, and I always do it live in my concerts. It's just a sound that I like very much. Thomas and I have been working together on and off through the years -- he's just an amazing musician, and he and I communicate very well musically. I feel so comfortable with the bass and voice sound and I also find it so challenging, that I become better every time I sing with him. When you push yourself, that's where the magic can happen. I really believed that we could do something interesting enough for a whole album, instead of just a feature."

The number of vocal/bass duo recordings is quite small. EEG-FONNESBÆK stands easily with the best of Sheila Jordan's duet albums with Harvie S, Steve Swallow, and Cameron Brown. The album comprises seven tunes from the Great American Songbook and two originals, including "Fellini's Waltz" with lyrics by Lorraine Feather and music by the great Italian pianist and composer Enrico Pianunzi, and "Taking It Slow," by Thomas Fonnesbæk and Helle Hansen.

Right from the opening track, "Willow Weep for Me," you can hear how their harmonic sensibilities play off each other, creating a rich emotive tapestry and full sound despite the absence of other instrumentation. They take the limitations of the duo format and turn it into an opportunity for greater creative freedom and self-expression that only musicians with great skills and empathy can achieve.

But that's always been Sinne's modus operandi. Although she's firmly rooted in the traditions of the great jazz vocalists, Sinne is an artist who never settles for past modalities. Rather, she prefers to push herself into new territories in her recordings and live performances. She is also a prolific songwriter. Although her other albums featured Sinne's catchy originals, EEG-FONNESBÆK focuses mostly on standards, like "You Don't Know What Love Is," "Body and Soul," "Summertime," "Beautiful Love," and "Come Rain Or Shine." Eeg manages to keep the essence of these chestnuts while taking them to new and fresh places that are imbued with her own personality and sensibilities. Her humor is apparent on the Lionel Hampton/Leonard Feather "Evil Gal Blues," which Sinne sings convincingly despite her claim that she included it because "I thought singing I'm an evil girl was so ironic and ridiculous."

Sinne's voice has a lush timbre that marries perfectly with Fonnesbæk's warm bass sound. As a singer she is influenced by Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan, but adds her own personal touch of soft darkness influenced by Scandinavian melancholy. Even without a drummer to keep time or a pianist to play chords, Sinne retains all her artistry and interpretive powers. Eeg and Fonnesbæk listen intensely and inspire each other to take chances. But spontaneity, communication and interpretation is, after all, the essence of jazz. The two are like dancers who are finely tuned and responsive to each other's every gesture. The results are simply captivating.

Sinne was raised in the Danish countryside in a very musical family. Her father, a physician, also plays bass, while her mother is a singer and clarinetist. Her brother plays the sax, and her uncle is a multi-instrumentalist. There was always jazz and jazz musicians in her house, so of course it was only natural that she began playing music at the age of four. However, she didn't become serious about music until she was 16, when she decided to pursue it as a career. With the intention of studying at the highly competitive Danish Music Conservatory, Sinne first studied at a music preparatory school just to be good enough to audition for the Academy. She attended the Academy for six years studying jazz vocals. Coursework at the Academy is very rigorous and gave her the deep understanding of music and superb harmonic and rhythmic techniques that shape her performances today. After school, she began performing in small cafes and casuals, building her reputation and fan base. The world started taking serious notice of her in 2007 with the release of her second CD, Waiting for Dawn, and her acclaim has been growing ever since.

The international jazz community has embraced this remarkable Danish jazz vocalist. Now, with the U.S. release of EEG-FONNESBÆK, Sinne Eeg is poised for a North American breakout.

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