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MP3 Melanie Bong - Gypsy Dream
12 MP3 Songs in this album (69:28) !
Related styles: JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, JAZZ: Gypsy Jazz
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Melanie Bong (voc)
Fritz Pauer (p, fender rhodes, arr)
Johannes Enders (saxophones)
Christian Diener (b)
Rick Hollander (dr)
Nini Mureskic (perc on "Hi Fly")
Recorded 2002 at Organic Music Studios, Obing, Germany. Mixed and mastered at Studio Zenko by Danilo Zenko, Maribor, Slovenia
".... Ellis Regina had it; Carmen McRae had it; and now Melanie Bong has it." (William Grim in "All About Jazz, USA)
Melanie Bong studied with some of the most famous jazz singers and musicians of the world. Today she works with international jazzstars on worldwide tours. Mark Murphy wrote about her: "Melanie Bong´s songs are as tuneful and original as her name. Musical beauty flows in and out this lovely persona." Critics and specialist journals followed this statement, when her first CD "Fantásia" was released in 2002 by jazz4ever-records.
With her new CD "Gypsy Dream" Melanie Bong returns to her musical and personal roots: musically to the acoustic jazz and personally to her Sinti descent. As a mediator
between two worlds - the Sinti and the non-Sinti European - she sings and writes about feelings, conflicts and problems of these people. Powerfully, sensitively and sometimes melancholy the music ranges from the traditional gipsy song "O Postaris", revised or newly arranged jazz standards like "Hi Fly", "The Very Thought Of You" and "A Time For Love" to varied compositions of her own. They show a new facette of Bong´s work as composer and song writer. Pieces like "Here You Are", "Shades Of Love" or "Brazil" are a survey of different phases of her life; "Gypsy dream" shows social criticism.
Another highlight of the CD is the piano play of Fritz Pauer. He casts a spell on the listener with his magic piano play and added to the record some arrangements. The other musicians need not fear comparison: Johannes Enders, Christian Diener and Rick Hollander are all top-class players.
The liner notes of the CD wrote one of the main representitives of the old German jazz scene, the singer Willi Johanns.
".... She´s Got It!", so listen to this album and enjoy - for here, I believe, is one of the
finest vocalists in Europe today …" (Willi Johanns, Munich).
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