From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V7 #65 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, April 16 2002 Volume 07 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Jazz [Dr Dirk Pilat ] Re: Trey Lorenz-Nearly on topic [Bruce Grembowski ] Web bio ["David Higginson" ] Re: Jazz [Mithors@aol.com] Fw: Jazz ["Steve Richardson" ] Re: Fw: Jazz [Timothy Yap ] Re: Fw: Jazz ["Dennis J. Majewicz" ] Re: Jazz [space_bandits@webtv.net] Fw: Jazz ["Steve Richardson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:19:39 +1200 From: Dr Dirk Pilat Subject: Re: Jazz On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 05:13 , Timothy Yap wrote: > > My knowledge of jazz is very limited, so I am open to people's > suggestions. Go for the record that made Matt Bianco and Basia possible: Stan Getz / Joao Gilberto and Carlos Jobim from 1963. Music was never so lucious again..... (Maybe apart from "could you be" from the last Matt Bianco Album, "Rico") Cheers, Dirk Japan has replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with haiku poetry, each with only 17 syllables: 5,7,5 per line. Your file was so big. It might have been very useful. But now it is gone. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. The website you seek Cannot be located, but Countless more exist. http://www.dirkpilat.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:35:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Grembowski Subject: Re: Trey Lorenz-Nearly on topic - --- "Dennis J. Majewicz" wrote: > ... > Incidentally, continuing in an off-topic vein, one of my favorite singers was > in Buffalo a week or so ago, Diana Krall. We attended the concert and > thoroughly enjoyed it. She is a gifted pianist and has a wonderful voice. She > seems heavily influenced by Nat Cole (how can you go wrong?). Diana and her > trio played nearly two and a half hours straight without intermission and did > only one encore song, but had the sellout crowd in the palm of her hand > throughout. Quite a performance and I was thrilled to be there. She is a > stunning woman, by the way, and seemed almost shy at times, not talking much. > But what a singer! > ... I have thoroughly enjoyed what I've heard of Diana Krall, also (60-second demos of an available CD). Definitely different than Basia, though; Basia's doing (did?) original work, while Ms. Krall seems to be in love with the standards. Grem Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:01:38 +0100 From: "David Higginson" Subject: Web bio Hi all. I found these biographies on the VH1 site. The last sentence of Basia's bio is a little unsettling. Surely Basia would not go to ground just because interest has waned? I also found the comment on Matt Biancos' bio about Dannys contractual problems strange. I always assumed the album was going to be Basia's own solo release. http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/basia/artist.jhtml I have pasted the text below. Dave. VH1 Biographies................. Basia. b. Basha Trzetrzelewska, 30 September 1959, Jaworzno, Galica, Poland. At the age of 15 she won a talent contest, but was guided by her family into a medical career. Three years later she joined an all-girl group, Alibabki, and toured Russia. After two years she quit and broke through the Iron Curtain to spend time in America in a rock-orientated outfit, Perfect, performing cover versions in a Chicago club. After relocating to London in 1981 and scanning the music press, she replied to an advertisement and subsequently joined Daniel White in Bronze. That band evolved into Matt Bianco, a British breakaway outfit from Blue Rondo A La Turk. After two years of success with the band she broke away in 1987 to launch a solo career as Basia. With help from her long-time musical partner, White, she released her debut album to much acclaim. Sales were particularly good in Europe and the USA, where "Prime Time TV" was a Top 20 hit and the album sold over a million copies. However, although she received much airplay in the UK, none of her releases found commercial success. In the USA it was quite different - her second album sold over 500,000 copies in two weeks and included a US Top 30 hit, "Cruising For Bruising". By the time of 1994's The Sweetest Illusion, however, she was struggling to retain an audience no longer interested in her pseudo-jazz style. Matt Bianco. This UK jazz/pop group was formed in 1984 by ex- Blue Rondo A La Turk members Mark Reilly (b. 20 February 1960, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England; lead vocals) and Daniel White (b. 26 August 1959, Hertfordshire, England; keyboards), with Basia (b. Basha Trzetrzelewska, 30 September 1959, Jaworzno, Galica, Poland; vocals). They emerged in the latter part of the UK jazz/pop scene in the early 80s, alongside other acts such as Sade and Animal Nightlife. Signed to the WEA Records distributed YZ label, they achieved a run of UK hits in 1984 with the breezy, samba-laced "Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed" (number 15), "Sneaking Out The Back Door"/"Matt's Mood" (number 44), "Half A Minute" (number 23). The following year a cover version of Georgie Fame's "Yeh Yeh" reached number 13. The initial employment of various session musicians was abandoned in favour of a full-time band, taking on keyboard player Mark Fisher (who already had connections to them in the capacity of songwriter), plus bass player Kito Poncioni (b. Rio, Brazil). Basia left in 1987 to forge her own solo career and was replaced by Jenni Evans. Daniel White also left around this time. Basia and White recorded Time And Tide together and, because of White's contractual problems the album, and various singles from it, came out as Basia solo releases. By now Matt Bianco was, in pop terms, unfashionable. Yet Reilly's fascination, and adeptness with fusing Latin rhythms to pop, gave the band their biggest UK hit in 1988 with the number 11 single, "Don't Blame It On That Girl/Wap-Bam-Boogie". Increasingly driven to cater for a select audience, the band continued to produce specialized, quality pop music into the early 90s. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:56:43 EDT From: Mithors@aol.com Subject: Re: Jazz I haven't heard about Jane Monheti, Diana Krall or Luara Fygi, but I'll check them out. Another really good female jazz singer that I recently found out about is Estrella Morente. Have any of you heard of her? Jose ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:45:42 -0700 From: "Steve Richardson" Subject: Fw: Jazz I think the finest singer of pop standards and jazz songs working today is Stacey Kent. She has five superb albums out, and last night I was lucky enough to see her performing live - she was spectacular. Spoke to her briefly and she is every bit as charming as she is talented. Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:50:46 -0400 From: Timothy Yap Subject: Re: Fw: Jazz Steve, you are right. I have Stacey Kent's "Dreamsville" and it's just a beautiful album. If you like slow jazz numbers, it's an album to get. I know she has a new CD coming out. I can't wait to get it. Timothy At 05:45 PM 4/15/02 -0700, you wrote: > >I think the finest singer of pop standards and jazz songs working today is >Stacey Kent. She has five superb albums out, and last night I was lucky >enough to see her performing live - she was spectacular. Spoke to her >briefly and she is every bit as charming as she is talented. > >Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:28:16 -0400 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Fw: Jazz Sounds interesting, guys. I've never heard of her. I'll have to look out for her work. Dennis - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy Yap" To: Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: Re: Fw: Jazz > > Steve, you are right. I have Stacey Kent's "Dreamsville" and it's just a > beautiful album. If you like slow jazz numbers, it's an album to get. I know > she has a new CD coming out. I can't wait to get it. > > Timothy > > At 05:45 PM 4/15/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > >I think the finest singer of pop standards and jazz songs working today is > >Stacey Kent. She has five superb albums out, and last night I was lucky > >enough to see her performing live - she was spectacular. Spoke to her > >briefly and she is every bit as charming as she is talented. > > > >Steve R. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:47:09 -0400 (EDT) From: space_bandits@webtv.net Subject: Re: Jazz Diana Krall's "The Look Of Love" was one of my favorite albums of 2001, along with Paul McCartney's "Driving Rain" and asia's "Aura". ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:14:14 -0700 From: "Steve Richardson" Subject: Fw: Jazz Stacey's new album, "In Love Again," is superb, maybe her best yet. I couldn't wait either, ordered it from the Candid Records web site...it's been out in England for a couple of months. By the way, Stacey's husband, tenor saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, has a fine new album himself, "Brazilian Sketches." Stacey sings on 3 tunes, including "So Nice," the only song I know of that both Stacey and Basia have recorded. (Couldn't have another posting without a Basia connection!) Steve R. > > Steve, you are right. I have Stacey Kent's "Dreamsville" and it's just a > beautiful album. If you like slow jazz numbers, it's an album to get. I know > she has a new CD coming out. I can't wait to get it. > > Timothy ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V7 #65 **************************