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MP3 Anna Mjöll - Christmas Jazzmaz
14 MP3 Songs in this album (53:02) !
Related styles: Holiday: Jazz, Jazz: Cool Jazz, Type: Vocal
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"Anytime you can sip a drink in a cool jazz club and be close to an excellent combo fronted by an excellent singer... who scats -- life is good.
Had that pleasure last night as I checked out a FaceBook "friend" who was singing at Charlie O''s in the valley (LA). I don''t know much about her but Anna Mjoll said she has backed up some big pop names like Julio Iglesias on tour and in the studio, and her mother was a jazz singer back home in Iceland. So that makes two Icelander jazz singers at least, when I might''ve previously guessed, oh, zero. I wouldn''t have thought of it, but shouldn''t be surprised either -- Scandinavia has produced some outstanding jazz musicians (though few vocalists -- I can''t name any), and Iceland, though tiny, is part of Scandinavia.
I get the impression she''s fairly recently made the career transition from pop to jazz (and has a CD out, recorded here and mixed in Reykjavik) but she has the genes and the predilection for jazz vocalese. She may not have the range of an Ella (who does?) but she''s got the feel for it, and that''s more important. I''ve heard it the other way around, fantastic vocal instrument but no sympatico, and it gets old quickly. Singing jazz requires a soulful connection to the material, and Mjoll''s got it.
She''s relaxed and professional on stage, because she''s got the material nailed. She gives each song a personal, distinctive touch. She doesn''t try to re-invent the standards, but she inhabits them evocatively. I got there for the last set and wished I''d heard more, and I''m the kind of "sampler" who often "gets it" and splits. But even though she was calling out numbers from a songbook ("let''s do #55..."), it sounded like she had played with the John Heard Trio for ages.
Do yourself a favor and catch her now, at an intimate small club, before she breaks out into larger venues.
Charles Andrews
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Oct 16, 2010
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