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Andree Pages

Andree Pages is a jazz and blues singer and rhythm guitarist who recently moved to the New Haven area.

About Me

For 35 years, from New York to Macau, Andree Pages and her partner Jay Elfenbein have played together in “Swings Both Ways” ensembles, from duo to quintet, playing a repertoire of American jazz standards, French chansons, bossa novas and old blues—songs by Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Coltrane, Jacques Brel, Charles Trenet, Jobim, Nina Simone and Ray Charles, and originals.

After 30 in New York City and 7 years in Macau and France, they now live outside New Haven.

Andrée's CD of standards, Andrée Pagès Swings Both Ways, half recorded with a traditional piano trio (click on “Nature Boy”) and half with a more out guitar-bass duo, was well received in the US and France.

An equally warm reception greeted her CD of originals, Andrée Pages: Original Jazz, Blues & One Lonesome Cowboy, which also contains her Latin arrangement of Jacques Brel's “La chanson des vieux amants.” The CD is remarkable for its viol solos and the ensemble performances of its multiple groups of sidemen. To hear one of her compositions, go to ElfPagesmusic.com to the Multimedia page and click on “Love Me Like You Used To,” with Jay Elfenbein, gamba; Dan Rothstein, guitar; Tony Moreno, drums. See also the playlists for the CDs on the elfpagesmusic Youtube page.