Jazz Articles about Mina Agossi

The French Scene: Part 5

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 9, 2021

Our stash of exciting recent and upcoming releases was replete with great new music from France so we had to devote to it a whole section of this week's show. Dive into large and small ensemble music of unbounded creativity and multiple influences. Happy listening! PlaylistBen Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Mina Agossi & Age 7 “All Spontaneous" All Spontaneous -Single (Alchimie) 0:16 Host talks 3:57 The Volunteered Slaves “Astronaef" ...

Mina Agossi: Red Eyes

by C. Michael Bailey
May 12, 2012

The French Classical Naive label continues its campaign into jazz with Mina Agossi's Red Eyes. Her second recording for the label after 2010's Just Like A Lady, Red Eyes finds the French singer staking out her rightful claim on what only can be described as the furthest molecule on the cutting edge of jazz vocals, before everything turns to infinity. While it is true that Agossi's vocal style still colors within the lines of conventional jazz wisdom, she erases those ...

Mina Agossi: Just Like a Lady

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2010

Mina Agossi continua il suo cammino verso le altissime vette dominate dalle poche regine rimaste nell'ambito della vocalità jazz, con un disco che ne conferma le doti e la personalità. Una personalità forte che però non viene mai utilizzata per forzare la mano nel rapporto con il proprio pubblico che rimane sempre dialogico e stimolante. Questo percorso impervio viene affrontato dalla giovane cantante con agilità e passione, piegando la voce agli sbalzi sacri dell'ispirazione, una sorgente che le sgorga dentro ...

Mina Agossi: Who Wants Love? - Live at Jazz Standard

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 1, 2007

Mina Agossi ha tutto per diventare una delle cantanti più interessanti in quel mondo sospeso che sta a metà fra il jazz e la eccitante musica dei nostri giorni che sfugge alle etichette ma che possiamo chiamare tranquillamente rock. La sua scelta di suonare con un trio decisamente basic, all’interno del quale si trova a fronteggiare solo il basso e la batteria, la porta immediatamente al centro della scena, pronta a prendersi le proprie responsabilità, pronta a sostenere il peso ...

Mina Agossi: Well You Needn't

by Chris May
March 14, 2006

Since her emergence on the Parisian music scene in the late 1990s, French/Beninoise singer Mina Agossi has polarised opinion sharply. Her style, a startling one-off which combines the caned and the languid with the intensely dramatic, infuriates as many people as it excites. Agossi is to jazz singing something of what Diamanda Galas is to torch songs... you're either going to love her or hate her, and she'll scare the shit out of you either way.

Well You Needn't isn't ...

Mina Agossi: E-Z Pass to Brooklyn

by Eric J. Iannelli
January 8, 2004

Recorded in October 2001, Mina Agossi’s E-Z Pass to Brooklyn has already been making the rounds in the Francophone world for some time, where at least one reviewer has lauded the effort as “incroyable” and even goes on to say, “Chaque morceau est une surprise.” Another reviewer favourably chimes in, “jamais vous n’avez entendu quelque chose comme E-Z Pass to Brooklyn.”

“Incredible.” “Each song is a surprise.” “You’ve never heard anything like E-Z Pass to Brooklyn.” Bold statements, ...