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Andrea Fultz

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Jazz is an infinitely malleable art form, and Andrea Fultz may be the first vocalist to stretch the music in such a convincingly Teutonic direction. A singer who combines a thespian’s emotional resourcefulness with a jazz vocalist’s rhythmic flexibility, Fultz can infuse fresh drama to American Songbook standards, croon lilting bossa novas, and keep a dance floor gyrating with insinuating electronica grooves. But the Munich-born Fultz defines herself with The German Projekt, a tough, unsentimental new album that plunges jazz into deliciously dangerous waters. More than a singular cultural synthesis, The German Projekt is a riveting musical journey that brings Fultz’s savvy jazz sensibility to the sardonic Weimar repertoire of Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hollaender, and Hanns Eisler

Album

The German Projekt German Songs from the Twenties and Thirties

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Alabama Song; Bilbao Song; Johnny; Ich bin von Kop bis Fuss auf Liebe eingesfellt; Denn wie man sich bbettet so liegt man; Wenn ich mir was wunschwen durfte; Barbara Song; Seerauber Jenny; Song of a German Mother; Surabaya Johnny; Mackie Messer; Kinder; heut Abend da such ich mir was aus.

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Article: Album Review

Andrea Fultz: The German Projekt German Songs from the Twenties and Thirties

Read "The German Projekt German Songs from the Twenties and Thirties" reviewed by Andrew Velez


Since its origins in the turbulent 1920s-'30s, and with the occasional exception of a vocalist-cum-chanteuse like Ute Lemper, the authoritative renditions by Marlene Dietrich and Lotte Lenya have pretty much held title to this music, which might be called the Great German Songbook. Which makes it all the more impressive that Munich-born Andrea Fultz, who has ...

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News: Recording

Andrea Fultz Sings Brecht-Weill & More on "German Projekt" CD

Andrea Fultz Sings Brecht-Weill & More on "German Projekt" CD

On her stunning new CD The German Projekt, which features jazz-imbued arrangements of classic songs by Brecht-Weill and Friedrich Hollaender and which is being released on May 12, singer Andrea Fultz sounds as if she'd been born to interpret this rich, complex body of music. But in fact the album concept came to fruition a mere ...


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