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Sweet Happy Life
Label: Minnehaha Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Agua de Beber; Meditation; Slow Hot Wind; Sweet Happy Life; Killing Me
Softly With His Song; Canadian Sunset; Watch What Happens; The Girl From
Ipanema; Sway; Bluesette; How Insensitive; Take Me To Aruanda; So Nice;
Adventure; I Will Wait For You; Tristeza.
Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life
by Nicholas F. Mondello
There are surprises galore and much to be enjoyed in Sweet Happy Life, from fine Minneapolis-based vocalist, Connie Evingson. Perhaps the most immediate of those discoveries, even before a listen, is the canon of work from Grammy and Academy Award-winning lyricist, Norman Gimbel, to whose oeuvre this CD is a tribute.With Sweet Happy Life ...
Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life
by Dan Bilawsky
Norman Gimbel's name may not register with a lot of educated jazz fans, yet he's linked to some of the most important songs and artists in the music. Gimbel wrote the lyrics attached to harmonica ace Toots Thielemans' best known number, “Bluesette," captured Michel Legrand's musical moods in words on “I Will Wait For You" and ...
Connie Evingson & The Hot Club of Sweden: Stockholm Sweetnin’
by C. Michael Bailey
After the release of the top-drawer Sweet Happy Life (Minnehhaha Music, 2012), it was worth pursuing the All About Jazz review archives to see if there were any recent Connie Evingson releases we neglected to consider. Imagine our luck that a significant recording has been overlooked, one that appeals directly to Evingson's Scandinavian heritage: 2006's Stockholm ...
Connie Evingson: Sweet Happy Life
by C. Michael Bailey
Singer Connie Evingson is a master of thematic programming. Her last several recordings have all been predicated on specific themes that showed great consideration in their concepts. Recordings released since the new millennium include: Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg (Minnehaha Music, 2008); Stockholm Sweetnin' (Minnehaha Music, 2006); Gypsy in my Soul (Minnehaha Music, ...
Vocalist Connie Evingson's "Sweet Happy Life," A Tribute To Songwriter Norman Gimbel
For her ninth album, SWEET HAPPY LIFE (Minnehaha Music, July 10, 2012 Release), vocalist Connie Evingson (pronounced EE-ving-sen) samples the songbook of Grammy and Oscar winning lyricist Norman Gimbel. “With a healthy dose of bossa nova and samba from Gimbel’s frequent collaborations with Brazilian composers Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, Marcos Valle and others (“Girl from ...
Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz: Episode 15, "Sultry Sirens, Part 3"
SoulandJazz.com presents: Continuum--A Journey Through Jazz Episode 15: “Sultry Sirens 3" Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, 'The Jazz Evangelist' As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here. This week we continue our journey through Jazz with the third installment of ...
Emma Larsson: Let It Go
by C. Michael Bailey
Among the many sub-genres of jazz, none is more congested than that of female vocalists. So clotted is this particular marketplace that it is almost impossible to separate the signal (exceptional releases) from the noise (everything else). There are precious few ways for an artist to set herself apart from the merely good vocalists as a ...
Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg
Label: Minnehaha Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Little Did I Dream; Peel Me a Grape; Our Love Rolls On; Zanzibar; Can't Take You Nowhere; Heart's Desire; Wheelers and Dealers; Zoot Walks In; Eastwood Lane; You Are There I Want to be a Sideman; My Attorney Bernie; Snowbound; Listen Here.
Connie Evingson: Little Did I Dream: Songs by Dave Frishberg
by C. Michael Bailey
The late Tip O'Neill once said, .."All politics is local." This certainly can be said for jazz also. All of America's metropolitan areas have a jazz contingency. Chicago has Kurt Elling, Patricia Barber, and Von Freeman; Washington DC has Buck Hill; and New York has who knows how many? The Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul, also has ...
