Results for "Jamile"

Mike Holober & Balancing Act: Don't Let Go

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2022

With Don't Let Go, pianist Mike Holober and the octet Balancing Act seemed to have found an ideal way to cross-breed classical motifs and contemporary jazz to produce a pleasurable listening experience. Then he added lyrics. Granted, not all lyrics are superfluous—even those that are either nebulous or indecipherable, as is too often the case here. ...

If You Could See Me Now

By Jamile

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee; Ugly Beauty; This is New; Shiny Stockings; Jobim; Luiza; Everything I Love; If you could see me Now; O Pato; Nobody Else but Me.

Jamile: If You Could See Me Now

by Martin McFie
December 11, 2019

Jamile grew up in Cachoeira do Sul (South Falls), a small town in Brazil towards the border with Uruguay. Her supportive family had no particular interest in music. Imagine her surprise, then, at finding her twenty-something self launching this debut album at Gianni Valenti's Birdland Theater in New York City. After completing her studies ...

Jamile

Born: December 19, 1995

With a deep and versatile voice, rising star vocalist Jamile is leaving her mark wherever she goes.

Her latest album Daring Two Be (under La Reserve Records) was made in collaboration with guitarist Tony Davis and features the great Steve Wilson on alto saxophone.

​Her first album entitled 'If You Could See Me Now’ in 2019 was considered “(…) sharp, confident and professional” (Martin McFie, All About Jazz), and featured some of New York’s finest musicians Steve Wilson, Ray Gallon, Jay Leonhart, Vito Lesczak and Antonio Ciacca.

Originally from Brazil, she has been a working vocalist from a young age and was a featured singer in the musical ‘Eu Sou Maria (Nativitaten)’, the largest outdoor Christmas project in the world, for an audience of 500,000 people throughout the season.