Results for "Louise Van Aarsen"

Louise Alexandra

Born: September 16, 1965

Louise Alexandra (fka Van Aarsen) is a Dutch-American jazz vocalist and lyricist, Boston-grown and now based in the Netherlands. Alongside her work as a PhD scientist in cancer immunotherapy research, she has built an international vocal jazz side gig rooted in storytelling, lyric craft, and transatlantic collaboration.

While living in Boston for 15 years, Louise’s musical path developed under the mentorship of the late jazz vocalist Rebecca Parris, who embraced her as a protégé and directed the recordings of her first two albums. Her 2012 debut Destiny introduced her as a distinctive new voice blending jazz, Latin, and singer-songwriter influences, followed by Today (2020), a collection of mostly original songs and a few reimagined standards.

Susan Elliott: This Strange Season

by C. Michael Bailey
February 8, 2020

There are artists like Louise Van Aarsen who, with her 2012 Destiny (Self Produced), champion “grownup music," that is, music with traditional adult themes presented in a mainstream fashion. Add Susan Elliott to this group with her This Strange Season. Elliott is a member of the Houston Jazz Mafia, in spite of her decidedly non-jazz recording. ...

Alberto Pibiri & Miriam Waks: So Many Stars

by C. Michael Bailey
January 18, 2020

PIanist Alberto Pibiri and vocalist Miriam Waks' recording So Many Stars is a lesson in intimacy. They are an international couple, with Pibiri coming from Italy and Waks from the other side of the world, Australia. The two, married, make New York City their home. They obviously enjoy one another and performing together. They bring an ...

Rebecca Parris: 1951-2018

by C. Michael Bailey
June 22, 2018

You'll happen my way on some mem'rable day And the month will be May for a while... I was never fortunate enough to have met Rebecca Parris in person; but, I was fortunate enough to live in and be a part of the musical universe that surrounded her. That universe was created ...

Sue Sheriff: Better Than Anything

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2016

It was in one of those art pieces often used to close an hour out on National Public Radio where a jazz vocalist was being interviewed about the durability and longevity of the “Great American Songbook." The singer remarked that as long as listeners age and have life experience, the standards composed between 1920 and 1960 ...

Lisa Thorson: Lisa Thorson Quartet - Live

by C. Michael Bailey
January 12, 2015

Lisa Thorson is a Boston-based vocalist and educator (she is a professor of voice at Berklee College of Music). She has release three recordings: From This Moment On (Brownstone, 1994), Resonance (GM Recordings, 1999) and Out to Sea (Self Produced, 2002). Even a dedicated teacher must spread her creative wings from time to time, and Thorson ...

Someone

September 8, 2012

Album: Destiny
By Louise Alexandra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Duration: 04:22

Milton Suggs: Lyrical, Volume 1

by C. Michael Bailey
August 31, 2012

Vocalist/composer Milton Suggs released Things To Come to certain positive acclaim. In an arid male jazz vocals landscape, Suggs recalls a simpler time ruled by the likes of Joe Williams and Johnny Hartman. His voice is deep and rich, with Betty Carter's pliability and Jon Hendricks' smokiness. On Lyrical, Volume 1 he fronts a larger-than-average band ...

Jazz Singer/Songwriters Part I: Louise Van Aarsen and Rebecka Larsdotter

by C. Michael Bailey
June 17, 2012

We can only hear “My Funny Valentine" so many times presented in so many manners. Writer Scott Yanow, in his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide (Backbeat Books, 2008), called for a moratorium on singers recording this and several other songs because, like “Stairway to Heaven" and “Freebird" (for those from behind the Cotton Curtain), ...

Destiny

By Louise Alexandra

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012