BOUNDLESS TOP SUMMIT WHEN JAZZ STAR MEETS SOUL QUEEN - THEY CREATE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC OUT OF SONGS BY 20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS
LaGayllia Frazier, vocals
Jan Lundgren, piano
Mattias Svensson, bass
Zoltan Csörsz, drums
Guests:: Hal Frazier, vocals; Andy Pfeiler, guitar; Jonas Johansen, drums
LaGaylia Frazier is a soul singer with jazz in her gens and Jan Lundgren is a internationally renowned jazz pianist.
When they meet on the CD "LaGaylia Frazier & Jan Lundgren Trio - Until it's Time" they take their expressions to a new level and creates new music. Soul with jazz's multi-layered feeling and jazz with the intense heat from the soul.
This is music for autumn 2012. No genre boundaries or predestined rules, but still anchored in some of the greatest 20th century composers.
LaGaylia has added something new in my music, no doubt about that", says Jan Lundgren who has been an well-established jazz musician since the early 90's.
"I want to sing like Jan plays", says LaGaylia Frazier, one of Sweden's most acclaimed soul singers.
They met in different music contexts from 2000 and ahead, but it wasn't until 2010 that they decided that it was about time to work together. Jan Lundgren is a great sheet music collector and their collaboration started with digging deep into his archive.
They tried hundreds of tunes and finally found a bundle of songs that they started to work with. The selected songs are exciting. With some exceptions there are lesser known tunes, composed by American composers during the mid 20th century. "A period of time", Jan Lundgren explains, "when there was many brilliant composers that could write popular music as well". Music with underlying harmonies that is good for improvising, just perfect for Jan.
For LaGaylia Frazier the lyrics was crucial. "Good lyrics", she says, "that open your eyes for life around us, that makes us see things in another way that we are not used to". LaGaylia has a very personal feeling for the lyrics and she really express that in these songs.
The songs on this album has been sung by artists such as Peggy Lee, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Barbara Streisand. "They sang with their own personal touch", says Jan Lundgren. Jan Lundgren and LaGaylia Frazier perform the songs in their own way, far away from the traditional way of singing covers. The Lundgren / Frazier co-operation also generated the original tune "When We Say Goodbye".
During two years they performed the songs on this album on festivals and clubs in Sweden. Concerts that was acclaimed both in Sweden and other countries.
In september 2012 LaGaylia Frazier and Jan Lundgren start a tour in Sweden. The first gig is in Stockholm. They will perform songs from "Until it's Time", and other songs as well.
TRACK LIST
1. Until It's Time For You To go (Buffy Sainte-Marie)
2. When We Say Goodbye (LaGaylia Frazier Jan Lundgren)
3. I'm All Smiles (Michael Leonard/Herbert Martin)
4. The Shadow of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster)
5. Walkin' After Midnight (Alan block, Don Hecht)
6. Jean (Rod McKuen)
7. If You Go (Michel Emer, Geoffrey Parsons)
8. Inner City Blues (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx Jr)
9. What's Going On (Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland, Renaldo Benson)
