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| 1. | Tight
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| 2. | Is You is or is You Ain't My Baby
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| 3. | Throw It Away
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| 4. | A Felicidade
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| 5. | You Turn Me On
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| 6. | Cover Me
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| 7. | Be Cool
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| 8. | Umhome
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| 9. | A Good Man is Hard To Find
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| 10. | A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
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| 11. | Tea For Two
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| 12. | Everything Must Change
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Jazz
Arranged & conducted by Michael Abene
Fay Claassen Vocals
"Fay Claassen is to singing what Audrey Hepburn was to the movies: elegant and graceful." -- Cadence
* The big sound of the vast orchestra that accompanies Dutch jazz diva Fay Claassen is like a warm bath: it sounds so good & relaxing, yet is energizing and exciting as well. A grand CD!
* Fay Claassen won the first Chet Baker Award, has received two nominations for the Edison Award, and won the All About Jazz Critics Poll in New York for Best Vocal Release of 2006.
* Claassen has recorded five CDs as a leader, with Toots Thielemans, Mike Stern, Kenny Werner, Barry Harris, Bert Joris, and more. She is a jazz diva of international stature and allure!
Fay Claassen
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Born: 1969 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop, Vocal Jazz
Like Soesja Citroen -- one of Holland's best-known jazz singers -- Fay Claassen is a Dutch jazz vocalist who has no problem getting around in the English language. Claassen has brought a slice trace of a Dutch accent to her post-bop recordings, but only a slight trace -- and she obviously has a great understanding of the English-language material she has embraced (which has ranged from Tin Pan Alley standards to Burt BacharachHal David songs to lyrics that Cassandra Wilson wrote for Miles Davis' "Seven Steps to Heaven"). But even though Claassen sings in English more often than not, she hasn't confined her singing to that language; the improviser has also performed jazz convincingly in French and Portuguese. And whatever language she is performing in, Claassen isn't a hard-driving or aggressive sort of vocalist; she swings, but not in a forceful way. Claassen's performances have tended to be graceful, elegant, smooth, urbane, and sophisticated.
Born in Nijmegin, Holland, in 1969, Claassen explored ballet dancing and acting before deciding to make jazz singing her primary focus. After high school, she studied at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague and went on to become a featured vocalist for various Dutch jazz groups (including the Amsterdam Jazz Quintet). In 1994, a 25-year-old Claassen was featured extensively on German saxophonist Carolyn Breuer's Simply Be, which came out on Holland's Challenge Records the following year; on that album, she is listed as Fee Claassen instead of Fay Claassen. Going by Fay Claassen instead of Fee Claassen, the singer began recording as a leader in the late '90s, when she provided her debut album, With a Song in My Heart, with some help from the Jazz Impuls Foundation (a Dutch organization that helps jazz artists it feels deserve more recognition). In the early 2000s, Claassen traveled to the New York City/northern New Jersey area and recorded her second album, Rhythms & Rhymes, which gave her a chance to work with well-respected American jazz improvisers like guitarist Mike Stern, pianist Kenny Werner, and vibist/marimba player Joe Locke. That album was produced by Jazz Impuls' Bob Hagen and was released in Holland on the organization's Jazz 'n Pulz label. Hagen went on to produce Claassen's third album, Specially Arranged for Fay, a big-band date that found her being joined by the Millennium Jazz Orchestra; that disc also came out on Jazz 'n Pulz in Holland and, like Rhythms & Rhymes, was distributed by Allegro in the United States.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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