2023-07-24 02:00:03
THE MORNING LIST
This week, we offer you five discs and two boxes appreciated and reviewed by the critics of the music section of the Monde and which were marketed in June. In chronological order of releases: jazz singer Robin McKelle’s tribute to Ella Fitzgerald; a Ravel and Mantovani program by the Quatuor Voce; King Krule’s fifth album; singer Janelle Monae’s ode to feminine pleasure; the fusion of rhythms, jazz, rock and fiery melodies of oriental undulations of the group Yemen Blues; the collection of studio recordings by bassist and composer Charles Mingus for Atlantic in the 1970s; an anthology devoted to Léo Ferré covering his work from 1948 to 1990.
Robin McKelle’s brilliant tribute to Ella Fitzgerald
Cover of the album « Impressions of Ella », by Robin McKelle. DOXIE RECORDS-NAÏVE/BELIEVE
Singer Robin McKelle pays tribute to the one she presents as « the first lady of song » (the “first lady of song”, in the quasi-presidential sense), Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), and whose influence on her practice she regularly mentioned. For this Impressions of Ella, Robin McKelle chose a trio treatment. His accompanists are master pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington.
On the program of this album, standards that Ella Fitzgerald has regularly put back into vocal play, Old Devil Moon, How High The Moon, April in Paris… less obvious titles, Robbin’s Nest (Ella with Hank Jones at the piano in 1949), Soon. Robin McKelle shines there with his curvaceous singing, stretching of notes, finesse in rhythmic breaks, work on nuance, constant musicality. S. Si.
« Impressions of Ella », 1 CD Doxie Records-Naïve/Believe.
Ravel and Mantovani crowned by the Quatuor Voce
Cover of the album “Poétiques de l’instant II”, by the Quatuor Voce. ALPHA CLASSICS/OUTHERE MUSIC
Unlike most composers, it is not through his signature, through his imprint on the sound material, that we perceive the presence of Maurice Ravel in his music, but through his perfume, the scents that emerge from it. The Voce Quartet – Cécile Roubin and Sarah Dayan, violins, Guillaume Becker, viola and Lydia Shelley, cello – carry the perfume of Ravel magnificently on a body that shudders to intoxication in the dizzying Finale of the Four completed in 1910. This is followed by a transcription by harpist Emmanuel Ceysson for septet – the quartet with Ceysson, Juliette Hurel, flute and Rémi Delangle, clarinet – of My mother the goose shot so well that one might think it was an unpublished work by Ravel, prince of transcribers.
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