Vocalese by Angelica Matveeva

This is Angelica's third concept album. Vocalese is the "killer-subgenre" in jazz, where the singer interprets originally instrumental improvisations with lyrics and which represents the ultimate technical and artistic challenge for jazz singers. Angelica interprets not only existing vocalese pieces built on improvisations by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, James Moody, John Handy III, but also many completely new ones for which she wrote her own lyrics to improvisations by such jazz icons as Freddie Hubbard, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Franco Ambrosetti, Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, and Peter Asplund.

The modern urban sound is the result of the collaboration between two young but sophisticated Finnish arrangers Tuomas Juhani Turunen and Ville Vannemaa, one of the finest younger generation Italian piano trios led by pianist Fabio Giachino and including bass player Davide Liberti and Ruben Bellavia, and two top horn players on the Finnish jazz scene – Manuel Dunkel on the tenor saxophone and Jukka Eskola on trumpet and flugelhorn.

Tracklist

1.	Wonderyear	6:10

2.	You go to my head	6:50

3.	Ping pong	6:38

4.	Moody's mood for love	4:20

5.	Yes or No	6:41

6.	Joy Spring	4:40

7.	Good bye pork pie hat	7:17

8.	Scrapple from the apple	4:05

Credits

released January 26, 2015

Released on the 26th of January 2015 by Chan Puma House.
Catalog number CHAN003 - EAN 7320470193143.

Recorded and mixed by engineer Risto Hemmi at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland.
Mastered by engineer Pauli Saastamoinen at Finnvox Studios, Helsinki, Finland.

Front cover photo by Natalia Vasilishina.
Cover design by Dicentia AB.

Angelica Matveeva (vocal), Manuel Dunkel (tenor saxophone), Jukka Eskola (trumpet, flugelhorn), Fabio Giachino (piano), Davide Liberti(double bass), Ruben Bellavia (drums).

Arrangements by Tuomas Juhani Turunen (1,4,5,7) and Ville Vannemaa (2, 3, 6, 8).

1. Wonderyear (music P. Asplund, lyrics A. Matveeva, arr. T.J. Turunen)
A.M. sings Peter Asplund’s trumpet solo
2. You go to my head (music J.F. Coots, lyrics A. Matveeva, arr. V. Vannemaa)
A.M. sings Lou Donaldson’s alto saxophone solo and Clifford Brown’s trumpet solo
3. Ping pong (music W. Shorter, lyrics A. Matveeva, arr. V. Vannemaa)
A.M. sings Wayne Shorter’s tenor saxophone solo (with Russian lyrics)
4. Moody's mood for love (music J. McHugh , lyrics Eddie Jefferson, arr. T.J. Turunen)
A.M. sings James Moody’s tenor saxophone solo and Thore Swanerud’s piano solo
5. Yes or no (music W. Shorter, lyrics A. Matveeva, arr. J. Toftgård and T.J. Turunen)
A.M. sings Franco Ambrosetti’s trumpet solo
6. Joy spring (music C. Brown, lyrics J. Hendricks, arr. V. Vannemaa)
A.M. sings Clifford Brown’s trumpet solo
7. Good bye pork pie hat (music C. Mingus, lyrics J. Mitchell, arr. T.J. Turunen)
A.M. sings John Handy III’s tenor saxophone solo
8. Scrapple from the Apple (music, C. Parker, lyrics M. Perrin, arr. V. Vannemaa)
A.M. sings Miles Davis’ trumpet solo and Charlie Parker’s alto saxophone solo (with French lyrics)

Total playing time: 46:43

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