Cyrille Aimee – It’s A Good Day (2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Cyrille Aimee – It’s a Good Day (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88.2kHz | Time – 00:42:56 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Jazz
Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | © Mack Avenue Records
Recorded: Flux Studios, New York, NY

It’s A Good Day is the major label debut by the widely acclaimed young jazz singer Cyrille Aimée—yet another step forward for the rapidly rising vocalist. Winner of both the Montreux Jazz Festival’s Vocal Competition and the Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition, Aimée explores a range of musical styles, eras, continents and moods on It’s A Good Day (Mack Avenue) with a singular voice on inventive arrangements, and produced by Fabrice DuPont (Shakira, Jennifer Lopez).
Aimée’s musical outlook is reflected in an emphasis on the guitar, an instrument with an indigenous form in nearly every culture of the world—and it was the sound of the gypsy guitar that inspired Aimée to become a musician. While growing up in Samois-sur-Seine, Aimée snuck out of her home to the nearby gypsy encampments and was mesmerized by the music of those who followed the spirit of Django Reinhardt, revered as one of the world’s most influential guitarists. Aimée—who as a child also lived in Paris, Cameroon, Singapore and the Dominican Republic—later became fascinated with Brazilian guitar, and her music reveals a thorough understanding of bossa nova and samba idioms. She has now settled in Brooklyn, where she continues to absorb the inner workings of American jazz and the culture of the music’s homeland.

It’s impossible to not be charmed by French moppet Cyrille Aimée and her infectious joie de vivre. Her footloose curiosity has resulted in a slew of indie and self-produced recordings, many hard to find. It’s a Good Day, brimming with Aimée’s ebullience, is being billed as her major-label debut. It was in fact recorded over a year ago and, with a slightly different track list, released by Victor in Japan. Mack Avenue, as part of a three-album deal with Aimée, has licensed it for the American market.
Though Aimée’s previous discs featured everything from big bands to horn-fueled combos, she has a particular penchant for guitarists (her longtime hero is Django Reinhardt). That passion is brought to heightened fervor here via three distinctly gifted axmen: French-Italian Michael Valeanu on electric guitar, Gypsy-influenced Frenchman Adrien Moignard on steel-string and Brazil’s Guilherme Monteiro on nylon-string. According to Aimée, the goal, magnificently achieved, was “to create a roadmap for each guitar to make the sound beautiful and exciting, without creating a musical traffic jam.”
The clever program blends standards with pert originals in English and French, and Aimée adds a musing reading of Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall,” the sweet, tender “All Love” (composed by Django’s son Babik Reinhardt, with lyrics by Aimée) and a buoyant, wordless ramble across Oscar Pettiford’s “Tricrotism,” solely propelled by bassist Sam Anning. Sadly absent from the U.S. release, however, is her cunningly furtive take on the Doors’ “People Are Strange.” -Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes

Tracklist:
1 Where or When 02:47
2 It’s a Good Day 02:29
3 Bamboo Shoots 03:52
4 Twenty-Eight 03:20
5 Caravan 03:16
6 Nuit Blanche 04:12
7 Young at Heart 03:30
8 Off the Wall 03:03
9 Love Me or Leave Me 02:34
10 One Way Ticket 04:59
11 Pourtant 03:32
12 All Love 03:04
13 Tricotism 02:25

Personnel:
Cyrille Aimée – vocals
Michael Valeanu, Adrien Moignard, Guilherme Monteiro – guitar
Sam Anning – bass
Rajiv Jayaweera – drums

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