Melissa Lesnie, Jean-Baptiste Franc – The Wonderful Things To Come: The Songs of JC Hopkins (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Melissa Lesnie, Jean-Baptiste Franc – The Wonderful Things To Come: The Songs of JC Hopkins (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:14 minutes | 373 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Wonderful Things To Come – The JC Hopkins Songbook. a new album by Parisian vocalist Melissa Lesnie and pianist Jean-Baptiste Franc of original compositions by JC Hopkins: The album features intimate, exclusive interpretations of Grammy-nominated songwriter’s unabashedly romantic jazz tunes, performed by Paris-based duo Melissa Lesnie (voice) and Jean Baptiste-Franc (piano), with jazz quartet (William Brunard, double bass and Jonathan Gomis, drums), and additional string quartet arrangements by Daniel Garlitsky. Based in Brooklyn, the composer and songwriter JC Hopkins has built a career in the entertainment industry on originality and quality, co-authoring songs for Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, and other major singers. His ensemble the Biggish Band has performed with Norah Jones, Jazzemia Horn, Jon Hendricks, Andy Bey and Elvis Costello, among others. In February 2022, Hopkins traveled to Paris to produce an album of his own songs in an intimate setting, Studio Libretto. World champion of stride piano (2018) Jean-Baptiste Franc was entrusted with the task of recording these songs (many for the first time), alongside Australian-born jazz singer Melissa Lesnie, with whom Franc had already released a first album of standards in 2020. Of the ten songs on the album, some were entirely new compositions written in the wake of the pandemic; others among Hopkins’s most beloved hits, such as Painter Song, originally recorded by Norah Jones. The Wonderful Things to Come is a hope-filled journey through memory, romance, cohabitation and second chances. The JC Hopkins Songbook showcases not only the composer’s skill as a lyricist and melodist, but also the talent and tenacity of these Parisian musicians at a time when the City of Lights was reawakening following the pandemic, with many lost souls seeking a soundtrack to a better world they are building for themselves and their communities.

Tracklist:

1-1. Melissa Lesnie – Rainy Afternoon In The Latin Quarter (00:51)
1-2. Melissa Lesnie – The Wonderful Things To Come (03:53)
1-3. Melissa Lesnie – Let’s Pick Up Where We Left Off (03:47)
1-4. Melissa Lesnie – Remember When (02:45)
1-5. Melissa Lesnie – I Will Always Be There For You (03:33)
1-6. Melissa Lesnie – Gabrielle (03:06)
1-7. Melissa Lesnie – It’s A Lovely, Lovely Thing (01:54)
1-8. Melissa Lesnie – A Grand Way To Live (03:14)
1-9. Melissa Lesnie – Not So All Alone (03:39)
1-10. Melissa Lesnie – The Leaves Are Turning Brown (02:36)
1-11. Melissa Lesnie – Do You Want to Go to France? (03:25)
1-12. Melissa Lesnie – I’m Getting Over You (02:12)
1-13. Melissa Lesnie – Painter Song (02:13)

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