CECILE VERNY - EUROPEAN SONGBOOK (2007)
2.: Good Life
3.: Nuages
4.: Mac The Knife
5.: La Mer
6.: I Wish You Love
7.: My Man
8.: Lost In The Stars
9.: Summer Knows
10.: Mercy Mercy Mercy
11.: Estate
12.: Bluesette
13.: Watch What Happens
14.: You Must Believe In Spring
15.: Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
16.: Les Feuilles Mortes (verse)
Born in the Ivory Coast, raised in France and living in Germany, Cecile Verny sings these 16 songs in French, English and scat. It’s the kind of enterprise that could easily go horribly wrong but she brings such a light touch to it, and the arrangements are so beautifully poised, that this is my vocal album of the year so far. With songwriters ranging from Kurt Weill to Toots Thielemans, arrangements by the likes of Michael Abene and Michael Gibbs, and a wonderfully responsive six-piece band, it adds up to an hour of constant surprise and gentle delight.
Only thing I'm wondering about the title : European Songbook. I think Kurt Weill was a German, so you have to sing Mack The Knife as Mackie Messer in german. Europe isn't only France and England.
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