Elles
Youn Sun Nah
Vocal Jazz - Released January 26, 2024 | Warner Music Central Europe
After a period of introspection, personal as well as artistic, Korean musician Youn Sun Nah returns to her first loves as a “jazz singer” by coming out with a new album, soberly titled Elles. During this period, she travelled to the US for the duration of a collaboration with Jamie Saft, focused on a repertoire of pop-rock songs in English (She Moves On), and then definitively affirmed her talents as a songwriter with the release of a record composed entirely of her own pieces for the first time in her career (Waking World). This new album takes the intimate duo format which suits her so well, as she is accompanied on the piano - as well as on the Wurlitzer keyboard and Fender Rhodes - by American Jon Cowherd (member of the Brian Blade Fellowship since 1998 and sought-after partner of singers like Cassanfra Wilson and Lizz Wright). With the vocal expertise we know to expect from her, Youn Sun Nah interprets the abounding seductiveness of an eclectic repertoire consisting of great jazz, pop, and chanson classics made famous by iconic female artists. Passing masterfully from Björk (“Cocoon”) to Édith Piaf (“La Foule”), from Grace Jones (“Libertango”) to Nina Simone (“Feeling Good”), from Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane (“White Rabbit”) to Roberta Flack (“Killing Me Softly”), the singer yet again her imbues very personal interpretations, magnificently orchestrated by Cowherd’s various keyboards, with an emotional intensity that is so unique. It is paradoxically supported by a sort of expressive modesty founded on a greatly precise sense of phrasing, and uses the subtle art of vibrato to allow the unfathomable depths of these songs that we thought we knew by heart to surface. © Stéphane Ollivier/Qobuz
Symphonique
Edith Piaf
French Music - Released October 13, 2023 | Parlophone (France)
Chimène chante Piaf : L'intégrale
Chimène Badi
French Music - Released October 6, 2023 | Parlophone (France)
Le moujik et sa femme (Version Remasterisée)
Jean-Louis Murat
French Music - Released December 20, 2019 | [PIAS] Le Label
Chimène chante Piaf
Chimène Badi
French Music - Released January 20, 2023 | Parlophone (France)
C'est Déjà Ça
Alain Souchon
French Music - Released October 1, 1993 | Parlophone (France)
Poésie Française
Roxane Elfasci
Classical - Released November 10, 2023 | Amigo
Hymne à la môme
Edith Piaf
French Music - Released September 24, 2012 | Parlophone (France)
Écoute La Neige Tomber
REYN
Classical - Released June 23, 2023 | Un Plan Simple
Collection
Alain Souchon
French Music - Released November 12, 2001 | Parlophone (France)
Flux Flou de la Foule
Françoiz Breut
French Music - Released April 9, 2021 | 30 Fevrier
Foule Monstre
Eiffel
Rock - Released September 3, 2012 | [PIAS] France
Défoule sentimentale
Alain Souchon
French Music - Released October 1, 1995 | Parlophone (France)
Mireille Mathieu chante Piaf
Mireille Mathieu
French Music - Released January 1, 1994 | Sony Music Entertainment
The most revered French vocalist of the 20th century, Edith Piaf continues to influence French artists long after her death. A soulful, moving singer with an impressive range, Mireille Mathieu pays tribute to Piaf's legacy on the superb Chante Piaf. As great as Piaf's influence is on her, the singer projects an impressive identity of her own on familiar songs ranging from the dramatic "Exodus" and the haunting "Jezebel" to the confident "Non, Je Ne Regrete Rien." Quite appropriately, this fine CD opens with Piaf's signature song, "La Vie en Rose." Atlantic could have easily come up with a Piaf clone, but instead, the company wisely chose a vocalist who salutes the legend on her own terms.© Alex Henderson /TiVo
Un bruit qui court
Pauline Croze
French Music - Released November 12, 2007 | Absolute Management
From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf: Live in Marciac
Wynton Marsalis
Jazz - Released November 5, 2009 | Rampart Street, LLC - Jazz in Marciac
Revoir Un Printemps
Iam
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released September 16, 2003 | Parlophone (France)
Eternelle
Edith Piaf
French Music - Released July 22, 1991 | Parlophone (France)
EMI's U.K. collection of Edith Piaf, titled Éternelle, is quite a nice set that includes many of Piaf's numerous hits, such as "La Vie en Rose" and "La Goualante du Pauvre Jean." Overall, Éternelle is comparable to the U.S. mainstay on Capitol Records, The Voice of the Sparrow: The Very Best of Edith Piaf, but with only seven of the 18 songs overlapping.© Gregory McIntosh /TiVo