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In youth-driven idioms like alternative rock, dance-pop, and hip-hop, you don't find a lot of artists making their recording debuts at 45. But jazz is a different ball game. Jazz audiences tend to be more accepting of late bloomers because they realize that artists need to improve and develop with time; if an artist doesn't have a lot to say at 20 or 25, he/she might have plenty to say at 40, 45, or 50. In terms of recording, Marcelle Gauvin is one of jazz's late bloomers; the Massachusetts vocalist was 45 when she recorded her first album as a leader, Faces of Love. This competent, if unremarkable, debut shows Gauvin to be a likable singer with a charming, vulnerable quality to her voice. The singer picks a few warhorses that have been done to death over the years; do listeners really need to hear yet another conventional reading of "Love for Sale" or "Skylark"? But to her credit, she doesn't inundate us with songs that have been recorded hundreds of times, and she also embraces material that ranges from Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Eu Te Amo" (which finds her singing in Portuguese) to Ella Fitzgerald's "Rough Ridin'." And she certainly deserves applause for successfully tackling Stephen Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around"; many jazz vocalists steer clear of Sondheim's challenging compositions, but Gauvin, much to her credit, has enough vision to give "Not While I'm Around" a lightly Brazilian makeover. You won't find Faces of Love breathtaking, but it's respectable and lets us know that Gauvin is well worth keeping an eye on.
© Alex Henderson /TiVo
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Call Me Madam (Irving Berlin)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Irving Berlin, Composer - Howard Lindsay, Lyricist - Russel Crouse, Lyricist - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
The New Yorkers: Love for Sale (Cole Porter)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Cole Porter, Composer - Herbert Fields, Lyricist - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Johnny Mercer, Lyricist - Hoagy Carmichael, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Oh! Look at Me Now (Joe Bushkin)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Joe Bushkin, Composer - John De Vries, Lyricist - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
If You Never Come to Me (Inutil Paisagen) - Triste (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Stan Strickland, Performer - John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Aloysio De Oliveira, Lyricist - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Sentimental (John Harrison III)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - John Harrison III, Composer - E. Schwartz, Composer - R. Bruno, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Sweeney Todd (Stephen Sondheim)
Stan Strickland, Performer - John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Stephen Sondheim, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Rainy Afternoon (Carroll Coates)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Carroll Coates, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Rough Riding (Rough Ridin') (Ella Fitzgerald)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Ella Fitzgerald, Composer - Hank Jones, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer - William J. Tennyson Jr., Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Starting Here, Starting Now (David Shire)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Richard Maltby, Jr., Lyricist - David Shire, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Love You Madly (Duke Ellington)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Duke Ellington, Composer - Billy Strayhorn, Lyricist - John Harrison III, Composer
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Eu te amo (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
John Harrison III, Performer - Marcelle Gauvin, Performer - Peter Kontrimas, Performer - Michael Monagan, Performer - Jack Menna, Performer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - John Harrison III, Composer - Dora Vasconcelos, Lyricist
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
Album review
In youth-driven idioms like alternative rock, dance-pop, and hip-hop, you don't find a lot of artists making their recording debuts at 45. But jazz is a different ball game. Jazz audiences tend to be more accepting of late bloomers because they realize that artists need to improve and develop with time; if an artist doesn't have a lot to say at 20 or 25, he/she might have plenty to say at 40, 45, or 50. In terms of recording, Marcelle Gauvin is one of jazz's late bloomers; the Massachusetts vocalist was 45 when she recorded her first album as a leader, Faces of Love. This competent, if unremarkable, debut shows Gauvin to be a likable singer with a charming, vulnerable quality to her voice. The singer picks a few warhorses that have been done to death over the years; do listeners really need to hear yet another conventional reading of "Love for Sale" or "Skylark"? But to her credit, she doesn't inundate us with songs that have been recorded hundreds of times, and she also embraces material that ranges from Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Eu Te Amo" (which finds her singing in Portuguese) to Ella Fitzgerald's "Rough Ridin'." And she certainly deserves applause for successfully tackling Stephen Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around"; many jazz vocalists steer clear of Sondheim's challenging compositions, but Gauvin, much to her credit, has enough vision to give "Not While I'm Around" a lightly Brazilian makeover. You won't find Faces of Love breathtaking, but it's respectable and lets us know that Gauvin is well worth keeping an eye on.
© Alex Henderson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:17
- Main artists: Marcelle Gauvin
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Whaling City Sound
- Genre: Jazz
2013 Whaling City Sound 2013 Whaling City Sound
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