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Merely eyeing the sleeve and scanning the songwriting credits, it appears likely that Nikki Jean's Pennies in a Jar is a sample-heavy nostalgia trip through classic ‘60s and early-‘70s pop and soul (with a little country), maybe with a modernized hip-hop spin on it. That’s not the case. It does sound like a nostalgia trip, but all the material is new, written by the twenty-something Nikki Jean alongside a Grammy-baiting list of songwriting legends. Thom Bell, Luigi Creatore, Lamont Dozier, Burt Bacharach, Jeff Barry, Carole King, Bobby Braddock, Paul Williams, Jimmy Webb, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Carly Simon were all visited by Nikki Jean, who took the songs to producers Sam Hollander and Dave Katz and a set of session musicians. It sounds like some kind of jackpot-fantasy American Idol working vacation. The album was nearing completion when Columbia dropped the artist, allegedly telling her “Nobody cares about these writers,” possibly unaware that another artist on the roster, Raphael Saadiq, was in the process of making a second album that emulated the work of those very writers. More significantly, this is the type of thing Nikki Jean -- a music nerd with a lithe, quietly potent voice -- should be doing, and the S-Curve label, which rescued the project, was sensible enough to see that. Guest verses from Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought excepted, the album is a throwback, and each song gets an appropriately classicist backdrop, from the pedal steel and strings on “How to Unring a Bell” (written with Bell), to the slow-motion dream world sound of “Pennies in a Jar” (Bacharach). Taking the music on its own, divorced of context -- without considering the elder songwriters’ overwhelming collective body of work -- is close to impossible, but it’s very easy to enjoy, voiced by a remarkably refined artist who is neither squarely R&B nor pop, certainly worthy of being granted quality material co-written by some of her heroes. The icing is “Steel and Feathers (Don’t Ever),” a gospel/country devotional left unfinished for 30 years until its writer, Bob Dylan, allowed Nikki Jean to complete and record it.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
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THOM BELL, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Bob Dylan, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Sam Hollander, Composer - Dave Katz, Composer - Luigi Creatore, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Sam Hollander, Composer - Dave Katz, Composer - Lamont Dozier, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Burt Bacharach, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Jeff Barry, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Sam Hollander, Composer - Carole King, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - David Schommer, Composer - Jill Cunniff, Composer - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Bobby Braddock, Composer - Black Thought, FeaturedArtist - Lupe Fiasco, Composer, FeaturedArtist - Tariq Trotter, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Sam Hollander, Composer - Dave Katz, Composer - Paul Williams, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Jimmy Webb, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Barry Mann, Composer - Cynthia Weil, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Sam Hollander, Composer - Dave Katz, Composer - Carly Simon, Composer - Nikki Jean, MainArtist - Nicholle Jean Leary, Composer
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
Chronique
Merely eyeing the sleeve and scanning the songwriting credits, it appears likely that Nikki Jean's Pennies in a Jar is a sample-heavy nostalgia trip through classic ‘60s and early-‘70s pop and soul (with a little country), maybe with a modernized hip-hop spin on it. That’s not the case. It does sound like a nostalgia trip, but all the material is new, written by the twenty-something Nikki Jean alongside a Grammy-baiting list of songwriting legends. Thom Bell, Luigi Creatore, Lamont Dozier, Burt Bacharach, Jeff Barry, Carole King, Bobby Braddock, Paul Williams, Jimmy Webb, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and Carly Simon were all visited by Nikki Jean, who took the songs to producers Sam Hollander and Dave Katz and a set of session musicians. It sounds like some kind of jackpot-fantasy American Idol working vacation. The album was nearing completion when Columbia dropped the artist, allegedly telling her “Nobody cares about these writers,” possibly unaware that another artist on the roster, Raphael Saadiq, was in the process of making a second album that emulated the work of those very writers. More significantly, this is the type of thing Nikki Jean -- a music nerd with a lithe, quietly potent voice -- should be doing, and the S-Curve label, which rescued the project, was sensible enough to see that. Guest verses from Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought excepted, the album is a throwback, and each song gets an appropriately classicist backdrop, from the pedal steel and strings on “How to Unring a Bell” (written with Bell), to the slow-motion dream world sound of “Pennies in a Jar” (Bacharach). Taking the music on its own, divorced of context -- without considering the elder songwriters’ overwhelming collective body of work -- is close to impossible, but it’s very easy to enjoy, voiced by a remarkably refined artist who is neither squarely R&B nor pop, certainly worthy of being granted quality material co-written by some of her heroes. The icing is “Steel and Feathers (Don’t Ever),” a gospel/country devotional left unfinished for 30 years until its writer, Bob Dylan, allowed Nikki Jean to complete and record it.
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 12 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 00:41:42
- Artistes principaux : Nikki Jean
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : S-Curve Records
- Genre : Pop/Rock Pop
© 2011 S-Curve Records ℗ 2011 S-Curve Records
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