The American singer Jill Scott comes to Portugal 15 years after the debut album Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 , maybe the best record of all those who were released by the neo-soul singers generation. Will open the EDP Cool Jazz, to 21h Tuesday, the Marques de Pombal Gardens in Oeiras, this first meeting with the Portuguese public is to be made.
it is probably concert to go over these 15 years, because there is a compilation of successes in the market – Golden Moments (2015) – even if it pains not believe the show will take place around the album original last year, Woman. She who started his career in the late 1990s, collaborating with The Roots or Common, grew up in the slums of Philadelphia, having revealed in poetry sessions performed in jazz clubs in the city.
in 2000, when they released the debut album, it became immediately one of the most important voices of contemporary soul and received several awards and been acclaimed a little everywhere. The following year would edit a live album, Experience: Jill Scott 826+, that would follow an amazing retreat scene, largely because it was not able to manage its rapid ascent media.
“I had no life and thought had to stop. It was all very sudden, “would confess us in an interview in 2004. Within two years, she said,” was limited to live. “He married, bought the house and car, got a cat, has prepared a book of poetry, short , tried to have an ordinary life, which would eventually culminate in the edit Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol.2, an album of soul concise language and intimate poetry that reflected the experiences of this time the woman Jill Scott .
After the first album success, might have been barely out of a second experience. But it did well. As expected, we were faced with a revolutionary drive. It was a continuation disc, returning to draw inspiration from the classic array of soul, offering you subtle colorations, drawing inspiration from the blues of the emotions, the rhythmic lazy hip-hop and more night changing jazz. And then, of course, in the center of the action, his voice. Songs, poems spoke predominantly of small pleasures of home and family environments, rather the idealistic tradition of the gospel. Like all their albums, it was an intimate work, but of great universal appeal.
In his music, and his attitude, there is no place for staging or artifice. Everything happens as if Jill Scott dialoguing closely with the listener in a dynamic dialogue with the tradition of black music made from a faint sound in your voice recording between the sung and recited, never loses sight of the spontaneity of time and naturalness of gestures.
over the years, in fact, not much changed their music. There it a classic appeal, although it is not bound by nostalgic models, without waiving approaches that reveal the ascendance of hip-hop or electronic. But above all what fascinates her is how sings a kind of R &. B sore, with its unique voice to expose the hardships of love
Even if your songs have a dark aftertaste, the hope is always present, something that says carry their day church singing gospel. “Much of the current song only seems to worry about negative aspects, but even the darkest rooms have some light. I’m not saying that we should alienate the reality around. I do not believe in a color pink world and I think we should be angry with what we think wrong, but it makes sense to get bogged down in these negative feelings. We must look forward and that’s what I try to translate in my songs. Most of the songs today is about how money and power affect us, which seems too narrow. Life are many other things, “he told us in 2004.
It is this singer soul, warm and deep voice, able to sing words of hope without deceiving the more acidic side to exist, which will start the 13th edition of the EDP Cool Jazz. The first part will be the singer American veteran Charlie Wilson, owner of several hits in the 1980s ( You dropped the on bomb me Outstanding ), a line where the R & ; B intersects with the funk.
On Wednesday it’s time for young Englishwoman Frances, which many compare to Adele, take action in the same place, while the July 17 attention will-turn to the Cinematic Orchestra, the neo-jazz project led by multi-instrumentalist Jason Swinscoe English who, accompanied by a dozen musicians, fuses jazz motifs, electronic and rhythms in slow motion.
July 20, the Poets Park, the English of Nigerian origin Seal will try to expose soul, rock and pop songs in many throats know by heart. Returning to the Marquis of Pombal Gardens, on 21 July, it’s time for jazz singer Stacey Kent, to be followed by the 23 Gallic project Nouvelle Vague, with Swedish Koop Oscar Orchestra. 26 is a day of double: Omara Portuondo with Diego El Cigala, Luis Dams with Paulo Flores. The closure is made to 27 with the Brazilian Marisa Monte, which invites Carminho.
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