Jennifer Bate - Complete Organ Works 4 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jennifer Bate - Complete Organ Works 5 [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/17/2007

A cafe in Paris, a cocktail lounge in Palm Springs, a beachside bar in Rio de Janeiro, a lokanta in Istanbul. Jill Barber's French repertoire is played around the world and has earned her a following that transcends language barriers. Her music has become the soundtrack to an experience. It is a surprising achievement for an anglophone artist who only began her affair with the French language in her late twenties, following a moment during the Montreal Jazz Festival, where she sang a few notes of French to an enraptured crowd. Inspired by their reaction, Jill enrolled herself in an immersive French school in the South of France, eventually emerging with her own recordings of the songs and poets that inspired her most Piaf, Gainsbourg, Aznavour. The album InchChansonsInch was released in 2013 and has since become Jill's most globally successful record to date, having been streamed over 120 million times - with more than 35 million listens in the past year alone. A full decade later, Jill has reunited with Grammy Award-nominated producer Drew Jurecka and the musicians that accompanied her on InchChansonsInch to produce InchENCORE!Inch, it's long-awaited sequel. InchENCORE!Inch is a delightfully arranged and lushly orchestrated album, featuring all new interpretations of classic songs by Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Blossom Dearie, Django Reinhardt, Robert Charlebois, Josephine Baker, and Barbara.

Peter Dickinson' strikingly original approach to organ music, which the composer himself has described as 'far from the English cathedral tradition', reflects a background that was not typical of British organists or composers.