Raquel Bitton - Dream A Little Dream (2002)

2018-04-23T15:46:13Z

Raquel Bitton - Dream A Little Dream (2002)


1 	Dream A Little Dream (Les Yeux Ouverts) 	3:16
2 	La Chanson Des Vieux Amants (The Lovers Song) 	4:30
3 	Live For Love 	2:48
4 	Tu N'Peux Pas T'Figurer (You Can't Believe How Much I Love You) 	3:13
5 	Unchained Melody (Les Enchaines) 	3:26
6 	After 'While 	2:49
7 	Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves) 	4:14
8 	Sans L'Amour De Toi (Without Your Love) 	2:48
9 	Que Reste~T~Il De Nos Amours? (I Wish You Love) 	4:14
10 	Mon Couer N'Etait Pas Fait Pour Ca (My Heart Wasn't Prepared For That) 	3:06
11 	Once When We Were Young 	2:44

Greg Barnett 	Guitar
Jim Boggio 	Accordion
Maurice Cridlin 	Bass (Electric)
Larry Dunlap 	Piano
Joseph Hébert 	Cello
Bob Holloway 	Arranger, Orchestration
Dean Hubbard 	Trombone
James Hurley 	Viola
Harold Jones 	Drums
Bill Keck 	Conductor
Billie Lee Lewis 	Drums
Ray Loeckle 	Sax (Baritone)
Steve Parker 	Clarinet, Flute, Sax (Alto)
Gary Potterton 	Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
John Santos 	Percussion
James Shallenberger 	Violin
Allen Smith 	Trumpet
Rick Vandivier 	Guitar, Mandolin
Bob Ward 	French Horn
Jim Zimmerman 	Drums

Vocalist Raquel Bitton is in a romantic mood on her new album, and her voice is warm, passionate & sultry. She's accompanied by a 24-piece orchestra on this collection of some of the most beautiful love ballads ever written. ---Editorial Reviews, amazon.com

Raquel Bitton has been wowing audiences with her delicate French jazz singing since the early '80s, and this San Francisco native has impressed legends like Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett. Most importantly, Bitton has taken on a global stance thanks to her stunning renditions of French chanteuse Edith Piaf. Her impeccable vocal beauty captured such '30s and '40s classics on her 1999 release Sings Edith Piaf, allowing Bitton to compose her work on a grand performance level. She expanded her work in song specifically in stage musicals and dramas such as Hearts: Le Ballet des Coeurs and Les Enfants du Paradis.

Bitton spent most of 2000 performing her hit show Raquel Bitton Sings Edith Piaf, Her Story…Her Songs at distinguished concert venues across North America, including a sold out opening night at Carnegie Hall. Her album roster also includes 1994's I Wish You Love and 1996's Changes. In a Jazzy Mood followed three years later. ---MacKenzie Wilson, allmusic.com

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Raquel Bitton - Paris Blues (2006)

2016-03-29T16:00:52Z

Raquel Bitton - Paris Blues (2006)


01. Nuages
02. Petite Fleur
03. J'al Chante Sur Ma Peine
04. Pour Lui
05. Ecris Moi
06. Malgre Tes Serments
07. Paris S'Eveille la Nuit
08. I'm a Fool to Want You
09. Il Ne Faut Pas Briser un Reve
10. Je Suis Seule Ce Soir
11. Escale

Accordion – Odile Lavault
Alto Saxophone – Steve Parker 
Bandoneon – Odile Lavault
Baritone Saxophone – Ray Loeckle
Bass – Mario Suraci
Conductor – Jim Shallenberger
Drums – Harold Jones
Flute – Steve Parker 
French Horn – Bill Klingelhffer
Guitar – Steve Erquiaga
Orchestrated By – Bob Holloway
Piano – Larry Dunlap
Tenor Saxophone – Melicio "The Cat" Magdaluyo
Trombone – Dean Hubbard
Trumpet – Allen Smith

“PARIS BLUES ” is the musical story - sometimes joyful, often melancholy, and always hopeful - of a beautiful city in a time of war and liberation. It's the evocation of an era that produced some of our most gifted composers and performers, Parisians by birth and by adoption who sustained and redefined their city's sense of romance and excitement in the years before, during, and immediately after World War II.

Like the people whose work this CD celebrates, I too have left my heart in Paris. I've traveled from America to France, and on to Spain and Portugal, retracing the lives of these artists who, along with Americans Sydney Bechet and Billie Holiday, gave Paris its special sound in the years 1937 to 1947.

I wanted to lose myself in the places they once walked, taste the foods they tasted, listen to the music they inspired, and talk to the people in the streets.

For generations, composers, writers, artists of every temperament and from virtually every country in the world have been irresistibly drawn to the City of Light, where they could share and refine their superb talents in an atmosphere of acceptance and celebration.

And even after the misery of the Occupation, the Mars Club in Paris was one of the many nightclubs that featured African American musicians, who were instrumental in resurrecting Paris jazz after its glory days in Montmartre.

PARIS BLUES ranges from the music of the American Sydney Bechet (Petite Fleur); Belgian Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt (Nuages); Billie Holiday (Je suis folle de t'aimer); the queen of Portuguese “fado” Amalia Rodrigues (Paris s'eveille la nuit); Argentinean Tangoist Tino Rossi (Ecris moi); French crooner Jean Sablon, who teamed with Django and violinist Stephan Grappelli (Il ne faut pas briser un reve); band singer Lucienne Delyle (Jai chante sur ma peine, Pour lui, malgre tes serments); and sultry Jazz chanteuses Leo Marjane (Je suis seule ce soir) and Suzy Solidor (Escale).

I have retained the verses, so seldom sung any more, because it is in verses that you find the heartbeat of each song. Without them, the songs don't really exist.

I've spent my life passionately in love with this music. This was the music I heard growing up, the songs my parents whistled, hummed, danced to, the poetry that my father - himself so much a poet at heart - opened up for me.

Together, we spent more than five years going through his record collection - and more often than not, my parents would forget I was in the room as they reminisced about the first time they'd heard a particular song. And once, in the autumn of their lives, when Tino Rossi's Ecris moi came through the pops and scratches of the ancient phonograph, their once-again youthful eyes locked in one long gaze and they stood up to dance the tango.

My father said to me days before he passed away, and only two months before I recorded these songs, “Don't be sad when I go. You'll find me again in all your songs, in every note, in every word.” And I say: “Papa, the day you were born was the most beautiful day on earth.” --- discogs.com

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