Fay Claassen - SOULPRINT (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Fay Claassen is a Netherlands-based Jazz singer with a career of over 25 years and is a regular guest of highly renowned big bands and orchestras, from the Metropole Orkest, the Residentie Orkest and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra to the WDR Big Band. In 2011, Claassen was asked by pianist, trombonist and arranger Bob Brookmeyer to take the vocal role for his last album Standards (Artistshare), recorded in Munich and featuring his New Art Orchestra. Other jazz greats Claassen has worked with over the years include Toots Thielemans, Vince Mendoza, Paquito D’Rivera, Tom Harrell, Michael Abene, James Carter, Eric Vloeimans and Benjamin Herman.

Although very busy on the European continent Fay has hardly ever appeared in the UK. Last year she appeared at Scarborough Jazz Festival with pianist Barry Green who now lives in Rotterdam and rising star of the saxophone Emma Rawicz.

There has been quite a long gap since her last original band album (Luck Child, 2018), for which she won two Edison Awards (Vocal National & Audience), due to a combination of international collaborations with orchestras, her 25th anniversary tour, the pandemic, and several large-scale projects.

TRACKLIST

1. Fay Claassen - PURITY
2. Fay Claassen - VINCENTE '78
3. Fay Claassen - FEEL THE BEAT
4. Fay Claassen - SIMPLE SONG
5. Fay Claassen - SMILING TEARS (for Toots)
6. Fay Claassen - GOOD TIMES
7. Fay Claassen - LA DAME DU SANS-SOUCI
8. Fay Claassen - FAST FUTURE PEOPLE
9. Fay Claassen - BLUESETTE
10. Fay Claassen - SACRET LOVE AND SOUL ENLIGHTENING BLUES



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