Sarah McKenzie - We Could Be Lovers (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Sarah McKenzie, pianist-singer-composer and winner of the 2012 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, returns with a stunning new recording: We Could Be Lovers. One of Australia’s most consummate performers, in 2013 Sarah moved from Melbourne to New York to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music and to perform with the established greats of the US jazz scene. The result is We Could Be Lovers, a brilliant new album which signals a new chapter in Sarah’s rise to international fame.

Combining Sarah’s own compositions with her fresh new arrangements of favourite standards by – among others – Cole Porter, Gershwin and Henry Mancini, the album was produced by Grammy-Award-winner Brian Bacchus and recorded with an international line-up of musicians. Sarah will return to her native Australia in November 2014 to launch We Could Be Lovers, including a performance at the prestigious Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival.

We Could Be Lovers boasts some of the finest music to come out of the international jazz scene in recent years. That’s It, I Quit, one of Sarah’s most appealing new compositions, combines catchy rhythms and tight groove in an irresistible combination; in Moon River, recorded here with an intimate accompaniment of just guitar and piano, Sarah’s magical vocals are at their most seductive.

Sarah McKenzie is a musical marvel. She sings with the kind of phrasing that only a true jazz player can come up with, while her groove on the piano is that stuff that makes people want to play jazz

Tracklist:

01. I Was Doing Alright
02. That's It, I Quit!
03. We Could Be Lovers
04. Tight
05. At Long Last Love
06. I Won't Dance
07. Love You Madly
08. Quoi, Quoi, Quoi
09. The Music Is The Magic
10. Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)
11. Moon River

Personnel:

Sarah McKenzie - piano, vocals
Jo Caleb - guitar
Pierre Boussaguet - bass
Gregory Hutchinson - drums



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