{"id":620,"date":"2013-05-12T12:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/locus-solus-fr.net\/?p=620"},"modified":"2013-05-12T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:46:49","slug":"dimanche-en-jazz-8-chris-connor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Dimanche en jazz (8) : Chris Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:http:\/\/home.scarlet.be\/~th046862\/zk\/cc.mp3]<br \/>\n<em>Nice Work if You Can Get It<\/em>. Arrangement de Ralph Sharon. 12 mars 1957.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lorsqu\u2019on \u00e9voque les grandes interpr\u00e9tations des chansons de Gershwin, on songe en premier lieu \u00e0 Ella Fitzgerald et \u00e0 son monumental <em>George &amp; Ira Gershwin Songbook<\/em> enregistr\u00e9 pour Verve sous la houlette de Norman Granz (cinquante-trois chansons, des plus connues aux plus obscures, r\u00e9parties sur cinq 33 tours puis quatre CD). Mais r\u00e9v\u00e9rence gard\u00e9e \u00e0 la gr\u00e2ce solaire d\u2019Ella, les orchestrations luxueuses et satin\u00e9es de Nelson Riddle, avec leur d\u00e9bauche de cordes, ne sont gu\u00e8re \u00e0 mon go\u00fbt ; si bien que je suis port\u00e9 \u00e0 lui pr\u00e9f\u00e9rer le remarquable double album de Chris Connor.<br \/>\nRelativement n\u00e9glig\u00e9e aujourd\u2019hui hors du cercle des <em>happy few<\/em>, Connor est la chanteuse cool par excellence, dans le sillage de June Christy (\u00e0 laquelle elle succ\u00e9da dans l\u2019orchestre de Stan Kenton), mais avec un grain de voix plus riche et plus p\u00e9n\u00e9trant. Le <em>Gershwin Almanac of Song<\/em> est sans doute son chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre: un projet manifestement m\u00fbri, et d\u2019une remarquable unit\u00e9 quoiqu\u2019il mobilise sept formations instrumentales diff\u00e9rentes. <em>Nice Work if You Can Get It<\/em> offre, en \u00e0 peine plus d\u2019une minute, un condens\u00e9 de son art. Elle y swingue avec une parfaite relaxation sur tempo m\u00e9dium tout en remodelant sans effort le tempo et la m\u00e9lodie. Les s\u00e9ances Bethlehem et Atlantic de la dame m\u00e9ritent aussi le d\u00e9tour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/img9\/ccg.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:http:\/\/home.scarlet.be\/~th046862\/zk\/cc.mp3] Nice Work if You Can Get It. Arrangement de Ralph Sharon. 12 mars 1957. Lorsqu\u2019on \u00e9voque les grandes interpr\u00e9tations des chansons de Gershwin, on songe en premier lieu \u00e0 Ella Fitzgerald et \u00e0 son monumental George &amp; Ira Gershwin Songbook enregistr\u00e9 pour Verve sous la houlette de Norman Granz (cinquante-trois chansons, des plus connues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[473,475,474],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dans-les-oneilles","tag-chris-connor","tag-ella-fitzgerald","tag-gerswhin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.locus-solus-fr.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}