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Presents:
Sophie Milman - Sophie Milman
RiPPER..: Team OSC GENRE......: Jazz
LABEL...: Linus/Warner SCENE DATE.: 10/24/2004
bITRATE.: VBR/44.1Hz STORE DATE.: 10/12/2004
ENCODER.: Lame 3.90.3 APS TRACKS.....: 12
SiZE....: 65,1 MB SOURCE.....: CD
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- TRACKLIST
01 Agua De Beber 03:56
02 I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby 03:25
03 Guilty 04:06
04 My Baby Just Cares for Me 03:35
05 Back Home to Me 03:35
06 The Man I Love 05:34
07 Lonely in New York 03:17
08 I Feel Pretty 04:52
09 La Vie En Rose 04:51
10 My Heart Belongs to Daddy 04:21
11 Ochi Cheryne (Dark Eyes) 02:18
12 This Time of the Year 05:01
Total Playtime: 48:51
- NOTES
Sophie Milman was born twenty years ago in the Ural
Mountains in the heart of Russia. Her family suffered
through many personal hardships, lack of freedoms and
repression. When the Berlin wall fell making it possible
for them to leave, the family emigrated, were stripped of
their Russian citizenship, and settled in Israel with a
few dollars in their pockets, some Russian paintings,
boxes of Russian books and some old jazz vinyl records.
Although very young, memories of Russia, especially of her
grandfather who was cantor at the their local synagogue,
and Russian folk songs would have a profound influence on
her.
Sophie MilmanÆs formative years were spent growing up in
Israel. Her first musical stage experience was
participating in a very childrenÆs show called Festigal
young singers were featured covering many of the pop
tunes popular at the time. Thousands of kids were
auditioned all over the country and ten were chosen. She
was part of the ten and toured with the show all over
Israel. Israel has affected me greatly. Life there gave
me a totally different spin on the world. Once I managed
to master the language and stopped feeling like an
outsider, I made some wonderful friends. The endless
security problem in that part of the world makes people
very close, strong and intense. A big part of my
personality, values and social sensibilities were formed
there.
Israel is where Sophie started listening to Jazz
intensively. Mahelia Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis
Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, the Platters,
Stevie Wonder, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Ray
Charles; American music and especially the voices and
sounds of African American musicians were her favourites.
The last few years of our stay there were amazing.
Finally, I was content and felt that I have found my place
in the world, so to speak. Then, at the age of 15, I found
out that I had to be uprooted once again.
The move to Canada was a huge culture shock once again. I
had already gotten accustomed to Middle Eastern
temperaments and the Canadian social dynamic was very hard
to get used to. For the second time in my life I had to
start over: learn the language (I started in English as a
Second Language Class) and find a social niche. However,
it was after my move here, in grade 10 that I could
finally express my love and appreciation for jazz. Linda
Kreiner, my music teacher, gave me a solo on the music
night about a month after the move. From that point on,
for the rest of high school, I had lived from one music
night to the other. Music gave me a sense of achievement,
comfort and turned Canada from a foreign place into home.
I love Toronto. I love the fact that you can find every
type of music in this city: Funk, blues, latin, klezmer,
swing, avant-garde jazz, cabaret and classical music,
which I also love very much. We have awesome jazz
musicians, a killer symphonic orchestra and a lovely opera
company. I love TorontoÆs openness to new styles and
ideas. It creates such an eclectic and rich musical and
cultural palette.
Although Sophie always loved to sing, her professional
career as a singer came about quite accidentally.
Someone had told me that a man named Bill King was
hosting a program called Real Divas at a local club, and
that I should go in and sing a song. I went, sang a couple
of songs, and got a great response from the crowd. Bill
was very nice and asked me to come back the following
week. A few days later, he called me and told me he wanted
to book me for a gig. The week following my first gig,
Bill took me to perform on City TVÆs Breakfast Television
and got me to sing at the release of the real Diva CD that
same night, which was fabulous. It snowballed from there.
TVO did a piece on me. Two gigs later Geoff Kulawick from
Linus Entertainment came down to hear me sing, liked what
he heard and offered me a recording contract.
Plans for recording were started, with Bill King producing
eight songs, and Danny Greenspoon four.
We had just picked out the songs and I had a rehearsal
with Bill King at his house a few days before the first
recording session. When I walked into Inception Sound
Studio, Bill was already there. So were Pat Labarbera, Rig
Schwagger, Davide DiRenzo. All these fabulous players and
I wasnÆt sure if I was going to measure up. But everyone
really put me at ease. Bill's arrangements were beautiful,
the guys played their hearts out. It was wonderful working
with Bill. Not only is he a monster player and producer,
but heÆs also extremely supportive and encouraging of
young artists. Over the past few years, he has become my
musical parent: he was the one who discovered me and gave
me my first "break".....musically, he probably knows me
better than anyone else, and it was an honour to have him
produce this album.
Danny Greenspoon was fabulous. We decided to take a
different, funkier approach on the songs that he produced.
It was on these sessions that I started realizing what it
is I want as a singer. My voice control improved
immensely, as well as my ability to use a variety of
colours and textures in my singing. Danny came up with
some beautiful arrangements, and also used amazing players
, including John Sheard, Artie Roth, Guido Basso, Rob
Pilch, Phil Dwyer, Marc Rogers , Alan Hetherington, and
Steve McDade. At this point, I was no longer intimidated,
but was eager to learn anything I could from these
incredible musicians. Working with such fantastic
producers and musicians was inspiring, and I feel I've
grown both as an artist and as a person."
The songs on the album include popular standards,
undiscovered jazz gems, and original contemporary
compositions that were selected by Sophie and the
Executive Producer for the Linus label, Geoff Kulawick,
along with the album producers.
I recorded Agua De Beber because I love the sound and
feel of the Brazilian samba. The simple sounds, the
beautiful melodies and the rhythm totally appealed to me.
Guilty, originally recorded by Billie Holiday, is a
timeless song about unrequited love. You can hear the
heartbreak and the hurt in the chord changes and the
lyrics. La Vie en Rose is the quintessential love song.
One really does see life through rose coloured spectacles
when in love. I recorded this song out of respect for this
innocent concept of love, out of my love for Edith Piaf
and everything she represents and out of my lifelong
passion for anything French. Back Home to Me is a new
original song by two UK based songwriters that my
Executive Producer presented to me. Danny arranged the
song beautifully. I was always fascinated by how you can
get a glimpse of the vulnerability and sensitivity of a
relationship through a song. GershwinÆs The Man I Love is
one of my favourite songs of all time. It represents the
waiting, searching and yearning for that one relationship.
CanÆt beat a Gershwin. In its original and standard
interpretation I never liked I Feel Pretty, because it
seemed to me very presumptuous. Then I heard Sarah Vaughan
and the song made sense to me. For me, it represents the
high of infatuation and my happiness at being able to
sing. I recorded Ochi Chernye, as homage to my
birthplace.
Sophie has spent the past few months performing in
Toronto, Ontario at the Beaches Jazz Festival, fundraisers
for Covenant House, Hart House, and the National Ballet,
and packing them in every second Tuesday Night at the Diva
Series at the Potato Blues Supper Club, building a devout
following. In her third year of studying Commerce at the
University of Toronto, Sophie will be performing in clubs
and festivals across Canada next summer. Her debut
self-titled album will be released through Linus
Entertainment thru Warner Music in Canada on Tuesday,
October 12th.
http://www.sophiemilman.com
Another Quality Release from OSC!!
Enjoy!!
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tha scene. Our dedication to bringing you the best in
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