For the English jazz vocalist and actress Jenny Evans words are very important. In her new project “Even Without You” in which she writes all the music and lyrics she has approached a new genre: adult pop. She lays bare her artistic soul and sings about love, sorrow, passion and loss…
Jazz vocalist Jenny Evans has put together songs of parting for her new project of the same name. These are by no means all sad songs. Jazz standards such as “After You’ve Gone” are followed by Paul Simon’s “Fifty Ways To Leave You Lover”. Duke Ellington’s “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me” can be heard alongside “We’ll Meet Again” a song that the English singer Vera Lynn made famous during the Second World War…
When the English jazz vocalist Jenny Evans, anew, started to listen to tunes by British rock and pop and pop musicians of the 1960s and 70s she was surprised how jazzy the musicians played…
Jazz vocalist Jenny Evans has always been a fan of classical music and as a teenager she sang Kodaly, Stravinsky and Carl Orff with the Langley Park Choir. Her great love though was the Baroque era and she sang with the London Heinrich Schutz Choir…
Jenny Evans is the only jazz vocalist who can take songs from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, by John Dowland (1563-1626) and Henry Purcell (1659-1695), Django Reinhart ’s “Nuages” and George Harrison’s “Within You, Without You” and present a programme that fits together so well that jumping across different centuries and styles sounds like the most natural thing on earth. Evans’s compelling voice, bedded in the sensitive arrangements of her band takes us on a journey through time.
Jenny Evans agrees with Nelson Riddle who wrote “Gershwin wrote tomorrow’s music yesterday”. She has been giving concerts of his music regularly since 1987. A must for all fans of classics such as Summertime, Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm and The Man I love.
A celebration of the high art of vocal jazz with Jenny’s own individual interpretations of jazz standards (penned for example by Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, George Gershwin) as well as originals.
The melodies and lyrics of Cole Porter songs like Night and Day, Let’s Do it, I get a kick out of you, Love For Sale (from musicals such as Kiss Me Kate and Anything goes) guarantee a swinging and entertaining evening.
Jenny Evans, with guitar player Paulo Morello, Sven Faller and Felix Sapotnik, presents songs about the four seasons of the year.
The German composer, Peter Kreuder (1905-81) is famous above all for the music he wrote for German music in the 30s. With great respect for the original compositions, Jenny Evans has…
The moon: poets and composers have written more about this subject than any other, apart from, maybe, love.
Jenny Evans brings standards and traditional Christmas carols to life. Mel Torme´s The Christmas Song,…
