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Caroline Henderson

16 February 2010 By Lyov 0 In Jazz

Don`t Explain

Caroline Henderson (born 28 February 1962 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Danish-Swedish pop and jazz singer. She moved to Copenhagen from Sweden in 1983 and spent her youth singing in various jazz bands. Her breakthrough was in the late 1980s as part of pop group Ray Dee Ohh. After the group disbanded, Henderson launched a solo career with multi award-winning album Cinemataztic (1995) featuring smash hits Kiss Me Kiss Me and Made In Europe. Follow-up Metamorphing (1998), disco cover album Dolores J – The Butterfly (2000) and the more experimental Naos (2002) didn’t have the same commercial impact. A new turn saw Henderson develop into a full-fledged jazz singer on albums Don’t Explain (2003), Made In Europe (2004) and Love Or Nothin’ (2006). A new album awaits release in spring 2008. Henderson has also appeared as an actress in plays and films....

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Nina Simone

11 October 2009 By Lyov 0 In Jazz

Let It All Out

Let It All Out

Let It All Out is one of Nina Simone’s more adult pop-oriented mid-’60s albums, with renditions of tunes by Duke Ellington (“Mood Indigo”), Billie Holiday (“Don’t Explain”), Irving Berlin (“This Year’s Kisses”), and Rodgers & Hart (“Little Girl Blue”). As ever, Simone ranges wide in her selection: Bob Dylan’s “The Ballad of Hollis Brown,” a swaggering adaptation of “Chauffeur Blues” (credited to her husband of the time, Andy Stroud), the gospel hymn “Nearer Blessed Lord,” and Van McCoy’s “For Myself.” “Images” is an a cappella adaptation of a poem about the beauty of blackness by Waring Cuney. All of Simone’s Philips albums are solid, and this is no exception, while it isn’t the best of them. This LP has been combined with the 1965 album Pastel Blues on a single-disc CD reissue...

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