Nothing But Love Jana Herzen
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
12.07.2022
Album including Album cover
- 1 Nothing But Love 04:22
- 2 Speak 04:47
- 3 On the Outside 03:41
- 4 My Latin Love (NBL Version) 04:51
- 5 Night Blooming Jasmine (NBL Version) 05:23
- 6 With An Open Heart 03:57
- 7 Lightening the Load 02:31
- 8 High Time 03:21
- 9 Like a River 03:59
- 10 Thinking of You 05:05
- 11 Precious Air (NBL Version) 03:39
- 12 In the Name of Love 05:16
Info for Nothing But Love
Mit diesem souligen und zeitlosen Song-Zyklus aus Welt- und Blues-gefärbtem Folk, Jazz und Pop-Eigenkompositionen, erreicht die Singer-Songwriterin Jana Herzen (die zufällig auch A&R-Kopf des mehrfach grammyausgezeichneten New Yorker Labels Motéma Music ist) neue Höhen als musikalische Geschichtenerzählerin, Komponistin und Gitarristin. Feat. u.a. Charnett Moffett am Fretless Bass.
"Eine bezaubernd gefühlvolle Kollektion, mit gewisser Nähe zu Joni Mitchell oder Paul Simon." (Jazz thing)
"Mit seinen unerwarteten Gegenüberstellungen von Isolation, Verlust und Melancholie, neben augenzwinkerndem Spaß, hoffnungsvollem "Umblättern" und dem Mut, die Sonne wieder einzulassen, bietet "Nothing But Love" ein komplexes Porträt einer Kraft, die, in den Worten von Herzen, "die Welt in Bewegung bringt". "Dieser aus zwölf Liedern bestehende Zyklus - eines davon habe ich bereits in den 1980er Jahren in einem NYC-Jazzclub auf eine Serviette geschrieben - hat schon lange den Wunsch, das Licht der Welt zu erblicken", erklärt sie. "Jedes Lied ist von einem bestimmten Moment, Ort oder einer Person in meinem Leben inspiriert. Zusammen erzählen sie eine Geschichte der Liebe in vielen Gestalten." (jazz-fun.de)
Jana Herzen, guitars, vocals
Charnett Moffett, fretless electric bass
Brian Jackson, piano, keyboards
Mark Whitfield, Jr., drums
Scott Tixier, violin, electric violin
Jana Herzen
Internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jana Herzen originally hales from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Motéma recording artist and also the Founder and President of the multi-GRAMMY®-winning tastemaker label, which specializes in culturally trenchant jazz, world, soul and other creative music.
Herzen has released three band albums of original music – and three duo projects – Passion of a Lonely Heart, ‘Round the World, Nett Duo: Overtones with her musical and life partner, the famed jazz bass virtuoso, Charnett Moffett.
In addition to her work in music, Herzen worked in the vibrant New York City Theater scene in the 1980s as an actor, director, and an initial co-founder and dramaturg for the influential MCC Theater. Through the years, she has also worked as an art agent and script doctor for television. Having spent a lifetime in the arts, Herzen's commitment to high artistry in multiple disciplines can be heard on her own recordings and also in the work of the many fine artists she has signed to Motema.
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