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“Tatiana
Eva-Marie has consistently delighted audiences with her buoyant style
and effervescent personality,
all
of which fit firmly into the vintage jazz manouche genre that Django
pioneered.” – Will Friedwald
The
Great American Songbook has stood the test of time, and its influence
on popular music has been felt around the world. That’s what brought
the young Swiss-born chanteuse TATIANA EVA-MARIE to New York
City, where it all began. Tatiana is now releasing TWO AT THE
MOST, a collection of romantic songs from the Great American
Songbook presented in an intimate duo setting.
TWO
AT THE MOST
is Tatiana’s seventh CD as a leader. She was recently included,
alongside Cyrille Aimée and Cécile McLorin-Salvant, in a list of
rising jazz stars picked by Vanity Fair, and she was named
“one of the best young singers around” by the Wall Street Journal.
Nicknamed the Gypsy-jazz Warbler by the New York Times,
Tatiana’s music is inspired by her French and Balkan heritage, a love
for the Parisian art scene era spanning the 1920s to the 60s, and a
passion for Gypsy music. But she is also fascinated by New Orleans
jazz and has a deep connection to the Great American Songbook.
Tatiana
is joined on TWO AT THE MOST by pianist JEREMY
CORREN. A mainstay on the New York City jazz scene, he performs
regularly at the Blue Note, Smalls Jazz Club, and the Jazz Gallery.
He has also performed at the Newport and Chicago Jazz Festivals, and
internationally at the Blue Note clubs in Tokyo, Shanghai, and
Beijing, as well at the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands
and the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy, among other international
venues.
In
2011, Tatiana decided it was time to go to New York to indulge her
passion for American music. Although she had intended to stay for
just a year or two, she found a community of like-minded artists from
all over the world and has been living there ever since. Tatiana
quickly became part of the New York jazz scene and formed a band
called Avalon that has become wildly popular, performing in
top venues in New York and internationally. They have even become
bona fide internet stars with 340,000+ YouTube channel subscribers.
Tatiana’s
voice is sweet and warm, the perfect vehicle for this romantic
selection of songs. Corren’s accompaniment is a tasteful canvas that
gives Tatiana the colors and space over which to paint her song
stories. Tatiana opens TWO AT THE MOST with “The End of
a Love Affair,” which is dedicated to a friend she spent a lot of
time with at a certain bar, sitting around the piano, listening to
show tunes. After her friend passed away, she was unable to go back
to that bar, and it felt like a love affair had ended. “Penthouse
Serenade” is perhaps not as well-known as other GAS songs, but
Tatiana was drawn to its tender lyrics.
Although
“Fly Me to the Moon” is one of the most widely recorded songs, the
verse is rarely sung. Tatiana says, “The song makes a lot more sense
when you hear the verse. The lyrics are a bit sappy, but the verse
sets
it
up nicely with the singer saying he’s not a poet but will try his
best to express his feelings. In that context, the song is a sweet
and vulnerable ballad.”
She
envisions the character in “Sophisticated Lady” as sitting in a bar
until closing time, with smeared makeup, nursing a glass of scotch.
“I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” is what the lady would be silently
saying to herself. And, of course, “You Go to My Head” is what
happens after a few drinks. “The Nearness of You” is a sexy, wistful
song that Tatiana says she can’t imagine singing before the sun sets.
Tatiana
had sung all of these songs in live shows before coming into the
studio except for “You Are Too Beautiful,” which she learned for the
recording. Her friend and song aficionado, MARK BUCHAN,
recommended it to her. Buchan is a classics professor and not a
professional singer, but Tatiana wanted to thank him for all the
knowledge about the music that he has shared with her, and wanted to
include him on the album, so she gave him space to sing two songs --
”They’ll Never Believe Me” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face.”
He performs both songs with heartfelt intimacy.
On
TWO AT THE MOST, Tatiana Eva-Marie and Jeremy Corren
create a retro feel that would not be out of place in a 1940s
nightclub. They play together regularly, and their empathy and mutual
respect is palpable.
# # #
TWO
AT THE MOST will
be released on June 30, 2023, on Turtle Bay Records and will be
available on all platforms.
Online:
Tatianaevamarie.com
YouTube:
@Tatianaevamariemusic
En.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Eva-Marie
Facebook.com/tatianaevamarie
@Tatianaevamarie
turtlebayrecords.com
YouTube:
@turtlebayrecords9686
IG: @turtlebayrecords
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