Francesca Biagi – Frances’ Follies (2012/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Francesca Biagi – Frances’ Follies (2012/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:54 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alfa Music

Signorina Biagi is a youthful Italian singer with a deep love for the film songs of the middle of the twentieth century — and her newest CD, FFANCES’ FOLLIES, pays tribute to that ebullient music. Actress, student of theatre history, tap-dancer and fluegelhornist, Francesca has a deep involvement with the music of the Boswell Sisters (from 2003-7, she formed and led the Boop Sisters, a female vocal trio devoted to the music of Connee, Vet, and Martha (with an Italian accent, of course); she has also sung and played with the Bixilander Orchestra, a group whose musical world embraces both Bix and Basie.

Before we proceed, Francesca — a generous person! — would like to sing for you, and here are several songs related to FRANCES’ FOLLIES.

Each performance, in its own way, shows that she has made a careful study both of the songs and their iconic performances, and that she is a sweetly precise singer — mixing careful attention to the lyrics with a beautifully knowing awareness of the idiom from which they come.

FRANCES’ FOLLIES offers eleven songs — THREE LITTLE WORDS / TOP HAT, WHITE TIE, AND TAILS / SOME LIKE IT HOT / I’D RATHER BE BLUE OVER YOU / LET’S MAKE LOVE / GET HAPPY / NEVERTHELESS / MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY / BY MYSELF / SHAKIN’ THE BLUES AWAY — associated with Fred Astaire, Doris Day, Marilyn Monroe, Fanny Brice / Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, and others. Francesca generously does not take center stage, though: she gives a great deal of room to her very impressive jazz accompanists, Attilio Marzoli, tenor sax; Adriano Urso, piano; Guido Giacomini, bass; Ricardo Colasante, drums — with guest Lino Patruno playing guitar on two tracks. Pianist Urso summons up Teddy Wilson at every turn; Marzoli evokes Harold Ashby and Bud Freeman, and the other gentlemen of the rhythm section swing in ensemble and solo.

Tracklist:
01. Francesca Biagi – Three little words (03:28)
02. Francesca Biagi – Top hat white tie and tails (04:54)
03. Francesca Biagi – Some like it hot (03:11)
04. Francesca Biagi – I may be wrong (04:34)
05. Francesca Biagi – I’d rather be blue over you (02:44)
06. Francesca Biagi – Let’s make love (04:50)
07. Francesca Biagi – Get happy (03:02)
08. Francesca Biagi – Nevertheless (04:00)
09. Francesca Biagi – My heart belongs to daddy (04:29)
10. Francesca Biagi – By myself (03:52)
11. Francesca Biagi – Shaking the blues away (04:46)

Personnel:
Francesca Biagi, vocals
Attilio Marzoli, tenor sax
Adriano Urso, piano
Guido Giacomini, duble bass
Riccardo Colasante, drums
Lino Patruno, guitar

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