| San Francisco | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | February 12, 2008 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Sunnyside |
San Francisco is an album by vocalist Fleurine.
| San Francisco | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | February 12, 2008 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Sunnyside |
San Francisco is an album by vocalist Fleurine.
Fleurine's previous recordings had contained ballads, jazz standards, and jazz interpretations of pop music. [1]
This album focuses on Brazilian music, "including the songs of Chico Buarque, Chico Pinheiro, and Francis Hime plus a lone number ('Memories in Black and White') from Antonio Carlos Jobim". [1] The lyrics are in English or Portuguese. [1]
The album was released by Sunnyside Records on February 12, 2008. [2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Scott Yanow concluded that "San Francisco is a program of subtle music that is quietly infectious." [1] The JazzTimes reviewer commented that "the results are nothing short of splendiferous". [3] Downbeat Magazine's Fred Bouchard wrote in their May 2008 issue: "Brazilian chic has nudged its way for two generations into pop and jazz, but few insinuate as distinctively candid and original an interpretation as does vocalist Fleurine on this samba set. Her tender, personal, smile-through-the-tears lyrics- some in Portuguese, some her translations from Portuguese or original English lyric- come through on this set of pretty, haunting tunes. The Dutch born, Portugal-reared polyglot sounds as fresh and guileless as she did on her slightly more mainstream 1995 debut. Lilting tunes fly feather-light in fittingly bare-bones combos, with fleet cameos by husband Brad Mehldau."[ citation needed ]
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