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China Moses / Raphael Lemonnier

Title: This one's for Dinah

Label: EMI France

Cat No:6931250
Format:CD

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• China Moses, the daughter of Dee Dee Bridgewater, is a singer, songwriter, author, producer and MTV host. Her late father was Gilbert Moses a committed television and film director responsible for series like ‘Roots’ and the cult film ‘Willy Dynamite’.

• She released three soul/R&B albums on the Virgin subsidiary, Source: ‘China’ (1997), ‘On Tourne en Rond’ (2000) and ‘Good Lovin’ (2004), followed by many collaborations.

• The French pianist Raphaėl Lemonnier began his career in the 1980s with the Nīmes Big Band and Guy Labory’s Creole Jazz Band. His primary influences were Erroll Garner, Oscar Peterson, Earl Hines and Count Basie - and he developed a passion for boogie-woogie,. He became a professional musician in 1997, moved to New York to study piano with Jaki Byard and recorded his first album.

• He heard China when she was a backing singer for French songstress Camille. It led to them working together and developing the idea of a live Dinah Washington tribute show, ‘Gardenias For Dinah’ which toured very successfully in France in 2009. The album, ‘This One’s For Dinah’, on French Blue Note, was a natural follow-on.

• On it, China demonstrates that she is a remarkable singer and a fine interpreter of standards - performing Dinah’s material with great sensitivity, emotion and yet suitable restraint. She also adds two new originals to the album. There’s a 5-piece brass section plus a piano trio led by Lemonnier, whose arrangements are exceptional.

• She is due to appear in the UK in 2010, including concerts at The Barbican and Ronnie Scott’s.

Track Listing for This one's for Dinah
1. Fine Fine Daddy
2. Dinah’s Blues
3. Mad About The Boy
4. Lover come Back To Me
5. Is You Or Is You Ain’t My Baby
6. Blue Gardenia
7. Teach Me Tonight
8. Cry Me A River
9. Fat Daddy
10. Goodbye
11. Evil Gal Blues
12. What A Difference A Day Makes
13. Gardenias For Dinah

Reviews

Jazz Journal - Mike Rogers

Ms Moses has got a high but gravely bluesy voice well suited to this material. Moses can certainly put over a song.

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