Fleurine

Fleurine Verloop, known professionally as Fleurine, is a Dutch jazz vocalist.[1]

Biography

Fleurine studied at the Amsterdam School of High Arts Conservatory and then moved to New York.[2] From the mid 1990s she has lived and worked in both the Netherlands and the United States.[2] She performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival, with her own band Fleurine plus Five 1994,[3] 1995,[4] 1996,[5] 1997.[6] In 1996 she was invited as a guest vocalist with the Roy Hargrove Quintet at the Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba.During a worldwide festival tour promoting her debut album, in 1997 she met pianist Brad Mehldau who was promoting his first album as a leader "introducing Brad Mehldau". Their respective bands Fleurine plus Five and The Brad Mehldau Trio were booked at the same festivals that summer. Festival International de Montreal, ( Fleurine played at the Spectrum sharing a double bill with Patricia Barber, Voix du Monde[7]) and Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy where Fleurine appeared with T.S Monk band's Monk on Monk project, and including as a guest with pianist Brad Mehldau.[2] This led to New York concerts for the pair, and concerts around the world including Los Angeles, Brazil,.[8][2] London, Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Berlin, where she lived with Mehldau in 1998. They also married and had three children.[9]

Fleurine's first recording was Meant to Be!, for EmArcy Records in 1995.[10][11] This album was produced by Don Sickler and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in NYC.Fleurine wrote lyrics to 12 of the 13 tracks of the album, with compositions by Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, Tom Harrell, Joshua Redman and Jose Lopretti. with Christian McBride on Bass, Renee Rosnes on piano Billy Drummond on drums and special guests Tom Harrell on trumpet, Jesse van Ruller on guitar, Ralph Moore on tenor sax and Bobby Porcelli on alto saxophone.

Her second album for EmArcy, Close Enough for Love, was recorded in June 1999.[10] Mehldau wrote the string arrangements that were used on some of the tracks.[12]

Her third release was Fire, in 2003.[10] distributed by Coast to coast the album , it features amongst others Brad Mehldau (piano) and Jeff Ballard and is the first studio recording of Ballard and Brad Mehldau together, produced by Robert Sadin.

Her 2008 album San Francisco was released by Sunnyside Records in February 2008.[13] It 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".[14]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Fleurine". North Sea Jazz. Retrieved December 6, 2016
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Fleurine". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1994/saturday-9-july/9410-fleurines-quintet/
  4. ↑ http://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1995/sunday-16-july/timetable/
  5. ↑ http://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1996/saturday-13-july/8933-fleurine-plus-five-featuring-john-engels-jesse-van-ruller-ben-van-den-dungen-and-very-special-guests/
  6. ↑ http://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1997/saturday-12-july/8708-fleurine-plus-five/
  7. ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dqvYSnYUU7IJ:www.montrealjazzfest.com/program/concerts-serie.aspx%3Fserie%3
  8. ↑ http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq0103200006.htm
  9. ↑ Panken, Ted (March 2011) "Idiom Weaver: Brad Mehldau Goes Full-Throttle". Down Beat. p. 26.
  10. 1 2 3 was duo with Brad Mehldau "Fleurine Catalog" jazzdisco.org. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
  11. ↑ https://musicbrainz.org/release/777ac91d-620f-4c13-b73d-c7e7260f545d/disc/1
  12. ↑ Mahogany, Bill (May 11, 2000) "Close Enough for Love by Fleurine & Brad Mehldau". Jazz Review.
  13. ↑ "San Francisco". Sunnyside Records. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  14. ↑ Yanow, Scott "Fleurine – San Francisco". AllMusic. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
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