Sarah McKenzie – Without You (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:12 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Latin
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Normandy Lane Limited (Sarah McKenzie)
Jazz pianist, composer and singer, Sarah McKenzie’s sixth album, Without You, is a Brazilian jazz project that conveys her love for Brazilian music and culture. It includes a generous amount of Antonio Carlos Jobim songs along with four of McKenzie’s originals and a few other selections, all played tastefully, and in her own inventive way. “I’ve always loved the music of Brazil, Tom Jobim, Elis Regina, and of course Astrud Gilberto,” says Sarah McKenzie. “What I especially love about Jobim is the simplicity and clarity of his melodies, songs that one can remember and sing.” Rather than simply recording a typical Brazilian heritage album, she reinvigorates the timeless music with fresh ideas and subtle surprises, adding to it’s legacy.
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Sarah McKenzie – We Could Be Lovers (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:30 minutes | 872 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Impulse!
Sarah McKenzie, pianist-singer-composer and winner of the 2012 ARIA Award for Best Jazz Album, returns with a stunning new recording: We Could Be Lovers.
One of Australia’s most consummate performers, in 2013 Sarah moved from Melbourne to New York to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music and to perform with the established greats of the US jazz scene. The result is We Could Be Lovers, a brilliant new album which signals a new chapter in Sarah’s rise to international fame.
Combining Sarah’s own compositions with her fresh new arrangements of favourite standards by – among others – Cole Porter, Gershwin and Henry Mancini, the album was produced by Grammy-Award-winner Brian Bacchus and recorded with an international line-up of musicians. Sarah will return to her native Australia in November 2014 to launch We Could Be Lovers, including a performance at the prestigious Wangaratta Jazz and Blues Festival.
We Could Be Lovers boasts some of the finest music to come out of the international jazz scene in recent years. That’s It, I Quit, one of Sarah’s most appealing new compositions, combines catchy rhythms and tight groove in an irresistible combination; in Moon River, recorded here with an intimate accompaniment of just guitar and piano, Sarah’s magical vocals are at their most seductive.
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Sarah McKenzie – Paris In The Rain (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:34 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Division Decca Records France
After enchanting jazz fans with her 2015 Impulse Records debut, ‘We Could Be Lovers,’ Sarah McKenzie returns with the sensational follow-up, ‘Paris in the Rain.’
Like before, the 28-year-old Melbourne-born singer, pianist, composer and arranger teams with the acclaimed Brian Bacchus – who has produced classics for such stars as Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, and Gregory Porter – to deliver a gripping program of jazz classics and originals – all of which present McKenzie’s incredible musicality in glamorous glory.