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This is Sophie Dunér Live Jazz! A collection of live jazz standards & originals performed by singer & composer Sophie Dunér. The recordings are taken from two different concerts at the Gothenburg Symphony Hall & Galleri Gummeson in Stockholm, Sweden. Sophies latest two CDs are "The Rain in Spain" ( Sophie Dunér Quartet featuring Rory Stuart, Matt Pennman & Kahlil Kwame Bell ), C.I.M.P records, N.Y, USA 2006 and "The City of My Dreams" ( Sophie Dunér String Quartet ), Sophie Productions 2008. For contact inquires: info@sophieduner.com
Reviews:“ Once in a while, out of the great sea of noise known as independent music,one encounters a rare and exotic species. Such a discovery is the enigmatic Swedish singer, composer, poet and painter Sophie Dunér. Prolific, fearless and quirky.” - Bill Barnes, Jazz.com.
”This remarkable talent wears many hats, including painter, poet and arranger. Here Dunér demonstrates her range and flexibility by taking the reins of an Ellington favorite and driving it down the road less traveled. Backed by a surprisingly powerful New York based acoustic trio, her sultry, controlled delivery and superb phrasing never sound contrived or forced.” - Bill Barnes, Jazz.com. " ....as a composer, lyricist and vocalist we pretty much have to acknowledge that Sophie is a genuine triple threat. Sophie has serious writing skills – both as a composer and as a lyricist. She also has impressive vocal chops. She can swoop from whisper soft to serious force in a heartbeat. Lets close by tipping our hats to her artistry – her voice remains strong and apparently capable of doing just about anything she wants." - Slim & Michael Coyle, © Cadence Magazine 2009. Published by CADNOR Ltd. All rights reserved. Cadence: http://www.cadencebuilding.com ph: 315-287-2852.
" Listening to this Gummeson Gallery recording and working with the music and texts, it dawns upon me with brute force what an excellent, yes, brilliant, composer Sophie Dunér is, in a complete, genuine sterling way. Her texts – intelligent, biting, sardonic, parodic, humorous but also serious and gentle – are at one with her tunes, her arrangements, and such is the vibrant atmosphere around her creativity that I don’t fear to say that she is among the top ten writers of contemporary jazz tunes in the world. Furthermore, her interpretations of her own songs – her intonation, her phrasing, her absolute stage presence – set her apart from most of her comparable contemporaries; allows her a very special place in the limelight – and I can only wish that she will sweep the world into breathless surrender – because she’s worth it! ".
Ingvar Loco Nordin, SONOLOCO Records Reviews & Stockhausen critic & photographer.
“The answear to C.I.M.P and Bob Rusch, to Blue Note and Norah Jones is called Sophie Dunér. Here comes to C.I.M.P a special personality with her own musical vision beyound the typical genre....Sophie Dunér is a very original singer and a strong composer that writes lyrics that are everything but trivial .....”. - Vittorio Lo Conte, All About Jazz, Italia.
“....her sensibility and smarts are what make her songs— and they contribute crucially to making this record .Duner behaves according to the familiar credos of Modern Art.” – Michael Coyle, Cadence Magazine.
”Textually, her occasionally cryptic lyrics explore the vagaries of male-female relationships with a wryness, authenticity, and humor that springs from real lifeexperience—no starry eyed romanticism here. Rain in Spain is good music, fine singing, and interesting writing ably performed by four excellent musicians.Let’s hear more from Sophie and company”.- David Kane, Cadence Magazine.
“…….unusual is the Swedish singer Sophie Dunér, she is much more than just a ( jazz ) singer. With her incredible width, the possibilities of her voice and loads of imagination, she creates her own song universe between jazz, chanson, folk and fast poetry slam songs and could create an addiction. And with her love for Duke Ellington, that surely would sharpen his ears if he had heard her version of ”Caravan”,”Lush Life” etc” – Peter Bickl, Nordische Musik.
“Sophie Dunér comes up with something personal and persuasive to say. I hear some of Joan Armatrading in her warm, folksy way of phrasing a lyric and lacing it with falsetto trills. There’s a little Anita O’Day in there too, with a sassy insouciance sharpening some of her turns of verse. Dunér’s songsmithing is suitably idiosyncratic with imagery that leaves much to the imagination. “Jack the Ripper” finds her dealing in Yma Sumac-evocative octave leaps. The follow-up “Lonely Woman” copped from the Horace Silver songbook not Coleman, reminds me of the mellower side of Patty Waters mixed with Nina Simone “ – Derek Taylor, Dusted Magazine.
“I was impressed by her form-filling yet ethereal vocal integration within a jazz combo and also by her original compositions. Sophie Dunér is both a personal and original singer and a composer of substance. Her talents are well in evidence on this recording. She is a mature, seasoned and original voice. In addition, she has written over half of the tunes for this stunning release, originals as notable as the standards she chose to accompany them. This is a memorable vocalist, composer/lyricist, and presentation. " – Bob Rusch, C.I.M.P records.
“ When it comes to Sophie’s achievements they are marvelous. Her texts are fascinating, head-on, humorous, venomous, intelligent, funny and with that dark, serious strike that raises them out of the present,to a common ground without genresor brands, where the songs live their own life and stand their ground. Her melodies are almost all of the time plain hit material, and her singing, not least, is wonderful, brilliant, sexy and melancholy – and her phrasing is out of this world!” – Ingvar Loco Nordin.
“I am very impressed. Never stop writing and singing your own music - you are already apart of a very creative group called musicians". -Flora Purim, singer.
“Sophie is a fantastic virtuoso , something in between Alice Babs and Sarah Vaughan. If she had met Duke Ellington with me, he would have engaged her with his orchestra. A fantastic composer and lyricist. The lyrics are enormous, too much for me to handle. Ellington would have loved her madly. I agree with all the critics in New York and in Sweden.” – Lena Margret Junoff, Duke Ellington singer.
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