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No One's To Blame

Jazz Action, October 7, 2022, Philippe Desmond

A singular itinerary for this singer with multiple origins going from Polynesia to Viet Nam through Italy and Africa where she was born, in Senegal to be exact. A multiple professional career, French teacher in England then working at the Bank of France where she surprisingly discovered jazz in a music workshop, deciding to devote herself to it full time.

Here is her third album, this one devoted to swing in the spirit of the big band singers of the genre. She mixes a few standards with six perfectly integrated personal compositions, surrounded by seven musicians including a certain Thierry Eliez on the piano. With her voice, sometimes clear, sometimes velvety, she walks on the notes with a perfect English and a real ease showing her perfect vocal technic. As for the musicians, they are classy, they trace a swinging road of the most rolling, allowing her to express herself fully when they do not take the hand for some beautiful solos, piano in the lead. A real vocal jazz album, the first term not being overused here.

A jazz record, let's say classic, which brings an immediate pleasure of listening and a singer to discover if it is not already done.

CouleursJazz, 9 October 2022, Laurent Pierre

The singer and composer Lana Gray releases No One's to Blame, a new album full of swing and energy, the whole in an atmosphere " West Coast " claimed by the artist. The album consists of six original compositions and three standards ("Autumn Leaves", "Boplicity" and Harlem Nocturne"). The six compositions were co-written by Lana Gray and Alain Mathon. No One's to Blame proposes a classic and timeless swing jazz which gives us a simple, strong and intact pleasure, because always renewed. The original titles sound like old standards that we would rediscover.

The presence of Thierry Eliez, Sidney Rodrigues and the Paris Jazz Repertory Quintet around Lana Gray ensures her a musical quality of very first order. There is in this album a lightness, a feeling, a joy of playing that we feel from the beginning to the end. The choruses of the ones and the others are chiselled, and inspired! Through this new opus, Lana Gray pays to jazz a superb tribute, while showing undeniable talents of composer. Let us specify that " The Banyan Tree ", last title of the album, is for its part a Latin jazz compo with bossa nova accents making you feel like getting up and dancing.

Finally, it is not useless to say that we owe part of the arrangements to the American pianist, trombonist and composer Joe Makhlom.

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            Jazz Hot, 2020, Jerome Partage, © Jazz Hot 2020

                      Paris-Move, September 2020, Thierry Docmac

Jazz Culture, The Call of the Record -June 2020, Jean-Louis Libois

                                    Be#Aware, March 29, 2020

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