Английская Википедия:Cæcilie Norby
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Cæcilie Norby (born 9 September 1964) is a Danish jazz and rock singer. She has performed as part of the bands Street Beat, Frontline, and One-Two. Since the mid-1990s, she has worked as a solo artist.
Career
Norby was a founding member of the band Street Beat in 1982. For two years, she was a member of the jazz-rock band Frontline. From 1985 to 1993, she worked with singer Nina Forsberg in the rock band One-Two.[1]
In 1995, she turned to jazz and released her first solo album for Blue Note, titled Cæcilie Norby. The self-titled debut recording was co-produced by Niels Lan Doky as was followed by her album My Corner of the Sky in 1996. My Corner of the Sky prominently featured American musicians, including David Kikoski, Joey Calderazzo, Terri Lyne Carrington, Scott Robinson, Randy Brecker, and Michael Brecker. The repertoire for both albums included only a few jazz standards like "Summertime" or "Just One of Those Things". Instead, she and Lan Doky arranged classic popular songs for a jazz line-up, like "Wild Is the Wind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and a track by Curtis Mayfield on the first album, "The Look of Love", "Life on Mars", "Spinning Wheel" and "Set Them Free" by Sting on the second. For both albums Norby also wrote lyrics to compositions by Randy Brecker, Chick Corea, Don Grolnick and Wayne Shorter.[2] Both albums gained wide attention and five-digit sales, especially in Denmark and also in Japan.[3]
Her third album Queen of Bad Excuses, released in 1999, was a collaboration between her and Lars Danielsson, who already played bass throughout My Corner of the Sky. This time all compositions are originals by Norby, while she and Danielsson arranged, programmed and produced all tracks together. Danielsson played also guitar, cello, electric piano, keyboards and even drums on one track. With Ben Besiakov and long-time companion Lars Jansson on piano, Anders Kjellberg and Per Lindvall from Sweden alternating on drums with Billy Hart, who was also part of her debut recording, the line-up is accentuated by the guitar of John Scofield on more than half of the album, and saxophonist Hans Ulrik and Xavier Desandre Navarre on percussion.
Personal life
She was born 9 September 1964 in Frederiksberg, Denmark, into a musical family. Her father, Erik Norby, is classical composer and her mother, Solveig Lumholt, is an opera singer.
Awards
- 1985: Ben Webster Prize
- 1996: Best Recording Album in Japan
- 1997: Simon Spies Soloist Prize
- 2000: Wilhelm Hansen Music Prize
- 2010: IFPI's Honorary Award
Discography
With Frontline
- Frontline (1985)
- Frontlife (1986)
With One Two
- One Two (1986)
- Hvide Løgne (1990)
- Getting Better (1993)
With DR Big Band
- 2009: Jazz Divas of Scandinavia (Red Dot)
Solo albums
Year | Album | Peak positions |
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DEN [4] | ||
1995 | Cæcilie Norby | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
1996 | My Corner of the Sky | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
1999 | Queen of Bad Excuses | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
2002 | First Conversation | 2 |
2004 | London/Paris (live album) | 11 |
2005 | Slow Fruit | 20 |
2007 | I Had a Ball: Greatest & More (compilation album) | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
2010 | Arabesque | 23 |
2013 | Silent Ways | 27 |
2015 | Just The Two Of Us with Lars Danielsson |
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2019 | Sisters in Jazz with Marilyn Mazur, Hildegunn Øiseth, Rita Marcotulli, Nicole Johänntgen, Lisa Wulff and Dorota Piotrowska |
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2020 | Portraying | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
2022 | Earthenya | Шаблон:Spaced ndash |
References
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ The track "African Fairytale" on My Corner of the Sky is actually Shorter's "Footprints", first recorded in 1966 on his album Adam's Apple and on Miles Davis' Miles Smiles of the same year.
- ↑ According to her website
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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