Just a Little Bossa Nova (Remastered) Susan Wong

• 1 The Shadow Of Your Smile 03:44
• 2 The Look Of Love 04:20
• 3 If 03:09
• 4 Somewhere Beyond The Sea 03:39
• 5 Emotion 04:28
• 6 The Girl From Ipanema 03:56
• 7 Just The Way You Are 05:16
• 8 Get Here 04:16
• 9 And I Love Him 02:52
• 10 Desafinado 04:26
• 11 Imagine 03:29
• 12 Kissing A fool 04:26
• 13 All The Way 03:33
• Total Runtime 51:34

Info for Just a Little Bossa Nova (Remastered)

Just A Little Bossa Nova is audiophile songstress Susan Wong’s captivating 2005 release.

Much of the magic of this album comes down to the effortless chemistry between the artist and the genre. Bossa Nova’s lively, warm rhythms pair seamlessly with Susan’s signature sultry yet youthful vocals, bringing out the raw emotion of every track. Her rendition of "The Look Of Love" stands as one of the most sensual and alluring covers since the original, while her take on "The Girl From Ipanema" is equally irresistible. On The Beatles' classic “And I Love Him," Susan introduces a beautifully delicate, dreamlike quality that breathes fresh life into a timeless favorite. Meanwhile, the thunderous opening conga percussion on "Somewhere Beyond The Sea" is bound to become an instant reference track for audiophiles.

Packed with charm and subtle nuances from start to finish, this album is best experienced with a pair of good speakers and a quiet moment.

If you have heard of the name Susan Wong you’ll know how good her vocals are when it comes to listening to her Smooth Jazz music collection. Hailing from Hong Kong, Susan Wong also known as 黃翠珊, released a few albums since the early 2000s and all I can say is her songs are good for the ears and I rated this the best female vocals & Jazz music for audiophiles.

Susan Wong

Digitally remastered

Susan Wong
was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Sydney, Australia with her family at the age of seven. Musically inclined from a young age, she learned to play the piano at age five and later she also learned the violin. At Kambala in Sydney, she sang alto in the choir and appeared in the school dramas (Gilbert & Sullivan & the like) and entered a number of piano competitions. She received an associate diploma (ATCL) in piano from Trinity College London.

Her first break in the music world was at the age of sixteen when her parents entered her for a singing contest in Sydney. It was organized by TVB with the winner to be offered a recording contract with one of the big music companies in Hong Kong. She won the competition and went to Hong Kong, where she met with the TVB producers who wanted her to sign with one of the music labels. After much deliberation she decided that a music career wasn’t right for her at that time and instead returned to Australia to study at University.

After graduating from university, she returned to Hong Kong in 1997 to help run her family’s accounting business; at this time, she gained her CPA certification. One of her students, who she was teaching piano, was working for a Hong Kong independent label, and Wong asked the boss if they wanted a singer. Wong started recording her favourite English songs and made the album Close To You (2002).

In early 2007, Susan Wong signed a new recording agreement with Hong Kong-based Evolution Music Group and released her first album under evosound in August 2007.

The first release under this agreement, Someone Like You, was recorded in Nashville, USA and won critical and commercial success throughout South East Asia.

Wong recorded her second album, 511, for the evosound label in Geneva Switzerland with producer Adrien Zerbini.] It contained bossa nova influenced versions of songs such as Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean and Everytime You Go Away by Hall & Oates. Billie Jean received extensive airplay throughout South East Asia and a version on YouTube received over 450,000 views.

Returning to Geneva in 2010, Wong started work again with producer Adrien Zerbini along with guitarist Ignacio Lamas. The recordings mostly concentrated on sparse acoustic new interpretations of classic pop songs from the late 1960s and early 1970s including California Dreamin’, The Sound of Silence and Have You Ever Seen the Rain?. The ‘studio master’ download of the album peaked at No. 1 on the Linn Records ‘studio master’ download chart and spent over six months in the Top 10.

Five years on from her first visit Susan Wong returned to Nashville to record at Ocean Way Studio. The live in the studio project My Live Storieswas released on CD, SACD, and HQCD in December 2012 with the live DVD/Blu-ray released in 2013.

In 2014, Wong released her fifth studio album, Woman in Love, which is a tribute to great female ballad singers. Susan Wong is currently recording a new album, set for release in 2018.

This album contains no booklet.