Pieces of Treasure Rickie Lee Jones

Album info

Album-Release:
2023

HRA-Release:
28.04.2023

Label: Modern Recordings

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Rickie Lee Jones

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  • 1 Just in Time 03:11
  • 2 There Will Never Be Another You 03:20
  • 3 Nature Boy 03:26
  • 4 One for My Baby 04:16
  • 5 They Can't Take That Away from Me (44.1kHz) 02:50
  • 6 All the Way 02:31
  • 7 Here's That Rainy Day 04:08
  • 8 September Song 04:44
  • 9 On the Sunny Side of the Street (44.1kHz) 02:53
  • 10 It's All in the Game 02:46
  • Total Runtime 34:05

Info for Pieces of Treasure

Die Stimmung ist Jazz. Die Ikone ist Rickie Lee Jones. Die Stimme wird einfach immer besser. Rickie Lee Jones' neuestes Album Pieces of Treasure (BMG Modern) ist ein Wiedersehen mit ihrem lebenslangen Freund, dem legendären Produzenten Russ Titelman, der Jones' Star-Alben mitproduziert hat, ihr Debüt Rickie Lee Jones von 1980 und das bahnbrechende Pirates.

Großartiger Jazz imitiert nie das, was bereits gemacht wurde. Im Laufe ihrer Karriere hat die mit einem Grammy ausgezeichnete Singer-Songwriterin eine außerordentlich breite Palette von Songs interpretiert, oft auf ein und demselben Album (David Bowie lobte öffentlich ihre Interpretation von "Rebel Rebel"). Sie hat gefeierte Alben mit Jazz-Bezug aufgenommen, darunter "Girl at Her Volcano" und "Pop Pop", aber bis jetzt hatte sie dem American Songbook noch nie ein ganzes Album gewidmet.

Pieces of Treasure - der Titel ist eine Anspielung auf Pirates - wurde fünf Tage lang im Sear Sound in New York City aufgenommen und von einem Quartett bestehend aus Rob Mounsey am Klavier, dem Gitarristen Russell Malone, dem Bassisten David Wong und dem Schlagzeuger Mark McLean begleitet. Es ist ein elegantes, einfaches und gefühlsbetontes Werk, das aus Jones' eigenem Leben und ihren Erfahrungen stammt. "This is an album Russ masterfully picked players who are exceptional musicians, who listen and respond," sagt Jones. "And that's partly why this sparse thing sounds so totally complete, because everyone responds to each other and builds this perfect room."

"Es gibt ja so ungeschriebene Gesetze: Wenn männliche Musiker in das gewisse Alter kommen, dann sollten sie sich überlegen, Blues zu spielen - und die Damen wenden sich dann besser dem Jazz-Gesang zu. Ein bisschen so handhabt das auch Rickie Lee Jones, die sich auf diesem Album erstmals dem klassischen amerikanischen Songbook zuwendet und mit einer Reihe stilvoller Interpretationen von Klassikern tatsächlich ihr erstes reines Jazz-Album vorlegt. Dabei bedient sie sich der Unterstützung des Produzenten Russ Titelman - jenes Mannes also, der den Beginn ihrer Karriere mit der Produktion des Debüts und des "Pirates"-Albums erst so richtig in Schwung brachte. Da es bei diesem Projekt ja darum gehen musste, aus den an keine bestimmten Arrangements gebundenen Original-Songs durch die Interpretation eine eigene Identität herauszukitzeln, gelingt das immer dann am Besten, wenn sich Rickie und Titelman am weitesten von bekannten Versionen des jeweiligen Materials entfernen. Namentlich wären das der Song "Nature Boy" des Früh-Hippies Eden Ahbez, dem das Team orientales Weltmusik-Flair entlockte, das von Louis Armstrong bekannt gemachte "Sunny Side Of The Street" als Quasi-Folk-Song und Tommy Edwards "It's All In The Game", das vom Pop-Song zur Gospel-Ballade umgebogen wird. Obwohl das ganze Projekt eigentlich nur als gut dotierte Fingerübung gesehen werden könnte, überzeugt das Werk auf der künstlerischen Ebene dann doch - nicht zuletzt, da Rickie Lee Jones hier demonstriert, wovon sie sich selbst als Songwriterin vielleicht inspiriert sah und sieht." (Ullrich Maurer, gaesteliste.de)

Rickie Lee Jones




Rickie Lee Jones
is one of the most acclaimed and talented singer-songwriters of our time. Her career spans nearly three decades of incredible musical output spanning many genres: folk, rock, jazz, soul, spoken word and pop. Always fearless, Rickie Lee has consistently pushed her seemingly limitless creative abilities, as well as the music industry's envelope.

Arriving on the scene in 1979, her first self-titled album, released that year, received five Grammy nominations. Her nominations included Best Song for 'Last Chance Texaco', Best Album, Best Pop Vocal and Best Rock Vocal. As it happened, she won Best New Artist, and her career was launched. Only four months after her debut, Rickie Lee was gracing the cover of Rolling Stone, and 18 months later she was featured on the cover again.

Jones released Pirates in 1981 and then Girl At Her Volcano in 1983, which offered listeners a challenging mixture of jazz and pop. 1984 saw the release of The Magazine, whereupon she took a five-year hiatus and moved to Paris. Rickie Lee returned in 1988 to have her only child, Charlotte, and to write Flying Cowboys with Steely Dan and producer/musician Walter Becker on her new label, Geffen. While 'Satellites' was a 1989 hit, she found real success with her duet with long time pal Dr. John on 'Making Whoopie', which won both of them a Grammy for Best Jazz Performance. She had also been nominated the year before for a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal for her rendition of 'Autumn Leaves' on Rob Wassermann's Duets.

Her next two records, Traffic From Paradise (1993) and Naked Songs (1995) were her final Geffen releases. Ghostyhead, released in 1997, is considered by many fans to be her best record and certainly among her most unusual, using ambient and aggressive rhythm tracks against which she recited impressionistic lyrics. Ghostyhead was followed by another extreme on It's Like This, an intimate and loving album of covers of a wide gamut of popular songs, from 'The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' to 'Up the Lazy River'. Continuing Rickie Lee's own tradition of mixing pop and jazz, It's Like This featured Taj Mahal, Joe Jackson, Ben Folds, and others and was nominated for the Grammy for Best Pop Album in 2000.

The bootleg Live at Red Rocks was bought by Artemis and released in 2001, and 2003 saw the release of The Evening of My Best Day on V2. Iconoclastic guitarist Neils Kline remarked that this record 'was the greatest non-selling record of the decade'. However, Rickie Lee's records do continue to sell, year after year. Her latest release is a three-CD anthology honoring her career to date on Rhino, Dutchess of Coolsville.

Rickie Lee’s voice has a unique and boyish tonality, offering no vibrato, and replete with a 40s-style jazz sensibility, has distinguished her from every other major singer in the modern era. Much imitated but rarely credited, Rickie Lee Jones is an unparalleled artist of great integrity and credibility. Although she is somewhat shy and reclusive in person, Rickie Lee's music has been a major force in for nearly 30 years, a major influence on the music of Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Edie Brickell, Suzanne Vega, Sheryl Crow, Michelle Branch and many others.

Rickie Lee Jones continues to record and play live. Her newest album, Sermon On Exposition Boulevard, was released February 6th, 2007 on New West Records.

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