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“In pieces by Antonioli, Vasilic, Joe Henderson and even Keith Jarrett, melancholy tales are told with an improvisational verve that gets under your skin.” \u2014\u00a0Jazzthing<\/em><\/p>\n

“This setting shows off the dark, sensuous timbre of the leader\u2019s voice to her best advantage…Musically the singer straddles the boundaries between styles and cultures, folk and jazz traditions, Eastern Europe and America.” \u2014\u00a0Fono Forum<\/em><\/p>\n

“There are some albums where everything just is right. And without a doubt, \u201cForeign Affair\u201d from Laurie Antonioli is one of them.” \u2014 Bold.de<\/em><\/p>\n

“Between the tradition of the Great American Songbook and the better class of pop songs there’s no shortage of female singers \u2013 some acclaimed as the new divas while others, measured against Ella & Co., are found wanting. But only a few women are carving out new paths of a contemporary vocal jazz. Laurie Antonioli… is able to weave classic jazz singing, modern instrumental-sounding vocalizations and elements of Balkan folk into a valid vocal language of her own.” \u2014\u00a0Jazz Podium<\/em><\/p>\n

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Laurie Antonioli – Vocals
\nNenad Vasilic – Bass
\nArmend Xhaferi – Guitar
\nJohn Hollenbeck – Drums
\nJohannes Enders – Tenor and Soprano Saxophone<\/p>\n

Recording Engineer – Danilo Zanko
\nMixing and Mastering – Jay Newland
\nProduced by Laurie Antonioli and Nenad Vasilic
\nRecorded at Radio Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia – 2004<\/p>\n

Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Ballad for Djole – Vasilic\/Antonioli<\/li>\n
  2. Holy Water – Shifflett\/Antonioli<\/li>\n
  3. Where Flamingos Fly – Kennedy\/Spolansky\/Traditional<\/li>\n
  4. Tschusch Chochek – Vasilic<\/li>\n
  5. I Know You – Antonioli<\/li>\n
  6. Mayana – Antonioli – no lyrics<\/li>\n
  7. The Cure – Keith Jarrett<\/li>\n
  8. Crni Narcis (Black Narcissus) – Henderson\/Antonioli<\/li>\n
  9. Music Box – Vasilic<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Liner Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Beneath its title\u2019s semi-noir implications of romantic intrigue, Laurie Antonioli\u2019s Foreign Affair<\/i> speaks of a universal human yearning for the obliteration of the very borders we put up between each other. \u00a0Musically, at least, the seeds of that yearning were planted in Antonioli at an early age. \u00a0While growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, she heard the Yugoslav language and music of her father\u2019s ancestry, in which the Antonioli names goes back some 500 years in Montenegro. \u00a0In addition she inherited her maternal grandmother\u2019s passion for jazz through the recordings of Louis Armstrong and Nellie Lutcher. \u00a0Through high school and college she found herself leaning backward, forward, and sideways in the music of Billie Holiday, Joni Mitchell, John Coltrane, the Bulgarian Women\u2019s Choir, Eric Dolphy, Jackie & Roy, Lakshmi Shankar and Neil Young.<\/p>\n

    So Antonioli\u2019s jazz path was never entirely straight ahead. \u00a0Her professional mentors and peers in San Francisco included vocalists Mark Murphy and Bobby McFerrin, saxophonists Pony Poindexter and Joe Henderson, and pianists George Cables and Joe Bonner. \u00a0Antonioli made a recording debut in duo with Cables on 1985\u2019s Soul Eyes<\/i> (Catero Records) and was the featured guest on Bonner\u2019s 1987 New Beginnings<\/i> (Theresa Records, reissued in 2004 on Evidence). \u00a0She established herself as a unique and beguiling voice in a new wave of jazz vocalists, but driven to reweave some of the loose ends in her personal life and commit herself to raising her daughter, Antonioli withdrew from the scene for much of the late 1980\u2019s and 90\u2019s. \u00a0She started teaching jazz singing privately while in Munich in the \u201880s, and upon returning to the US continued her teaching career leading vocal workshops, teaching privately from her home and as a guest instructor in college jazz programs around the Bay Area. \u00a0In 2000 she joined the faculty of The Jazz School in Berkeley, California.<\/p>\n

    Antonioli\u2019s welcome return to recording has everything to do with her recent move to Europe and her current post as Professor in the Vocal Jazz Department at KUG University in Graz, Austria, a major hub through which hundreds of musicians pass. \u00a0(Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Andy Bey, Tom Lellis and Jay Clayton have all taught at KUG.) \u00a0After six months or so of scouting the musical landscape in Graz, Antonioli put together the multicultural band that recorded Foreign Affair<\/i>.<\/p>\n

    Serbian musician Nenad Vasilic became the anchor, his upright bass and astute composing skills dovetailing with Antonioli\u2019s warm, elastic vocals and her original song and lyric writing and ingenious adaptations. \u00a0Albanian guitarist Armend Xhaferi and New York drummer\/percussionist\/composer John Hollenbeck completed the quartet, and Antonioli brought in German saxophonist Johannes Enders after working with him on a tour of birthday celebration concerts for pianist Fritz Pauer, her close songwriting and performing partner.<\/p>\n

    Only a handful of musicians \u2013 bassist George Mraz and pianist Larry Vuckovich come to mind \u2013 have successfully melded Eastern European and Balkan influences into jazz. \u00a0With Foreign Affair<\/i>, Antonioli \u2013 who has written original lyrics to music by Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Richie Beirach, Fritz Pauer and Joe Henderson \u2013 sets a new standard. \u00a0From the interpersonal intimacy of \u201cI Know You\u201d and \u201cMayana\u201d through the longing for freedom and peace implicit in \u201cCrni Narcis\u201d and \u201cMusic Box\u201d, she not only creates a cultural continuity but also illuminates the way yearning can be resolved through the recognition that each moment is an opportunity for arrival. \u00a0Indeed, throughout Foreign Affair<\/i>, Antonioli redefines \u201chome\u201d as that place in the fearless present where the past is embraced and the future is a panorama of unfettered possibilities.<\/p>\n

    Derk Richardson
    \n2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    PLEASE NOTE, INTERNATIONAL SALES ARE $26.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Recorded while Antonioli was living in Europe, Foreign Affair features a bracing blend of post-bop jazz and Balkan music created with players from Serbia, Albania, Germany, and the United States. Antonioli\u2019s dark voice blends in sensuous interplay, creating a genre all her own.<\/p>\n

    This CD is autographed by Laurie Antonioli, and price is inclusive of shipping.<\/p>\n

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