Melody Gardot

Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (Deluxe Version) (2020/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:25:45 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
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With 2020’s Sunset in the Blue singer Melody Gardot sinks into a dusky and languorously produced album that builds upon her love of jazz standards, Brazilian music, and intimate balladry. The record finds Gardot surrounded by a production dream team, including longtime associate Larry Klein, who helmed 2009’s My One and Only Thrill and 2015’s Currency of Man, as well as equally acclaimed studio pros, arranger Vince Mendoza and engineer Al Schmitt. Together, they have crafted a showcase for Gardot’s delicately nuanced vocal style. The album is an interesting dichotomy, at once intimate as if Gardot is singing to you in a small club, yet also widescreen, framing her hushed vocals in sweeping orchestrations that reinforce the romantic drama at play in the songs. The opening original “If You Love Me Let Me Know,” sounds like something Dinah Washington or Abbey Lincoln might sing, but filtered through the half-lidded scrim of Gardot’s bedroom intimacy. Equally evocative moments follow, as on the yearning “You Won’t Forget Me,” in which Gardot balances a wry cabaret theatricality à la Marlene Dietrich with a tangible sadness that never feels anything but real. Elsewhere, she gently wades into a handful of earthy bossa nova songs, including a gorgeously attenuated reading of the Ella Fitzgerald number “C’est Magnifique” featuring Brazilian singer António Zambujo and a crackling take of Marco Paulo’s “Ninguem, Ninguem” that she sings in Portuguese. We also get a movie theme-ready version of “From Paris with Love,” as well as memorable takes on classics like “Moon River” and “I Fall in Love Too Easily.” From beginning to end, Gardot’s Sunset in the Blue holds you in its deeply rapturous glow.

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Melody Gardot – Sayonara Meu Amor (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:27 minutes | 612 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Melody Joy Gardot (born February 2, 1985 in New Jersey) is an American jazz singer-songwriter.

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Melody Gardot – Entre eux deux (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:29 minutes | 815 MB | Genre: Jazz
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She has done it again: the musical chameleon Melody Gardot has recorded an album that is not comparable with any of her predecessors and once again shows her immense talent as a singer and songwriter before your eyes, or ears. Only in duet with an equally talented musician she develops a rare musical pull and poetic magic. The album is an oasis of calm and musical concentration, which is able to grab the listener in a delicate way. As if whispering directly into your ear, Gardot sings great new songs here that seem like half-forgotten evergreens.
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Melody Gardot – The Absence (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:22 minutes | 924 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Absence is the sultry third album from GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter, Melody Gardot. The recording was produced by Heitor Pereira, known for his work as a session guitarist (Seal, Sting) and a renowned film composer (Despicable Me, It’s Complicated, From Prada to Nada). The pair shares a passion for creating rich sonic innovations through the sounds of Western pop, blues, jazz and soul. Woven with intricate guitars, silky strings and flutes, the album incorporates influences from exotic locales like Morocco, Buenos Aires and Brazil.

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Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (Deluxe Version) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:50 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Jazz
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In 2015, Melody Gardot proved with Currency of Man that she was able to step out of her comfort zone, because this album, which looked like her hair, clearly showed a soul’n’blues oriented facet. That’s not to say that her brilliant previous attempts didn’t fit her musical personality, but on this record she confirmed with a hint of less jazz how much she feels connected to Philadelphia, the city where she grew up and where the groove has a completely different spice… The Sunset in the Blue, released five years later, sounds like a return to her own roots. Those thanks to whom Melody Gardot has made a name for herself. She approaches jazz and bossa nova in a liberated way, as if it were a matter of course due to the unexpected situation of 2020. Just as she starts working on this fifth studio album, the pandemic brings everything to a halt and forces the American to rethink her project. In this way, it proposes to all participants scattered all over the world to continue working from a distance. Melody Gardot lives in Paris, the conductor responsible for the arrangements Vince Mendoza in Los Angeles and most of the musicians in England! Despite all the limitations, the miracle takes place and it lasts for almost five months. So Mendoza was forced to conduct the musicians playing in London’s Abbey Road Studios from California and from the screen! In addition, there was also the time difference. In addition to Mendoza, Melody Gardot once again had two other key figures at her side, to whom she owed the success of My One and Only Thrill in 2009: producer Larry Klein and sound engineer Al Schmitt, two artisans who understand each other on velvety soft sound…

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Melody Gardot – Sunset In The Blue (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:32 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Sunset in the Blue is an orchestral celebration of her jazz roots. She is reunited with the multi-Grammy award winning production team of her platinum-selling album My One and Only Thrill: Producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock), arranger and composer Vince Mendoza ((Björk, Robbie Williams, Elvis Costello) and the legendary engineer Al Schmitt (Frank Sinatra, Joao Gilberto, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney).

An underlying theme of determination to create and evolve her craft has always been present in Melody Gardot’s work but never more so than during the production of Sunset in the Blue, despite all obstacles she has assembled a stunning new body of collaborations in this most challenging of times.

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Melody Gardot – Currency Of Man (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:24 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Jazz, Soul
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Currency of Man from singer-songwriter Melody Gardot is an intensely creative milestone, transcending musical distinctions of jazz, blues and R&B to offer a stirring social and musical statement. Gardot once again joins forces with Grammy-winning producer Larry Klein, long associated with Joni Mitchell. A striking musical partnership, their previous collaboration, 2009’s My One and Only Thrill, sold over a million-and-a-half copies and yielded songs that have become modern classics. Currency of Man marks a substantial leap forward as Gardot takes her gift for songwriting in a a completely different direction from her preceding album, the critically acclaimed The Absence. This “artist’s cut” deluxe edition includes five bonus tracks.

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