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Jillian Lebeck | Living In Pieces |
Living in Pieces: nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for Outstanding Jazz Recording 2004
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Jillian Lebeck Living in pieces (Talie/Universal)
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“… Vancouver pianist-vocalist Lebeck intrigues with her CD Living in Pieces (Talie). She sings movingly on “You’ve Changed” as well as on contemporary fare (Ani DiFranco’s “Everest” and Rufus Wainwrights “Sally Ann”). There’s affecting music to be had. A key ingredient is composition – soulful expression steeped in the now. … it could well be that today’s vocalistst like Ann Hampton Callaway, Rebecca Martin, Erin Bode, Jane Monheit, Jillian Lebeck, Madeleine Peyroux, Renee Olstead and Claudia Villela are helping to mold the jazz to be.” – Downbeat Magazine
“On Living in Pieces (Talie), her debut disc, her own thing is something ethereal and blue and often filled with long pauses and space, reminiscent to many of the German label ECM’s esthetic, to pianists such as Paul Bley or Keith Jarrett. When she begins to sing, it’s all of a piece, wrapping Ani DiFranco and Rufus Wainwright songs into a larger musical concept.” – Greg Buium, The Vancouver Sun
“Lebeck plays piano in a reflectively lyrical manner that borrows a little each from Paul Bley and Brad Mehldau. Her singing matches her material, confidently jazz on the standard You’ve Changed and more suitably popish with Ani DiFranco’s Everest and Rufus Wainwright’s Sally Ann. – Mark Miller, The Globe and Mail
“… a prodigious talent. Living in Pieces exudes depth and imagination.” – Chris Wong, Vancouver Courier
“Inevitably Jillian Lebeck will be compared to Diana Krall but this preternaturally sophisticated jazz singer, pianist and composer has perhaps more of a true jazz soul to her.” – Vancouver Province
“Jillian possesses everything that it takes to become a star, but she’s got an extreme amount of musical talent. She’s an incredible composer, she’s an incredible singer and she’s a fabulous piano player” – Cory Weeds (Jazz club owner, musician, record producer, radio host)
“I hear a lot of Paul Bley/Paul Motian with some Jarrett in the actual music, and the vocals remind me of an updated, hipper Blossom Dearie vibe.
Its good stuff. Very well done”
- Ken Pickering, Artistic Director, Vancouver International Jazz Festival
Reviews
“There’s little doubt Norah Jones feels like home. The sound of Vancouver-based singer/pianist Jillian Lebeck, however, seems far more vulnerable and tangled up in blue, the sonic purr of a soul still looking to settle down. Of course, that’s not to suggest she lacks warmth, far from it. In fact, her laid back, ever so smooth, almost muted voice literally drips with flushed emotion as she digs into a gorgeous reading of Rufus Wainwright’s Sally Ann. While Lebeck occasionally tackles the kind of pop-infused jazz Jesse Harris would be proud to call his own, the bulk of Living In Pieces owes more to Keith Jarrett than Jones. Lebeck favours simple, lithe melodies that slowly but surely give way to smart, exploratory improvisation. There’s a palpable thread of deep melancholy running throughout the set, as if Lebeck is humming the trials and tribulations of every day life in her head, trying to work it all out. A first rate debut”. – Steve Baylin, Ottawa Xpress
IPIROTIKOS AGON (translated from Greek)- SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
She is young and beautiful, she plays the piano and she sings. An image we
come upon more and more often these days. So is she just another girl that
the music marketing produced? Well, not exactly. Jillian Lebeck from Vancouver Canada is low profiled and she sets up her career relying on her rich talents. Her nice compositions, her gentle and expressive voice, her ability to select the songs that suit her, emanating either from the classic jazz songbook, or from the modern songwriters. With her debut Living in Pieces she states clearly that she considers herself firstly a composer and
secondly a singer. The low-voiced, slow tempo compositions roll smoothly
around the senses just like the light of dawn outlining a melancholic,
tranquil and mature personality thats startling considering her young age.
Her discreet voice never minds to show off how many octaves she can cover,
respects the grandeur of Billie Holiday, the genius of Joni Mitchell, and
reaches present times with the freshness of Ani DiFranco, giving the impression of
complete innocence. As a pianist she is not swing oriented but she is more
interested in delicate atmospheric tinges, maintaining her style even when
she leaves the piano for the fender rhodes. The stand out of her own compositions is the nostalgic For Chris, On A Sunday, and the non-originals Ani diFrancos Everest. Her trio featuring Andre Lachance on bass and Paul Townsend on drums, on several tracks is enhanced by Brad Turner on trumpet and flugelhorn and Jon Bentley on saxophone, both contributing with some fine improvising.
- Vangelis Aragiannis
TORONTO LIFE:
Running counter to the current mould, Vancouver-born and based Jillian Lebeck is very much a pianist and composer first and a singer second. Her CD, Living in Pieces, is a brilliant debut, with Lebeck creating an evocative terrain compounded of spare melody and surprising turns. She’s joined here by her quartet, including Brad Turner (best known for his membership in Metalwood) on trumpet, bassist André Lachance and drummer Paul Townsend.
- Stuart Broomer
CODA The Journal of Jazz and Improvised Music
Issue 314 March/April 2004
Pianist Jillian Lebeck holds to quiet and shadows on Living in Pieces (Talie Records TR1111). The typical tempo is slow, the mood keyed to rumination and little rustlings. Oddly, in her shaping of a favorite twilight sound for her signature she draws comparison not to any immediate jazz reference, but to English guitarist Vini Reilly (a.k.a. Durutti Column). Like Reilly, she doesn’t break the mood even when she switches instruments (here, to Fender Rhodes) or offers a rare subdued vocal. “For Chris on a Sunday” approaches the lullaby zone, with her restrained Rhodes work conjuring soft echoes of celestes and music boxes. Some will hear Bill Evans in his deepest indwelling, but Erik Satie is in there as well, with “Today” nodding to the delicate balance of his Gymnopedes. There’s also some Norah Jones in Lebeck’s brandy-and-fireplace singing of Ani Difranco (“Everest”) and Rufus Wainwright (“Sally Ann”), and surely it wouldn’t take much polishing for another label to push her in that direction. Lebeck’s own dark corners and deep spaces are far more interesting.
- Randal McIlroy CODA Magazine
VANCOUVER PROVINCE JANUARY 20th 2004
Jillian Lebeck : Living in Pieces (Talie Records)
Inevitably Jillian Lebeck will be compared to Diana Krall but this 20- something, preternaturally sophisticated North Vancouver jazz singer, pianist and composer has perhaps more of a true jazz soul to her. She’s written six of the nine tracks with intriguing and quite original chord sequences and she and the band – Brad Turner, Jon Bentley, Andre Lachance, and Paul Townsend – are having fun weaving around and through them. There’s a lovely, hushed cover of “You’ve Changed” and her choice of Ani DiFranco’s “Everest” was inspired. … this is an impressive and promising debut.
- John P.McLaughlin
THE VANCOUVER SUN DECEMBER 18th, 2003
Vancouver pianist-singer-composer Jillian Lebeck makes a strong debut with Living in Pieces, which has her fronting a band comprising some of the city’s best musicians as they perform six Lebeck compositions and three from other writers.
The dark, minimalist Lebeck original instrumental Longing for Longing opens things, with Lebeck letting bassist Andre Lachance take the first solo before she plays hers over a Thelonius Monk-like harmonic structure. For Chris on a Sunday has Lebeck switching to Fender Rhodes, as she and trumpeter Brad Turner shape solos over a floating tempo. The two repeat the feat on Everest, an Ani DiFranco composition.
For her three vocal numbers, Lebeck displays a warm voice with a rich middle register. Rufus Wainwright’s Sally Ann has her treading Norah Jones territory, performing a country-tinged tune with a jazz musician’s sensibility. The best track is the 10 minute ballad Missing where Lebeck, Lachance, saxophonist Jon Bentley and drummer Paul Townsend listen carefully and respond to one another.
- Marke Andrews |
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