Somewhere Angela Verbrugge

• 1 I Had the Craziest Dream 04:58
• 2 Somewhere 03:52
• 3 Born to Be Blue 03:55
• 4 Until I Met You (Corner Pocket) 03:09
• 5 For You, For Me, Forevermore 05:00
• 6 Je Ne Veux Pas Te Dire Bonsoir (Remix) 04:13
• 7 If the Moon Turns Green 04:19
• Total Runtime 29:26

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In a very casual-sounding way, Canadian vocalist Angela Verbrugge offers truths of the heart, urgent and genuine. A gentle authenticity without pretense that lends a light-hearted tenderness and a speaking naturalness. With the stellar accompianment of NY and Canadian players such as pianists Ray Gallon & Miles Black, bassists Cameron Brown and Jodi Proznick, and drummers Anthony Pinciotti and Joel Fountain, Angela's take on Bernstein's "Somewhere" is sweetly sustaining, "Born to Be Blue" is a playful piano/voice duet, and "If the Moon Turns Green" is a masterpiece of delicate ardor. Throughout the set, Verbrugge and her band create singular landscapes of feeling that run parallel with these intriguing melodies and lyrics.

"Angela Verbrugge sounds very much like a singer from (past) eras but one who has her own individual spin on the music....highly recommended." (LA Jazz Scene)

“One superb song after another; Verbrugge’s voice is now surely one of the most beautiful in the lyric soprano range.” (Raul da Gama, That Canadian Magazine)

“Verbrugge possesses a winsome, brightly burnished, pliable voice, ample emotional intelligence, considerable songwriting skills and conspicuously good taste!” (Andrew Gilbert, JazzTimes)

"The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Ang ..." (All About Jazz, Michael Steinman)

"Angela Verbrugge sings with clarity on this album teamed with Ray Gallon-Miles Black/p, Cameron Brown-Jodi Proznick/b, Anthony Pinciotti-Joel Fountain/dr and Dave Say/ts. In a small group format, she is relaxed and personal on a read of "I Had the Craziest Dream" and slithers as she wisps through a cleverly restrained read of "Until I Met You". ..." (Jazz Weekly, George W Harris)

Angela Verbrugge, vocals
Erik Kalaidzis, vocals (track 2)
Ray Gallon, piano (tracks 3, 4 ,5 7)
Cameron Brown, bass (tracks 4, 7)
Anthony Pinciotti, drums (tracks 4, 7)
Dave Say, saxophones (tracks 2 ,6)
Miles Black, piano (tracks 1, 2 6)
Jodi Proznick, bass (tracks 1, 2, 6)
Joel Fountain, drums (tracks 1, 2 ,6)

Angela Verbrugge
was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. Early on she played piano, trombone and guitar in addition to singing. While attracted to jazz, she started out as an actress in community theater. She moved to Toronto, earned a degree in Theatre Studies by the time she was 20, relocated to Vancouver, survived a car accident and cancer, and started a family. However Angela always wanted to sing jazz and in 2012 she started performing locally. Her singing talents were obvious from the start and her career began to gradually take off. She released her first album The Night We Couldn’t Say Good Night in 2019 which was followed by Love For Connoisseurs (a set of her originals) and Somewhere. Angela has since been featured on international tours (often with Ray Gallon), performed at many of Canada’s top jazz venues, and appeared at a variety of jazz festivals. Her recordings have all garnered many favorable reviews. Her future plans include dates in Italy, her first tour of the United States, and more recordings.

“Listen and be delighted. Her art is her own, and she offers rare pleasures. Angela's music brings joy. Her singing rests securly on deep emotional understanding. She understands the song, not only as notes and syllables on paper, but also the heart-messages it sends us. She conveys tenderness, thoughtfulness, wit and ardor; emotions and perceptions aimed right at us through her very human voice, its phrase-ending vibrato signifying a sweet earnestness.” - Michael Steinman, Jazz critic, JazzLives

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