(Vocal Jazz) Anne Ducros - Either Way From Marilyn to Ella - 2013, MP3, 320 kbps

#777In 1955, year of the "Civil Rights Movement " led by Dr Martin Luther King in a very tense
political climat, the Mocambo in Los Angeles is the place to be. Like all clubs at this time, no
black and white at the same place. Marilyn great fan of Ella decided otherwise. This is what
Ella Fitzgerald said about it :
"I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt … she personally called the owner of the
Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do
it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to
Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and
Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I
never had to play in a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little
ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it."
With " EITHER WAY" and like a painter rendering his own reality, I give you a portrait
in black and white and in my own way of these two american icons such as Ella and
Marilyn
The "Love letter" addressed to Ella Fitzgerald, with my previous album "Ella, my Dear..."was
a version for full orchestra, magnifi cently arranged by Ivan Jullien of Ella’s repertoire, my
fi rst and essential source of inspiration.
Entirely re-orchestrated in jazz quartet idiom for EITHER WAY, the standards of
Gershwin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer or Duke Ellington sound minimalist on this album
in comparison to the previous one, with the exception of “But not for me” where I wanted a
move, assisted by the mysterious, heartrending voice of Mamani, towards Africa.
In the other volume of this diptych, devoted to Marilyn, I make a completely personal
proposition of the emblematic repertoire of that fragile star, perhaps even more exposed in
her singing, than in her acting.
You know the place we are going, let me take you there my way...all roads lead to Ella &
Marilyn.
Ella, Norma, Black or White... EITHER WAY.
To these amazing and unusual women, with all my love and respect…
Anne Ducros

ANNE DUCROS VOCAL
GILLES NICOLAS DOUBLE BASS/ELECTRIC BASS
BENOIT DE MESMAY PIANO/VOCAL BACKGROUNDS (10)
MAXIME BLESIN GUITARS/PERCUSSIONS/VOCAL BACKGROUNDS (10)
BRUNO CASTELLUCCI DRUMS
GUESTS :
MAMANI KEITA VOCAL (6)
EMMANUEL BEX HAMMOND ORGAN / VOCAL / VOCODER (13)
RENATO MARTINS PERCUSSIONS (2/12 & 14)
ANTOINE PIERRE DRUMS (6 & 15)
OLIVIER LOUVEL ELECTRIC GUITAR (10)
ANNA PAULA FERNANDES/AFY LOMAMA VOCAL BACKGROUNDS (12)
OLIVIER TEMIME TENOR SAX BACKGROUNDS (6)
NEW ART STRINGS ORCHESTRA (1/8/9 & 11)