LIVE/Life in the Lowlands

People Are Strange
Stealaway
Nico

Greene Avenue Music 2004
64: 22
11 Tracks

Personnel

Fay Victor-voice
Anton Goudsmit-electric guitar
Wolter Wierbos-trombone
Jacko Schoonderwoerd-double bass
Pieter Bast-drums

Track Listing:

1          Lazy Old Sun
2          People Are Strange
3          Laura
4          There They Are
5          Heading West-Way Out (Way Out West)
6          Stealaway
7          Magere Brug (Lean Bridge)
8          Nico
9          Keep It Busy, Keep It Moving (Saturday & Sunday)
10        Last Night I Had A Dream
11         BONUS

Press Quotes:

“…but a handful of albums by women including: Gunda Gottschalk’s Wassermonde, Satoko Fujii’s Illusion Suite, Susie Ibarra’s Folklorico and Fay Victor’s LAZY OLD SUN earned my unreserved admiration. The first and last in the list were particularly revelatory. Gottschalk’s skills on violin, exhibiting incredible incisiveness in a solitary recital setting, blew my mind. Victor’s European swan song with a crack Dutch combo in tow exposed a vocalist imbued with the best elements of past matriarchs like Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter with an ear-tilted toward Euro-improv innovations.
-Derek Taylor, Dusted Magazine-The Year in Music Feature 2004

“A boldly inventive Betty Carter-Billie Holiday hybrid…the tremendously versatile Victor takes off into all sorts of curiously exciting directions…she’s a real find, a true original.”
-Christopher Louden, JazzTimes

LAZY OLD SUN puts a fresh new twist on jazz singing…her rich alto and perfect pitch allow the 4tet to play with the fringes of dissonance…it keeps hope alive that something fresh may still be coming for jazz singing.
-Phillip McNally, Cadence magazine

“Fay Victor is a gifted musician, possessed of flawless intonation, musical imagination, and inventive phrasing…this album deserves a first, a second, and a third listening.”
-William Grim, AllAboutJazz.com

“Sounds like a young Betty Carter with a bad case of wanderlust…a live set strong enough to win over all but the most anti-vocal jazz-fans…”
-Kurt Gottschalk, Signal to Noise

“…some intriguing vocalizing…invests every song with such emotional commitment that they all sound like her own originals even if they are an evergreen…the message from this session is clear—check out Fay Victor.”
-David Dupont, www.onefinalnote.com

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