Michelle Nicolle & Paul Grabowsky - Noir (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Award-winning jazz singer Michelle Nicolle and acclaimed composer and pianist Paul Grabowsky unveil the hidden poetry within beloved ballads by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter, transforming familiar melodies into haunting explorations of longing, heartbreak, and the bittersweet beauty of unrequited love. From jazz standards to unexpected gems, each song is stripped back to its emotional core, revealing those ephemeral moments of yearning often disguised beneath popular songs.

Michelle Nicolle is celebrated as Australia’s finest female jazz singer, winner of multiple awards and appearing at festivals all over Australia and the world, from Tokyo to Siberia. She is admired for her ability to get right to the heart of a song, as well as being a brilliant in-the-moment improviser with a technique to match any instrumentalist. Recent highlights have included acclaimed performances of Wynton Marsalis’ All Rise with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, as well as arranging, composing and leading her own Michelle Nicolle Quartet. Her talents have been recognised with a Bell Award for jazz vocal album of the year, a Mo Award and a National Jazz Award.

Paul Grabowsky is a creative with uncompromising integrity, one of Australia's most significant composers and celebrated recording artists. An internationally acclaimed performer, he has worked with jazz greats such as Art Farmer, Branford Marsalis, Joe Lavano and Johnny Griffin, and performed on many great stages worldwide including the Sydney Opera House, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival and Tokyo Jazz Festival. As a recording artist he has received two AIR Awards, and eight ARIA awards. As a composer he has received six APRA Art Music Awards, and two Helpmann Awards.

Tracklist:
1 It Never Entered My Mind (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
2 Heartbreak Hotel (Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden & Elvis Presley)
3 Body and Soul (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour & Frank Eyton)
4 I'm a Fool to Want You (Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf / Joel Herron)
5 I Will Wait for You (Michel Legrand & Norman Gimbel)
6 Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins)
7 Rainbow Cake (Paul Grabowsky & Vince Jones)
8 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (Cole Porter)
9 Only the Lonely (Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn)
10 One Beer (Michelle Nicolle)
11 The Good Life (Sacha Distel & Jack Reardon)


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