Lovers & Friends
Label | O.A.P. Records – OAPR1201 |
Format | CD, Album, Stereo |
Barcode | 8714835091172 |
Country | Netherlands |
Released | 05 Mar 2012 |
Genre | Jazz |
Style | Easy Listening, Contemporary Jazz |
Singer Gerrie van der Klei could have written her memoirs, but chose to make an album. What a joy. For Lovers & Friends gives a better picture of life than hundred pages could. Love and love lost, happiness that becomes memory, life that seems to rhyme but just doesnt.The actress-singer-musicalstar sings that lifestory in ballads, with Scotch and soda' - playing herself the ukulele from her youth - as a musical smile in between. Topnotch songs from the international repertory, with a caressing delivery that touches the heart of them. Moving in the way she makes words and music completely her own: In the wee small hours, Lennonn & McCarthys In my life - which marked her television debut in 1967 - The best of times, dedicated to her great love, big band leader and physician Boy Edgar (deceased 1980), a Sinatra-song like Empty tables, Strayhorns Lush life.Gerrie van der Klei is accompanied by topmusicians from the Dutch jazz scene with a superior feeling for the whats and wheres in a song, ideally contributing to this warm and poignant life in music.
1 | In The Wee Small Hours | 4:18 |
2 | Make Someone Happy | 3:14 |
3 | I Get Along Without You Very Well | 5:15 |
4 | Every Time | 2:40 |
5 | In My Life | 3:15 |
6 | Lush Life | 6:46 |
7 | Down In The Depths (On The Ninetieth Floor) | 4:34 |
8 | Scotch And Soda | 2:52 |
9 | Empty Tables | 4:48 |
10 | Drinking Again | 4:42 |
11 | You Don't Know What Love Is | 5:13 |
12 | It Could Happen To You | 4:57 |
13 | Didn't We | 4:50 |
14 | The Best Of Times | 5:49 |
Bass – Harry Emmery (3 to 5, 7, 8, 11, 12)
Bass – Jan Voogd (1, 2, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14)
Co-producer – Gerrie van der Klei
Drums [Sonor & Remo] – John Engels
Graphic Design [Grafisch Ontwerp] – Vincent Steinmetz
Guitar – Martien Oster (3 to 5, 7, 8, 11, 12)
Guitar – Peter Nieuwerf (1, 2, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14)
Mastered By – Maria Triana
Mixed By – Barry Olthof
Photography By [Cover Portrait] – Ray Edgar
Photography By [Fotografie] – Vincent Steinmetz
Piano – Rob van Kreeveld (1, 2, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14)
Piano, Organ [Hammond Organ] – Jasper Soffers (3 to 5, 7, 8, 11, 12)
Producer [Produced By] – O.A.P. Records
Producer, Engineer – Barry Olthof
Recorded By [Opnamen Gerealiseerd Door] – Olthof Audio Productions
Tenor Saxophone – Ferdinand Povel (1, 2, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14)
Ukulele – Gerrie van der Klei (1, 2, 6, 8 to 10, 13, 14)
Vocals – Gerrie van der Klei
Digipak back:
℗ & © O.A.P. Records 2012
Opnamen gerealiseerd door Olthof Audio Productions in The Wedgeview Studio, Woerdense Verlaat, oktober 2011 (line-up 1) and november 2011 (line-up 2)
Mixed by Barry Olthof at O.A.P. Studio, Den Haag, december 2011.
Mastered by Maria Triana at Battery mastering Studios, New York, USA, January 2012.
Barcode (Scanned) – 8714835091172
Label Code – LC 25530
SPARS Code – DDD
Rights Society – BUMA/STEMRA