ELEONORE LANGELIER QUINTET – “JAZZ LOVES AMY”

With JAZZ LOVES AMY, Amy Winehouse’s repertoire takes on a new dimension, in a powerful, vibrant blues style that leaves plenty of room for improvisation. From ‘Back to Black’ to ‘Rehab’, her songs have become classics, carried by that instantly recognisable voice and a sound that blends soul, jazz, blues and rhythm & blues with rare freedom. Here, there’s no question of simply reproducing her tracks: the project takes her songs and breathes new life into them, with lively arrangements, long passages of improvisation and genuine freedom granted to the musicians. We find all the power, sensuality and fragility of Amy’s repertoire, but with the energy of a jazz concert where every track can take a new direction. A generous and instinctive tribute to an artist whose songs, fifteen years after her death, continue to resonate with an audience as wide as ever.