Terez Montcalm - I Know I'll Be Alright (2013)

The new album from Canadian singer Térez Montcalm her seventh has the title I Know I’ll Be Alright, and it weaves a passionate path between compositions from her own pen and some of her favourite songs by other writers, irrespective of genre. In the groove with Térez Montcalm here are such unlikely figures as Gilbert Bécaud, Neil Young, David Bowie or Michael Jackson, and her versions of the titles by the latter have a stunning fervour and freedom to them. Montcalm makes no secret of the fact that she derives just as much pleasure from 'covers' as she does from her own compositions. Five brand-new songs in all, inspired by her own life-experiences. Guided by Jay Newland the producer of Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Esperanza Spalding, Juliette Gréco or Ayo, Térez recorded the album in Brussels with pianist Pierre de Bethmann, bassist Christophe Wallemme, guitarist Jean-Sébastien Williams (the only Quebec musician in her current group), Géraldine Laurent playing saxophone here and there, and drummer Fabrice Moreau. With a warm, husky voice, she continues sculpting melodies from all kinds of genres to make them her own, special jazz, somewhere in between the radiant elegance of history's great divas and the fiery instinct of the great rockers.

Tracklist:

1. Superwoman
2. If I Could Turn Around
3. Je reviens te chercher
4. Philadelphia
5. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
6. Lily
7. Honest To the Bones
8. Fling
9. If You Don't Know Me By Now
10. Blue Skies
11. Chambre d'hôtel
12. I Could Have Told You
13. Tell It Like It Is
14. Ashes To Ashes