VERY LIMITED EDITION VINYL VERSION OF JASMINE KARA'S DEBUT ALBUM - RELEASED ON ACID JAZZ RECORDS

THE BLUES AIN'T NOTHING BUT A GOOD WOMAN GONE BAD - AJX LP270

includes the singles In The Basement and Ain't No More Room as well as a storming version of Ordinary joe amongst others

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You can hear it in the opening bars of the opening number. It’s the sound of a real singer, in a proper recording studio taking on the blues and winning hands down. 

21-year-old Jasmine Kara’s ability to bare her soul is quite extraordinary in one so young.  Yet when you take into account the youthful, traumatic love affair that left her at her lowest ebb and her subsequent escape to New York, you start to understand how she can relate to these songs. 

Her time in NYC was seminal.  On arrival in the city Jasmine gravitated towards its music scene, the jazz, blues and R’n’B clubs having a particular resonance for her.  These songs touched her and struck a chord with her own life struggles.  

it wasn’t long before Jasmine was brought to the attention of Tri-Sound Records and one of its co-founders became her mentor. Legendary records man Marshall Chess of Chess Records took on executive producer role for this debut album - ‘Blues Ain’t Nothing But A Good Woman Gone Bad’. It was Chicago’s Chess Records, who took the music of black America from its Muddy Waters led electric birth, through to the heights of soul music and beyond. Jasmine’s album is a tribute to the songs – the great songs – that the label originated.

 Marshall Chess says - ”I’ve been around the blues and singers who are in touch with their soul my whole life.  Jasmine Kara is the real deal.  The blues, like a taste of freedom, has truly transformed this young singer.  Her Iranian roots, her Swedish upbringing and her recent meeting with – and interpretation of – the American blues is an amazing testament to what a universal language music is.  And, to how different expressions of a longing for freedom always have had an underlying, common denominator”.

On ‘Blues Ain’t Nothing But A Good Woman Gone Bad’ Jasmine takes a unique journey through the less obvious parts of the label’s history avoiding direct comparison with the originals through distinctive flourishes added to her own versions. Such as the ska groove brought out in ‘Try My Love Again’ turning the song’s original plaintive tone to a wonderfully joyous come on. Time and again you can only be impressed by her vocal control. This is evident not only on the more jazz tinged songs such as ‘My Party’ and Terry Callier’s signature tune ‘Ordinary Joe’, both of which demonstrate a vocal sensitivity beyond her years, but also on the up-tempo stormers of which the album’s title track and the two-part ‘In The Basement’ are prime examples. This album is very of the moment, but steeped in the past.  Jasmine Kara is a product of the modern world – but embraces the sentiments of these classic songs.  For Kara this is a start of an undoubtedly wonderful music journey.

 

 

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