Mica Paris "returns" to her jazz roots

[Serial_Apologist]

Mica's back in jazz, everybody, having re-released her 1988 album "So Good", made with help from Courtney Pine and others, with a bunch of previously unreleased tracks. Mica was then 19 - since when she has made her name for herself and crossed the Rubicon of Holland Park Avenue to where she now resides, in upmarket Holland Park.

Could this prove the future for all UK budding jazzers searching for the next (door)step? Or has she crossed her own Rubicon to a place of no return, (he asked in panting mock-satirical journalistic tones)???



Read this quickly, before the Powers That Be declare the thread outwith the forum remits, because Mica is due to appear on tomorrow's The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 (09.15 - 11.15), and you will get an opportunity YOU CAN ILL AFFORD TO MISS to question this forthright lady of London Soul on the programme's phone-in.

Who said I keep all the good news to myself?

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Mica's back in jazz, everybody, having re-released her 1988 album "So Good", made with help from Courtney Pine and others, with a bunch of previously unreleased tracks. Mica was then 19 - since when she has made her name for herself and crossed the Rubicon of Holland Park Avenue to where she now resides, in upmarket Holland Park.

Could this prove the future for all UK budding jazzers searching for the next (door)step? Or has she crossed her own Rubicon to a place of no return, (he asked in panting mock-satirical journalistic tones)???



Read this quickly, before the Powers That Be declare the thread outwith the forum remits, because Mica is due to appear on tomorrow's The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 (09.15 - 11.15), and you will get an opportunity YOU CAN ILL AFFORD TO MISS to question this forthright lady of London Soul on the programme's phone-in.

Who said I keep all the good news to myself?

" The last time I saw (Mica) Paris". Now that's a name that conjures up a era/wine bars, good and very bad, a la Anita Baker's "Rapture". That "You are my one temptation", annnnnnnnnoying catchy with its Bacharach-ish brass. She called her children " Russia" and "Monet", as you do. No, I looked it up on Wiki.

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

Whenever I go to the Tate, I'm always in it for the Monet.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Not a Miro biro or a Gauguin bargain? When I lived in London in the mid 1970s, the National Gallery did very good ham & brown bread sandwiches etc. It was a very cheap place to eat and drink midday. And of course admire the (fine) fine art works ...I suspect the food has changed but hopefully not the art. There was a dark Renoir (aged) self portrait that I suspect I look very like now. He sobbed.

BN.

[Tenor Freak]

" The last time I saw (Mica) Paris". Now that's a name that conjures up a era/wine bars, good and very bad, a la Anita Baker's "Rapture". That "You are my one temptation", annnnnnnnnoying catchy with its Bacharach-ish brass. She called her children " Russia" and "Monet", as you do. No, I looked it up on Wiki.

BN.

Bluesie man, Anita Baker was my saviour when c. Xmas 1988 I was working in a shitty warehouse near Heathrow doing a vacation gig. Capital Radio blasting out on the PA, it was only Anita's "Caught up in teh Rapture" (sic) that saved me from an experience worse than death. You clearly occupied a different Londinium to me in teh 1980s. Still, at least I wasn't a passenger on PA103 which also happened around that time, for which I am grateful. RIP.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Bluesie man, Anita Baker was my saviour when c. Xmas 1988 I was working in a shitty warehouse near Heathrow doing a vacation gig. Capital Radio blasting out on the PA, it was only Anita's "Caught up in teh Rapture" (sic) that saved me from an experience worse than death. You clearly occupied a different Londinium to me in teh 1980s. Still, at least I wasn't a passenger on PA103 which also happened around that time, for which I am grateful. RIP.

Well, I started out with high expections. I had a friend who moved to New York and heard Anita Baker, well before she cut her first album, singing (jazz) in some club. She said she was brilliant, she talks about Miles and Coltrane, and "you've got to hear this woman...bla bla blaaaa". So what emerged on record was ....

But that was the market and maybe unfairly, I bracket her with Sade, Mica etc. I worked for a long time back and forth to Brussels (Yes, I was that Euro Traaaaaytor) and in every bloody hotel lift or bar it was that trio! Or Vivaldi.

Anyway Anita has now retired? just like me, so I wish her a long and happy one. Even if she ain't no Gladys Knight...(smiley smiley face).

BN.