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Agence d’artistes et de concerts Danielle Lefebvre <\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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These eight songs are a walk through the season: we start in November with Les peaux de li\u00e8vres, a cover of Tricot Machine’s hit that evokes the “first murmurs of winter”, the excitement and magic of the snowflakes at the beginning of the cold season, and we end with J’aimais l’hiver by Beau Dommage, a beautiful song by Michel Rivard that speaks of the last jolts of winter, when the snow gives way to the spring rain. Between these two songs, we find six different winter themes and atmospheres, each carried by the Jardin d\u2019hiver (Karen Ann Zeidel, Benjamin Biolay), Winter (Tori Amos), Soir d’hiver (\u00c9mile Nelligan, Claude L\u00e9veill\u00e9e), Snowbird (Gene MacLellan, a big hit by Anne Murray) and finally C’est l’hiver de Vivaldi (based on 2nd movement of Vivaldi\u2019s Four season\u2019s winter) and Des diamants sur la ville (lyrics by V\u00e9ronique Bellemare Bri\u00e8re), two original pieces imagined by Sonia and Luc Beaugrand. Let’s add that musically, this album is basically a<\/h5>\n

piano-vocal project on which some pieces will have more sophisticated textures thanks to the addition of voice, keyboards and melodic percussions.
\nFor this project, Sonia reunites with pianist Luc Beaugrand, a valuable collaborator with whom she won the Juno for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in 2012 with Le Carr\u00e9 de nos amours. Often described as one of the most beautiful in Canadian jazz, Sonia Johnson’s voice is powerful, flexible and velvety. On this latest album, Luc Beaugrand’s arrangements bring out the best in her, amplifying the interpretive qualities of her partner.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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After carrying out a multiyear pilgrimage of experimentation in jazz and pop music, Montreal singer-songwriter Sonia Johnson has emerged from out of the shadows and into the light with Chrysalis, her first English language album. On this new recording, Johnson is accompanied by a fabulous ensemble of 11 musicians and vocalists – featuring singer Elie Haroun – and is supported by an incredible cast of collaborators including Stanley P\u00e9an, Stephen Johnston, Mark Alan Haynes, Alex Lefaivre, and Normand Deveault. Chrysalis is an audacious musical flight – poetic, soulful, and delicately woven with silken sounds.<\/h5>\n
Sonia Johnson: voix, composition
\nStephen Johnston: guitares, composition
\nDavid Ryshpan<\/a>: piano \u2013 claviers
\nMark Alan Haynes<\/a>: basse \u00e9lectrique, composition
\nMax Sansalone: batterie et percussions
\nJean-Pierre Zanella: flute
\nSamuel Blais<\/a>: saxophone alto \u2013 clarinette
\nFrank Lozano: saxophone t\u00e9nor \u2013 clarinette basse
\nJean-Nicolas Trottier: trombone
\nR\u00e9mi Cormier: trompette
\nJudith Little-Daudelin: voix
\nElie Haroun<\/a>: voix et soliste sur Changing my Ways
\nR\u00e9alisation: Sonia Johnson & \u00a0Padraig Buttner-Schnirer <\/a>
\nArrangements: Sonia Johnson
\nArrangements additionnels: Mark Alan Haynes (1-4-6-7-9-11), Stephen Johnston (7)
\nEnregistrement: Planet Studio, Montreal \u2013 Avril-Mai 2019
\nIng\u00e9nieur son et mixage: Padraig Buttner-Schnirer
\nAssistants: Jacob Lacroix-Cardinal, Jordan Barillaro
\nMastering: Guy H\u00e9bert, Studio Karisma<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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Top 5\u00a0 – ICI musique 2014<\/h4><\/h1><\/span>
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Le Coeur \u00e0 l\u2019endroit<\/em> mixes the spontaneity of jazz sung in the French language with compositions that favor the use of specific colors, refined arrangements and a heartfelt and touching interpretation. Sonia Johnson, a prolific lyricist, has written the music and texts of nine of the thirteen compositions of this project. She is surrounded by a plethora of writers and composers, such as Marianne Trudel, Stanley P\u00e9an, Anthony Rozankovic, Charly Bouchara, Claude Andr\u00e9, Mario Peluso, Nathalie Baroud, V\u00e9ronique Bellemare Bri\u00e8re, Amandine Paccioni, Luc Beaugrand and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Alarie. The result is a necklace of luminous pearls carrying humanist themes such as unity, love, beauty, memory, maternity and self – discovery. The singer also surrounded herself with a new trio; Marianne Trudel (pianist), R\u00e9mi – Jean Leblanc(bassist), Jim Doxas(drummer), renowned soloists Andr\u00e9 Leroux, Pierre C\u00f4t\u00e9, Jonathan Stewart including the vocal quartet les Gourmandes, featuring Judith Little Daudelin, Genevie\u0300ve Racette, Chloe\u0301 McNeil, Gabrielle Harnois-Blouin.<\/h5>\n
Design : https:\/\/vimeo.com\/oraziofantini<\/a>
\nProduction : Les Productions Sonia Johnson
\nPhotos : http:\/\/pascaletherien.com\/<\/a><\/h5>\n
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Nominations Juno & ADISQ<\/h4><\/h1><\/span>
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Triades, is a creative project conceived by Sonia Johnson, produced and directed by Alain B\u00e9dard of Effendi Records. This unusual album puts forward three artists, passionate about jazz and whose reputation precedes them, Sonia Johnson, Annie Poulain and Charles Biddle Jr. These three singers and authors, as well as their collaborators Claude Andr\u00e9 and Stanley P\u00e9an, have united to perform twelve instrumental pieces from the following Canadian jazz composers: Jean-Pierre Zanella, Joel Miller, John Roney, Alexandre C\u00f4t\u00e9, R\u00e9mi Bolduc, Yves L\u00e9veill\u00e9, Steve Amirault, Dave Watts, Sylvain Provost, Norman Lachapelle.
\nSome of the composers selected for this project inspired the lyricists by sharing their original inspiration or with keywords and reading suggestions. For other pieces, the idea for the story stems from the original title, the personality of the composer or the performer of the new song created. Sometimes sung solo, duo or trio, these singular pieces evoke journeys, friendship, seduction, temptations, wisdom and hope. Pianist Marianne Trudel composed an original piece for the occasion and created sublime arrangements highlighting the singer\u2019s voices. Sonia\u2019s trio is complemented by the superb Morgan Moore on bass and Jim Doxas on drums.<\/h5>\n
Design : Pascal Milette<\/a>
\nPhotos : Alexandre Deslauriers<\/a>
\nProduction: Effendi Records \u20132012<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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Winner JUNO 2012 – Vocal Jazz album of the year
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In the great city, a middle-aged woman walks between the very gentle echo of childhood and the terrible noise of the present. She sleeps, dies, struggles, fragile. Tossed between the truths of love and her tricks, she often experiences the feeling of being alien to life. Words do not come across the threshold of her lips. She walks in search of some certainty. Her gaze sometimes tries to escape to heaven, scrutinizing the horizon, begs him. But far less than the stratosphere, she finds refuge a few steps from her home, at Carr\u00e9 Saint-Louis, where the souls of the poets unite the lonely hearts. She recognizes her dreamy nature, her heart as a rebel, a she-wolf. The woman walks more than ever, with the safety of knowing who she is. She will not hesitate to bare her soul. What she feels, is her profound femininity.
\nIn the big city, a woman advances, fragile and strong at the same time. At the heart of the voice, the contradictions are resolved. The voice releases its anger, rage and the cry of love. The voice gives meaning to the meaning of the word lost. Under the pulse of the musicians from yesterday and today, the voice of this woman now follows the jazz phrasing, making fun of the arpeggios and never falling for the musical traps, light, aerial. This area of freedom where everything is possible has led to the birth of a female – musician. ~Denys Leli\u00e8vre
\nComposers and Collaborators: Luc Beaugrand, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Alarie, Christian Mistral, Yves Lanthier, Anthony Rozankovic, Charly Bouchara, Claude Andr\u00e9, Andr\u00e9 McNicoll, Marc Chabot, Marie-Chantale Gari\u00e9py et Stanley P\u00e9an
\nMusiciens : Luc Beaugrand, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Alarie, Camil Be\u0301lisle, Pierre Co\u0302te\u0301, Andre\u0301 Leroux,
\nRon DiLauro, Muhammad Abdul Al-Khabyyr, Me\u0301lanie Guay, Ste\u0301phanie Boulay, Vincent Potel et James Johnston.
\nDesign: Pascal Milette
\nPhotos: Mathieu Rivard
\nProduction : Les Productions Sonia Johnson 2010<\/h5>\n<\/div>
Le Carr\u00e9 de nos amours<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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Les oiseaux de nuit qui fr\u00e9quentent les bo\u00eetes de jazz de Montr\u00e9al connaissent Sonia Johnson. La chanteuse r\u00e9alise un r\u00eave qu\u2019elle caressait sans doute depuis longtemps. Avec elle, le pianiste Alexandre Grogg et le contrebassiste Daniel Lessard forment un v\u00e9ritable trio. Ils reprennent des classiques dans des arrangements personnels qui mettent en valeur la beaut\u00e9 de la m\u00e9lodie: All the Things You Are, La Chanson d\u2019Orph\u00e9e, Don\u2019t Explain. L\u2019interpr\u00e9tation de Johnson t\u00e9moigne d\u2019une grande compr\u00e9hension des textes; tout n\u2019est qu\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9gance et gr\u00e2ce, la diction est impeccable, les paroles sont mises en \u00e9vidence, sur Everything-Happens-To-Me par exemple. Dans Tout mais pas \u00e7a, de Michel Seunes, le timbre de voix rappelle ceux de Christine Legrand et de Monique Leyrac, et son chant, leurs prouesses vocales.<\/h5>\n<\/div>
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Guest soloist and lyricist for the songs, Nouvelle Samba, Friend\u2019s Ship and I Remember.<\/h4><\/h1><\/span>
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\u201cAnd then there is, in my opinion, the best decision of Simoes\u2019 within the Montreal crew that created his Jazz Br\u00e9silien album, is the generous presence of Juno award-winning vocalist Sonia Johnson, definitely one of the most accomplished voices in the Canadian jazz scene. She is also a collaborator in several of Simoes\u2019 compositions as a lyricist, demonstrating the extent of her versatility and talent.
\nJohnson\u2019s magnificently enriched soprano with a velvety roundness to her voice allows her to use her technical prowess and her improvisational musical instincts with infallible tonal insurance. She can flawlessly sing Monk, Miles, UZEB, Jobim, or Moreira. I would have chosen no one else to understand the discourse of Simoes, located at the crossroads of all that and much more.\u201d
\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cardin, ICI Musique
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Guest singer songwriter for song Meet in Montreal.<\/h4><\/h1><\/span>
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\u201cWith a voice as smooth as Michael Bubl\u00e9, Steven Taetz mines the ghosts of the swing era on his album \u2018Drink You In\u2019. \u201cMeet in Montreal\u201d adds a franco flavour to the lounge mix, as Sonia Johnson joins him in a delightful duet.\u201d – Mark Anthony Brennan (Ride the Tempo)<\/h5>\n
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em> \u00ab I do not know how many knots per hour we are going, but certainly, The Vincent Rehel Trio splits the waves. Sonia Johnson joins the trio for Brouillard sur la mer adding something mysterious and beautiful to the ship\u2019s crew. I like my prog-jazz to be melodious, haunting and amazing, and that’s what we get. A real bath.
\nArticle de Sylvain Cormier – Le Devoir<\/a><\/h5>\n
with Vincent Rehel, Jean-Francois Lemieux et Max Sansalone.
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Guest soloist and lyricist.<\/h4><\/h1><\/span>
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With Fe\u0301lix Stu\u0308ssi, Ray Anderson, Pierre Tanguay, Daniel Lessard, Jacques Kuba Se\u0301guin, Andre\u0301 Leroux and Jean Derome.
\n\u00ab At the heart of this gentlemen’s crew, the singer Sonia Johnson is rivoting (Bley on!), makes use French jazz that stands out (Debout au bout du Bout-du-Banc), or is definitely bop swing (Don\u2019t You Ever Give Up Playing Be-Bop!) \u00bb<\/em><\/h5>\n<\/div>
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