Artist: Kandace Springs
Album: The Women Who Raised Me
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 53:12
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1015 MB

Tracklist:

1. Kandace Springs – Devil May Care (02:59)
2. Kandace Springs – Angel Eyes (06:00)
3. Kandace Springs – I Put A Spell On You (03:57)
4. Kandace Springs – Pearls (04:44)
5. Kandace Springs – Ex-Factor (05:30)
6. Kandace Springs – I Can’t Make You Love Me (04:35)
7. Kandace Springs – Gentle Rain (03:55)
8. Kandace Springs – Solitude (04:59)
9. Kandace Springs – The Nearness Of You (03:36)
10. Kandace Springs – What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life (03:59)
11. Kandace Springs – Killing Me Softly With His Song (05:17)
12. Kandace Springs – Strange Fruit (03:36)

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Her mentor Prince said her voice could melt snow. A gift confirmed on The Women Who Raised Me, Kandace Springs’ third album, which is quietly earning the artist a place at the heart of the vast family of contemporary jazz’n’soul singers. As the title of her 2020 release suggests, the Nashville native living in New York pays tribute to all those who influenced and inspired her, from Ella Fitzgerald to Roberta Flack, Astrud Gilberto, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Diana Krall, Carmen McRae, Bonnie Raitt, Sade, Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield and especially Norah Jones, one of her idols, who features on a track (Angel Eyes).Produced, like Soul Eyes, (her first album of 2016) by the expert in ultra-slick sound Larry Klein, The Women Who Raised Me also brings on board the saxophonists David Sanborn (I Put a Spell on You) and Chris Potter (Gentle Rain, Loneliness), trumpeter Avishai Cohen (I Can’t Make You Love Me and Pearls), bassist Christian McBride (Devil May Care) and the flautist Elena Pinderhughes (Ex-Factor and Killing Me Softly With His Song). They bring virtuoso refinement to this album’s collection of well-chosen covers. Special mention must go to Sade’s Pearls, spurred on by a purring Avishai Cohen, and Lauryn Hill’s Ex-Factor. This album also confirms the instrumental talents of Kandace Springs, who is just as comfortable at the piano as at the Fender Rhodes. A restrained virtuoso helped by the reserved trio of Steve Cardenas on guitar, Scott Colley on bass and Clarence Penn on drums. It is this ocean of subtlety and finely-measured power that makes these covers, sung with sensuality but above all conviction, very endearing. – Clotilde Maréchal