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The voice full of power and groove, expressive mimic art and ravishing charme thats Jacobien Vlasman Thats the way, the Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf) describes the dutch singer, born in Amsterdam and meanwhile living in Berlin. Very fast she became one of the most known singers in the Berlin jazz-scene, and the biggest newspaper there, Der Tagesspiegel, was so thrilled by her performance to write: Jacobien Vlasman is the best jazz-singer in town. Songs without any words, entangled syllables and vowels, that interrupt the stream of her alto-voice, scat-bits, percussive confetty and chattering, hackling and sighing, jubilation and eclipse: Jacobien Vlasman, born 1969, masters the complete language of contemporary vocal-jazz, where music is nothing but music and not any more a metaphor or mimicry.
She won the Studio-Award of the Berlin senat 1999, that enabled her to record her first CD Infant Eyes, released 2001 at Timescraper Records. 2001 she fetched the first price at the 1.Jazz&Blues Award Berlin. In october 2002, the biggest radio-station in Berlin, SFB (now RBB), invited her to record another CD, Tulips from Berlin, which hasnt appeared yet, and in November 2003, another live-recording, made by the RBB was done at the A-Trane.
But not only in Berlin she impresses with her fascinating scat-singing (Westdeutsche Zeitung). Mai 2000, one of the biggest TV-stations in Holland (TROS) broadcasted a portrait about Jacobien. The audience and the medias are thrilled by her quartet and her trio (HÜFTGOLD).
BLV: HÜFTGOLD: three musicians full of ideas, that are together much more than an entire whole.
Die Norddeutsche: The fanstastic CD of a fantastic quartet with a fantastic singer is called: Infant Eyes.
She studied with: Maria João, Jeanne Lee, Jay Clayton, Theo Bleckmann, Bobby McFerrin, Mark Murphy, Michael Schiefel, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Lauren Newton, David Friedman, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Peter Herbert, Jamey Haddad and others.
She played and recorded with: Carlos Bica, Ed Schuller, Mack Goldsbury, Christoph Adams, Pepe Berns, Heinrich Köbberling, Oli Bott, Kai Brückner, Rainer Winch, Johannes Gunkel, Thomas Alkier, Heinz Lichius, Stefan Weeke, Wolfgang Köhler, Jan Roder, Jan v. Klewitz, Andreas Henze, Thomas Wallisch, Ernst Bier, Claes Crona, Julia Hülsmann, Carlo Morena, Rudi Mahall, Christian Brückner and others.
More press:
Die Norddeutsche: A voice, that really needs no models [.] She created a small sensation with non-interchangeable jazz-singing [.] She doesnt need to be compared with the big stars in jazz of the past or the present, with whom she studied, with whom she played. A voice, that absolutely needs no comparison.
BLV: the star. A singer, who executes acrobatic fillings with her clear voice,who, due to her extraordinary musicality, her sensitive stile of singing and her versality will always stand strongly.
Die Norddeutsche: Jacobien Vlasman sings with a big voice, pulls all the stops between belcanto and the hackling of tap-dancing. [.] To say it simple and easy: With Jacobien Vlasman, scat is more than a voice that mutated to an instrument. Her scat has sense and reason.
FAZ: Jacobien Vlasman, the sound-artist. Her specialty is to tell strangly moving stories with jubilations, tongue-twisters, nonsens-syllables and sighing. You can look at the songtitles to understand, but you dont need to. Because that way, the secret stays the secret of a singer, who uses her voice as a autonomous instrument, who doesnt copy and thereby is able to express everything.
Neues Deutschland: Thrilling scat-singing.
Der Tagesspiegel: The singer Jacobien Vlasman has a voice that is able to unhinge building cranes. A hymn.
Her new CD "vitrine vocale" was most successfully released in june 2008.
Press:
Jazzthetik: The pickup of this CD is excellent: Jobim’s famous “Girl from Ipanema” sounds so incredibly fresh, that you hilariously rub your ears.
Jazzthing: …a voice that is able to unsettle, amaze and enchant within seconds.
SPIEGEL Kultur: Spectacular how she rearranges and de-sugars the "Girl from Ipanema".
Jazzpodium: The Jacobien Vlasman quintet succeeded in making a very nice debut. A modern jazz of casually urban and thereby occasionally a stylish dishevelment: self-confident and pleasurably unorthodox. Whereas the dutch singer Jacobien Vlasman enravishes with a complexity of expression, that recalls in the nicest way, that in the ideal case the voice is an instrument capable of mutual musical communication and that is part and not only reason of an ensemble.
WDR: "The Girl from Ipanema” has been sung so often, that you are allowed to ask yourself, who is entitled to do a new interpretation. The answer is: Jacobien Vlasman. The Dutchwoman sings those “worn-out songs” with such a freshness, that also “Ain’t no sunshine” warms your heart again. Vlasman gives free rein to her voice: she screams and flicks, scats and hums.
