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Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian jazz singer, particularly popular in Canada and Japan for her versatile voice and her adventurous repertoire, which spans such divergent genres as show tunes, rock, and country music.Offered a record deal in 1989, the Holly Cole Trio released an EP, Christmas Blues, that year, which featured a striking version of The Pretenders' "2,000 Miles".This was followed by their first full album, Girl Talk, in 1990.Following 1993's Don't Smoke In Bed, the trio took on its most audacious effort, a CD entirely of songs by Tom Waits, called Temptation.Cole's latest album, Holly Cole (originally entitled This House Is Haunted) has been released in Canada in March 2007.Receive Free You Heard It!Preview tracks from Starting Now.Trace Adkins
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if(links !Not an orchestra or a big band with a configuration of horns that might sound brassy, he suggested, but a smaller ensemble with creative improvisers, each speaking a different musical language but who could play and create together.Her singing has all of the things we associate with great jazz soloists and instrumentalists.Cohen also suggested that he wanted again to work on some tracks with Trio players, bassist David Piltch and pianist Aaron Davis whom Cole has worked with for two decades.Noted Toronto guitarist Kevin Breit was to be included as well.Often she is the most critical person of her own voice.It was so much better than anything anybody else could do.Japan, Europe and North America where she has legions of followers, will be delighted with the album.Rod Stewart or Michael Bolton.They could never pull it off.You have to live and breathe these kinds of subtleties.All my ideas he was open to and we worked very well together, because we both have a genuine love for the material and a similar esthetic.Holly liked the way I filled in the blanks.To be honest, I thought it sounded like elevator music.The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned so how can you lose what you never owned?Well, we are all only loaned our lives.Matt is almost straight out of that era.That song really spoke to me in that it could take on a very different personality.We know she has influences because she has talked about them.Today many songwriters write the words and the music and also sing it.Be Careful, Its My Heart
8.The Holly Cole Collection Vol.There's currently no media posted for this artist.Receive Free You Heard It!Read his latest news, see his videos.Canadian vocalist Holly Cole isn't one of those artists who falls into any one category.She was surrounded by music from an early age, for her parents were both classical musicians.Everyone in her family played piano; Cole mastered the instrument and in 1981, she took up professional singing lessons.Her older brother was talented as well.When Cole was 16, her brother took off for the prestigious Berkelee College of Music in Boston.Cole's brother fell in love with postwar jazz by the time his younger sister started tagging along.Within two years, she formed the Holly Cole Trio with bassist David Piltch and pianist Aaron Davis.Eventually, she and her band became a mainstay on the Toronto jazz circuit, impressing labels from all around.Alert Music's Tom Berry was taken by the trio's sharp presentation and offered the Holly Cole Trio a deal in 1989.Their debut, Girl Talk, was released in 1990 and the Holly Cole Trio were nearly stars in Canada.The Holly Cole Trio was experimenting with pop elements by the time they recorded their 1993 effort Don't Smoke in Bed.It was a great time for the Holly Cole Trio.The formula worked for her, and she reworked material by Joni Mitchell, Mary Margaret O'Hara, and the Beatles for Dark Dear Heart (1997).The Holly Cole Trio then went by Cole's solo moniker; Piltch and Davis remained with her, and Romantically Helpless followed in fall 2000.Baby, It's Cold Outside, in 2001, but returned to her eclectic style with Shade in 2003 and Holly Cole in 2007.
