Michelle Nicolle is celebrated as Australia's finest female jazz singer.
Bell Award (2017), Mo Award 2001, 2003 & 2004, National Jazz Award (1998) winner and A.R.I.A Finalist (Australian ‘Grammy’s’ equivalent) in 2001, 2004, and 2009.
10 Michelle Nicolle - Live at the Jazzlab
Michelle Nicolle celebrates her tenth album with a series of original tunes captured live with her quartet at The Jazzlab in Melbourne.
Now available on digital release and CD.
”Recording my first ever album, Misterioso, at the ABC as part of their “Jazz Track” program in 1997 and releasing it in 1998, I feel really blessed to have such a long, close connection to ABC Jazz and particularly to Mal Stanley.
This being my 10th album is a milestone, and also a happy surprise. My Quartet of 25 years had a spot for the 2023 Melbourne International Jazz Festival. I knew we were being recorded but never thought there’d be an album in it – hence the looseness and nakedness of the energy and playing.
Singing my own songs is something I mostly do reluctantly because the bar has been set so high, so a whole concert of them is kind of daunting. This concert, being LIVE, I knew it was highly unlikely that I’d get though all the songs without mistakes. I love live albums so much, and especially when mishaps happen”.
The 9th release from the Michelle Nicolle Quartet.
Recorded in Melbourne @pughousestudios
and mixed and mastered in NYC @marcurselli
Officially released July 7 on Earshift Music
As well as a great composer J.S. Bach was also one of the great improvisers of his time, a perfect fit for the Quartet’s chamber jazz approach. Also paying homage to other jazz composers, Ornette Coleman, Monk, and Horace Silver, these arrangements showcase the mastery of J.S. Bach’s compositions and add new flavour and energy to the improvisational elements found (and sometimes lost) in these great works.
This is undoubtedly modern music, yet steeped in one of the richest of all musical traditions.
“It’s bats and wonderful and so virtuosic…some amazing ensemble work going on. It’s so startling and wondrous.” Paul Kildea
THE BACH PROJECT
“All Rise”
Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
(Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Benjamin Northey,
Michelle Nicolle, Emma Pearson, MSO Chorus, Consort of Melbourne).
“The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra lived up to its reputation as supreme interpreters of this music, its garrulous horns meshing in seamlessly with the strings and percussion of the MSO. The large chorus – massive in sound – was used sparingly but always to dramatic effect, heightening the emotive reach of the music.
Michelle Nicolle, a renowned local jazz vocalist, was a standout, her resounding gospel cry of ‘I Say All Rise’ piercing the soul”
— Des Cowley, ABR ARTS
THE BRUNSWICK GREEN
EVERY THURSDAY SINCE 2007
Since 2007 Michelle has been playing in the gorgeous front room of the 'Brunny Green' every Thursday night, singing and reimagining your jazz requests. The Melbourne Jazz scene is alive and as amazing as ever. As a kicker into 2022 Michelle is re-jigging her residency by featuring a different line-up each week.
Some of Australia's finest and most creative musicians will join Michelle and they’ll be bouncing off classic tunes/not-so-classic tunes, some requests, and most importantly off each other!
