Jay Elfenbein, bass, viola da gamba, early string instruments & Andrée Pagès, singer, songwriter, guitarist
andrée pagès
“...The CD's first half ranges from sultry (Ellington’s “Sophisticated Lady,” Cole Porter’s “Get Out Of Town”) to just plain fun (“St. Louis Blues,” “It’s Crazy”)...Then Pages lets the bitterness in Gershwin’s “My Man’s Gone Now” come through with no stops, and her cover of Monk’s “Round Midnight” sums up the weariness of it all. Pages straddles both worlds, the slick and the seedy, the bright and the dark...” --Albany Jazz
Andree Pages is a singer and guitarist passionate about jazz and blues. Her CD of standards, Andrée Pagès Swings Both Ways, half recorded with a traditional piano trio (click on "Nature Boy") and half with a more out guitar-bass duo, has been well received in the US and France.
An equally warm reception greeted her CD of originals, Andrée Pages: Original Jazz, Blues & One Lonesome Cowboy, which also contains her Latin arrangement of Jacques Brel's "La chanson des vieux amants." The CD is remarkable for its viol solos and the ensemble performances of its multiple groups of sidemen (listen on Multimedia page, "Love Me Like You Used To," Jay Elfenbein, gamba; Dan Rothstein, guitar; Tony Moreno, drums).
With the T. D. Big band
Fronting the popular T.D. Big Band, Andrée wowed crowds at theaters in Paris, Montargis, and Fontainebleau and the Château de Cély.
swingS BOTH WAys Jazz & Blues
"The public was captivated by the voice of guitarist Andrée Pagès..." --l'Yonne.fr
For 25 years, from New York to Macau, Andree Pages and Jay Elfenbein have played together in “Swings Both Ways” ensembles, from duo to quintet, playing a repertoire of American jazz standards, French chansons, bossa novas and old blues—songs by Duke Ellington, the Gershwins, Coltrane, Jacques Brel, Charles Trenet, Jobim, Nina Simone and Ray Charles, and originals.
The two recently returned to the U.S. after 4 years in France, where they played the Petit Journal de Montparnasse, Le Cave du Jazz, and La Tête des Trains, and performed widely in public and private venues in the Fontainebleau area. They now live outside New Haven.