Claudette Joannis

Claudette King - We're Onto Something (2010)
MP3 320 kbps | 00 h 43 min 55 sec | 103mb
Label: Blues Express | Genre: Contemporary blues | No Covers

There's a new voice out of the south making waves, and if familial genes count for anything, blues/soul/r&b/pop singer Claudette King, a longtime Californian now living in Atlanta, will go far, very far. The youngest daughter of ultimate blues master B. B. King, she's quick to cite her father as her main inspiration. But most certainly, the power of Claudette's enthusiasm for the splendid genre-blending music on her debut On To Something merits wide notice. One of the premier, up-and-coming blues-and-more vocalists of the day, we are sure there is lots more to come from talented Ms. King.

If we know Koechlin at all it is because he orchestrated Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite and Debussy’s ballet Khamma. In that very superficial sense his standing is akin to that of Caplet. Rather like Chandos, Hyperion can be relied on for exalted artistic and production standards. It’s completely consistent with these exemplary principles that they have chosen Robert Orledge to document this disc and that full sung texts and sensibly lad-out side-by-side translations into English are set out in the booklet.