Holly Cole

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Holly Cole

Holly Cole (born November 25, 1963 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian jazz and pop singer. Cole is especially known in Canada and Japan; she has a versatile voice and sings a broad repertoire that includes jazz, musicals, rock & roll and country music.

life and work

In 1986 she founded a trio with bassist David Piltch and pianist Aaron Davis . The Holly Cole Trio released a maxi CD Christmas Blues in 1989 , which was shortly followed by the first album Girl Talk .

A series of releases in the early 1990s underpinned the broad musical development of the trio. The 1991 album Blame It on My Youth included songs by Tom Waits (Purple Avenue, also known as Empty Pockets), Lyle Lovett (God Will), If I Were a Bell (from Guys and Dolls ) and On the Street Where You Live (from My Fair Lady ) and even published Trust In Me, a Disney song from the Jungle Book . A remarkable reinterpretation by Elvis Costello's Alison comes from this period .

In 1993, Don't Smoke in Bed and then Temptation were released, a CD with songs by Tom Waits. This publication was also only published under the name Coles.

Cole's two subsequent albums were more pop-oriented. These albums, Dark Dear Heart (1997) and Romantically Helpless (2000), are the furthest removed from jazz. Cole also performed on the 1999 Lilith Fair Tour , a tour that only featured female artists.

In 2001 she got back to the Christmas jazz roots of her first release, Baby It's Cold Outside, which included such "classics" as Christmas Time is Here (from A Charlie Brown Christmas ), Santa Baby and the title track. Next up was a "Summer" CD in 2003, featuring pieces by Cole Porter (Too Darn Hot), Irving Berlin (Heatwave) and Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys (God Only Knows).

The album Holly Cole (originally announced as This House Is Haunted ) was released in March 2007. The next studio album, Night , was only released five years later , a few months after the first live album, Steal the Night: Live at the Glenn Gould Studio (CD + DVD). In autumn 2012 the Canadian was on a European tour with the album material with several appearances in Germany.

In 2018 her studio album Holly was released .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Shade
  DE 75 09/15/2003 (1 week)
Holly Cole
  DE 65 02/23/2007 (4 weeks)
Night
  DE 50 07.09.2012 (1 week)
  • Christmas Blues (1989)
  • Girl Talk (1990)
  • Blame It on My Youth (1991)
  • Don't Smoke in Bed (1993)
  • Temptation (1995)
  • It Happened One Night (live, 1996)
  • Dark Dear Heart (1997)
  • Romantically Helpless (2000) (DE: Gold in Jazz Award)
  • Baby It's Cold Outside (2001)
  • Shade (2003)
  • Holly Cole (2007)
  • Steal the Night: Live at the Glenn Gould Studio (CD + DVD)
  • Night (2012)
  • Holly (2018)

Web links

Commons : Holly Cole  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Christopher Loudon , Jazztimes 12/06/12
  2. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  3. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association, accessed June 19, 2016
  4. ↑ Holly , Allmusic, accessed September 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Holly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax , Nova Scotia