Jeannette Lambert

Jeannette Lambert (born June 15, 1965 in Leiden as Jeannette Schwager ) is a Canadian-Dutch jazz singer .

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After his first years in New Zealand, Lambert grew up in Sudbury (Ontario) from 1969 onwards , where her father, the sociologist Walter Schwager (* 1940), taught at the university. With her mother Agatha Schwager (1940-2010), an artist, she temporarily moved to Toronto. Through her older brother, the guitarist Reg Schwager , she became familiar with jazz standards early on , which she interpreted with him. She started singing when she was nine; She first appeared in cafés when she was twelve.

Lambert studied film production in Toronto. After a punk-oriented phase in which she recited phonetic poems , she received lessons from Jay Clayton at the 1985 Jazz Workshop in Banff, where she sang in the Cecil Taylor Workshop Band . In the same year she met the drummer Michel Lambert , with whom she founded the duo Black Fungus , which also toured internationally. In 1990 the two married. She has produced several sound carriers under her own name and has worked with Raoul Björkenheim , Mat Maneri , Herbie Spanier , Bobby Few , Jean-Jacques Avenel and Art Johnson. On her husband's album Unclouded Day ( Ayler Records 2006) she interprets poems by the Brontë siblings . She can also be heard on recordings by Philip May ( Sudbury ). According to their own statements, their singing is also influenced by fado , flamenco and Javanese Jaipong music.

Discographic notes

Lone Jack Pine (Fidelio Audio 2000, with Barre Phillips , Michel Lambert)
Bebop for Babies (Rant 2003, with Reg Schwager, Victor Bateman, Michel Lambert)
Sand Underwood (Rant 2004, with Paul Bley , Barre Phillips, Michel Lambert)
Born to Be Blue (Rant 2011, with Reg Schwager, Neil Swainson )

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personal data
SURNAME	Lambert, Jeannette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Brother-in-law, Jeannette (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian-Dutch jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leiden (city)