Leandre,joelle - Dire Du Dire - Music CD

2000 release. French double bassist, vocalist, improviser, and composer Joelle Leandre in dialogue with Noel Akchote. Artwork by Noel Akchote. Produced by Noel Akchote and Quentin Rollet. Joelle Leandre has a huge voice. Not just a formidable singing voice, which can be friendly and frightening, charming and vulgar. And not only on her instrument which can be firmly grounded one moment and soar the next. Leandre's voice unabashedly carries conversation, carries it to unexpected places, making quick turns, never slowing down or backing off. -Kurt Gottschalk, All About Jazz