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Mychelle Colleary Live in NYC - Night in Tunsia

My first video performance montage featuring a live recording of Night in Tunsia at the Iridium in New York: Mychelle Colleary on vocals, David Budway on Piano, Tom Hubbard on bass.



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Mychelle sings in PARIS - this Thursday April 16th

Mychelle Colleary & Sheldon Forest

This Thursday night, April 16th at 8pm (Jeudi soir à 20h)

ONE NIGHT ONLY

The last time I was in Paris (1999) I visited L’Ecluse. Alain was working somewhere else, married with kids. But, the staff, food, and wine remained as remembered – perfect. And as before, a few days ago, I walked in and found not much had changed. FOOD & WINE, FABULOUS. The new addition was a piano... Et alors, I’ll be singing at my favorite spot in Paris this Thursday night!

visit L’Ecluse
15, quai des Grands Augustins (6ème)
Réservation :
01.46.33.58.74
Métro/accès :
RER et M° St Michel

Accueil groupe
jusqu’à 12 personnes.
En plein cœur du Paris historique à proximité de Notre Dame et de la place St Michel, c’est l’ancien cabaret de l’Ecluse.

mychelle sings in Paris at L'Ecluse

My First time in Paris....
I was 24 years old... already a wino and with great appreciation for fine food.
My spoken French back then wasn’t the best, as I had studied only with a private tutor & on my own for a few months before I arrived.
I wandered into this lovely wine bar (with impeccable food), which is literally just around the corner from the Fountain St. Michael (for those not familiar with Paris - it is a landmark where folks meet up- a very important thing before le cell phone) in/next to the Latin Quarter).

I made friends with the people who worked at L’Ecluse.... By first insulting them saying French reds were better than California reds but then said “ You can’t touch our whites, they’re WAY better.” After which, being me... I went, looking everywhere for some place that sold California wines, finally found a place and bought a California Chardonnay – Acacia, I think – which at the time I loved, but have since grown out of – too oaky/buttery.

I took my lovely bottle of Chardonnay to the wine bar (a wine bar that only serves wine from Bordeaux – meaning, not Chardonnay, wrong region) mid-afternoon, when I knew there wouldn’t be much in the way of clientele... And presented to the staff to taste. While we were waiting in the wine bar for the bottle to chill down in a bucket of ice... The director, Alain... I could tell was clearly developing a crush on me.

After bringing the wine, (that trip) I don’t think I ever paid for anything again in that wine bar. Could be that Alain had that little crush, but more likely it was the guerilla niceness of actually bringing in a very nice (expensive as an import) bottle to share.

I met up with some friends – other music students from SJSU, completely accidentally, on the street one day. I was going to Holland but they said I absolutely needed to come back to Paris for Bastille Day because Jean Michael Jarre was giving a huge concert in La Défense, with a laser light show over all the buildings.

So, I did and invited Alain. I said we’d (me and my American friends) supply the food (because we’d have to get there early to reserve a spot – think free concert in Central Park) and he could bring the wine.

OMG – he brought the most fabulous, likely reserve (and likely very expensive) wines with him. I was horrified to have to drink these magnificent wines out of a paper cup. But, yeah.. Of course, we did it anyway.

It was a magical night.

The last time I was in Paris (1999) I visited L’Ecluse. Alain was working somewhere else, married with kids. But, the staff, food, and wine remained as remembered – perfect. And as before, a few days ago, I walked in and found not much had changed. FOOD & WINE, FABULOUS. The new addition was a piano... Et alors, I’ll be singing at my favorite spot in Paris this Thursday night!

I hope you can join us!
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Bisouxxx,
Mychelle
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Mychelle Live at the Iridium, NYC

Mychelle Colleary is a four time MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs) Award nominee for outstanding Jazz Vocalist.

Hip, flip, and always sure of herself... tongue-in-cheek edge...sassy...
her vulnerability and open emotionality seem to be her truest assets...
a singer who takes chances vocally... a confident voice with engaging nuances... riveting
~ John Hoglund, Backstage

After Hours at the Plush Room - Mychelle Colleary

"Fresh, Raw, and Romantic..." an unpretentious jazz offering, recorded impulsively, late one night at The Plush Room, a premier San Francisco venue, when the room was unexpectedly dark. "Live" spontaneous and swingin'... pure vocal prowess
After Hours at the Plush Room

© 2002 Mychelle Colleary (634479317927)
Any artist would deeply love to avoid the word 'pretentious' in any description of their work. With the release of her second album, Mychelle Colleary continues to avoid that epithet.



This album sets out to record the sound of the jazz and cabaret singer recorded 'live' at the Plush Room, San Francisco's jazz and cabaret venue. The lack of pretension is achieved by doing just that - the album was recorded without an audience, but without any re-takes or studio overdubs, featuring Colleary's vocals, Kelly Park's piano and Mike Olivola's bass. So, the musicians set up, played and sang, and this is the result.



It's an interesting concept, and it captures the sound of peerless musicians, and a singer who can perform this material with appropriate flair. If you heard this collection in a cabaret performance, you'd be impressed. The ability to re-listen to it repeatedly is a two-edged sword; both Colleary's talents and her occasional imperfections are underlined, an experience denied to 'on-the-night' listeners.



For example, a song like "Good Bait," with its complex phrasing and diction exposes occasional breathlessness in the vocal, the sort of shortcoming that can be ironed out with studio overdubs on a studio recording, and not noticed in a live setting, but this being a mixture of both, it does makes its presence felt with repeated playing.



That said, it's really nitpicking - this is a brave venture and it works completely on the slower numbers which make up the majority of the selections. The musicianship of the accompanists is faultless, with the perfect evocation of smoky late-night jazz on songs like "Angel Eyes" and "My Funny Valentine." Mychelle Colleary obviously relishes the strength of arrangement and melody in these standards, and the trio mesh seamlessly together.



If this album is designed to encourage fans to go and hear Mychelle Colleary in concert, or as a memento for those who have already done so, it works extremely well. If it's intended as an occasional late-night listen when mellow sounds are required, then it functions perfectly. It may not stand up along side the great jazz recordings, but the explanation of the recording method implies that it wasn't intended to, so no one needs feel misled or let down.



It's a pleasant album; it's well played and sung, and well produced. It may not set the jazz world alight, but neither does it consign itself to a remainder bin on first hearing. It's unpretentious, and in a world increasingly populated by assembly-line boy bands and midriff-flashing pop puppets, it's all the better for that. It's late night grown-up music. And we can all use a little of that.

Thanks to Andy Hughes

Mychelle Colleary welcome to my world

San Francisco transplant and 2008 MAC award nominee for Outstanding Jazz Vocalist, Mychelle Collearys first public performance was at the age of 10 at a dive Bar in Manchester England.... This either explains a lot, or absolutely nothing.

An accomplished musician and performer, Mychelle is unpretentious, irreverent, and often funny, with a quirky honesty that is effervescently entertaining... she playfully challenges the audiences to listen deeply - blurring musical genres and crafting her own jazz style with arrangements that are invitingly familiar and yet unexpectedly daring.

SF Bay area Audiences have heard her perform folk rock at the Fillmore, Turkish Sufi music at the Place of fine Arts, jazz at the Plush Room and Bach with the San Jose Symphony.

As a teenager, Mychelle performed as the youngest member of the Columbia Vocal Jazz Ensemble (when the average age at that time was mid-thirties). Association with this group facilitated Mychelle sharing the stage, on numerous occasions, with such jazz greats as Bobby Shew, Richie Cole, Claire Fisher, Carl Anderson and Bobby McFerrin.

Bobby McFerrin recommended and introduced Mychelle to Laurie Antonioli with whom she privately studied vocal jazz for three years while also studying classical voice and composition at University.

Arriving in NYC just a few years ago, Mychelle has garnered critical as well popular acclaim. In 2003 she was nominated by MAC (Manhattan Association of Clubs) for outstanding Female debut; in 2004 (and again in 2007 & 2008) she was nominated for Outstanding JAZZ VOCALIST.

Her discography includes "Anagesic" - all original material, "After Hours at the Plush Room" - standards, and as soon as Mychelle can get all the folks she wants on her next recording in town at the same time... There will be a new jazz offering! Stay Tuned...