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The guardian
d. 11. Aug. 2011
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John Fordham
d. 11. Aug. 2011
"Aimée is a subtle and articulate vocalist with a lot of harmonic awareness, and her partnership with [pianist Spike] Wilner is a very sympathetic one. She's light-stepping, casually fluent and persuasive on a softly swinging September in the Rain, with [Joel] Frahm's luxurious tenor lines winding around her. She's coolly understated in a soft glide with Wilner and [Roy] Hargrove on Que Reste-T'il, while a Latin Love for Sale works better than the notion implies, and Aimée deftly negotiates the rhythmic pitfalls in delivering Jon Hendricks's lyrics to Thelonious Monk's bumpy and swinging I Mean You. A finale on Ben E King's Stand By Me reveals broader world-music qualities in Aimée than her mostly swing-and-standards choices imply".
jazzhistory online.com
2013
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Thomas Cunniffe
2013
"While I compared her sound to Stacey Kent and Norah Jones [in an earlier review], there is a pronounced Ella Fitzgerald influence [here]. She is an accomplished scat singer, with an abundance of ideas, superb pitch and driving swing ... Her accompanying musicians are superb throughout with Roy Hargrove playing well-designed trumpet solos, Joel Frahm bursting with inspiration on tenor, Spike Wilner sparkling on piano, Philip Kuehn providing soulful solos on bass, and Joseph Saylor firing up the proceedings on drums ... At 26 years old, Cyrille Aimée has an impressive start to her career. With her abundant talent and ever-widening musical horizons, she could easily become a major jazz star of this and the next generation. Get a copy of Live at Smalls and witness the emergence of a superb vocalist".
emusik.dk
d. 22. Mar. 2013
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d. 22. Mar. 2013
"Cyrille Aimée er en ung fransk jazzsangerinde bosat i New York ... Hun har ofte optrådt på jazzklubben Smalls i Greenwich Village, NY med bl.a. pianisten Spike Wilner og tenorsaxofonisten Joel Frahm og et standard-domineret repertoire, dokumenteret på albummet "Live at Smalls" ... Cyrille Aimée krydrer ofte sine koncerter med et soloindslag, hvor hun ved hjælp af sampling synger flerstemmigt med sig selv. Hendes charmerende version af Ben E. Kings soulklassiker "Stand by me" [er med her] ... Cyrille Aimée er ikke mindst en forrygende scatsangerinde".