For those unaware, the talented Sonia Schiavone is a Turinese singer who began her studies of classical music at the age of seven, later continuing in the field of jazz music, by following many courses and workshops with internationally famous teachers, such as Sheila Jordan, Sandy Patton, Maria Pia De Vito, Bob Stoloff, Diana Torto, Garry Dial, John Riley, Mike Abene, John Taylor, Ben Allison, Stefano Battaglia and many others.

She earned a degree in Architecture at the Politecnico of Turin with the highest score and with honours, and a degree in Jazz at the Conservatory Niccolò Paganini of Genoa with a dissertation about Wayne Shorter’s music, under the supervision of Paolo Silvestri.

Over the years her versatile interests have encompassed voice and vocality in the broadest possible meaning; jazz, exploring all of its styles; gospel, operatic singing, a cappella vocal music; the development of childhood musicianship; harmonic singing; extemporaneous vocal improvisation.

As a professional musician, she co-operated for twenty years with numerous jazz musicians. She performed in numerous festivals and seasons with her own eponymous projects. In the last twenty years, she has also actively and passionately focused on musical education.

Her new album Come – Eden! aims at being an album inspired by the sound of contemporary jazz, in a drumless, chamber-music atmosphere, which can bring out the sound of the various instruments. Her original compositions are three: “Come – Eden!”, which lends its name to the album, “We will forget him” and “Day”, all inspired by as many intense poems by Emily Dickinson, as well as by the music of great composers she loves, such as Horace Silver, Kenny Wheeler, Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell, Michel Legrand, while searching, by means of her voice, for an intimate and expressive world.

Dickinson’s poetic style is essential; every element is elegantly chosen and functional to the overall result, rich in metaphors and capable to express the essence in few synthetic words, so that extraordinary meanings are excerpted from the most common things; thus it was a great inspiration for her music and for herself.

1. My Favorite Things
2. Autumn Nocturne
3. Come - Eden!
4. Day
5. Aspetto il silenzio
6. We Will Forget Him
7. Weird Nightmare
8. Windows
9. Reflections
10. Contemplation

This standout new Jazz album is for fans of timeless music and opens on the harmoniously decadent My Favorite Things and then comes the resplendent Autumn Nocturne, the elegant title track Come - Eden!, the playful Day, with the engaging Aspetto il silenzio along next.

Then we get gifted the emotively deep We Will Forget Him which is itself followed seamlessly by the smoothly sculpted Weird Nightmare, the endearing Windows, the set rounding out on the softly embracing Reflections, coming to a close on the soulful Contemplation.

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