Elisabeth Melander invited us to a touching, soulful and magnificent concert tonight at the beautiful Palladium. With her on stage was a hand-picked star gang. What a gang, what a concert we got to experience. We thank you most warmly.
Irene Nord – Jazz i Malmö
Critic’s choice … ”Best Music Of The Year”
Elisabeth Melander JazzAppear at Ystad Jazz Festival 2020
Jan Olsson
”Elisabeth sounded just as nice as we almost forgot that she always does. She intones perfectly, phrases personally, has a wonderful voice with an impressive range and conveys a commitment and a warmth in everything she does that should make many of her colleagues blush with envy.”
Jan Olsson / Ystad Jazz Festival 2020.
Top Three Female Vocals – ”Best Jazz 2018” – 40th Annual Jazz Station Awards
**** Album Of The Month June 2018″ – Jazz Station USA
”She is bred with jazz. She is straight forward, determined like a Northern pine in her appearance. But also playful, elusive like a Northern river” (OJ)
”Elisabeth Melander impressed both as a soloist and leader of the group JazzAppear. She has the unique mix of folk tone and New York Birdland reminders like Nordic jazz singers often charm the world with. In addition, she gave en excellent example of female leadership when she released her group of JazzAppear.”
”Few artists have the ability to reach out across the ramp and true feelings. But Elisabeth Melander makes it incredibly natural. Whether it’s 750 or 75 in the audience – she sings for you. Just For You! ” (Kristianstadsbladet)
”Her powerful attack and delightful phrasing created encores from the huge cheering audience” (SkD)
”With charm, great stage presence, and relaxed attitude, she guided us through the fantastic, legendary American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald’s life and career” (NK)
”There she was at last on a Malmö scene, the jazz singer Elisabeth Melander. With a clear and beautiful voice, a humble and pleasant appearance, although with glittering eyes and wonderful charm, she is a joy for one’s eyes and ears” (SkD)
”It’s impossible not to be impressed by the singer Elisabeth Melander which undoubtedly belongs to our ”jazz greats” and an artist who could become truly great internationally. Honest and straight forward, everything is possible. She has a remarkable instrument in her voice that fascinates everyone and a own charisma that one rarely encounters and actually does wonders with the materials she works with” (Smålandsposten)
”For me, a few of the songs are historic. The trumpet duet with Anders Bergcrantz and Elisabeth in the bossanova ‘My Day’, Anders with his trumpet, Elisabeth with her voice…” (Kristianstadsbladet)
”Elisabeth Melander – this wonderful import from the North of Sweden – proved once again that she is one of the top jazz singers in Scandinavia. She is spontaneous both when it comes to timbre, rhythmic intensity and interpretation, as well as the way she approach the music” (YA)
”…surely she is one of the best jazz singers in the country, and with her pure voice she caught the audience completely… …when they moved on to melodies like jazz samba, thoughts drifted to Astrud Gilberto…” (Oskarshamns Tidningen)
”With perfect control, humor and above all unyielding swing she invited us to the The Great American Song Book making breathtaking beautiful interpretations … (Eskilstunakuriren)
”Elisabeth Melander demonstrates her ability to transform old to new, and her voice demonstrates subtleties and sincere expressions that just a few masters” (NSD)
”Elisabeth sprinkled stars over the performance, spontaneously combineing the choice of songs with a cosy and brief presentation and history about one of her greatest idols – Ella Fitzgerald. May she teach both that and how to create a contact with the audience through a laid back free and engaging performance in her role as a teacher at the Music Academy in Malmö… The distance from Hudiksvall to her work in Malmö might complicate the rehearsals, but the music is flawless” (Gefle dagblad)
”Elisabeth Melander’s voice is powerful in many dimensions. Strong and enduring. It reaches out in spite of the bad acoustics that exist in the concert hall” (PT)
”… Her amazing width as a singer … she sings with blood-filled blues voice …”
”She’s a adventurous vocal performer with big expressive gifts. She leaves the straight and secure fairway and embarks on free, tonal trips. She uses her voice instrumentally, like scat singing and can match such an ace trumpeter Anders Bergcrantz in unison interaction”(VK)
”She has an unusually stylish phrasing and a very elastic vocal range. She also showed that she knows how to use poetry to the full”(Eskilstunakuriren)
”Suddenly we thought that we are in 1959, and saw Monica Zetterlund on stage. Now it was obviously not so, it just looked and heard so when Elisabeth Melander sang out in glorious versions of … Elisabeth and the band had such a dense and personal chemistry and dynamics … and a continuation must follow ”(YA)
”Elisabeth is a good performer, beside the more apparent fact that she has a sense of pitch and feeling for effects and rhythms” (NSD)
”Elisabeth Melander demonstrated, together with the sensible pianist Håkan Rydin, her unit way of singing, built on warmth and clarity, efficient without any mannerisms” (SkD)
”Elisabeth Melander’s vocals and Anders Bergcrantz trumpet had something special to offer. They mastered their instruments to perfection. Their control of sounds in all modes was really impressive … the voice and trumpet followed each other in a breathtakingly beautiful way” (BLT)
”Listen to her fresh, sensible interpretations” (GT)
”Firstly, Elisabeth a good entertainer, but has also extreme vocal abilities with the sense of effects and rhythms” (NSD)
”There she was at last on a Malmö stage – the jazz singer Elisabeth Melander. The other night became a big (expected) triumph for her singing, filled with soul and energy. A counterpart we have not had since this singing bird from the North settled down with us” (SDS)
”She sings crystal clear, but that is more or less a side issue. Important was her feeling and message. Furthermore, her charisma makes the listener believe that she sings directly for him or her. You are woven into a net where you are hopelessly stuck” (Kristianstadsbladet)
”With deep feeling, wide range and a clear pitch in her voice, she sings all the way into your heart” (Smålandsposten)
”Elisabeth Melander sings very nicely, phrases masterfully, and shows that she belongs in the top-notch of the Swedish vocal elite…” (SkD)
”Elisabeth Melander is a talented and versatile singer with a register without boundaries” (OJ)
”Elisabeth Melander – better than most singers in this country…” (SDS Nöjesparaden)
”Elisabeth Melander is one of a kind, one of too few skilled singers in our country who not only has the jazz voice, but also has made an effort to learn the wide range of jazz”(R.Jonsson)
”…her voice adds nerve and pulse to the music …” (NK)
”Elisabeth Melander has an impressive tonal accuracy that gives her the freedom to improvise. She plays boldly with tone coils, experiment with half-tones and always find ”home” to finish. In quiet jazz pieces, where the group is approaching blue migration, she gives the tone soft heat. Elisabeth shows us how funny and strong jazz can be” (NK)
”…she has a great feeling for swing and timing…” (Sundsvalls Tidning)
”Tonight’s highlight was Elisabeth Melander’s low-key and unpretentious concert in which she was backed up masterfully by the audience and critics favorite, Jan Lundgren and his trio. It was Kleinkunst the best brand” (SKD)
”Elisabeth Melander is an exceptional singer with a wide range and a vocal style that seems to oscillate between Abbey Lincoln and Karin Krog” (GP)
”Elisabeth is extremely sensitive to the moods and her exquisite tonal accuracy, nuanced in both soft overtones and glow, follow the music undulating movements” (YA)