At the last North Sea Jazz Festival in 1996, the spotlight was for the first time really well focused on Fleurine, a Dutch jazz singer, who has now established her name with her debut CD Meant To Be !. Striking about this singer are her vocalizations of instrumental compositions by jazz greats such as Thelonious Monk (When I Think Of You), Curtis Fuller (One Dream Gone), Ray Bryant (the title track
… Meant To Be!) And Kenny Dorham (My Hearts Escapade). She is thus in the tradition of a Jon Hendricks; he stated that he could now relax himself, because with Fleurine the 'vocalese' had been secured. This debut CD by Fleurine was immediately recorded in the studios of Rudy van Gelder, produced / arranged by Don Sickler and decorated with accompanying jazz musicians of international class: Christian McBride (bass),more
