A full course of original delicacies to entice your innermost desires and take you on a Caribbean Journey of Romantic Jazz Vocals.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (33:40) !
Related styles: EASY LISTENING: Love Songs, JAZZ: Jazz Vocals

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Jon Lucien has written some of the best love songs of the last 25 years, yet he never had a major hit and for a decade he didn't even make a record. Straight No Chaser calls him the original Lover Man.

Writing and singing his own original music that defies classification in the normal genres, it is easy to understand why record companies and programmers deem his music as "unclassifiable" and when you hear it you will appreciate the difficulty in labeling his music and his voice. It containes elements of jazz, Brazilian music, funk, R&B, Afro-Cuban and pop, and yet it does not fit neatly into any of these categories, as several styles are often obvious simultaneously. You won't have to wonder for long how to classify or catorigize, as Lucien's personal approach to music quickly becomes the only style that matters.

The term that has come to represent that approach is "quiet storm," and over the course of his performances this proves to be as appropriate a description as any.

Lucien sings with power that comes from depth of feeling and conviction. Even when performing songs written by others, Lucien sounds as though he has lived the situation he is singing about.

He never resorts to overly dramatic crescendos of volume to build artificial climaxes. Rather than assault the audience with phony intensity, Lucien invites his listener closer to share the experience.

Lucien will take you on a musical trip filled with freedom and tropical breezes over his band's gentle rhythmic waves. Even when scat singing, Lucien never sacrifices the mood of the tune for mere display of vocal technique. It is as if he truly were singing in a universal language that doesn't depend on lyrics to convey meaning and expression.

Lucien's contributions on nylon string guitar and fender bass tie it all together with vocal lines that weave the rhythms and melodies into a cohesive whole. The only label that does it justice is "good music."