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Album CRAZY PEOPLE ENGLISH VERSION. A word, or rather the text written for a musical piece, can change it so much that it becomes a new work. In Crazy People English Version, songs that were originally recorded in Polish, sung here in English, are actually new songs. Such an operation carried out on jazz works is not only surprising but also revealing. It's common knowledge that a song in swing style sounds very homogeneous when sung in English.
And how sounded the swing sung by Joanna in Polish? The specific experiment conducted by Joanna Morea provokes this to reach the English version of her first CD CRAZY PEOPLE and personally assess how far Polish-language versions differ from English.
The Crazy People album is a puzzle, a mosaic of music, a collection of experiences and music sympathy. The fascination of traditional jazz and swing (Crazy People, Two Timin 'Man, Was I drunk) is entwined with the breath of the blues and Latin accents (the original compositions like Ten Bitter Tears, Casanova Woman, Not Now).
Today I'm fascinated by the swing tomorrow maybe I'm into another style. Such recording of material in a studio is like taking a photograph of a world which freezes for centuries. It's catching the musical moment and leaving it to the children, for example, my children. That was the purpose, because everything is variable, and in the present times the transformation is at an alarming rate.
Joanna Morea - singer, flutist, saxophonist, songwriter, composer, arranger. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the department of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the faculty of the jazz flute, arrangements and compositions. She has performed in Belgium (Middleheim Jazz Festival in Antwerp, Belgium in Marie Schneider Orchestra - one of the most important festivals in Belgium), the Netherlands, Germany, England.
Currently working with many artists and with music groups such as Wojciech Kaminski Trio with Five O'Clock Orchestra, Ragtime Duo, Ragtime Jazz Band, Big Band Volta, Malmo Jazz Kings (from Sweden). She recorded and released her album called "The Joanna's Songbooks", which consists of compositions prepared for her twins - for Nel and Tymon. She's also author of the music for her album called "I will be a mom" - with relaxing music for pregnant women. In 2012 another album appears on the market called "Swing jest wszystkim - wing is everything" recorded with The Mark Shepherd Swing Quartet.
In 2014 she has performed at the „Złota Tarka” Jazz Festival in Poland as a special guest with the Ragtime Jazz Band alongside Molly Ryan (USA), Dan Levinson (USA) and Jack Anderson (Sweden). Currently Joanna runs an original radio show on 88.6 FM in RSC Radio called "Train to Jazz". In 2015 she has performed a several shows with „Malmo Jazz Kings” (Sweden) and in 2016 has performed with „Polish Scandinavian Connection” group in Ilawa (Poland) – The biggest traditional jazz festival.