获奖爵士乐歌手/歌词创作者Ori Dagan今天宣布在iTunes上发布他的原创歌曲”Clap on the 2 and the 4″，同时在YouTube上发布音乐视频。更多详情如下。
Award-winning, jazz singer-songwriter Ori Dagan announces the release of his original song “Clap on the 2 and the 4” on iTunes today, with an accompanying music video on YouTube. The single, already sitting at #2 on the iTunes jazz chart in Canada, precludes Dagan’s forthcoming and third album (a Tribute to the music of Nat King Cole), which is due to be released in the fall this year. For more information please visit www.oridagan.com.
Written by Ori Dagan, the catchy, rhythmic tune “Clap on the 2 and the 4” is about finding one’s rhythm and it was inspired by the artist’s greatest inspiration in jazz, Ella Fitzgerald. Dagan comments, “She had a magical way of bringing joy to listeners, and her incomparable sense of swing was infectious in the best sense of the word. At one point when I was writing the tune, I could hear her singing it in my head, so I dedicate it to her for endless inspiration.”
“Clap on the 2 and the 4” features a blazing saxophone solo from rising star Alison Young, backed by a rhythm section of Scott Metcalfe on piano, Jordan O’Connor on bass and Lowell Whitty on drums. The single was produced by Eric St-Laurent and recorded at Euphonic Sound in Toronto.
The music video for “Clap on the 2 and the 4” was directed by award-winning filmmaker Leonardo Dell’Anno, and includes listeners of all ages, as well as two cats, two birds, two dogs and a horse. There are also cameo appearances by Jeanne Beker, the multi-media fashion entrepreneur and host of Fashion Television for 27 years, as well as stellar jazz vocalist Alex Pangman, known affectionately as “Canada’s Sweetheart of Swing.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jazz singer-songwriter Ori Dagan, just named “Best Jazz Vocals” winner at the 2015 Toronto Independent Music Awards, is one of Canada’s rising jazz stars. Born in Israel and raised in Toronto, he initially trained as a classical pianist, dabbling in creative writing and musical theatre before discovering Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Lester Young and Charlie Parker.
Dagan’s debut recording S’Cat Got My Tongue (2009) garnered critical acclaim for the singer’s sense of musical adventure, from the blistering bebop of “Four Brothers” to the sleek coolness of “Star Eyes.” JazzTimes called him “a budding Kurt Elling” and The Los Angeles Jazz Scene proclaimed that the album is “a major step forward for Ori Dagan, who in a few years will likely be very well known in the jazz world.”
On Dagan’s sophomore release, Less Than Three <3 (2012), the vocalist explored new territory, including: reimagined classics by Elton John and Elvis Presley; a scat roller coaster ride on Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”; the original ode to search engines “Googleable”; and selections in Dagan’s native tongue of Hebrew, stirred into the mix. The recording featured appearances by the Eric St-Laurent Trio and legendary saxophonist Jane Bunnett. The Toronto Star wrote: “the Toronto singer’s second album is serving notice that a major talent is on the scene.”
