PAULA COLE

405 Washington Avenue,Oshkosh WI 54901

28 September, 2021

Description

Jazz Coterie live music concert series presents Grammy winning singer/songwriter Paula Cole and her new album release American Quilt. Jazz Coterie live music concert series presents Grammy winning singer/songwriter Paula Cole and her new album release American Quilt. Paula Cole is an American singer-songwriter whos second album, This Fire (1996), brought her to worldwide acclaim and produced two hit singles, the triple-Grammy nominated "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" and "I Don't Want to Wait", which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson's Creek. She won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1997. Since then, Ms. Cole has been very busy. And with this Jazz Coterie appearance we celebrate the release of her eleventh album, American Quilt. Paula Cole has never been afraid of speaking complex truths. With a musical catalog defined by honest and deeply personal lyrics carried by her powerful, radiant voice, Cole has always had a gift for discerning the underlying humanity in stories from her own life as well as those around her. On her latest record, Cole has applied this natural insight to American history and musical roots traditions by interpreting a selection of classic songs – each of which provide an entry point for rediscovering the overlooked stories and figures that populate America’s interwoven cultural lineage. “I wanted this album to reflect a patchwork of music from the cities and the mountains, the fields and the rivers – from movies, to melodies that traversed oceans, centuries, cultures, and continents – sewn together with our collective heartstrings,” says Paula. Not just a geographical tapestry, the breathtaking collection is a cavalcade of blues, jazz, folk, pop, and gospel – with Cole’s remarkable voice the roadmap to Americana, jazz, and standards. As a Berklee student, Paula's early ambition was to be a jazz vocalist. “I loved jazz, but I ran into inner psychological walls,” says Cole. “I felt some ‘imposter syndrome,’ being a white person singing an African-American art form. It led me to the truth that I needed to write my own music, so I left the path of jazz and began writing and recording my own songs.” Ms. Cole's 2017 release, Ballads, rekindled her love of singing jazz, and she originally planned to release a sequel. But when she revisited material from those sessions, she realized she wanted her new work to “reflect a diversity of music that is me,” she says, “to go beyond genre. Because that is an ethos of my life – I don’t like being in boxes. I’ve always been difficult to categorize. So I went back in the studio in January 2020 and recorded much rootsier songs.” And we're very glad she did. Please give a warm Wisconsin welcome to Paula Cole. Curating the jazz experience in Central Wisconsin. An intimate pop-up concert series showcasing the finest emerging and established artists from across the Midwest and around the globe. More than a musical exhibition, it’s a happening.