Melody Gardot

vocal jazz // blues

Mature beyond her years, Philadelphia native Melody Gardot possesses a very natural musicality and a silky, versatile voice. While comparisons to the standards of Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux are justified, Melody’s confident grace and elegance shine throughout “Goodnite” and “Worrisome Heart”. With her tasteful and warm phrasing, moving seamlessly between the mellow old-time blues, jazz influences and acoustic folk, Melody captures the essence of the subtle beauty, confessional and timeless songwriting.

A young chanteuse on the rise.
Melody Gardot – Goodnite
Melody Gardot – Worrisome Heart
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Posted by Julija on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 under jazz.

31 Responses to “Melody Gardot”

  1. Nathan said on April 23rd at 2:32 pm :

    I love jazz, but I’ve never been a huge fan of vocal jazz, outside of Astrud Gilberto, but I like this very much.

    I can totally hear the comparison to Norah Jones.

  2. Shawn said on April 23rd at 4:45 pm :

    Awesome! It makes me think of a female Tom Waits!

  3. Andrew said on April 23rd at 6:48 pm :

    Great find as always! This is just the sound I’ve been looking for these days.

  4. Debbie said on April 23rd at 9:13 pm :

    On the rise indeed.. “Worrisome Heart” is actually this week’s free single on iTunes !

    Good music, anyhow. She deserves the recognition.

  5. kindsaluv said on April 24th at 4:27 am :

    always good music here, thank you for your fine selections

  6. David Horn said on April 24th at 10:12 am :

    Oh – this is lovely. You should look at Jolie Holland too (especially her Escondida album) – great post, thanks.

  7. Julija said on April 24th at 10:19 am :

    Debbie, thanks for the comment, I had no clue about the iTunes single :)

    David, glad you like it. Jolie Holland is a wonderful artist.

  8. G said on April 24th at 11:25 am :

    Good timing, Julija.

  9. Julie said on April 24th at 10:06 pm :

    I just found her a few weeks ago and I meant to recommend her to you. Sure enough, you beat me to it. She’s a great find indeed…a bit esthero, a bit fiona apple, and all her own.

  10. Jim said on April 26th at 4:28 am :

    I can always find good songs like this from here.
    Her songs I thing are better than Norah Jones.
    Great job!!!!

  11. golem09 said on April 26th at 5:02 am :

    Great stuff, I instantly bought the CD at amazon

  12. David said on April 27th at 7:57 pm :

    I absolutely adore this artist. She reminds me of Corinne Bailey Rae.

  13. Sirsparrow said on April 27th at 8:23 pm :

    I really approve of this artist. It’s a genre i honestly haven’t listened to much before but I’m beginning to get an appreciation of it

  14. Tor Kristensen said on April 28th at 8:50 am :

    This. Is. Lovely.

  15. Andrea said on April 29th at 10:23 am :

    Smooth voice, has that jazzy spirit, makes me want to have a coffee and chill. Thank you for making us discover her.

  16. Bill Cabrera said on April 29th at 9:39 pm :

    There’s a very nice article about her at the nprMusic site: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87997628

  17. The mister said on April 30th at 9:46 am :

    Just a question: Do you have permission from the artists/record companies to post their music here or how does it work?

  18. Paul Irish said on April 30th at 5:48 pm :

    The mister,

    About 85% of the time, we ask the label or artist for permission to post and get a response of “of course!” Sometimes we never hear back from the label. Only once have they ever said ‘no’.

    We’re apart from most mp3 blogs in this regard; only a few actually seek permission for everything they post. But Aurgasm readers have made it clear they prefer that, so we keep it a priority.

  19. golem09 said on April 30th at 10:58 pm :

    My CD just arrived, and I love almost all songs. Thanks for the music.
    I love Melody Gardot and Aurgasm :)
    Already the third CD I buy because of your suggestion
    (Oren Lavie and Maia Hirasawa are my favourite artist of 2007 :))

  20. thomas said on May 1st at 7:43 pm :

    Great songs. “Worrisome Heart” actually most reminds me most of Fiona Apple. Something in the tone of her voice. It’s very pretty.

  21. The mister said on May 2nd at 4:37 am :

    Paul Irish: I see, I know you don’t usually post music from big commercial labels but I think I saw one or two or them “” do these major labels say yes too?

    Isn’t it strange that the others sites are not shut down or sued since they host the very file on their servers for everyone to download and listen to (as opposed to a torrent file for example)

    Thanks for answering and sorry for posting the question here but the contact form didn’t work.

  22. Georg said on May 7th at 3:00 am :

    Really great. Love it!

  23. Den said on May 8th at 1:48 pm :

    Very Relaxing. I love her songs!

  24. Ken said on May 10th at 6:42 pm :

    Marvelous. I love how sultry she sounds. Delightful find, as usual!

  25. Vince said on September 13th at 7:05 pm :

    Not only is she a talented, beautiful young lady, but she’s very smart, very conversant, and kind. I had the pleasure of chauffeuring her around Los Angeles one evening and she’s a delightful young lady.

  26. Paul said on August 31st at 2:10 pm :

    This woman blows me away! I believe I saw her with Herbie Hancock on some video music thing. Awesome

  27. ObiWan said on November 29th at 10:54 am :

    i was listening to “baby i’m a fool”, she’s very very good.

    PS: i just discovered this blog yesterday and i gotta say it’s brilliant, great job lads, keep it up!

  28. tommy lagrassa said on December 3rd at 2:11 pm :

    her voice opens a window to peace and poetry

  29. missy dudley said on February 8th at 1:08 am :

    I must say that this young woman has captured my heart with her intruguing melodies and amazing arrangements–I work in a medspa and have introduced Melody’s music to my clients and they all have loved her.–BRAVO

  30. Penny R said on April 19th at 1:30 pm :

    Well now, don’t know how to mention this! We are at Birmingham Symphony Hall waiting for the Melody Gardot gig to start – have just stumbled upon the most fantastic exhibition of South African photographs by Pogus Cesar. Absolutely brilliant images!!!!

  31. Jason said on April 26th at 6:20 pm :

    Penny – I agree with you, the exhibition pics are astounding. Only one problem – not enough of them. Give us more Pogus?

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