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Nicola Milan

Smooth jazz to ragtime, swing and blues; Nicola Milan performs a repertoire of well known songs and originals that really set the mood.

Nicola Milan could never play notes exactly as they were written on the page. From an early age her piano teacher realised the best way to get Nicola to finish learning a song was to let her improvise through sections and add her own 16 bars or so to the end of each piece. This drive to make each piece of music her own led Nicola into the world of jazz.

Having completed her studies in 2008 as a jazz vocalist at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Nicola is thoroughly enjoying refining her technique and performs a repertoire of well known jazz originals, standards and blues.

Her unique, low and somewhat moody voice sits well with a bluesy style of jazz singing and provides a comfortable platform for Nicola to improvise not only with the melody and during solos, but with the overall arrangement of songs and lyrical content.

Nicola prefers a highly experimental ensemble, able to work off minimal chart instruction, changing all elements of each song as it progresses; reflecting the essence of improvisation – not just restricted to soloing. Recently Nicola has begun experimenting with percussive scatting, taking influence from beat boxing and the linguistic capabilities of the mouth and vocal chords. Adding this technique to low tones in scatting, Nicola demonstrates an unusual undertone in her soloing and vocal accompaniments.  

First and foremost an original songwriter, Nicola Milan writes music for other artists, enjoying the freedom of composing cross-genre and has written jingles, collaborated on amateur level short film musical projects, and enjoys working with other songwriters to create new and unusual sounds. Nicola writes blues, jazz and folk songs for herself to perform.

Listen to sound sample here.

 

Song List:

 

Aint Misbehavin                                               Aint No Mountain High Enough

Aint No Sunshine                                            Aint No Sunshine When He's Gone

All of Me                                                               Alright, Ok You Win

Anything Goes                                                  At Last

Autumn Leaves                                                Baby Love

Black Coffee                                                      Body and Soul

Bye Bye Blackbird                                           Call Me Irresponsible

Cheek To Cheek                                              Climb Evry Mountain

Come Away With Me                                     Come Rain or Come Shine

Cry Me A River                                                  Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend

Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me           Don't Explain

Don't Get Around Much Anymore            Don't Know Why

Dream A Little Dream Of Me                      East Of the Sun

Fever                                                                    Fly Me To The Moon

Frim Fram Sauce                                              Funny Valentine

Gee Baby, Aint I Good To You                   God Bless The Child

Good Morning Heartache                            Hallelujah I just love him so

Honeysuckle Rose                                          How High The Moon

Im Beginning To See The Light                 I've Got You Under My Skin

Killing Me Softly With His Song                 L.O.V.E Love

Lets Fall In Love                                              Lover Man

Lullaby Of Birdland                               Manhattan

Memory                                                                Mercy Mercy Mercy

MistyMoon River                                             More Than You Know

Mr Sandman                                                      My Guy

Night and Day                                                  Nothing Like You've Ever Known

Old Devil Moon                                                 On A Slow Boat To China

On The Sunny Side of the Street            Paper Moon

Round Midnight                                                Satin Doll

Send In The Clowns                                      Shiny Stockings

Skylark                                                                 Some day My Prince Will Come

Somewhere Over The Rainbow                Son of A Preacher Man

Sophisticated Lady                                        Stormy Weather

Summer Wind                                                   Summertime

Sunrise                                                                 The Girl From Ipanema

The Lady Is A Tramp                                     The Very Thought Of You

The Way You Look Tonight                        Them There Eyes

They Cant Take That Away From Me     This Cant Be Love

This Masquerade                                            Unforgettable

What A Difference A Day Made                What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life

Work Song                                                         Yesterdays

 

 

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