Jazz

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.

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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 

Misty Moon 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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