All about Love

ABOUT

In 2024 we recorded a new jazz album All About Love featuring american singer Valerie Kippen in the CNSO Studio in Hostivař, and from that moment we knew our collaboration wouldn’t end there. 

We are happy to announce that renewed collaboration has finally been agreed. The jazz vocalist will travel from San Francisco to Prague where she will perform at the Loop Jazz Club alongside other world class musicians. The show will feature songs not only from her previous album recorded with us, but also other key pieces from her repertoire. Valerie Kippen is known for her incredible rhythm, unique vocal style, melodic lyrics and perfect intonation. She has performed in world famous jazz venues in San Francisco and New York, such as Yoshi’s, Jazz at Pearl’s, Club 36, Rassela’s, Lascaux, Domaine Chandon, The Mandarin Oriental, Birdland Jazz Club, Tatou and the Town Hall. 

The singer will be accompanied at the Prague Proms festival by trumpetist Jan Hasenöhrl, guitarist Lukáš Chejn, pianist Jakub Zomer and percussionist Martin Kopřiva. Another key musical performance will be by Taras Voloshchuk, who originally studied violin but became a renowned double bass player after coming to Prague. He is also known for performing with Lenka Dusilová or the group Čechomor. 

Keyboard Magazine has called Kippen “a uniquely gifted performer” and we are sure that our audiences and lovers of jazz and swing, will agree.

Performers

Valerie Kippen vocals

Jan Hasenöhrl trumpet

Lukáš Chejn guitar

Jakub Zomer piano

Taras Voloshchuk double bass

Martin Kopřiva drums

Programme

Jazz standards:

Beautiful Love
music: Wayne King, Victor Young and Egbert Van Alstyne
lyrics: Haven Gillespie

Wild is the Wind
music: Dimitri Tiomkin
lyrics: Ned Washington 

I Fall in Love Too Easily
music: Jule Styne
lyrics: Sammy Cahn

Black Coffee
music: Sonny Burke
lyrics: Paul Francis

Love Me or Leave Me
music: Walter Donaldson
lyrics: Gus Kahn

Seems like Old Times
music & lyrics: Carmen Lombardo & John Jacob Loeb 

But Beautiful
music: Jimmy Van Heusen
lyrics: Johnny Burke

This Can’t be Love
music: Richard Rodgers
lyrics: Lorenz Hart

A Flower is a Lovesome Thing
music & lyrics: Billy Strayhorn

Beautiful Friendship
music: Donald Kahn
lyrics: Stanley Styne

Shadow of your Smile
music: Johnny Mandel
lyrics: Paul Francis 

East of the Sun
music & lyrics: Brooks Bowman

Misty
music: Erroll Garner
lyrics: Johnny Burke

Too Close for Comfort
music & lyrics: Jerry Bock, George David Weiss & Larry Holofcener

Comes Love
music: Sam H. Stept
lyrics: Lew Brown & Charles Tobias

You’ve Changed
music: Carl Fischer
lyrics: Bill Carey 

Hallelujah, I Love him So
music & lyrics: Ray Charles 

We’ll be Together Again
music: Carl T. Fischer
lyrics: Frankie Laine