Jazz standards, new songs, a poem by Catullus (1st century BC) and a Chick Corea song. All in Latin. Because Judith once graduated in Greek and Latin, and wanted to bring the beautiful Latin language and her love for jazz together. Judith and her band recorded nine songs. The lyrics were translated into Latin from English and Dutch. Sometimes literally, but mostly loosely.
From Catullus to Chick Corea
Jazz standards, new songs, a 2000-year-old poem by Catullus and a Chick Corea song. All in Latin. Because jazz singer Judith Nijland once graduated in Greek and Latin. And because she really wants to bring the beautiful Latin language and her love for jazz together.
Carmina Latina
Carmina Latina means Latin songs. For this album, songs such as Summertime and The Girl from Ipanema were translated into Latin. But Judith also wrote new pieces, and the music for a 2000-year-old poem by the Roman poet Catullus. Carmina Latina connects stories from 2000 years ago with those of today.
A love of Latin
It is a personal mission of Judith’s to give Latin more affectionate attention. Because Latin is more than the subject you drop at school, more than the pope’s urbi et orbi. Latin is a beautiful language and the origin of so many languages around the world. We do not know exactly how it was pronounced, but research gives us a good picture. Judith has immersed herself in both the classical and the medieval pronunciation.
Judith Nijland | vocalsTico Pierhagen | pianoPieter Althuis | bassArie den Boer | drumsTeus Nobel | trumpet