Anne Ducros
{{short description|French jazz singer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| name = Anne Ducros
| image = Anne-ducros-p2b (cropped).jpg
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| birth_date = {{bda|1959|12|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Longfossé, Pas-de-Calais, France
| genre = Jazz
| occupation = Singer
| years_active = 1989–present
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Anne Ducros is a French jazz singer.
Career
In 1990, she started touring the world for the next ten years with musicians such as Chick Corea, Jacky Terrasson, and Kenny Barron.{{cite web|title=Anne Ducros - bureauexport|url=http://www.french-music.org/artist/596-anne_ducros.html|publisher=French-Music|accessdate=21 July 2014}}
She recorded the album Piano, Piano (Dreyfus, 2006) with pianists Corea, Enrico Pieranunzi, René Urtreger, and Benoît de Mesmay. The album includes standards such as "God Bless the Child" and "Never Let Me Go".{{cite web|last1=Loudon|first1=Christopher|title=Jazz Reviews: Piano, Piano|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/17211-piano-piano-anne-ducros|website=Jazz Times|accessdate=30 November 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Dryden|first1=Ken|title=Piano, Piano|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/piano-piano-mw0000404358|website=AllMusic|accessdate=30 November 2016}} Her cover of the song "Taking a Chance on Love" was used in the 2005 Chanel Chance perfume commercials.{{cite web|title=Take A Chance!|url=http://www.lachanelphile.com/2011/06/15/take-a-chance/|publisher=La Chanelphile|accessdate=21 July 2014|date=15 June 2011}}
Jack Goodstein of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, described her album Either Way as "perhaps the finest album from a jazz vocalist I've heard this year, and certainly the most interesting."{{cite web |author1=Francis Marmande |title=Anne Ducros, Faithful to Jazz |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/11/03/anne-ducros-fidele-au-jazz_3507396_3246.html |website=Lemonde |accessdate=21 July 2014 |language=French |date=11 March 2013}}{{cite web|author1=Jack Goodstein|title=Music Review: Anne Ducros - 'Either Way: From Marilyn to Ella' |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Anne-Ducros-Either-Way-From-5037800.php |website=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|accessdate=21 July 2014|format=4 December 2013}} Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes called Ducros part Blossom Dearie, part Annie Ross, and part Yma Sumac.
Discography
- Purple Songs (Dreyfus, 2001)
- Close Your Eyes (Dreyfus, 2003)
- Urban Tribe (Dreyfus, 2007)
- Ella My Dear (Plus Loin, 2010)
- Either Way: From Marilyn to Ella (Naive, 2013)
- Brother? Brother! (2017)
- Something (Sunset, 2020)