SACHA (SASHA) BOUTROS

PARIS AFTER DARK

Hear Me Roar Records

Sacha Boutros, vocals; Franck Amsallem, piano; Hugo Lippi, guitar; Thomas Bramerie, bass; Tony Rabeson, drums; Stephane Belmondo, trumpet.

Sacha Boutros is a jazz vocal veteran of twenty-five years who is living and recording in France. “Paris After Dark” is an album celebrating 100 years of French and American composers.

This is the second in Boutros’s “After Dark” series.  It follows “New York After Dark” that was created with an outstanding staff of jazz men including Lewis Nash, Terell Stafford, Peter Washington and John de Martino.

As an American artist who lives in Paris, Boutros sings in fourteen languages. Impressive! Ms. Boutros is also a composer, arranger and producer. Most of this album is sung in French, or a combination of languages.  “Ne Me Quitte Pas” features Stephane Belmondo on his sexy trumpet. Sacha Boutros knows how to pump emotion into each of her songs, plush as a pillow and warm as a bedcover. I hear her passion clearly during her presentation of this standard jazz song written by Belgium singer/songwriter Jacques Brel in 1959.  Although the title is in French, this one she sings in English.

The next couple of songs are presented in French.  She sings “Love in Portofino” in Italian.

As a philanthropist, Sacha Boutros serves as a Global Peace Ambassador for Jazz.  Her musical works extend beyond music into cultural diplomacy, including the creation of ‘Peace Murals,’ where art and jazz meet as instruments of unity.

Boutros grew from humble beginnings.  Her father fled from war-torn Lebanon to rebuild their lives in Paris and also in San Diego, California. Young Sacha grew up in Southern California. After obtaining a Marketing and International Business degree, she founded a record label and became one of very few female producers of jazz in the San Diego area. Although she started out as a semi-professional soccer and tennis player, music was always her love. Sacha has gone on to captivate audiences around the globe.  Her voice spans four and a half octaves, but it’s her passion for storytelling that captivates this listener.

Accompanied only by bassist Thomas Bramerie for the first few verses, she sings “In the Still of the Night.”  There is purity in her tone, and believability in her delivery. She swings “The Good Life,” singing in French first, a tribute to the popular French composer, and then she switches to English.

In 2017, Sacha Boutros left America and relocated to Paris, where she has lived ever since.  After surviving two battles with cancer, Sacha Boutros was determined to complete this album, honoring America’s truest and finest musical art form of Jazz.  It is a celebration of not only music, but the strength, freedom and determination that makes Jazz so healing and amazing.  It is a music that crosses all boundaries and embraces all cultures. This album is vocalist Sacha Boutros’ elegant gift to the world.

Reviewed by Dee Dee McNeil

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