Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2011

Courtesy of Blue Note Tokyo

There’s more to Holly Cole than “Calling You.” The Canadian torch singer is revered in Japan for her cover of Bob Telson’s Academy Award-winning song, featured on 1992 album Blame It on My Youth. Hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cole has been a fixture on the Canadian jazz and pop scenes since debuting in 1989. Her new album, titled simply Holly Cole, takes up the themes of self-deception and denial—ideal subject matter for this most sensual and sophisticated of vocalists.

Holly Cole
Mar 4 & 8-9, 7 & 9:30pm; Mar 5-6, 6 & 8:45pm, ¥8,400. Blue Note, Minami-Aoyama. Tel: 03-5485-0088.,