Results for "Linley Weir"

Linley Weir

Room for Dancing

By John Crawford

Label: Elsden
Released: 2024
Track listing: Maite's Dance, Elena's Dance, Club del Campesino, Things, Blossom, And So it Goes, Polegnole e Todora, Track, Elena's Dance (Remix), Bow and Codeine

Just One More Time

By Linley Weir

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Big Oak Tree; I Want To Stay; Just One More Time; The Island; Mr. Black; Lover's Dance; Until The Morning Shows; Prime Time; More Than Just Friends; Island In The Sun; Goodnight My Queen.

Linley Weir: Just One More Time

by James Fleming
July 8, 2018

Easy on the ear does not necessarily mean easy on the consciousness. Many a sweet melody has served as a gateway drug to harder, horizon-expanding sounds. But Just One More Time, from UK-based vocalist Linley Weir, does not open any “doors of perception." Her brand of Latin-infused jazz-pop is safe as a bank vault. And, despite ...

John Crawford: Times and Tides

by Mark Sullivan
October 28, 2016

For his second album British pianist/composer John Crawford continues his love of Latin American and Spanish flamenco music, while also incorporating fresh new influences. Crawford's opening original “Blurred" shares a Brazilian heritage with the cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's “Once I Loved" that follows it. Guitarist Guillermo Hill makes an immediate impression on nylon-string guitar: he's ...

Linley Weir finds bittersweet spot between jazz and blues on debut album

March 31, 2011

Desires, the debut album from the Linley Weir Quartet, may introduce a new voice in jazz, but it's one rooted in the classic influences of Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson. Like those legendary vocalists, Weir's singing finds that bittersweet spot between jazz and blues. Born and raised in West London, England, Weir's future was cemented at ...