Jazz Articles about Christine Tobin

Christine Tobin: Slotting into Place

by Marcus O'Dair
November 9, 2008

She may have won this year's BBC Jazz Award for best vocalist, yet Christine Tobin was not, ostensibly at least, the main attraction in Radioplay, which just completed its October, 2008 run at London's Lyric theatre following an earlier incarnation at the Vortex last year. Rather, with guitarist Phil Robson and bassist Dave Whitford, her job was to provide a live soundtrack to a frequently surreal one-man show from a gentleman named Ed Gaughan.

“It's a ...

Christine Tobin: Secret Life of a Girl

by Chris May
May 17, 2008

Three years--and a lifetime--in gestation, Secret Life of a Girl is an album London-based singer/songwriter Christine Tobin spoke about when she gave an interview to AAJ in autumn 2005. At the time, Tobin was touring in support of Romance and Revolution (Babel, 2004), the sixth own-name disc she'd recorded since 1995 and, like its predecessors, a soulful and intelligently programmed mixture of originals and covers.

Secret Life of a Girl continues that tradition. There are just two covers ...

Christine Tobin: Romancing the Radical

by Chris May
January 2, 2006

Brought up in Ireland, singer/songwriter Christine Tobin moved to London in '87. She gigged prolifically before forming her own band and starting to record in the mid '90s. She is today one of the most highly regarded musicians on the British cutting edge, rooted in jazz but roaming far beyond it. One prominent commentator has described her as “the Bjork of Euro jazz," and Tobin's willingness to go her own way, schooled in the tradition but ultimately independent of it, ...

Christine Tobin: Romance and Revolution

by Bev Stapleton
October 28, 2005

In recent years jazz public enemy number one seems to have shifted from “smooth jazz" to “jazz vocalists." The heavy promotion and subsequent success of the Kralls, Cullums, and Monheits has almost given vocals in jazz a bad name. It has become much more difficult for a genuinely distinctive singer to be taken seriously in the jazz field.

Well, Christine Tobin is very much the distinctive jazz singer. Originating from Dublin, she first came to notice in the UK as ...