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Liz Cole
Over the years Liz has benefitted from the jazz vocal coaching of Pepe Lemur and more recently Anita Wardell and also the training provided on courses and master classes by Liane Carroll, Fionna Ducan, Claire Martin and Verona Chard, has received jazz piano training from Roland Perrin and jazz violin coaching from Julian Ferraretto.
In the mid 80s, on teaming up with saxophonist and pianist Craig Rickards, Liz wrote for and performed as a singer with a jazz funk band they formed together. She then formed the band McGregor with her brothers Malcolm and Angus McGregor again performing original and covered material. The band toured with a comedy duo in London and the South East.
The 90s saw music taking a bit a of a back seat with a growing family and with the need to earn a proper income Liz entered the lucrative world of IT working as a freelance trainer and developer. She still kept her hand in with helping out with the music in church running training programmes and gospel choirs.
In more recent years she has performed as a singer with jazz funk band “Deluxe” and on piano has accompanied jazz and soul singers Alyson Mead and Sapphira Gold.
Liz currently performs as a jazz volcalist and violinist with a number of London based musicians performing regularly at London venues and is planning an album promotion tour of the UK in 2010.
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Claire Martin - awarding winning Jazz vocalist and BBC Radio 3 Presenter
"If I were to make a list of listenable British lady jazz singers, it would be quite long, but Liz Cole would warrant a place on it. ...."
Review of Tout Droit by LES TOMKINS The Jazz Rag Issue 109 Autumn 2009
“Liz sings with an effortless grace that somehow manages to hold a precision of intonation and clarity of diction in the most un-selfconscious and relaxed way. The essence of the song comes across in a natural way that is both clear, exact and warm. Her new CD is warm and swinging and interesting and varied all the way through!”
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson