Results for "Beverley Beirne"

Beverley Beirne

BIO I released my debut album SEASONS OF LOVE in 2012 and I was totally thrilled with the hugely positive response it got, including plays on BBC Introducing and great reviews in Jazz Journal and Jazzwise. I toured the album around the country from Callander Jazz and Blues Festival, Marsden Jazz Festival and Pizza Express, The Pheasantry and had a really great time, with some great live reviews. Now, here we are, 6 years later and I’m releasing my second album, Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun (JJWTHF). It’s a little different…but before I tell you about it, here’s a little bit about myself… BACKGROUND I’m a Yorkshire Lass, with Irish roots

Dream Dancer

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2021

The Ilkley Suite

By Jamil Sheriff

Label: 33 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The River Where I Live; Verbeia; Cup And Ring; The Healer; Solstice With The 12 Apostles; Rombald; Ilkley Moor Baht At; Cut From Stone.

Jamil Sheriff: The Ilkley Suite

by Bruce Lindsay
August 12, 2020

Commissioned by the Ilkley Jazz Festival to celebrate its fifth anniversary in 2018, The Ilkley Suite is composer/pianist Jamil Sheriff's musical interpretation of some of the legends, history and landscapes of Ilkley and its surrounding countryside in the English county of West Yorkshire. It is an ambitious, complex and wide-ranging suite in eight parts, performed by ...

Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun

By Beverley Beirne

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Come On Feel The Noize; Prince Charming; Bette Davis Eyes; Ghost Town; Deeply Dippy; When Smoky Sings; Cruel Summer; Pop Muzik; Too Shy; Hot In The City; Waiting For A Girl Like You; Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Beverley Beirne: Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun

by Bruce Lindsay
July 23, 2018

What do the following artists have in common? Adam & The Ants, Foreigner, Kajagoogoo, Billy Idol, Bananarama, Right Said Fred, Kim Carnes. None of their songs are staples of the jazz vocalist's repertoire? Not long ago that would have been an acceptable answer, then British singer Beverley Beirne recorded her second album, Jazz Just Wants To ...

Seasons Of Love

By Beverley Beirne

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Beautiful Love; Beware My Heart; You And The Night And The Music; Happy Talk; Something Good; Slow Hot Wind; The End Of A Love Affair; Devil May Care; Walk On By; You're Looking At Me; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; You Must Believe In Spring.

Beverley Beirne & Her Quartet: Seasons Of Love

by Bruce Lindsay
June 28, 2012

What gives a song the status of “standard"? One thing might be its popularity with musicians and fans. Most of the dozen songs on Seasons Of Love are standards that range from the popular to the extremely popular. Another characteristic may be a song's malleability: its capacity for almost infinite re-imaginings; a something that often gets ...