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Article: Interview

Christine Tobin and Liam Noble: Unraveling Tapestry

Read "Christine Tobin and Liam Noble: Unraveling Tapestry" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Christine Tobin is an uncompromising singer whose distinctive voice has graced the British jazz scene since the mid-1990s. Whether singing her own songs or interpreting the work of others, Tobin brings a unique sensibility to each number; creating atmospheric and, at times, emotionally intense performances. Liam Noble, one of the UK's most original jazz pianists, has ...

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Article: Album Review

Christine Tobin and Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled

Read "Tapestry Unravelled" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


For many jazz singers, the Great American Songbook is the body of work that must be delved into and reinterpreted. In more recent years, the work of writers such as Tom Waits and Nick Cave is emerging as the source for some fine jazz-based interpretations. The singer/songwriters of the '70s, perhaps surprisingly, have yet to become ...

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Article: Album Review

Christine Tobin / Liam Noble: Tapestry Unravelled

Read "Tapestry Unravelled" reviewed by Chris May


After seven, mostly self-penned albums on the Babel label, Tapesty Unravelled is something of a departure for the Irish-born, UK-based singer Christine Tobin: all but one of the tunes are covers, and, for the first time, the setting is stripped down to a duo. But as on the earlier albums, Tobin weaves her signature mix of ...

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News: Award / Grant

Britain's 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards - Winners Announced

The 2010 Parliamentary Jazz Awards--organised by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG) and sponsored by PPL, the organisation that licenses the use of recorded music in the UK--were announced in the Terrace Bar of the House of Commons on the evening of Wednesday May 19th. On one of the warmest evenings of the year ...

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Article: Interview

Partisans: Blowing a Storm in Cyberspace

Read "Partisans: Blowing a Storm in Cyberspace" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Partisans has been gigging in cyberspace--playing a virtual nightclub in Second Life. Over 13 years and four acclaimed albums, Partisans has developed a strong reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative bands on the British jazz scene. One of the band's strengths is its willingness to keep up to date with technology and experiment ...

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Article: Album Review

trioVD: Fill It Up With Ghosts

Read "Fill It Up With Ghosts" reviewed by Chris May


While Oliver Weindling's Babel label has recorded some of Britain's most lyrical and mellifluous artists, including vocalist Christine Tobin, guitarist Phil Robson and the post-bop mutationist band Polar Bear, it has also, true to its name, championed some of the country's most iconoclastic noise-jazz outfits, notably Acoustic Ladyland and Led Bib. Leeds-based trioVD, though ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Clarvis / Liam Noble: Starry Starry Night

Read "Starry Starry Night" reviewed by Chris May


A charming little beauty, Starry Starry Night is a collection of cover versions of mainly familiar material by drummer Paul Clarvis and pianist Liam Noble, two characterful lights of the British jazz scene. The tunes range from classic standards like Duke Ellington's “Mood Indigo," the Gershwins' “Embraceable You" and Scott Joplin's “Maple Leaf Rag," through to ...

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Secret Life of a Girl

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2008
Track listing: Bye Bye; Camille; Corner Of An Eye; Dreamland; No Love No Thrill; Everybody Knows; Minx; Secret Life Of A Girl; Poses.

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News: Music Industry

Meet a Singer Who's Right on Song: Christine Tobin

Meet a Singer Who's Right on Song: Christine Tobin

Christine Tobin stops mid-sentence and tells herself to put her shovel away and stop digging. The Dublin-born singer has just been waxing lyrical about the power of sad songs to make both singer and listener feel better when she realises she might be setting herself up for inclusion in the miserable-git school of performer. She's far ...

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Article: Profile

Christine Tobin: Slotting into Place

Read "Christine Tobin: Slotting into Place" reviewed by Marcus O'Dair


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 ...


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