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Christine Tobin: Secret Life of a Girl

Read "Secret Life of a Girl" reviewed by Chris May

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 ...

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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 ...

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Romance and Revolution

By Christine Tobin

Label: Babel Label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Horses; God Only Knows; Black and Blue; He

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Christine Tobin: Romance and Revolution

Read "Romance and Revolution" reviewed by Bev Stapleton

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 ...

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