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A Modern Art

By Claire Martin

Label: Linn Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Everything I've Got Belongs to You; So Twentieth Century; Love is Real; Lowercase; A Modern Art; Edge Ways; Love of Another; Totally; Everybody Today is Turning On; Sunday Morning Here With You; Promises; Things I Miss the Most; As We Live and Breathe; Nirvana.

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Article: Interview

Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward

Read "Ian Shaw: From Free Jazz to Noel Coward" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Ian Shaw is a jazz singer. This simple description is accurate--it's how Shaw refers to himself--but it falls well short of doing the man justice. Ian Shaw is one of the most distinctive, original and creative jazz singers on the scene: he is a talented pianist and songwriter with a knack for working with top-quality musicians, ...

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Article: Album Review

Claire Martin: A Modern Art

Read "A Modern Art" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Is jazz still a modern art? It's a hundred years old, after all, and some performers and fans seem to ignore everything written after 1940. But as far as the work of Claire Martin is concerned the question has only one answer. Apart from being one of the finest singers on the current scene, Martin is ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Claire Martin Styles Sly Cy Coleman Songs Blas to Brokenhearted

Claire Martin Styles Sly Cy Coleman Songs Blas to Brokenhearted

What goes on the road, stays on the road, is how the English jazz singer Claire Martin described When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do), one of 15 songs with music by Cy Coleman at Tuesdays opening night performance of Witchcraft, her show with Richard Rodney Bennett at the Oak Room of the Algonquin ...

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Article: Live Review

Ian Shaw and Claire Martin at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2009

Read "Ian Shaw and Claire Martin at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2009" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Ian Shaw and Claire MartinNorfolk and Norwich FestivalNorwich PlayhouseNorwich UKMay 14, 2009 The 2009 Norfolk and Norwich Festival's program of jazz concerts has brought some of the best contemporary jazz musicians to Norwich. On May 14 ...

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News: Festival

Music Hits Streets in Marsden Jazz Festival

Music Hits Streets in Marsden Jazz Festival

Marsden was in full swing at the weekend as it hosted its annual Jazz Festival. Thousands of music lovers descended on the village as many of its venues played host to some of the best jazz and blues artists in the business. Over 60 events, featuring both big names and up-and-coming artists, were staged over the ...

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Article: Interview

Claire Martin: Improvisation, Inspiration, Imagination

Read "Claire Martin: Improvisation, Inspiration, Imagination" reviewed by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler

Since Claire Martin's debut, The Waiting Game (Linn Records, 1992), she has been an instant success. She is hailed by many as the best British singer of the decade, with numerous prestigious awards and over ten albums to her credit. Martin started singing as a teenager and found her calling as a jazz singer early on. ...

Album

When Lights Are Low

By Claire Martin

Label: Linn Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: My One And Only; I Was A Little Too Lonely; My Mood Is You; World Weary; When Lights Are Low; Fools Fall In Love; I Got A Right to Sing The Blues; Baby Plays Around; The Very Thought of You; What I Was Warned About; Baby;Don't You Quit Me Now; No Love No Nothing; Not Exactly Paris; Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home; I Keep Going Back to Joe's; We'll Be Together Again.

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Article: Album Review

Claire Martin & Richard Rodney Bennett: When Lights Are Low

Read "When Lights Are Low" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

I'm happy to report new activity from one of my favorite jazz vocalists, Claire Martin. Her new album is a duo recording with pianist (and vocalist) Richard Rodney Bennett. Despite the fact that Martin has released ten albums and a compilation since 1992, she still needs an introduction to even so-called jazz vocal enthusiasts. The British ...

Album

Perfect Alibi

By Claire Martin

Label: Linn Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: How Can I Be Sure?; Man in the Station; Up from the Skies; Inspired Insanity; People Make the World Go Round; Shadowville; Strangers Now; More Than You'll Ever Know; Over by Allenby; More Than I Can Bear; He's a Runner; Wailing Wall.


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