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Marianne Faithfull

Born: December 29, 1946

Marianne’s career in music spanned an incredible sixty years. Following that fateful 1964 party in London where she was spotted, at the age of 16, by The Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham Marianne was utterly fearless in her music and everything else besides. She remained a unique and compelling musical figure who was adventurous in her life, and adventurous in her art producing a wide and varied catalogue of releases between 1964 and 2025.

Faithfull: A Career Overview
Marianne Faithfull’s long and distinguished career saw her emerge as one of the most original female singer-songwriters this country has produced; Utterly unsentimental yet somehow affectionate, Marianne possessed that rare ability to transform any lyric into something compelling and utterly personal; and not just in her own songs, for she became a master of the art of finding herself in the words and music of others.

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico with Lamia Bedioui: Watersong

by Katchie Cartwright
May 10, 2025

Watersong is the fifth album on ECM for the extraordinary Greek world-music and free-jazz singer Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico, her splendid Athens-based ensemble: Kostas Vomvolos on qanun and accordion, Harris Lambrakis on nay, Kyriakos Gouventas on violin, Yannis Alexandris on oud, Michalis Siganidis on double bass and Dine Doneff on percussion. The album also ...

Ute Lemper: Pirate Jenny

by Scott Gudell
April 30, 2025

Germany's optimistic yet fragile Weimar Republic period was wedged between two brutal wars during the early 20th century. Extending from 1918 to 1933, it was proudly called the Jazz Age and the Golden Twenties and offered an abundance of free-flowing entertainment choices. It was also a time of inflation, chaos and conflict dominated by economic instability ...

Birthday Shoutouts To Foremothers Jutta Hipp, Blanche Calloway Plus Carole King & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 17, 2025

This broadcast includes new releases from Nicole Zuraitis, Dave Potter and Monique Chao, with birthday shoutouts to foremothers Jutta Hipp (100!) Blanche Calloway (older sister of Cab Calloway) plus Carole King and Carmen Staaf. Happy listening and please support the station and the artists you hear. See them live, purchase their music so they can continue ...

Re-Convening The Convention: jazzahead's Bold Comeback Plan

by Josef Woodard
May 12, 2023

A delicate, operational balance between sophistication, jazz cultural advocacy and marketwise boosterism has been in place since the inception of the ambitious adventure known as jazzahead!. One can sense that balance in the convention/showcase festival's very branding, with its title stylized as in coolly lowercase composite word festooned with an emphatic exclamation point, and in the ...

Jazz Not War: Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 19, 2022

This time we'll let music do all the talking because it's hard to find words that can channel what's going on. If anything it's in times like this that we are reminded about the power of music. If anything it's in times like these that we are reminded about the power of music. And jazz, in ...

Emma Swift's Multitudes

by Eric Gudas
September 22, 2020

As its title suggests, Blonde on the Tracks, Australian-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Emma Swift's first full-length album, re-interprets songs from the heart of Bob Dylan 1960s and '70s catalog, although its span covers his most recent work. Swift belongs to the generations of listeners who grew up on the songs of Gram Parsons}], Dylan, {{m: Joni Mitchell, ...

Steven Bernstein, Michael Brecker and the Art of Jazz-Hacking the Pop world - Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
September 19, 2020

This week we focus on Steven Bernstein and Michael Brecker, the quintessential jazz-hackers of the pop world. If you heard a compelling saxophone solo on a high-end pop or rock production, especially between the 1970s and 1990s, you could bet it was by Michael Brecker, who over the years has appeared on almost 1000 ...

Come And Stay With Me: The UK 45's 1964-1969

By Marianne Faithfull

Label: ABKCO Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: As Tears Go By; Greensleeves; Blowin’ In the Wind; House of the Rising Sun; Come and Stay With Me; What Have I Done Wrong; This Little Bird; Morning Sun; Go Away From My World; The Most of What Is Least; Et Maintenant; The Sha La La Song; Summer Nights; Yesterday; Oh Look Around You; Tomorrow’s Calling; That’s Right Baby; Counting; Like To Dial Your Number; Is This What I Get For Loving You?; Something Better; Sister Morphine.

Marianne Faithfull: Come And Stay With Me: The UK 45's 1964-1969

by Doug Collette
January 19, 2019

If Come And Stay With Me proves anything, it is that Marianne Faithfull was hardly the mere waif she appeared to be during her initial rise to fame. This collection of her earliest work, comprised of the A and B-sides of UK Decca singles plus the Go Away From My World EP, suggest a resilience borne ...