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Martyna

'Martyna has an incredible voice, it will take you to places you'll want to visit again and again'. Richard Allinson BBC Radio 2 'Classic song after classic song' BBC Radio London Already an established artist on the acoustic music scene, it was shortly after completing the Leverhulme Artist Development programme, a scholarship awarded to only 5 people in the country and run by acclaimed venue The Stables founded by Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth,that Martyna sat down at her piano and unknowingly began to write her first jazz song. Despite a longstanding love of jazz having spent hours as a teenager pouring over old jazz records and guest singing with various big bands it wasn’t until a meeting with jazz pianist John Bowman in 2007 that Martyna found her own voice in Jazz and has continued to develop it ever since

It's Our Generations

by Bruce Lindsay
October 17, 2011

It's been a strange summer here in the UK. To be fair, that description can be applied with no trace of irony to almost any British summer--and the summer of 2011 seems to have been a strange one for much of the world. But this is a JazzLife UK article, and parochial concerns are paramount, thus ...

Oh Butterfly

By Martyna

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010
Track listing: Falling for You; Oh Butterfly; Fire in the House; Hurricane.

Photographing the World's Best Jazz Scene

by Bruce Lindsay
April 12, 2010

JazzLife UK--a simple idea. I'll spend much of 2010 travelling around the United Kingdom photographing the jazz scene and asking some of its members what they think about the current state of UK jazz. I'll photograph musicians, venues, performances, rehearsals, sound checks, record label executives, promoters, agents, presenters, DJs and anyone or anything else that forms ...

Martyna: Oh Butterfly

by Bruce Lindsay
February 10, 2010

Oh Butterfly, the first release from British singer and songwriter Martyna, is a brief but impressive debut. Her voice is light and expressive while the songs, all self-penned, herald the arrival of a talented composer--and one of these songs has the potential to become a bona fide standard. It's important not to give ...