I just got back from Barcelona where I was spending the week for the Mobile World Congress. Wednesday night, however, I was lucky enough to be invited to a select party hosted by Research in Motion (the manufacturers of the Blackberry mobile phones). And they had invited Jamie Cullum to perform for the audience. He played for about 45 minutes and I discovered an intriguing and interesting jazz artist who is not only a superior piano player and superb singer in the Sinatra vein, but also (and perhaps more importantly) someone who plays with the form and manages to be interesting to younger audiences not by dumbing down but by making his music more radical.
I don't know how well this stuff translates in the studio, but I'm sure to check his stuff out now...
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