SONGLINES – stories in song and jazz…
Liane Carroll – Simon Purcell – Julian Siegel – Loz Garratt – Will Glaser
SONGLINES features some of the UK’s most acclaimed jazz artists and needs little introduction, suffice to say that one of the world’s finest jazz singers LIANE CARROLL can be heard in this long-term collaboration with Whirlwind recording artists SIMON PURCELLand JULIAN SIEGEL in an evening of song, lyricism and hard-swinging jazz, recasting the great American Song Book and compositions by the jazz masters.
Multi award-winning vocalist LIANE CARROLL (Charlie Haden, Gerry Rafferty, Ladysmith Black Mombasa, Ian Shaw and Paul McCartney). Award-winning saxophonist JULIAN SIEGEL (‘Partisans’, Julian Siegel Quartet and Jazz Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Andrew Hill, Hermeto Pascoal, Mike Gibbs, Django Bates, Jazz Jamaica, John Dankworth, Diane Schuur, Kirk Lightsey, Norma Winstone, John Taylor. SIMON PURCELL piano ‘Red Circle’, Red Rodney, Kenny Wheeler, Eddie Henderson, Martin Taylor, Stan Sulzman, Jean Toussaint, Julian Arguelles et al. LOZ GARRATT bass – Jamie Cullum, Bobby Wellins, Geoff Simkins, Pete Churchill, Simon Purcell and Mark Lockheart, as well as the emerging younger generation – Leo Richardson, Chris Eldred, etc. WILL GLASER drums – Soweto Kinch, Cleo Laine, Stan Sulzmann, Kit Downes, Nikki Iles, Dinosaur, Alex Garnett, Martin Speake, Josephine Davies, Yazz Ahmed, Eddie Parker, Henry Lowther, Liam Noble, Rick Simpson, “Great Beard!” Wynton Marsalis 2018 (true!)
Liane Carroll, Julian Siegel, Simon Purcell “Make Someone Happy”,
chart-topping iTunes jazz 2016
Simon Purcell 