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Janette Mason
Janette Mason is a British jazz pianist, arranger, composer and record producer. Three of her albums have received four-starred reviews in ''The Guardian'' and her second album, ''Alien Left Hand'', was nominated for the Parliamentary Jazz Awards in 2010. The film scores she has written include the British dramas ''Ruby Blue (film), Ruby Blue'' (2008) and ''The Calling (2009 film), The Calling'' (2009). Mason toured In the 1990s with such artists as Oasis (band), Oasis, K.d. lang and Seal (musician), Seal. She has also worked as Musical Director for Antoine de Caunes and Jonathan Ross and has toured in the United States, Europe, Israel, Japan and Thailand. She has also played at the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and at the Festivals in Atlanta, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Provincetown Jazz Festival, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. She has performed the music of Robert Wyatt and also toured and collaborated with him. Early life and education Mason was born in Bushey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vibraphone
The vibraphone (also called the vibraharp) is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using Percussion mallet, mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist,'' or ''vibist''. The vibraphone resembles the Marimbaphone, steel marimba, which it superseded. One of the main differences between the vibraphone and other keyboard percussion instruments is that each bar suspends over a resonator tube containing a flat metal disc. These discs are attached together by a common axle and spin when the motor is turned on. This causes the instrument to produce its namesake tremolo or vibrato effect. The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to a piano. When the pedal is up, the bars produce a muted sound; when the pedal is down, the bars sustain for several seconds or until again muted with the pedal. The vibraphone is commonly used in jazz music, in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Herbert
Gwyneth Herbert (born 26 August 1981) is a British singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Initially known for her interpretation of jazz and swing standards, she is now established as a writer of original compositions, including musical theatre. She has been described as "an exquisite wordsmith" with "a voice that can effortlessly render any emotion with commanding ease" and her songs as being "impressively crafted and engrossing vignette of life's more difficult moments". Three of her six albums have received four-starred reviews in the British national press. Another album, ''Between Me and the Wardrobe'', received a five-starred review in ''The Observer''. Her seventh album, '' Letters I Haven't Written'', was released in October 2018. Early life and education Born in Wimbledon, London, to Mary and Brian Herbert, she was brought up in Surrey and Hampshire in the south of England. She began playing the piano at the age of three and was writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vula Malinga
Vula Malinga (born May 15, 1980) is an American-born British singer. Career Born in the United States to South African parents, she was raised in Hackney, London. Her religious parents supported her singing talents by allowing her to join the church choir, which resulted in her becoming one of the lead singers for the London Community Gospel Choir. This brought her to the notice of Basement Jaxx, with whom she sang lead on their 2005 single " Oh My Gosh". The collaboration continues to this day, and led to her supporting fellow Basement Jaxx singer Sam Sparro on his tour. In 2007, she sang lead vocals on BBC South's re-recording of the hymn "Amazing Grace", created to help mark the 200 years since the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In 2008, Malinga began developing her own music under her own record label, DivaGeek Records, releasing her first single "Wondering Why" in October. In 2009, she sang co-lead vocals for Dizzee Rascal on his 2009 album ''Tongue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield
Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Origin Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latin—name Tatius. King Titus Tatius was the name of a legendary ruler of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. After the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world, into the first centuries of Christianity, as well as the masculine diminutive Tatianus and its feminine counterpart, Tatiana. While the name later disappeared from Western Europe including Italy, it remained prevalent in the Hellenic world of the Eastern Roman Empire, and later spread to the Byzantine-influenced Orthodox world, including Russia. In that context, it originally honoured the church Saint Tatiana, who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, c. 230& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Martin (singer)
Claire Martin, OBE (born 6 September 1967) is an English jazz singer. Music career Martin was born in Colliers Wood, London. She grew up in a house "full of music" thanks to jazz-loving parents. She cites Ella Fitzgerald's ''Song Books'' as the inspiration for her to study singing at the Doris Holford Stage School in New York and London. She was influenced to sing jazz when she saw Betty Carter at Ronnie Scott's club. Her professional career began at the age of 19 when she sang in a hotel band at the Savoy Hotel after auditioning to be a bluecoat Bournemouth. For two years, she worked aboard the cruise ship ''Queen Elizabeth'', where she sang in the piano bar. When she was 21, she formed her jazz quartet. In 1991, she was signed by the Scottish jazz label Linn Records, and her debut album, ''The Waiting Game'', was released in 1992. Later that year, she performed as the opening act for Tony Bennett at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Martin has performed all over Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David McAlmont
David Irving McAlmont (born 2 May 1967) is an English vocalist, essayist and art historian. He came to prominence in the 1990s as a singer, particularly through his collaboration with Bernard Butler. In the 2010s he returned to academia, working with the University of Leicester and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Early years and Thieves McAlmont was born on 2 May 1967 to a Guyanese mother and Nigerian father. His mother was a nurse and his father, a law student. He, his mother and sister moved to Gorleston on Sea, Norfolk, where his education continued at Peterhouse Primary School. In 1978 the family departed the United Kingdom for Guyana. The family resided with his grandparents in Lovely Lass Village Berbice, and with his aunt in Wismar, Demerara, moving onto the East Bank of the Demerara River at Grove and Craig. In 1978, McAlmont scored well on his Secondary School Entrance Examination and attended the Queen's College, Georgetown, Guyana. David's educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Ranged
''D'Ranged'' is the third album by British jazz pianist Janette Mason. It was released in 2014 by Fireball Records and features vocalists Gwyneth Herbert, David McAlmont, Vula Malinga, Claire Martin and Tatiana LadyMay Mayfield. It has been described as "a series of arrangements of an eclectic mix of classic soul songs, 70’s disco and 80’s pop tunes... all given a distinctive twist by arranger and pianist Mason, and performed by a stellar cast of collaborators from her wide ranging career." Jazz critic John Fordham gave it four stars in a review for ''The Guardian''. Reception Mike Collins, reviewing the album for ''London Jazz News'', said that "After 2010’s Parliamentary Jazz Award nominated Alien Left Hand, a more overtly jazz orientated album, D’ranged marks something of a departure for the leader’s own releases. There are varied moods within the collection with the spirit of the originals sustained whilst being reshaped in Mason’s skilful hands." Track lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Arthurs
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name. Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Tom'' (1973 film), or ''The Bad Bunch'', a blaxploitation film * ''Tom'' (2002 film), a documentary film * ''Tom'' (American TV series), 1994 * ''Tom'' (Spanish TV series), 2003 Music * ''Tom'', a 1970 album by Tom Jones * Tom drum, a musical drum with no snares * Tom (Ethiopian instrument), a plucked lamellophone thumb piano * Tune-o-matic, a guitar bridge design Places * Tom, Oklahoma, US * Tom (Amur Oblast), a river in Russia * Tom (river), in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob Science and technology * A male cat * A male wild turkey * Tom (pattern matching language), a programming language * TOM (psychedelic), a hallucinogen * Text Object Model, a Microsoft Windows programming interface * Theory of mind (ToM), in psychology * Translocase of the outer membrane, a complex of proteins Transportation * ''Tom'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Siegel
Julian H. Siegel (born 1966) is a British jazz saxophone and clarinet player, and a composer and arranger, described by ''MOJO Magazine'' as "One of the UK's most creative saxophonists". Siegel has toured and recorded with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron and was awarded the BBC Jazz Awards 2007 for Best Instrumentalist. Siegel won the 2011 London Awards for Art and Performance Jazz. In 2015 won his quartet ''Partisans'' (Gene Calderazzo, Phil Robson, Thad Kelly) with the album ''Swamp'' the Parliamentary Jazz Awards ''Jazz Album of the Year''. Discography without fix groups *''Partisans'' (EFZ, 1997) with Phil Robson *''Close-Up'' (Sound Recordings, 2002) *''As One Does (FMR Records, 2018) with Paul Dunmall, Percy Pursglove, Mark Sanders with ''Partisans'' *''Sourpuss'' Babel BDV 2029 2000 *''Max'' Babel BDV2553 2005 *''By Proxy'' Babel BDV 2983 2009 *''Swamp'' Whirlwind Recordings Whirlwind Recordings is a London, UK-based independent record label established in 2010 by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien Left Hand
''Alien Left Hand'' is the second album by British jazz pianist Janette Mason. It was released on 26 January 2009 by Fireball Records and features Julian Siegel on saxophone, Tom Arthurs on trumpet and Lea DeLaria on vocals. Reception John Fordham, in a four-starred review for ''The Guardian'', said: "Mason came out of the session shadows in 2005 with her fine Din and Tonic album, and Alien Left Hand develops that set's cross-genre vision, infectious grooving, clever composing and audacious improvisations". Clive Davis, in ''The Sunday Times'', said: "A foil to that raucous stand-up-turned-singer Lea DeLaria, Mason is a forceful pianist in her own right. The Partisans saxophonist Julian Siegel adds a punch to an infectious and intelligent set. The no-nonsense pulse of Four Wheel Drive gets business off to a brisk start. Mason knows better than to outstay her welcome; her solos are succinct and cliché-free, Josh Giunta's crisp drumming giving her ample support". John Bungey, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed List of Orange Is the New Black characters#Carrie "Big Boo" Black, Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series ''Orange Is the New Black'' (2013–2019) and Psychic List of One Life to Live characters introduced in the 1990s, Madame Delphina on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC ABC Daytime, Daytime Drama One Life to Live, One Life To Live from 1999 to 2011. She also starred in the Broadway (theatre), Broadway productions ''POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive'' in 2022 and the 2000 revival of ''The Rocky Horror Show''. She was the first openly gay comic to appear on American television in a 1993 appearance on ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. Early life DeLaria was born in Belleville, Illinois, the daughter of Jerry Jean (née Cox), a homemaker, and Robert George DeLaria, a jazz piano, jazz pianist and social worker. Her paternal gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
