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Article: Festival brings in SP Jamie Cullum and Jack – Foha.com

Posted by michelle in May 21,2011 with No Comments

Article written by Elisangela Purple

The festival opens pop Natura We have space in Sao Paulo this weekend for a mix of surf music of Jack Johnson and the British modern jazz of Jamie Cullum, among other musicians and rhythms.

Cullum told the Folha before coming to Brazil on the expectations of the second visit to the country and launching a new album.

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Article from Kentonline Blogs – Jamie shows “The Strokes” how to start from scratch

Posted by michelle in Jan 29,2011 with No Comments

A new blog article from The What’s on / Kentonline Blog, that mentions Jamie. Here is a small part of the article. For the full article click the link at the bottom of the post.

Written by Chris Price

Perhaps they should take a leaf out of the book of Britain’s biggest-selling jazz artist of all time Jamie Cullum, pictured, who invented the genre of jazz-pop with his album Twentysomething just two years after The Strokes’ debut had created a cornerstone in post-millennial music.

Chatting to him today – ahead of a charity gig he is playing in Margate next week – he revealed that despite only finishing his year and a half long world tour in December, he has already set about writing his next album and plans to record it in the summer.

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Article: Clint in his eye @jamiecullum #jamiecullum

Posted by michelle in Sep 14,2010 with No Comments

Jamie Cullum attempts to connect with an old-timer.

Jamie Cullum
Radio 2

It’s 7pm on Radio 2 (7 September) and Jamie Cullum is on his way to interview Clint Eastwood at the Warner Brothers lot. “We’re in the studios now. There are parking spaces saying things like ‘Cary Grant’. This really feels like the movies!” Jamie pulls over and gets out, followed by the sound of people greeting each other. One voice is unmistakably Clint – simultaneously manly and reedy. Someone reminds him to turn off his mobile.

“Do I have a cellphone?” asks Clint. It sounds like he’d really like to know. “Fats Waller,” he starts, after a moment. “My mother turned me on to him. Honeysuckle Rose. Dixieland. The Forties. Thelonious Monk. Coltrane, he introduced intellectualism into jazz . . .”

In this way Clint strides about the decades like the BFG – whole eras, whole movements in the art form brushed aside, transmitting an awesomely weather-beaten creativity. Cullum keeps looking for new ways to connect, occasionally blurting things out like a person playing Operation.

“The Black Hawk club,” Clint is saying. “I’d go and lie about my age and get a whiskey sour.”

“I’m still lying about my age!” yelps Jamie. Clint laughs back: “You’ll be lying about your age for a long time to come, boy.”

“Shelly’s Manne-Hole, did you go there?” asks Jamie, determined to give some shape to all this.

“Ya. That came later.”

“Was it a small club?”

“Ya.”

“I love Shelly.”

“Ya, he was great.” God, Clint sounds old.

In the picture on the website he’s wearing a Florida-yellow bowling shirt and wipeable tan pants, belted right up high. Oh, Clint. Where now are your magnificent American thighs? Never had a good bum, though. Him and James Coburn, worst bums in Hollywood. Too soon, the interview was done.
“Can I get you to say three things?” asks Jamie, a little nervously. “Can you say: ‘I’m Clint Eastwood and you’re listening to BBC Radio 2 with Jamie Cullum’?”

“OK,” shrugs Clint. “I’m Jamie Cullum and this is BBC2. BBC Radio 2. I’m Clint Eastwood on BBC2. Radio BBC.”

“Erm,” says Jamie.

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‘Must Be The Music’ makes chart impact

Posted by michelle in Sep 02,2010 with No Comments

Must Be The Music’s semi-final acts have made an immediate impact on the iTunes chart.

The five artists who performed on Sunday’s first live semi-final made their tracks available to download immediately after the show ended.

Duo Pepper & Piano, who were voted into the final, have had the most success with their self-penned track ‘You Took My Heart’, which is currently at number four on iTunes.

The song, which has been backed by Lily Allen on Twitter, is also expected to score high on the official midweek charts, which are revealed later today.

Writing yesterday on Twitter, popstar Allen said: “Pepper and Piano seem to be No.7 in iTunes chart today. Very good news, let’s get it to No.1.”

Daithi, who will also take part in the grand final, hip-hop group Flo Dem and electro outfit Legion of Many are also currently in the iTunes Top 100 chart. All money raised by the sales of tracks goes directly to the artists.

Must Be The Music’s second live semi-final airs next Sunday at 7pm on Sky1.

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Jamie has his say on the X Factor Auto-Tune Debate

Posted by michelle in Aug 24,2010 with No Comments

JAMIE CULLUM has waded into a debate over the use of Auto-Tune in SIMON COWELL’s THE X FACTOR – insisting the technology should not be used to correct contestants’ vocals.

The TV talent contest, which saw its seventh series launched in the U.K. on Saturday (21Aug10), has been mired in controversy after viewers realised several hopefuls had their vocals enhanced by computer.

Producers admitted using Auto-Tune to correct off-key singing but they insist it was only applied in the editing suite after the auditions took place, to enhance the sound for TV viewers.

And now Cullum has spoken out against the technique because he prefers to hear the singer’s “character”.

He tells Britain’s The One Show, “It’s this whole perception of what you think music’s supposed to be. I mean I don’t personally think it’s always about singing perfectly in tune. I think you listen to all the great recordings of all time, you know, Bob Dylan doesn’t always sing in tune but he sounds like himself.

“It’s all about getting character in a voice and I think if you Auto-Tune everything, for me, I lose interest in it.”

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