‘Moule captures every nuance of the late great lyricist’s words, beautifully set by Simon Wallace’ Dave Gelly, The Observer
‘Long established as
one of the best jazz singers in the country’ Helen Mayhew JazzFM (UK)
‘This is an equilateral
triangle that is just so perfectly balanced – words, music, voice. Each one
enhancing the other with some icing on the cake from Wallace’s piano,
Lockheart, Price, Cawood, bassists Hutton and Malcolm and drummers Robinson and
Youngs’ Lance Liddle, Bebopspokenhere
‘Sarah
Moule has a voice that inspires and comforts at the same time. The quality of
her vocals makes you realize all is well in the jazz world…Altogether a simply
wonderful album’ Sammy Stein,
SomethingElse
On Wednesday 3rd May Sarah Moule’s acclaimed new album Stormy Emotions (33JAZZ285) is released on download. It comprises 12 songs, 10 of which are first recordings of songs by American lyricist, Fran Landesman and British composer Simon Wallace. Widely lauded as Moule’s best work to date, she ‘captures every nuance of the late great lyricist’s words, beautifully set by Simon Wallace’ (Dave Gelly, The Observer).
Stormy
Emotions, is Sarah’s 5th album an uplifting collection of songs explores
themes of Time and Love. In eighteen
years spent working with Simon and Fran, Sarah developed a uniquely close
relationship to their material. Born in
New York in 1927, Landesman’s lyrics have been sung by great artists including
Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand and with this collection,
including ten previously unrecorded songs, Sarah will have introduced
forty-five Landesman/Wallace songs to the world.
'I got lucky meeting
Simon. That he married Sarah Moule was a bonus.
She's the jazz singer par excellence.' Fran Landesman
In addition to releasing the album as a download, Moule and Wallace are premiering a series of 12 videos in track order on Moule’s Youtube Channel starting on 3rd May with the album opener Nothing Is Mine Now.
With the welcome return of live performance they have a live launch gig on Wednesday 30th June at PizzaExpress Jazz Club, London with a band led by Wallace (piano) and featuring Neville Malcom (bass), Paul Robinson (drums) and special album guest (Nigel Price).
Recorded in their studio in SE London
amidst the challenges of 2020, the album features a group of Sarah and Simon's
long-time musical collaborators: bassists Mick Hutton and Neville Malcolm,
drummers Paul Robinson and Rod Youngs, guitarists Nigel Price and Charlie
Cawood, and saxophonist Mark Lockheart.
The
title track was written on the day Fran and Simon met. Eighteen years later, on the day Fran passed
away, they finished Nothing Is Mine Now, the album's opening track.
Sarah spent six years as featured vocalist with
The John Wilson Orchestra before becoming a solo recording artist and releasing
her first two albums on Linn Records and two further highly acclaimed albums on
Red Ram Records.
When Simon met Fran in 1993 he had recently
returned from 3 years touring
worldwide with the Lindsay Kemp Company and was writing music for TV shows
including Absolutely Fabulous and French and Saunders. For the next eighteen years the couple got
together every week to write producing a
catalogue of over 300 songs.
Tracklisting
1 Nothing
Is Mine Now
2 Are We Just Having Fun?
3 Never That’s When
4 Close To Tears
5 A Magician’s Confession
6 Truly
Unruly
7 After
The Fall
8 On
Hold/Living In Limbo
9 Time Is
The Beast
10 The Long Arm Of Love
11 Fool’s Gold
12 Stormy
Emotions
Mick Hutton double bass (tracks 3, 4,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11), Neville Malcolm double bass (1, 2, 5, 6), Paul Robinson drums
(3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), Rod Youngs
drums (1, 2, 5, 6), Nigel Price guitar
(1, 6, 7, 8) Mark Lockheart saxophone and bass clarinet (2, 4, 9).
Dates:
Livestream every Sunday evening at
7.30pm
3rd June East Grinstead Jazz Club
30th June ALBUM LAUNCH at Pizza Express Jazz Club, London
28th July Splashpoint Jazz
Club, Eastbourne
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