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Jamie Cullum releasing another covers LP

By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 29 August 2014

BBC Radio 2’s most played man-child Jamie Cullum has a new LP waiting in the wings, consisting of covers which “avoid more obvious jazz standard choices” (like Nina Simone’s little-known ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’, for instance) that JC discovered whilst on one of his many, many crate-digging trips. Titled ‘Interlude’, it’ll make its way into shops on 6 Oct, nicely in time to be available as a half-price Xmas gift for your granny.

Anyway, I’ll stop being needlessly mean and let Jamie speak. He says re ‘Interlude’: “It’s very much something that was recorded in a celebratory way – a celebration of people I’ve met through doing the radio show. Of young British, under-the-radar, shit-hot jazz musicians, those corners of the music that all of us who gathered behind the old fish market love so much. It’s a true collaboration”.

The ‘fish market’ bit, by the way, is a fond nod to the fish market in Willesden behind which Jamie taped and mixed ‘Interlude’ (in a studio) alongside its producer Ben Lamdin. As well as hints of Lamdin, the LP features Laura Mvula and Grammy-winning jazz man Gregory Porter.

Here’s the tracklisting, which features Jamie’s takes on songs like Jimmy Durante’s ‘Make Someone Happy’ and ‘Losing You’ by the artist Solange (not really, it’s the Randy Newman song):

Interlude
Don’t You Know
Seers Tower
Walkin
Good Morning Heartache (feat Laura Mvula)
Sack O Woe
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (feat Gregory Porter)
My One And Only Love
Lovesick Blues
Losing You
Out Of This World
Make Someone Happy

ALSO J-to-the-C is playing two shows at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club (obvs) on 17 and 18 Sep. Tickets are on sale now, via ronniescotts.co.uk