[Dixielandjazz] New guy on the block

[Judy Eames]

Kash asked who am Jamie Cullum, what am he?

 Jamie Cullum  was the protegee of Ray Butt, a local (Swindon UK) reedman
and broadcaster who I've worked with a couple of times.  Ray  recommended
Jamie as a "dep" if I ever I was short of a piano player...... but  I never
was!

He was a local musician but somehow our paths never crossed.  One of the
promoters had a bit of a coup when after his sudden catapulting to fame,
Jamie honoured a booking with him. I gather he's a nice young man and a very
good piano player.... the little I've heard of his singing on TV doesn't
appeal one bit, he seems to force his voice in a way that can make it sound
ugly (to me but not to the rest of the world it seems) but people in glass
houses have to be very careful with their stone throwing :-) and maybe I
caught him on a bad night

As for the cockiness, it has been my observation that it's a rare youngster
who can cope with being hyped up without becoming insufferable.  I, on the
other hand,  am of an age where I would handle fame with due modesty and
dignity.

Jude .... (had a really good gig at Brecon, a predominantly modern festival,
last weekend but I'm not going to tell you for fear of being thought a
braggart:-) )



Judy Eames
Kaminsky Connection
Aston, Oxfordshire
UK
www.judyeames.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kashishian" <jim at kashprod.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 5:52 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] New guy on the block


> Anybody hear/see this young fellow, Jamie Cullum?  I recently saw a bit of
> tv of him at a jazz festival.  About 24 yrs old.  Extremely cocky.  Jeans
> hanging off his butt.  But, oh so very, very talented!
>
> He is basically a piano player, but does that rarely sitting down, and is
> extremely percussive in most of his playing.  He sometimes uses the
keyboard
> for beats rather than chords/melody, plays rhythms on the strings, the
top,
> the bottom..., but it is all so rhythmic it lifts you out of your seat!
He
> can also be melodic in his playing, which shows his musical talent well.
>
> He sings, moans, shouts, but is best just when he sings.  He tackles
> extremely difficult standard ballads being backed only by an electric
bass.
> It certainly ain't Dixie, but it's good.
>
> In short, just when you figure it's all been invented, a new inventor
comes
> along.
>
> In this particular band he had a bassist (electric), a keyboard player
that
> doubled on trumpet, and a drummer.  All very top of the line.  Jamie also
> handles a fairly good guitar.
>
> Jim
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