| | Jamie Cullum | | Conventional wisdom holds that jazz is an American art form: the crossroads where blues and folk rhythms meet European harmonies and the resulting concoction is pure swing. Sure, such Euro trailblazers as Michael Garrick, Graham Collier, and Keith Tippett have dipped their sometimes avant garde toes into the swinging brew, but that has never changed jazz's complexion. So it comes as a shock that the spike-haired, soul-crooning British artist Jamie Cullum made Interlude (Blue Note), an album that not only swings its knickers off, but does so with great rawness and authenticity. | | Read More» | |
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