Ian Shaw & Liane Carroll
@ the PizzaExpress Jazz Club
23 March 2009
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Desert Island Discs...
Which 2 albums would you take with you to a
desert island?
Ian Shaw
Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
Rickie Lee Jones – Rickie Lee Jones (first album released
on Warner Brothers 1979 featuring Steve Gadd, Ernie Watts, Michael
McDonald and many more).
Liane Carroll
Laura Nyro – The First Songs
Sibelius – Symphony No5 in E-Flat Major
Ian Shaw biography
Named Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards
in 2007 and 2004, Ian Shaw has already amassed a number of highly
acclaimed albums and is a popular performer both in the UK and the
US.
Shaw’s career in performance began unusually
for a jazz musician on the Alternative Cabaret Circuit, alongside
such performers as Julian Clary, Rory Bremner and Jo Brand. Shaw
was spotted by Dave Illic, jazz critic for “City Limits”
and was described as “the voice of the decade”. In the
next few years Shaw moved from the singer-pianist format to working
with his new band to an eventual move into jazz. Shaw has toured
extensively in the UK, Europe and the States, his appearances on
TV included guesting with Jools Holland, Top of the Pops, The Jack
Dee Show, Christmas Night with the Stars (BBC), C4’s The Happening,
TVAM, BBC Breakfast Show, BBC 2’s A Night of Love, BBC 2’s
Jazz at the 606 and, more recently, numerous appearances on the
Performance and Artsworld channels.
His collaborators over the years have included:
Guy Barker, Mari Wilson, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Iain Ballamy,
Mornington Lockett, Barb Jungr, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth, Cedar
Walton, Joe Lovano, Joe Beck, Papa Vasquez, Lew Soloff, Geoffrey
Williams and Ray Brown.
In 2002 Shaw performed in “Jerry Springer,
the Opera”, by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee. Thomas created
the part of the warm-up man/devil for Shaw. Shaw is a regular on
BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4 as well as contributing to “Behind the
Mask with Alison Moyet”, a Something Else Production for Jazz
FM.
As well as presenting Big Band Special for Radio
2, Shaw co-hosted The 2004 BBC Jazz Awards with Claire Martin, during
which he picked up the Best Vocalist award.
In the summer of 2005, Shaw appeared in the new
Adrian Shergold (“Dirty Filthy Love”, “Christmas
Lights”) directed film, “Pierrepoint”, playing
Percy, alongside Tim Spall and Juliet Stevenson. The film features
a song, written by Shaw.
Liane Carroll biography
Liane Carroll was born in London and raised in
Hastings, where she currently lives with her husband, bassist Roger
Carey. She started playing the piano at the age of three, under
the tutorage of concert pianist Phyllis Catling, but soon developed
a deep passion for everything jazz, soul and beyond. Both of her
parents were singers and, following their divorce when Carroll was
six, she stayed with her mother and sister at her grand-parents’
house, where she was lovingly encouraged to carry on making as much
of a racket as possible.
In Hastings, at the age of 15, she started to appear
with various bands both as a singer, pianist and composer. In 1988
she joined Trevor Watts’ ‘Moire Music’ featuring
Liam Genockey, Nana Tsiboe and Simon Picard, where they would embark
on several world tours.
After leaving the band, she appeared with many
varied line-ups, including the Dave Holdsworth band, featuring bassist
Roger Carey, and drummer Dave Trigwell.
In 1990, she formed her own trio, married Roger
Carey, now the resident bass player in the band, and continued to
work with many visiting outfits, including two recordings and a
tour with Gerry Rafferty, two tours with US guitar legend Jerry
Donahue, and many European tours with the legendary Long John Baldry.
At the same time, she met and started working and
touring with guitarist/songwriter Peter Kirtley and joined the band
alongside Steve Lamb (bass) and Greg Leppard (drums). As a unit,
they would later record a charity song, ‘Little Children’
(written by Kirtley) for the children of Brazil, with Sir Paul McCartney.
Since 1993, Carroll has appeared as a headline
act at the legendary Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club, where she has also
recorded two live CD’s for their Jazz House label. She continues
to be a regular at the celebrated 606 Club, in Chelsea.
In 2001, as well as keeping busy with her trio
and solo work, she joined the live Drum & Bass outfit, ‘London
Elektricity.’ They would later tour New Zealand, Brazil (where
they headlined to 50,000 people) and Glastonbury Festival, 2005.
While the fast soul music was a slight departure from Carroll’s
own work with her trio, it would prove an incredibly exciting time
in her career, involving the release of two CD’s and DVD’s.
2003 saw the launch of her first solo album, ‘Billy
No Mates,’ a haunting and intimate collection of standards
and originals, for the Independent label, Splash Point Records.
The album was her biggest selling to date and, as well as being
critically acclaimed, went on to win her two BBC Jazz Awards in
2005. She is the only musician ever to have picked up two of these
awards in the same year.
In 2005, she released ‘Standard Issue,’
with Splash Point, this time at Abbey Road studios, famous for its
luscious piano sound. The album featured her trio, as well as special
guests; Ian Shaw, a long-time friend and collaborator, and Bobby
Wellins, perhaps our most beloved tenor saxophonist. It would also
prove a hit with the critics and in 2006, enabled her to pick up
the Marston Pedigree Jazz Award. She would later become the subject
of an hour long television programme for the BBC, which featured
a performance by Carroll and her trio at the Brecon Jazz Festival.
2007, saw carroll undertake a busy touring schedule
with her trio as well as performing solo at the piano at many of
the UK’s more intimate settings. In May she won ‘Best
female jazz vocalist’ at the first Ronnie Scotts Jazz Awards.
June saw her trio make a head-line appearance from Glastonbury Festival,
which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3's 'Jazz Line-up.'.
Liane Carroll has been fortunate and privileged
to have worked with many wonderful musicians, including:
Roger Carey, Mark Fletcher, Ian Shaw, Greg Leppard,
Steve Lamb, Peter Kirtley, Liam Genockey, Colin Gibson, Kenny Craddock,
Nana Tsiboe, Alan Hull, Dave Mattacks, Sara Colman, Jacqui Dankworth,
Tony Colman, The Jungle Drummer, Andy Waterworth, Landslide, MC
Wrec, Stamina MC, Alec Dankworth, Guy Barker, Gerard Presencer,
Norma Winstone, John Etheridge, Gary Husband, Tim Garland, Tim Whitehead,
John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Trevor Watts, Dick Pearce, Bobby Wellins,
John Parricelli, Veryan Weston, Phil Minton, Cleveland Watkiss,
Phil Carmen, Martin Drew, Dave Trigwell, Marc Parnell, Bob Weston,
Jerry Donahue, Clive Bunker, Simon Picard, Elton Dean, Jim Dvorak,
Hugh Barns, Mel Collins, Gerry Rafferty, Long John Baldry, Hugh
Murphy, Dave Holdsworth, Joe Lee Wilson, Julian Siegel, Liam Noble,
Simon Purcell, Dave Wickens, Donna Terenzi, Jim Watson, Harvey Brough,
Steve Watts, Winston Clifford, Paul Clarvis, Jim Mullen, Dick Morrissey,
Neil Wilkinson, Rupert Cobb, Andy Williams, and many more...
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