Adam Howitt's Blog

Nov 02
2004

Jamie Cullum

I am exhausted from a big push at work and forgot to post a couple of updates here. The first was a concert by Jamie Cullum here in Chicago at Park West. He is a new face from England who sings with all the tones of a jazz singer, reworking recent classics like Radiohead's High and Dry. It was a departure from my typical Tuesday night schedule of working late and heading to the Old Town School for my guitar lesson.

It was worth skipping class for and the supporting act, David Ryan Harris was good too. We started listening to Jamie Cullum based on an iTunes playlist Melissa had come across but ever since then I've been spreading the word. In addition to the Radiohead cover he covered Jeff Beck's "Lover you should've come over" and Sinatra's "Singing in the Rain". I got a cheezy pic with my camera phone but it's not worth the trouble since my LG phone takes crap pictures in the dark. If the pic had come out as planned, you would be looking at a picture of Jamie playing the piano with his head. Not your typical Jazz singer!

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  1. Yeah, no doubt Jamie rules!

    If you havn't already heard it, take a listen to his version of n*e*r*d's frontin'.

  2. Thanks for the music post. I'd never heard of David Ryan Harris before, but will now be looking into his music. If you like Jamie and that sort of thing, some other names you may want to check out are:

    Howie Day Blu Sanders Gavin DeGraw Emm Gryner Matt Nathanson (especially his album "ernst") Sondre Lerche Damien Rice

    and if you're really bored, MY music can be found here:

    http://www.purevolume.com/nolan

    :)

    cheers!

  3. Great music. My sister-in-law bought the album a few months ago and after a few listens I do need to purchase the album.

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