Clare Teal With the Syd Lawrence Orchestra - A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald

Styles: Vocal Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 28:35
Size: 66,0 MB
Art: Front

(2:57); 1. I've Got You Under My Skin
(3:56)  2. Begin The Beguine
(3:55)  3. I Get A Kick Out Of You
(3:31)  4. Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
(2:46)  5. Night And Day
(3:18)  6. Anything Goes
(4:23)  7. That Old Black Magic
(3:45)  8. Too Darn Hot

Recording direct-to-disk is difficult enough. The entire side has to be cut in one long take. Consider a big band vocal album like this, which has four songs per side. The orchestra and singer have to be ready as soon as the cutting stylus hits the lacquer and then they have to perform flawlessly on each track, pausing but a few seconds between songs. Often these records sound stilted and mannered as no one wants to produce a "clam" and ruin the whole thing but here everything works perfectly, with the mellifluous Clare Teal backed by The Syd Lawrence Orchestra a brash and brassy ensemble. Incredibly, it was ll rehearsed, mixed and cut to lacquer at Air Studios in one day!, under the supervision of producer Mike Valentine and co-producer Francoise Valentine. So first, who is Clare Teal? She's well-known in the U.K.

In 2004, the then thirty one year old singer was signed to Sony Jazz, in a deal that at the time was the biggest recording deal in U.K. jazz history. She grew up listening to her father's 78rpm record collection and fell in love with big band vocal music, particularly the records of Ella Fitzgerald. Teal, for all intents and purposes, sounds like a 1940's era singer transported to 2016, not just in her phrasing but particularly her vocal timbre. I can think of no other female vocalist today who hits this particular nostalgic mark and does so without it sounding forced or archaic. Instead it sounds refreshing and generous. The repertoire is of course familiar: "I've Got You Under My Skin", " Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead", "Night and Day", "Anything Goes", "That Old Black Magic" and "Too Darned Hot". Everyone's ears perked up when I played this at RMAF. The playing is crisp (under the direction of Chris Dean), the arrangements are dynamic with nicely placed hard-driving kick drum accents, and Clare sounds, for all intents and purposes, like the fourth Andrews Sister. We should be grateful that someone is taking the time and spending the money to produce a direct to disk record but more grateful that the music lives up to the sonic promise. But next time, get the writing on the jacket's spine going in the right direction! http://www.analogplanet.com/content/tribute-ella-fitzgerald-performed-clare-teal-recorded-direct-disc#DWhvoPyzxrpSm29R.97

A Tribute To Ella Fitzgerald

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Clare Teal - The Clare Teal Fireside Sessions Vol 1, 2 and 3

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
Time: 53:12
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 49,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:57) 1. Messin' With Fire
(3:54) 2. They Say It's Spring
(4:51) 3. At Last
(4:06) 4. You'll Have To Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
(2:45) 5. Jack And Jill Rag
(4:06) 6. Sweet Happy Life
(4:45) 7. I'll Never Be Free
(4:37) 8. Blackbird
(3:33) 9. I Love Being Here With You
(2:48) 10. Tea For Two
(4:55) 11. Chasing Cars
(3:50) 12. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
(5:59) 13. I Got You (I Feel Good)

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Clare Teal - The Clare Teal Fireside Sessions Vol 2

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
Time: 54:51
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 50,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:16) 1. The Song Is You
(4:05) 2. Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
(5:09) 3. Georgia
(4:58) 4. La Belle Dame Sans Regrets
(3:59) 5. Moonlight In Vermont
(3:17) 6. I Will
(5:32) 7. The Way Young Lovers Do
(5:16) 8. If I Should Lose You
(6:20) 9. My Funny Valentine
(3:23) 10. Baby It's Cold Outside
(4:43) 11. Tainted Love
(3:46) 12. Just One Of Those Things

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Clare Teal - The Clare Teal Fireside Sessions Vol 3

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
Time: 53:07
File: MP3 @ 128K/s
Size: 49,3 MB
Art: Front

(3:33) 1. On A Wonderful Day Like Today
(3:49) 2. It's Raining
(4:51) 3. You've Changed
(3:35) 4. The Sheik of Araby
(4:17) 5. California Dreamin'
(3:41) 6. If I Had A Ribbon Bow
(4:02) 7. Blue Bell Pepper
(4:31) 8. Love Hurts
(4:16) 9. Quiet Nights (Corcovado)
(4:56) 10. The Way You Look Tonight
(3:03) 11. Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall
(2:40) 12. It's A Good Day
(5:48) 13. The Twelve Days of Christmas

In between lockdowns we got the band together, along with a bunch of great filmmakers and created the Clare Teal Fireside Sessions. Three, hour long episodes, filmed in the back room of our home here in Wiltshire.

Starring Jason Rebello, Simon Little, Ben Reynolds plus special guests Pee Wee Ellis, Giacomo Smith and Dave Archer.

Over 3 hours of joyous live music and live performance to watch again and again and again and again ad fin in glorious Technicolor, breath taking Cinemascope and stereophonic sound. Head over to www.clareteal.co.uk for more details.

The Clare Teal Fireside Sessions Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3

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Clare Teal - They Say It's Swing

Styles: Vocal
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:18
Size: 121,2 MB
Art: Front

(5:11) 1. Cry Me a River
(4:20) 2. The Song is You
(3:36) 3. Perfidia
(5:39) 4. My Funny Valentine
(3:44) 5. If I Had a Ribbon Bow
(2:40) 6. Tea for Two
(3:51) 7. It's Raining
(2:52) 8. It's a Good Day
(4:12) 9. I Walk a Little Faster
(4:10) 10. They Say It's Spring
(3:59) 11. I Can Dream Can't I
(3:57) 12. Something Happens to Me
(4:01) 13. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

After signing to independent label Candid in 2001 and releasing 3 acclaimed titles, it was Clare’s first album for Sony Jazz which became her breakthrough record. Released in 2004, ‘Don’t Talk’ topped the Jazz charts and entered the UK Top 20, garnering extraordinary plaudits and several awards. She has now recorded and released 15 albums to public and critical acclaim, 7 of them on her own label MUD Records. Her most recent album, ‘Twelve O’Clock Tales’, was released in 2016 and recorded with the Hallé, conducted by Stephen Bell and arranged by world-class trumpet and composer Guy Barker.

Clare continues to surge ahead on her mission to bring big band and swing to music lovers everywhere, to demonstrate that this genre is ever evolving and still relevant in today’s world. Accompanied by her Pianist, Trio, 7-piece Mini Big Band, 9-piece Big Mini Big Band or 17-piece Hollywood Orchestra Clare performs up and down the country throughout the year at festivals and high profile venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Anvil Arts, Sage Gateshead, Love Supreme, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Bristol Jazz and Blues Festival and Glastonbury Festival, as well as singing with renowned orchestras and Big Bands including the Hallé,BBC CO, RTÉ CO, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Big Band (hr-Big Band) BBC NOW and BBC SSO. Alongside her concerts, Clare presents her own live show on BBC Radio 2 every Sunday night.

August 2017 saw Clare produce and present her third full scale BBCProm Concertto a packed audience at the Royal Albert Hall. Featuring two roaring Big Bands led by Guy Barkerand Winston Rollinsand some very special guests, ‘Swing No End’ celebratedthe triumphs of big band greats from the ‘30’s and ‘40’s and the show was broadcast on BBC Four and BBC Radio 2 and 3.

Other highlights of Clare’s live work include collaborating with Sir Van Morrisonon his album ‘Duets: Reworking the Catalogue’ resulting in the A listed Radio single ‘Carrying A Torch’,performing with Gregory Porterfor BBC Two’s 2018 Christmas Day show Merry Christmas Baby – with Gregory Porter and Friends, opening twice for Liza Minnelliat Kenwood Houseand the Royal Festival Hall, singing with the BBC Big Bandat Proms in the Park, headlining the Bourbon Street Tent at Glastonbury Festival, storming the Gateshead International Jazz Festivaland producing, presenting and performing ‘The Story of Swing’ in 2015 and the ‘Battle of the Bands Duke Ellington v Count Basie’ in 2014 for the BBC Proms Seasonat the Royal Albert Hall.

Clare won British Jazz Singer of the year in 2005, 2007, 2015 and 2017, BBC Jazz Singer of the Year in 2006 and Boisdale Jazz Singer of the year 2016. She was awarded Arts & Entertainment Personality of the Year in 2004 & 2011 Yorkshire Awards, a coveted Gold Badge by BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) in 2011 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Music by the University of Wolverhampton in 2015. https://www.clareteal.co.uk/index.php/clare/

‘We love her’ Ken Bruce

‘She’s a triple threat’ Michael Bublé

‘A sensation in the world of jazz’ Mail on Sunday

They Say It's Swing

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Clare Teal - That's The Way It Is

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2001
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:20
Size: 114,4 MB
Art: Front

(2:54)  1. Messin´with Fire
(3:51)  2. Night And Day
(6:06)  3. You´re My Thrill
(3:06)  4. Love Is A State Of Mind
(4:25)  5. Heber, The Receiver
(4:15)  6. That´s The Way It Is
(4:12)  7. Ill Wind
(4:31)  8. How Little We Know
(4:59)  9. Sleep, Little Man
(3:44) 10. Our Love Is Here To Stay
(4:13) 11. Speak Low
(2:58) 12. Circle Moon

Clare Teal is an exciting singer with intense warmth and passion whose delicate phrasing and heartfelt interpretation of lyrics are the very essence of her music. The tunes Clare selected for the album indeed mirror her tastes in music ranging from her dynamic originals 'Messin' with Fire' and 'Heber' to the sophisticated ballad artistry of 'You're My Thrill' and 'Ill Wind'. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Thats-Way-Clare-Teal/dp/B00005LOJR

That's The Way It Is

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Clare Teal - Paradisi Carousel

Size: 98,4 MB
Time: 42:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Baby, I'm Coming Home (3:52)
02. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (3:14)
03. Paradisi Carousel (3:31)
04. Missing You (3:45)
05. Reach Out (I'll Be There) (3:48)
06. Light Flight (4:12)
07. Breakout (3:23)
08. Stay With Me (4:20)
09. What Love Knows (4:36)
10. Magic Day (3:29)
11. Alone With You (3:58)

With a clutch of 'best vocalist' awards to her name plus plaudits aplenty, Clare Teal is surely now established. Paradisi Carousel is her seventh album, the second since her Sony contract garnered publicity as the most lucrative ever for a British jazz singer. In light of that, it may be no surprise that the music here is as much pop as it is jazz; indeed, Teal herself cites Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield and The Carpenters as points of comparison. And rightly so; on the opener, “Baby, I’m Coming Home”, Teal’s phrasing and intonations sound uncannily like Karen Carpenter.

On this evidence, Teal’s voice is heard to best effect on ballads and songs laden with emotion, being perfect to express a sense of loss and yearning as on “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying”. While she easily handles a more bombastic brass-driven arrangement like “Breakout” – which doubtless goes down a storm in concert - its relative lack of emotion does not play to her strengths. The four Teal originals included here demonstrate her growing prowess as a songwriter, and suggest that she writes material ideally suited to those strengths, with the title track and “Stay With Me” being particularly strong.

Teal is renowned for cover versions that reinvent the original – witness her earlier radical rethinking of The Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreaming”. Here, she does something similar with The Four Tops classic “Reach Out (I’ll Be There)”, slowing it down dramatically and changing the mood from one of joyous celebration to hopeful longing. By comparison, her version of Pentangle’s “Light Flight” stays very close to the original; with its complex rhythms, it allows Teal to demonstrate her vocal technique, but this version doesn’t establish its own identity.

Existing fans of Teal are likely to be more than satisfied with this album. It may also appeal to the burgeoning audience for pop-jazz singers such as Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae. ~John Eyles

Paradisi Carousel

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Clare Teal - The Road Less Travelled

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:19
Size: 127,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:17)  1. Dream
(3:31)  2. So Blue
(3:36)  3. The Road Less Travelled
(3:35)  4. Blue Skies
(4:03)  5. Something I Dreamed Last Night
(4:07)  6. Miss Otis Regrets
(4:09)  7. Out Of Nowhere
(4:00)  8. Velvet Moon
(3:22)  9. This Time The Dream's On Me
(3:21) 10. Change Partners
(3:42) 11. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes
(4:39) 12. Madrugada
(3:46) 13. Teach Me Tonight
(3:04) 14. I'm Beginning To See The Light

Except for the duet with Jamie Cullum on the title track and the delicately yodelled country ballad So Blue, these are mostly American Songbook standards in 14 selections for British singer Clare Teal's third album. Though the opening of the duet makes Cullum sound as if he is wrestling for a lower register he doesn't have, the song becomes exhilarating, and confirms the velvety softness and triumphant power that makes Teal a little different from all the other low-volume singers that frequent this neck of the jazz woods. This album has a lot of bounce for a retro set, aided by a lively band playing Martin Litton's bright and propulsive arrangements. Teal is an inventive scat singer; her handling of slow material has a smoky sensuality coupled with a full, luxurious sound that never loses its richness. The arrangements offset the familiarity of the material, and the singer even casts a fresh eye over jazz samba with her restrained account of Mandrugada. A bit too much like dinner jazz for some, but made with skilful devotion. 

~ John Fordham https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/oct/31/jazz.shopping

The Road Less Travelled

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Clare Teal - Twelve O’Clock Tales

Size: 154,0 MB
Time: 66:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Vocal Jazz
Art: Front

01. It Might As Well Be Spring (3:40)
02. Feeling Good (5:19)
03. Wild Is The Wind (3:55)
04. Sans Souci (3:26)
05. I'll Never Stop Loving You (5:31)
06. La Belle Dame Sans Regret (5:06)
07. Lush Life (5:58)
08. Never Again (3:33)
09. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (6:42)
10. Always True To You In My Fashion (3:42)
11. Whole (It Isn't Like Me) (4:21)
12. Secret Love (6:27)
13. The Folks Who Live On The Hill (4:10)
14. Paradisi Carousel (4:43)

One of the UK’s finest Jazz singers and much loved performers Clare Teal explores timeless classics penned by the legendary musical storytellers of the last 100 years, and celebrates the giants of the Great American and British Song Books through to the work of more contemporary writers crafting the standards of today plus Clare’s own original compositions.

Accompanied by the renowned Hallé, conducted by Stephen Bell and arranged by British composer and trumpet maestro Guy Barker and celebrated jazz pianists Grant Windsor and Jason Rebello, the rich jazz infused repertoire includes songs from Cole Porter, Billy Strayhorn, Rodgers & Hammerstein and Tim Rice, made famous by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson and Peggy Lee.

The Hallé is now in its 158th season and ranks among the UK’s top symphonic ensembles with acclaimed performances worldwide

Twelve O’Clock Tales is Clare’s 15th Album and her 7th album released on MUD records.

Twelve O’Clock Tales

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Van Morrison - Duets: Reworking The Catalogue

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:43
Size: 175.6 MB
Styles: R&B, Rock, Blues, Soul vocals
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[5:15] 1. Some Peace Of Mind (With Bobby Womack)
[3:50] 2. If I Ever Needed Someone (With Mavis Staples)
[3:49] 3. Higher Than The World (With George Benson)
[6:23] 4. Wild Honey (With Joss Stone)
[3:43] 5. Whatever Happened To P.J. Proby (With P.J. Proby)
[4:54] 6. Carrying A Torch (With Clare Teal)
[4:12] 7. The Eternal Kansas City (With Gregory Porter)
[4:58] 8. Streets Of Arklow (With Mick Hucknall)
[3:52] 9. These Are The Days (With Natalie Cole)
[4:42] 10. Get On With The Show (With Georgie Fame)
[4:24] 11. Rough God Goes Riding (With Shana Morrison)
[6:42] 12. Fire In The Belly (With Stevie Winwood)
[4:00] 13. Born To Sing (With Chris Farlowe)
[5:15] 14. Irish Heartbeat (With Mark Knopfler)
[4:02] 15. Real Real Gone (With Michael Buble)
[6:34] 16. How Can A Poor Boy (With Taj Mahal)

On DUETS: RE-WORKING THE CATALOGUE, Van Morrison and the guests selected and recorded some of his songs from the catalog of 360 songs across his career. Deliberately steering away from his more well-known classics, Van enlisted some of the artists he most respects to perform these songs with him to re-craft and re-imagine them. The album was recorded in his home town of Belfast and London in the United Kingdom over the last year, using a variety of musicians and fresh arrangements.

Produced by Van Morrison along with Don Was and Bob Rock, the album features duet performances with Bobby Womack, Steve Winwood, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Mavis Staples, Michael Bublé, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Gregory Porter, Clare Teal, P.J. Proby, Joss Stone, Georgie Fame, Mick Hucknall, Chris Farlowe, and Van's daughter Shana Morrison.

Van Morrison is considered one of the most prolific recording artists and extraordinary live performers of our time. He has received a multitude of awards and accolades including 6 Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, an OBE, an Ivor Novello, and has been inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His visionary songwriting and mastery of many genres continues to shine on albums celebrating and re-exploring his blues, jazz, skiffle and country roots. With one of the most revered catalogues in music history, his talents as a composer, singer and performer are unmatched.

Duets: Reworking The Catalogue

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Clare Teal - Orsino's Songs

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:33
Size: 113.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[4:08] 1. California Dreamin'
[4:12] 2. The Way You Look Tonight
[4:05] 3. Life Plans
[5:05] 4. In The Still Of The Night
[4:05] 5. Let's Not Take A Raincheck
[3:19] 6. Ready For Love To Begin
[5:34] 7. Blues In The Night
[3:41] 8. You Make Me Feel So Young
[2:52] 9. Mountain Greenery
[4:44] 10. I Only Have Eyes For You
[5:30] 11. I Loves You Porgy
[2:13] 12. Who Bought The Car

Clare Teal has proved to be without a doubt, one of the most talented newcomers to hit the Jazz scene in years. Not only a wonderfully gifted singer, but also a very promising, melodic, intuitive and witty writer who's own songs are already being heralded as standards. Orsino's Songs is Clare's second album - the content of which is even richer and exudes more warmth than ever.

Clare is accompanied by her regular band made up of the UK's top mainstream musicians, Martin Litton on Piano; Trevor Whiting on Reeds; Nils Solberg on Guitar, John Day on Bass and Rod Brown on Drums. As well as three very special guests Alan Barnes, Ian Shaw + Malcolm Earl Smith. Martin Litton has excelled himself with the arrangements for this selection of well-known classics and originals. He, like Clare, knows how to reach into the very core of a song and his arrangements display a whole variety of styles and emotions.

Clare puts the success of this harmonious and creative partnership down to the fact that both she and Martin share a birthday and are obviously linked by the 17th moon of Uranus! Orsino's Songs really says it all about Clare. The quality of the performance you on this CD is replicated at every one of her concerts and roadshows. The album is a complete experience from start to finish encompassing all the many facets of her unique talents. It's all there the originality, exuberance, pathos, tenderness and wit.

Orsino's Songs

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Clare Teal & Grant Windsor With Special Guest Pee Wee Ellis - In Good Company

Size: 107,9 MB
Time: 46:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (4:17)
02. I Get Along Without You Very Well (4:57)
03. Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart (4:24)
04. A Kiss To Build A Dream On (3:37)
05. Lover Man (5:15)
06. Come Together (4:14)
07. The Nearness Of You (5:09)
08. Don't Go To Strangers (5:39)
09. I Got You (I Feel Good) (5:28)
10. My Neighbourhood (3:51)

Following on from the success of 'And So It Goes', Clare and Grant invited saxophone legend Pee Wee Ellis into the studio to make an 'as live' totally organic album. In Good Company was recorded over 2 days and is a collection of songs that have inspired, or influenced Pee Wee, songs that he has enjoyed playing throughout his vast career or that he has indeed written himself, not to mention a couple of random offerings that are there purely because they came up in conversation at the time!

In Good Company

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Clare Teal & Her Mini Big Band - At Your Request

Size: 117,3 MB
Time: 49:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (4:11)
02. That Old Black Magic (3:16)
03. The Way Young Lovers Do (4:37)
04. Dream A Little Dream of Me (4:21)
05. Mountain Greenery (2:28)
06. Never Go Away (4:00)
07. The Folks Who Live on the Hill (3:45)
08. Hallelujah Part 1 (2:19)
09. Hallelujah Part 2 (5:30)
10. Fascinating Rhythm (3:26)
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It (3:54)
12. Teardrops From My Eyes (4:13)
13. Twenty-Mile Zone (3:36)

Clare Teal is one of the UK’s most celebrated and much loved jazz singers, as well as a prolific recording artist and popular BBC Radio 2 broadcaster. To date she has recorded and released 13 albums to public and critical acclaim. Her stunning voice, encyclopaedic knowledge of jazz, swing and big band music, and her innate warmth and wit have made Clare one of the most sought after singers and broadcasters in the country.

After signing to independent label Candid in 2001 and releasing three acclaimed titles, it was Clare’s first album for Sony Jazz which became her breakthrough record. Released in 2004, ‘Don’t Talk’ topped the Jazz charts and entered the UK Top 20, garnering extraordinary plaudits and several awards. She has gone on to release seven more successful albums, most recently her 2014 release ‘In Good Company’ featuring saxophone legend Pee Wee Ellis.

As a live artist, Clare has performed across the length and breadth of the UK and across the globe. Her shows are renowned not only for her stunning vocals and great song choices, but also because she has deservedly developed a reputation as one of our most entertaining and witty performers.

Clare loves working with large and small ensemble groups and performs with orchestras, big bands and most regularly with her trio, in 2013 she formed her own Big band, and a year later created a 16 piece Hollywood Band for a show celebrating the music of Doris Day. She has a particular passion for the Great American Songbook and more recently the Great British Songbook. Her love of the great female singers of our time has led her to develop her show ‘The Divas and Me!’ celebrating the leading lights of the jazz and big band world, including Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland and Anita O’Day.

Highlights of Clare’s live work include opening twice for Liza Minnelli at Kenwood House and the Royal Festival Hall, singing with the BBC Big Band at Proms in the Park, headlining the Bourbon Street tent at Glastonbury Festival, performing regularly at the world renowned Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, storming the Marlborough Jazz Festival with her Big Band and performing with the 100 piece Halle Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall.

A career pinnacle for Clare was producing, presenting and performing her own Prom during the 2014 Proms Season at the Royal Albert Hall. ‘Battle of the Bands Duke Ellington v Count Basie’ was filmed before a capacity crowd, broadcast simultaneously on BBC Radio 2 & 3 and was the most viewed prom of 2014 on BBC Four.

Clare is now a loved and respected broadcaster on the BBC radio 2. She presents her own 2 hour live show on BBC Radio 2 featuring the best of swing and big band music.

Clare won British Jazz Singer of the year in both 2005 and 2007, and BBC Jazz Singer of the Year in 2006. She was awarded Arts & Entertainment Personality of the Year in 2004 & 2011 Yorkshire Awards and was awarded a much coveted Gold Badge by BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) in 2011.

Clare’s future plans include touring her tribute to the legendary Doris Day accompanied by her 16 piece Hollywood Band, further shows with The Clare Teal Big Band. In addition she will continue to tour with her Mini Big Band and perform with her beloved trio. She will release her 14th album, ‘At Your Request’ in February 2015.

At Your Request

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Clare Teal - Hey Ho

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 56:47
Size: 130.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:04] 1. If Love Were All
[3:36] 2. One More - Baby Be Good To Me
[5:17] 3. Why
[3:36] 4. It's Not Unusual
[3:40] 5. The Sally Gardens
[2:43] 6. Love Is The Sweetest Thing
[3:40] 7. Whole - It Isn't Like Me
[4:01] 8. Care Of Cell 44
[4:22] 9. Try A Little Tenderness
[4:50] 10. Chasing Cars
[4:26] 11. Sing It Back
[4:09] 12. He Was Beautiful
[5:16] 13. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
[3:01] 14. We'll Gather Lilacs

It's not really a jazz album, although there's jazz in it, and it's certainly not a "nostalgia" album, even though it opens with a song by Noël Coward and closes with one by Ivor Novello. In fact, this amounts to an imaginative and sometimes quite radical revisiting of 14 British songs, from the early 20th century ("Down by the Sally Gardens") to 2005 (Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars"). Even the sacrosanct "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" comes in for some daring reharmonisation. It's all very unexpected, and only a singer as bright and adventurous as Clare Teal could bring it off - which she does, flawlessly. ~Dave Gelly

Hey Ho

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Clare Teal - Get Happy

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:07
Size: 117,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:21)  1. All For Love
(2:41)  2. Get Happy
(4:33)  3. Love Hurts
(4:19)  4. Begin The Beguine
(3:29)  5. Cheek To Cheek
(2:57)  6. Get On It Sam
(4:32)  7. The Very Thought Of You
(3:04)  8. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
(4:59)  9. Moondance
(3:40) 10. Love For Sale
(3:35) 11. High Love
(3:42) 12. Time After Time
(3:11) 13. All The Things You Are

When Yorkshire-born singer Clare Teal first surfaced six years back, she sounded like an artist who could deliver a very safe jazz and classic-pop repertoire with a distinctive fizz that came from both technical sophistication and an unequivocal love of the material. Teal grew up fantasising she was Ginger Rogers whirling into the arms of Fred Astaire around the aisles of Keighley shopping centre when she was out with her mum - and that enduring devotion to swing, standards and lyrics about a rosily simplified life remains central to her appeal.

This set marks Teal's move to Universal's W14 imprint (Alison Moyet and Siouxsie Sioux are labelmates), and, of course, it's all tailor-made Michael Parkinson material. Teal's powerful jazz credentials are more to the fore on this album, however, notably in her light-stepping swing over a fast bass-walk on Cheek to Cheek, the Ella Fitzgerald scat-jam at the end, and the Cab Calloway hi-de-ho references in the finale of Moondance. Her clarity and controlled power allow her to make the much-travelled pop ballads Love Hurts and Breaking Up Is Hard to Do her own, but in replacing the sense of desolation in Love for Sale with a kind of plain-speaking resignation, she diminishes its meaning. Some may find many of the other lyrics too cheesy to be delivered without irony, and the Radio 2 vibe too pervasive. But, as always with Teal, she sounds as if she's loving every moment, and for many that will be infectious.~ John Fordham   http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/feb/22/jazz.shopping1

Get Happy

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Clare Teal - Live At Ebenezer Chapel

Size: 124,4 MB
Time: 54:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009/2013 USA
Styles: Vocal Jazz
Art: Front

01. Tea For Two (4:19)
02. Mountain Greenery (3:06)
03. Brave Face (5:00)
04. Teach Me Tonight (3:54)
05. Heber, The Receiver (3:11)
06. Circle Moon (4:43)
07. Shiny Stockings (3:40)
08. I Loves You Porgy (5:25)
09. Night And Day (3:05)
10. Blues In The Night (5:41)
11. In The Still Of The Night (5:28)
12. The Road Less Travelled (6:23)

Recorded in front of an intimate live audience at The Ebenezer Chapel one snowy night in February 2009. This album has a wonderful vibe and captures perfectly the joyous atmosphere of a very special evening.

Having developed an obsession with her grandmother's old Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday 45s at a young age, critically acclaimed vocalist Clare Teal went onto become one of the biggest names on the U.K. contemporary jazz scene. Born in Kildwick, a tiny village near Yorkshire, in 1973, Teal learned to play the piano, clarinet, and electronic organ before studying music at Wolverhampton University, where she discovered her vocal abilities during an impromptu exam. After stints writing jingles and selling advertising space, she signed a deal with jazz specialty label Candid Records, where she released three albums, That's the Way It Is, Orsino's Songs, and The Road Less Travelled. In 2004, she landed the biggest-ever record contract by a U.K. jazz artist with Sony, and scored a Top 20 album with her major-label debut, Don't Talk. In 2005, she became a regular DJ on BBC Radio 2, hosting both the Big Band Special and Friday Night Is Music Night shows, and a year later, won the BBC Jazz Vocalist of the Year. Teal has since released three LPs, 2007's Paradisi Carousel, 2008's Get Happy, and 2009's Live at the Ebenezer Chapel, appeared on Helmut Lotti's Time to Swing, and is set to release her new studio album, Clare Teal Sings the Great British Songbook, in 2011. ~ Jon O'Brien

Live At Ebenezer Chapel

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Clare Teal - Jing, Jing-A-Ling

Size: 101,8 MB
Time: 44:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Holidays
Art: Front

01. Warm December (2:32)
02. The Christmas Song (4:17)
03. Jing-A-Ling, Jing-A-Ling (3:41)
04. Winter Wonderland (3:47)
05. A Little Whisky (2:59)
06. December (3:47)
07. That's What I Want For Christmas (3:58)
08. Skating On Thin Ice (3:47)
09. The Feeling's Right (3:13)
10. Mele Kalikimaka (2:34)
11. The Twelve Days Of Christmas (4:39)
12. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve (4:44)

Our very own Queen of Swing and top jazz singer Clare Teal should need little introduction after over a decade frequenting the National and Jazz charts and filling theatres the length and breadth of the country.

In 'The Divas and Me', Clare celebrates the music of her heroines, the leading lights of the jazz and big band world, paying homage to Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Doris Day and many of their illustrious contemporaries.

Clare demonstrates the influence these characters have had on her own acclaimed catalogue of work. Known for her knowledge and love of the Great American Songbook and more recently The Great British Songbook, with wit and warmth, Clare tells outrageous anecdotes of their extraordinary lives and points to the future of Diva-dom with a few relevant originals and more modern day covers.

Multi award-winning Clare, who hosts two weekly Radio 2 programmes, formed her own label MUD Records in 2009 releasing three critically acclaimed albums Live At Ebenezer Chapel, Hey Ho (a celebration of the Great British Songbook) and And So It Goes and is now poised to release her long awaited first ever Christmas record Jing, Jing-a-Ling.

Jing, Jing-A-Ling

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Clare Teal & Grant Windsor - And So It Goes

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 47:25
Size: 108.6 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:18] 1. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
[3:20] 2. Skylark
[3:36] 3. Another Language
[3:24] 4. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
[3:57] 5. Stardust
[3:33] 6. In The Still Of The Night
[3:35] 7. Black Coffee
[4:29] 8. The Space I Leave For You
[5:26] 9. I'm A Fool To Want You
[4:03] 10. The Way You Look Tonight
[3:58] 11. Someone To Watch Over Me
[4:39] 12. And So It Goes

The latest Album by Clare Teal - 'And So It Goes' is yet another stunning product from the next Big Thing in UK Jazz! She has absolutely perfect intonation and the combination of her voice and the brilliant piano playing of Grant Windsor is a truly wonderful listening experience.

Clare is a consummate professional with a huge sense of humour and a soft heart. It comes across in this album of classic American songs. She just owns the tracks and does total justice to the writers and composers of the songs she sings. ~Rupert Kirkham/amazon

And So It Goes

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Clare Teal - 2 albums: Paradisi Carousel / Don't Talk

Album: Paradisi Carousel
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:08
Size: 96.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz vocals
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:50] 1. Baby, I'm Coming Home
[3:13] 2. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
[3:29] 3. Paradisi Carousel
[3:45] 4. Missing You
[3:48] 5. Reach Out (I'll Be There)
[4:11] 6. Light Flight
[3:20] 7. Breakout
[4:20] 8. Stay With Me
[4:34] 9. What Love Knows
[3:33] 10. Magic Day
[3:59] 11. Alone With You

2007 release of Teal's seventh album & her second for Sony Music. "Paradisi Carousel" is a rich, often sublime set of succulent tunes sung by a voice lined with velvet. Teal's voice can best be compared to being a Karen Carpenter for the 21st century, a British Diana Krall. Her loyal fans always knew she had the best voice in the UK, now the world will know too. "I spent an entire year working on this, which, for me, is very unusual," she says. "In the typical jazz tradition, I normally take no more than 6 weeks, so it would have been awful if I didn't have something to show for all those additional months & all that extra effort, don't you think?... Music is a melting pot," Clare says. "And that's what I'm all about, ultimately, a melting pot with 70 years of music at my fingertips". "Paradisi" is Latin for grapefruit and Teal has quite a thing for grapefruit. "It's a much misunderstood fruit," she reasons, "and I thought it was high time somebody stuck up for it!"

Paradisi Carousel

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Album: Dont Talk
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:15
Size: 112.8 MB
Styles: Contemporary jazz vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:16] 1. Messin' With Fire
[2:56] 2. When In Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)
[3:49] 3. Stoned Soul Picnic
[3:43] 4. Everything Is You
[3:19] 5. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
[3:53] 6. You Bring The Best Out In Me
[3:02] 7. The Music Goes Round And Round
[3:46] 8. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
[3:56] 9. Mood Indigo
[3:58] 10. Falling For You
[4:17] 11. In A Mellow Tone
[5:51] 12. So In Love
[3:24] 13. I Just Want To Make Love To You

Fourth album and major-label debut from British vocalist in love with old-school big band swing and jazz. Although she is being touted as Sony's answer to Jamie Cullum, her sound is much more rooted in tradition. Here she performs a selection of jazzed-up versions of pop and soul classics alongside trad standards and four originals which show why she has been hailed as one the UK's most exciting jazz talents.

Dont Talk

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