Time: 49:11
Size: 112.6 MB
Styles: Jazz/blues vocals
Year: 2004
Art: Front
[4:36] 1. My Funny Valentine
[2:55] 2. Perfidia
[5:12] 3. Conscious
[4:16] 4. How Deep Is The Ocean
[3:20] 5. The Rock
[6:31] 6. Desert Kiss
[4:30] 7. Can We Pretend
[2:47] 8. A Sunday Kind Of Love
[5:45] 9. Nell's Song
[4:15] 10. Try A Little Tenderness
[4:59] 11. Dimming Of The Day
I come from a musical family and was brought up on a combination of Reggae and Motown. I started singing at the tender age of five when I went to primary school in North Wales. My headmaster noticed in assembly that I could sing in tune and from there on I was encouraged to do solos in church and school concerts. At seventeen years old I was invited to sing in a reggae band with my Mum (who has a great voice) and Dad on guitar. I had a lot of fun singing harmonies but the band didn't last long.
Six months later the Sax player from the reggae band, David Gunn came round to my house and said "You have a great voice, would you like to sing in a Jazz band?" I said "I would love to but I don't know a thing about Jazz or a single Jazz song. Dave came round every week for months and taught me loads of Standards until one day he announced I was ready to do a gig with the band (whom I had never met, that's Jazz for you) the next week. I turned up, thought I was coming down with flu cause I felt so ill from nerves, walked on stage, head swimming and was introduced to the band.
As the band played the intro I thought "I'm never going to get through this", then I opened my mouth, the song came out with a life of it's own, all my nerves dissapeared and that was the beginning of my very long love affair with Jazz. From then I started a six year stint singing with the Jazz outfit 'Eyebrow Music', singing the songs of greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Billie Holiday.
In 1995 Emma moved to the Southwest and went on to explore the Blues spending 3 years gigging with 'Blues Express', a five piece Delta/Chicago style Blues band. Here her warm husky voice was often compared to that of Bonnie Raitt and on a long night, Janis Joplin. It was during this Blues phase that she developed the Bluesy Gospel style that she is well known for now.
Six months later the Sax player from the reggae band, David Gunn came round to my house and said "You have a great voice, would you like to sing in a Jazz band?" I said "I would love to but I don't know a thing about Jazz or a single Jazz song. Dave came round every week for months and taught me loads of Standards until one day he announced I was ready to do a gig with the band (whom I had never met, that's Jazz for you) the next week. I turned up, thought I was coming down with flu cause I felt so ill from nerves, walked on stage, head swimming and was introduced to the band.
As the band played the intro I thought "I'm never going to get through this", then I opened my mouth, the song came out with a life of it's own, all my nerves dissapeared and that was the beginning of my very long love affair with Jazz. From then I started a six year stint singing with the Jazz outfit 'Eyebrow Music', singing the songs of greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Billie Holiday.
In 1995 Emma moved to the Southwest and went on to explore the Blues spending 3 years gigging with 'Blues Express', a five piece Delta/Chicago style Blues band. Here her warm husky voice was often compared to that of Bonnie Raitt and on a long night, Janis Joplin. It was during this Blues phase that she developed the Bluesy Gospel style that she is well known for now.
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