Artist: Jamie Cullum
Genre(s):
Jazz: Contemporary Jazz
Miscellaneous
Jazz
Discography:
Twentysomething
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Catching Tales
Year: 2005
Tracks: 14
Pointless Nostalgic
Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
British pianist/vocalist Jamie Cullum mixes jazz with musical pop and rock candy into a crossover style that calls to mind such artists as Harry Connick, Jr., and Norah Jones. In that vein, Cullum will scarcely as often breed a swing jazz standard as a modern rock song dynasty, and his original compositions dextrously go from earnest ballads to songs of sardonic brainpower.
Having played guitar and piano since historic period eight, Cullum developed an greedy interest in jazz passed down from his older brother Ben. Inspired by such forte-piano icons as Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck, Cullum exhausted some of his formative years living in Paris, where he honed his abilities playacting in jazz clubs.
Cullum finally earned a degree from Reading University, during which meter he recorded his showtime album, Heard It All Before, at long time 19. The surprise success of that album finally put him in touch with jazz bassist Geoff Gascoyne, world Health Organization offered Cullum the opportunity to play on his album Songs of the Summer. With Gascoyne's encouragement, Cullum finally recorded his second base album, Pointless Nostalgic, released in 2002.
The album benefited from a boost of promotional material as it standard heavy airplay on TV and radio personality Michael Parkinson's BBC 2 radio show. Cullum finally signed with Universal Records and released his third record album, Twentysomething, in 2003. Catching Tales and the compilation/mixtape album In the Mind of Jamie Cullum followed in 2005 and 2007, respectively.
