Carol Grimes

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for tracks https://soundcloud.com/user1698211/sets/songs-from-carol for the book Find it on https://carolgrimes.com/shop/ and Amazon. REVIEW BY BRIAN BLAIN 21st November 2013, London Jazz Festival "Carol Grimes and her current, beautifully tight band - Dorian Ford (piano), Neville Malcolm (bass) Winston Clifford (drums) and Annie Whitehead (trombone) — put them all together and we had a feast of varied music and a totally sold out venue. Grimes is a true, charismatic artist, who can groove with her wonderful rhythm section, as on her old favourite Red Top, a King Pleasure version of a classic Gene Ammons solo on a Lionel Hampton blues, that had Clifford pushing to get in on the act with some brilliant scat, a briskish Round Midnight and the delightful opener All Blues, a Miles favourite with singers."But like many of the best contemporary singers she varied her programme with songs by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and others, including a touching Scars, by that fine songwriting team Fran Landesman and Simon Wallace. Annie Whitehead's trombone work really adds to the 'colour' of this band with beautiful plunger mute vocalisation,and a fine musical sense that made her counter lines and occasional pp endings to a song absolutely perfect."Allen Toussaint's joyfully upbeat ShooRah! Shoo-Rah! sent the audience home, faces wreathed in smiles and the band into a heartfelt team huddle, discreetly out of sight of the crowd, which spoke volumes about how much they all enjoy this collective music-making. As Carol said 'This band likes to hug-a-lot.' Memorable stuff."