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November 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lauren Henderson: The Songbook Session

Lauren Henderson The Songbook Session Brontosaurus Records Lauren Henderson has been building her brand across a handful of albums and an EP – she’s a great singer of jazz, and she turns her ear to songs that sit just outside of the genre as well as honouring the ‘songbook’ classics; she’s as likely to reach […]
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September 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Sitting Room Sessions: Margot Pierard & Wil Sargisson

This guy in Hawke’s Bay started this thing a while back called The Sitting Room Sessions – follow the page on Facebook. Check it out. House concerts, basically. Small gigs. Acoustic, primarily. A sitting audience. Waiting to be entertained, open to hearing anything, sure of quality due to the curation by their host. He’s trusted. […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged "Singer", 20/20, Blog, Concert, Gig, Guest, Haumoana, Hawke's Bay, HB, House Concert, Jamie McPhail, Margot Pierard, Margot Pierard & Wil Sargisson, Piano, Poems, Poetry, Reading, Saturday, September 26, Show, Simon Sweetman, Sitting Room Sessions, The Cuba Press, The Death of Music Journalism, The Sitting Room Sessions, The Sitting Room Sessions: Margot Pierard & Wil Sargisson, Wil Sargisson ·

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February 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poetry at The Fringe – Sunday, 9 February, 2020

It was the first session for 2020 – Poetry At The Fringe – and it was the quietest I’ve been to. A nice day in early February means many people will be any place where indoors poetry is not. Also it was a change in the schedule, a week or two earlier than normal due […]
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December 18, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 19 – Karen Carpenter

Karen Carpenter – sadly thought of as a punchline by some, known to be an incredible singer and one half of the mega-successful sibling duo, the Carpenters – was a drummer. Brother Richard was in charge of song selection (covers) arranging, producing and composition. But if he was the boss Karen was the star. Ask […]
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October 21, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Joan As Police Woman: Joanthology

Joan As Police Woman Joanthology Play It Again Sam I don’t remember when I first heard Joan As Police Woman – or heard about her – but it was right near the start. So that’s over a decade ago now, 2006 in fact. The album Real Life was almost instantly a revelation – I remember […]
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April 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 144: Cee-Lo Green – “Cee-Lo Green…Is The Soul Machine”

Cee-Lo Green…he’s a bit like the Elton John or Sting or Eric Clapton of his day really, in that people now might struggle to believe how potent, how good he once was. Since everything happens a lot quicker now this happened a lot quicker to Cee-Lo. There he was in Goodie Mob killing it and then across his first couple of solo albums […]
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April 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Alicia Olatuja: Intuition – Songs From The Minds of Women

Alicia Olatuja Intuition: Songs From The Minds of Women  Resilience Music Alicia Olatuja is a classically trained singer who shot to fame as the soloist in a gospel choir that served at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ceremony. Such backstories are the stuff of fantasy, and the can come close to triviliasing the talents – suggesting it was luck and whim, as if […]
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February 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

José James: Lean On Me

José James Lean On Me Blue Note (BLU) When he’s not making his own great (original) music José James is the guy you want covering you. His tribute album to Billie Holiday is a gold standard.   And now he gives the Bill Withers catalogue his touch – this is more of a straight reading, a warm tribute, James’ voice close to Withers […]
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January 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 340

Grady Tate, By Special Request (1974) Grady Tate – simply one of my all-time favourite drummers, and I got to write a bit about that and a bit about him in memorial. Sad that so often we mark these moments only after a person has gone. And shortly before Tate died I got rather hooked on his crooner albums from the […]
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January 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 152 – Martin Phillipps

Welcome to episode 152 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. This one was a long time coming – a […]
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December 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 347

Ringo Starr, Sentimental Journey (1970) Poor old Ringo Starr. I say “Poor old Ringo Starr”, when there’s nothing poor about him. Nice life, great drummer, in the best band in the world, lucky timing on that too, etc. And it really hasn’t mattered what he did after. I mean he’s as well-known – actually probably […]
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August 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 26 – Chet Baker

I can’t remember when I first heard Chet Baker but I’ve been a fan for a while. A long time. Feels like he’s just been there forever. My whole life. But I would have been a teenager before I first heard him knowingly. And then it was all in. And it’s still the way. Currently […]
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