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Jonathan Cairney

Sample Audio All links are to MP3 files. If you have a suitably equipped browser, the tunes will play in a separate window, so you can continue browsing while you listen. Alternatively, right-click (Windows) or Ctrl-click (Mac) and copy the URL into your audio player of choice. Some Jazz... The following four extracts were recorded by Julian Jackson (also on double bass) in December 2004, with Ross Stanley on piano and Simon Pearson on drums. If you'd like to hear the complete versions, send us an email and convince us that you deserve a copy. Autumn in New York The Girl I Love What is This Thing Called Love? You Make Me Feel So Young Here are a couple of Jonathan's self-penned solo songs as MP3 files. 1000 Janes, 1000 Alisons The Kindest Girl In All The World These two tunes written and performed by Jonathan Cairney. Recorded at the Lost Gloves Studio under the expert ears of Dave Harrison.

Jonathan's style is an individual one. He's equally at home in front of a big band with an audience of thousands, or in a tiny acoustic club where it's just him, his guitar, his songs and a handful of rapt listeners. He's a performer who has taken his time to achieve the recognition he deserves, though that looks like coming very soon. He first got national attention when he one the Perrier Young Jazz Singer award in 1998. Since then he's been honing his craft, notably as the main singer with Flat Five stablemates the Big Buzzard Boogie Band.

His songwriting talent is extraordinary with an amazing diversity of styles flowing, effortlessly it would seem, from his pen. He's written stunning funk and soul tunes (e.g. "Ya Gotta Hit The Bottom Before You Hit The Top"), straightahead swing numbers ("Libation Blues") which might have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, and whimsical, almost surreal tunes ("1000 Janes, 1000 Alisons" above, for example) which have seen him compared to Elvis Costello or Paul Simon.