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Christine Tobin

You Draw the Line

Babel

Album description

Christine Tobin's fifth album for the label directs her highly personal vocal style to a set of dynamic mainly self-penned songs and revitalised covers of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan from her unique jazz-hued singer/songwriter perspective.

By creating new material within a broad structure of what contemporary vocal jazz means today, Tobin emerges as an earthy, expressive singer and composer taking her place alongside other jazz crossover artists such as Joni Mitchell and Cassandra Wilson.

She has replaced the first Great American songbook on her previous album in 2000 Deep Song with two new standards not normally associated with traditional jazz singing.

The Golden Age evergreens are gone, replaced by Cohen's Tower of Song, which acts as a manifesto of her artistic vision (from his 1988 comeback album I'm Your Man), and Dylan's All I Really Want To Do.

Her band consists of a strong British contingent of sensitive, much-lauded regular guitarist Phil Robson, bassist Jeremy Brown, drummers Chris Higginbottom and Steve Argüelles, and the vital addition of bright, refreshingly inventive pianist Liam Noble.