Clare Teal: Hey Ho – review

(MUD)It's not really a jazz album, although there's jazz in it, and it's certainly not a "nostalgia" album, even though it opens with a song by Noël Coward and closes with one by Ivor Novello. In fact, this amounts to an imaginative and sometimes quite radical revisiting of 14 British songs, from the early 20th century ("Down by the Sally Gardens") to 2005 (Snow Patrol's "Chasing Cars"). Even the sacrosanct "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" comes in for some daring reharmonisation. It's a...

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