tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935338323651030142024-03-12T21:25:56.705-07:00Bouquet of BarbsShows, news, videos, chat and moreBarb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-6804723947748281722019-09-09T02:33:00.004-07:002019-09-09T02:33:44.043-07:00Bob, Brel and Me is OUT! Tremendously exciting to have the release of Bob, Brel and Me out and for several times last week being Number One in the Amazon Vocal Jazz Charts.<br />
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We want to keep it that way obviously so we are working our hardest across the board to let everyone know about the recording. Sharing everything and getting people to listen on iTunes and buy it on the online shop at the website or amazon or wherever -<br />
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Its the best piece of work I've ever done and I am so proud of it and thrilled with all the amazing work the musicians and arrangers brought because they all gave their best, as did Robb Johnson on the translations and Steve on the photos and design.<br />
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So much of it all is in these new reviews, so thank you to Adrian for this<br />
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to Ange at We Are Cult for this<br />
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to Alex Ramon for the feature interview at PopMatters<br />
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to Matthew Ruddick for this 5 star review at Kind Of Jazz<br />
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to Sammy Stein for Something Else album review here<br />
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and to Culture Fix for this 5 star live review of the show in Edinburgh here<br />
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Billy Watson kindly did some filming for us in Edinburgh and we have a wonderful set of live videos including this one, here<br />
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We start touring at the end of the month and we are going to some great places - The Cinnamon Bowden begins and then Richmond Yorks, then a whole bunch taking in Milton Keynes, Manchester, Sheffield, Bristol, and more. All the dates and the online shop and all informations is here -<br />
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So come on, join us, please share and listen and buy and gift and help make Bob, Brel and Me known throughout the cosmos! We love you all.<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-19304561236083665512019-07-14T15:30:00.002-07:002019-07-14T15:30:28.873-07:00Rise and Shine,life and gigs, mud and blood.Just back from seeing my ex Father in Law, the now legendary Frank Bowling. We were chatting in the late afternoon sun about this and that, my now long gone husband was Frank's son, and finally I said, "Life...." as you do. To which Frank replied "Mud and blood. Its what we are and its where we end up." I love conversations that end with something as good as Mud and Blood. He had another wonderful one for me today, I said "people!" when we were talking about a reprobate from the past. "Yes" said Frank, "they get wet in the rain and they dry out in the sun." Frank's exhibition is on, as it were, the pyramid stage of Tate Britain, and its something else. Go if you can. Its there till September and you will find a feast of brilliance, colour, emotion and beauty that may well stop you in your tracks. It stopped me in mine and I've known Frank 40 years. So it was a lovely visit with Frank, Rachel and Frederik, Frank's grandson.<br />
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That followed another excellent long meeting with Nate, who is taking over alot of my shambolic communications and focussing me on what I have to do so I don't have to do other things not very well. This can only be a good thing. As life rumbles on it seems to me that I'm only actually fit to write songs, sing them here and there, and write musical theatre. I used to think I could perhaps work with trees. But realistically I don't like dirty hands and I think tree work pretty much is going to make demands of your hands that sitting in theatres doesn't.<br />
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I could be a driver. Though the problem with driving is, as Andy Goldberg once told me, since travel days are calorie free I'd soon have to have 2 seats. Whenever you go on a long drive, as I did recently with the family to and from Cornwall, which is beautiful partly because its far away, you have to have crisps. Thats potato chips if you are reading this in the US of A. And sweeties. And fruit. And then you have to stop and have lunches where you rarely say to yourself, go on, I'll have a salad. More like, oh chips! Oh well, go on. So the driver thing could become perilous.<br />
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Cornwall was absolutely beautiful and I discovered an elemental truth which is if, every morning, you force yourself up and down a cliff, then you can go for as many delightful white wines overlooking the sea as you want. On the other hand on my return I am wondering if shortly I'll need new hips....<br />
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So this week I go to Berlin with Jenny Carr to play at Bar Jeder Vernunft, 2 shows, with a collection drawn from all over the repertoire to celebrate women, the falling of walls and freedom (pertinent the current climate) and love.<br />
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I'm looking forward to having a free day to walk around the gardens and explore the city more. Its a city I'm learning to love more and more. Level, elegant tree lined streets, cafes and bars that come alive at midnight. Glorious architecture and history in every stone.<br />
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And Rise and Shine, the first track from the new album, Bob, Brel and Me, is available now on all these platforms for streaming and downloading and I'd be ever so pleased if you would buy it. I wrote it with Mike Lindup of Level 42 and recorded it with Jamie Safir on piano, Rod Youngs on drums, Davide Mantovani on double bass, Mark Lockheart on sax and Pete Horsfall on trumpet. If you like it please feel free to tell the entire world. We love it. And I'll be singing it in Connecticut in August and Edinburgh. Here you go with the links -<br />
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Edinburgh tickets are on sale already - 24th August - here<br />
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So, grab a copy of or a listen to, Rise and Shine. Book tickets for Berlin, Birdland New York and Edinburgh. And have a Quite Great summer!<br />
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We've been working on a series of videos explaining what it is I'm doing with Bob, Brel and Me, this fabulous project including a new recording (to be released September 6th) and shows. 4 now in May and many more in the autumn.<br />
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Meanwhile I've been in the rehearsal room with some fine and fabulous musicians. Jenny Carr and Jamie Safir are a dream team with the arrangements and on drums I'm reunited with Rod Youngs who played on Stockport to Memphis and Davide Mantovani on bass, who toured with me on Shelter From the Storm. And we did a Shelter show in Birmingham last week<br />
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So I hope you can come and see us - tickets are going fast - book here for London and find all the other May dates and links to book, here on our new snazzy home page<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-35093953655894881682019-02-09T13:49:00.002-08:002019-02-09T13:57:37.462-08:00New Year New Project - Brel, Bob Dylan and originals launch in May!The New Year is upon us, 2019, The Year of the Pig in Chinese astrology. So its become time for one of my my long time collaborators, the superb musician Jenny Carr and the extraordinary young jazz pianist Jamie Safir and and I to beetle away on a new collection which launches at the newly refurbed South Bank Centre's Purcell Room on May 9th. Co-incidentally my birthday. Yes, 21 again. Ha! Here's the poster for the South Bank's brutally good music gigs campaign.<br />
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There are two more performances of the piece in May, one at my beloved Komedia in Brighton as part pf Brighton festival, booking now</div>
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There's treats in store when we record Bob, Brel and Me in April for release in early September with a posse of truly great musicians contributing to the songs. More about that nearer the time. And the songs. Well, the marvellous Robb Johnson has translated four Jacques Brel lyrics for me; Tender Hearts, To See A Friend Break Down and Cry and Cathedral. We will also do a new translation of If We Only Have Love with a surprise element on record and at Purcell Room. You'll have to come to see what it is!</div>
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Then there are some new Bob Dylan's I've not recorded before including If You See Her Say Hello, Buckets of Rain, Mr Tambourine Man and Simple Twist of Fate. I know. A lot of love songs. In the words of the long gone and badly missed Marvin Gaye. Whats going on?</div>
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Currently The Singing Mermaid, which we worked on for The Little Angel Theatre and Northampton Royal and Derngate for Christmas 2017, is touring with a wonderful cast. Getting great reviews, again. All the creative team remain so very proud of our adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monk's wonderful book. Here are reviews from Edinburgh today, hot off the press.</div>
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Later this coming year there will be a new collaboration with Little Angel Theatre artistic director Samantha Lane. The Pixie and The Pudding is an original piece which we are co-writing and Sam will direct, I'll write the songs and music and it will be the Little Angel Christmas show. </div>
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So, its a new year! I hope we'll see you at Bob, Brel and Me. There's more info on the newly designed website, here</div>
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Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-43187396021863651402018-11-14T15:52:00.001-08:002018-11-14T15:52:09.443-08:00Jools Holland, A new Dylan Podcast, Spotify playlists and moreIn the early part of the autumn I headed out to South London to be a guest on the Jools Holland radio show. Years ago, at an Edinburgh Festival in the dawn of time, I sang with him and his big band when we were all doing shows up there one summer. We have alot of mutual friends and instantly remembered them all. Some have now gone to the great bar in the sky, and we fondly recounted stories of our now legendary old mucka, Malcolm Hardy. I sang with Jools, and he played a couple of tracks from the new Barb and John Sting album. Its on player for a while and you can hear it all, here<br />
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Is it Rolling, Talking Bob Dylan is a brilliant new podcast started by the lovely Kerry Shale and Lucas Hare. Essentially they sit and talk to a bunch of Dylan loving folks about Bob and all things Bob. I was really happy to spend an hour with them and you can hear all of that and all their other wonderful guests talking Bob, here.<br />
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And thanks to Nathan I now have a new Spotify playlist, which he's magically made. Its always interesting to see what other people choose of the back catalogue, and you can hear it, here -<br />
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There will be a website redesign and a ton of news about 2019 quite soon. Meanwhile there are shows in Warwick and Helmsley with Jenny Carr on piano in October with the Bob Dylan repertoire I've been touring recently, and 2 shows in the London Jazz Festival with Jamie Safir on piano and Davide Mantovani on bass at Live at Zedel's Crazy Coqs. In December there are 2 Christmas shows with Jenny Carr on piano and Dudley Philips on double bass at The Bull's Head in Barnes and The Vortex. All details are here at the website<br />
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and if you missed it a beautiful trailer from Bar Jeder Vernunft about performing in Berlin, is here<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-62253215767375372592018-09-09T08:38:00.006-07:002018-09-09T08:38:47.590-07:00October tour dates here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-84954824850380851602018-08-29T09:48:00.001-07:002018-08-30T15:32:23.473-07:00New video trailer for 1968 - Let The Sun Shine In<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hi there,<br />
autumn is upon us and it feels as though the endless summer is just a passing fragment of a dream. Last week I was in Berlin at Bar Jeder Vernunft and the temperatures were soaring.<br />
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Though it was hot in the venue because we were on fire with the music and songs, politics and vibe of 1968. Let The Sun Shine In. We are so enamoured of this collection we are playing it again in the USA in late October at Birdland in NYC, Chicago and St Louis. There may still be a couple of additional dates. As they come in they are on the website here<br />
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as are all the new reviews of this show. And there was a beautiful trailer made of the work and my upcoming Dylan shows at the venue in November.<br />
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And I haven't mentioned Connecticut and the O'Neill Cabaret Conference which was, for me, the most wonderful so far. I'm thrilled that several of our "alumni" have gone on to win awards in NYC, and I am in no doubt that that will be true of the talented fellows we worked with this year. Here we are with them all.<br />
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Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-77553620562193434162018-04-11T04:05:00.001-07:002018-04-11T04:05:15.023-07:00Liverpool and the opening week of Liver Birds Flying Home The Musical is here at last!Well, after 3 and half years of working and dreaming and scheming and plotting and collaborating, we are here at last, at the brilliant The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool.<br />
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Tickets are on sale and I am writing from the stalls as we light and tech the first act. We have a dress rehearsal scheduled for tomorrow night with an invited local audience and by then we have to be ready and up and shining like the star we hope our baby, this musical, will be.<br />
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George, James and the Royal Court's artistic team are our producers and all are in the theatre milling about with our fabulous director Benji Sperring<br />
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who can find a joke in a can of tuna, and the writers, Mike Lindup, George Seaton and I.<br />
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We have a superb movement and choreographer, Lucie Pankhurst, who has done wonders with how all the musical numbers look. And<br />
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But I'm getting ahead. We are in Liverpool. One of the greatest cities on earth. Home of the Mersey Sound, seagulls squawking overhead, water lapping and the ferry crossing to Birkenhead over the water there on the glorious Wirral peninsula. I took a run to the Mersey on my first morning here, for the joy. Even in the rain, it was beautiful.<br />
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So all our fingers and toes are crossed and there'll be more from George, Mike, James, Benji, Lucie, Mark, Nic, the cast, the band, the crew and our beautiful stage and assistant stage managers, and I as the week progresses. I'm writing about it all for next week's New Statesman diary too.<br />
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So watch this space as Barb's bouquet goes towards opening night! Love to all, everywhere, from Liverpool!<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-39765357116250034892018-03-04T09:02:00.001-08:002018-03-04T09:02:56.565-08:00John and I Barb Sting the UK, Ernest Hecht leaves us and spring is on the airHi Sunday folk,<br />
as I'm writing on a Sunday afternoon with clouds of varied grey outside over the tall buildings and the trees still bare of leaves, but a sense of spring at last after the hideous Siberian snow and ice of the last week.<br />
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Last week John McDaniel and I finished our teeny UK tour, with dates all over the country, and we had such a wonderful time in Delph at the new Millgate Theatre, Newbury Corn Exchange, The Pheasantry, the Core in Corby and Annie's Jazz in Southend.<br />
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We recorded the Sting material for the Float Like A Butterfly album which will come out now late June, 29th, on Kristalyn, and we did a bunch of photos for our project which will go to Joe's Pub in July, 1968 - Let The Sunshine in, and for the Sting project. We were on Jazz FM live in session which was lovely and you can hear that, here<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JazzFMUK/videos/10156204009049329/">https://www.facebook.com/JazzFMUK/videos/10156204009049329/</a><br />
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feel free to share that, it was recorded at 9.30 in the morning, which is only marginally better than the TV we did at 7 in the morning in St Louis and which is here<br />
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We had a wonderful time. Which was good because alongside that was the loss of my friend, the great and legendary publisher Ernest Hecht OBE. Ernest was my rock; adviser and mentor, friend and confidante, and I am wondering how a world without him will be. Here's a beautiful obituary of him and his extraordinary life and achievements by the journalist Liz Thomson.<br />
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Ernest was a truly great man, with all the foibles and wonder that such an epithet suggests, and I am very proud to say that we were friends.<br />
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And now to the future. Polka Children's Theatre is my current home as we rehearse and record the music for the fabulous Chocolate Cake, which I've worked on with friend, director and Polka's artistic director Peter Glanville. There's a wonderful, talented cast and the piece is based on the fabulous Michael Rosen's poems.<br />
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It opens in March and tours throughout the year. Come see it with your 4 year olds and more. The design and lighting are gorgeous and as always its a privilege to work in such a creative and lovely team of really nice people.<br />
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And alongside that there are some great gigs coming up at POW Thanet with Jenny Carr and Julie Walkington, in Broadstairs this coming Thursday 8th March<br />
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and on Friday for International Women's Day I'll be with Jenny Carr singing a little pot pourri called Barb, Bob and Brel - the clue's in the title there, at Stoke Newington Church for Blow The Fuse on a double bill with these great musicians Deirdre Cartwright, Alison Rayner and Louise Elliott.<br />
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On March 18th I'm thrilled to reunite with the brilliant Simon Wallace on piano and Davide Mantovani on bass to sing Hard Rain the Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen again at the fabulous 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea. Its such a great venue and such a great vibe down there. You can eat and the food's good too.<br />
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And finally, on March 18th tune into Elaine Paige if you want to hear one of Mike Lindup (legendary Level 42 keyboardist, writer and vocalist) and my song from Liver Birds Flying Home which opens in April at The Royal Court Liverpool. Thats a heads up right there.<br />
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See you at one of the shows, I hope.<br />
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And Happy Spring - I think.<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-29575379649881667222018-01-30T12:50:00.001-08:002018-01-30T13:00:54.667-08:00January New York, Florida, Austin, St Louis and Chicago and more coming! Part 1!The Just back from a superb 2 weeks travelling the length and breadth of the USA with the wonderful John McDaniel.<br />
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Just saw a review of our St Louis show, her, by Chuck Lavazzi,<br />
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which was lovely, and a blog post about our show in New York, here<br />
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by one time editor of Opera News, Brian Kellow. So we're buzzing.<br />
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New York was cold but the show was warm, with great friends joining us<br />
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and a rave response to the new Sting material that we'll be launching in the UK at The Pheasantry on the King's Road on the 15th, 16th and 17th of February. All the UK our details are here<span id="goog_1386096437"></span><br />
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And I fell in love with a little staffie my friends Jane and Luka were fostering, and she stole my heart - here's me in my jim jams and little Minni Moo in a love fest.<br />
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John and I flew from the cold and went to Miami - I was blown away by the architecture. I've always been a sucker for art deco, and there's so much to enjoy there. Here's a small taste of some of the beautiful buildings we saw.<br />
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We went from there to Ocean Reef which is like the edge of paradise. Spotted a huge green iguana there, too. That makes everything work while.<br />
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And then we were off to Austin Texas which was a treat, Stuart Moulton of Austin Cabaret took us to a fine taco fast food joint, with veggie options. Heaven. From there to John's home town of St Louis, where we saw the famous Arch by night from Kemoll's restaurant.<br />
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And from there to our January and US stretch end in Chicago. I'd never been there before. The wind comes off the enormous lake the size of a sea, and takes your skin off its so cold. But somehow it doesn't matter. And we managed to walk the famed Pier and also go up the Sears Tower to catch some views - here -<br />
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Spent nearly a week in Northampton working with a wonderful team of people and performers to premiere our stage vision and version of Julia Donaldson's great children's book, The Singing Mermaid. Our mermaid is a puppet, one of many in the show made by Lyndie Wright of The Little Angel Theatre. Our premier was on Saturday and the show runs till mid January at The Royal and Derngate Theatre in the beautiful market town of Northampton. I even liked the Travel Lodge there, our temporary home. This is a magical piece and we are all proud of it, watching the children absorb it on saturday was a treat.<br />
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Next its up to Manchester to open How To Hide a Lion at The Royal Exchange there for Christmas. We made this for Polka Theatre for Christmas 2016 and it tours later next year in 2018. Its a gorgeous show and I cannot wait to see how people like it in my old home city.<br />
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And at last tickets are on sale for Liver Birds Flying Home which opens in April of next year.<br />
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Meanwhile I have some singing to do - all the January US dates are now up on my website here<br />
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See you somewhere soon! Happy season of wonderful.Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-8011677677174784482017-11-18T14:59:00.001-08:002017-11-18T15:55:37.610-08:00Michael Parker has left the building - Honouring a great musician and friend.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For many years I toured with Michael Parker, both in the Three Courgettes, here's a couple of tracks, one we made for Island Records and the other for the Ze Christmas Album.<br />
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We had our photos taken for The Face by the legendary Sheila Rock - here we are in that session super cool and extraordinarily young!<br />
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and then as the duo Jungr and Parker. There's a smashing obituary of him in We Are Cult, here.<br />
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They've kindly included links to some sound links but my favourite is the song we write together, "No One Else Could Ever Wear Your Shoes", here<br />
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There's some things on iTunes - Blue Devils one of our classic collections including The Launderettes Song and in the next couple of months I will put some more of our old back catalogue up.<br />
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Michael and I travelled all over Africa together giving concerts and workshops for The Britotsh Council in the early 1990s.<br />
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and Alexie Sayle and won a Perrier Award in Edinburgh with Arnold Brown. I can say hand on heart working with Michael was like taking a degree in music, he taught everyone who worked with him so much, largely through his own enthusiasm and love of and for, music and musicians. And he was funny and a great asset to any tour bus!<br />
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He will be sadly missed but his family, friends and everyone who was lucky enough to have had him in their lives.Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-86200671949506270942017-10-22T06:53:00.003-07:002017-10-26T14:14:01.946-07:00old tracks surface on youtube soul boys and lovers of camp come all yeSo finding old things I don't even have copied of is a wonderful thing, thank you you tube and fans. There's this, which was released 1983! 1983? I can barely remember it. I mustve been there I guess, because I know I wrote this and remember recording it in the middle of the night, when we could get free studios down time in the big studios all over London. Thank you friendly engineer friends! Funnily I feel the lyric of this as acutely as the day I wrote it.<br />
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Then there's this. One of the first things my then husband and I recorded. Noteworthy also because I played the bass, wrote it and we recorded it in the bacon factory.<br />
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And a day wouldn't be a day without sharing a bit of the work we all did with Julian Clary. So here's Mincing Machine and there I am with very short hair indeed. And alot younger.<br />
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The beach walk was always glorious. Its on the Long Island Sound, and the air is fresh and clear.<br />
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Then to the city, simmering in the summer sunshine.<br />
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And back to the fabulous Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in downtown NYC for the opening of a new collection John McDaniel and I have been cooking, looking at the work of the prolific and in my view, underrated, Sting, or Gordon Sumner as he was. We opened last week and go a 5 star review straight away in TheaterLife.com which is pretty wonderful. Its here -<br />
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And luckily we managed to get a little bit of video from the first night. Here's a snippet of Roxanne from Float Like a Butterfly - The Sting Project.<br />
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Today I managed to get an appointment with The Best Bodyworker in NYC George Russell, and of you are here and have anything body related to check on he's your man.<br />
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Then we are off to The Kate Theatre in Connecticut to sing the Beatles show Come Together, again.<br />
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and then to Razz Room at New Hope.<br />
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Earl Dax who does our US bookings did a beautiful photo thing for us to celebrate working together again.<br />
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Must not forget the end of May Lover Birds Flying Home musical showcase, which I've been working on with the wonderful Mike Lindup from level 42, and George Seaton and James Seabright. Have written the story, too. Really had fun doing that with George and Linda. So we all trooped to Liverpool and put a showcase on to a packed house at the Epstein Theatre, with total standing ovation as a response. Now we have to do some more work on it and hopeful we can open next year. Watch this space. Here's a beautiful photo John Hollingsworth took at the tech rehearsal.<br />
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And thats the week (and a bit of May!) in short. More sooner than later this time, I haven't done any writing for a while and I feel some coming on. Till then, happy summer wherever you are.<br />
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Berlin press spotted by our friend and host, esteemed theatre and opera director Robert Chevara on the metro, he took a photo of it.<br />
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So the dressing room selfie series is back again in full swing. Here's one from Northampton, of all 3 of us.<br />
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And I forgot to take one at Milton Keynes where the dressing room at the Stables was a conference room, hilariously. But here's one in Berlin, at Bar Jeder Vernunft.<br />
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We have a ton of tour dates to come, get tickets now, and all info is here<br />
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It stares Clare Eales White and Phil Yarrow and I can't love it more.<br />
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And on the recommend side, went to see Wayne McGregor's Tree of Codes, go if it comes anywhere near you. Spellbinding.<br />
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Recommended by Mark Ravenhill I'm reading Barbara Pym and loving it. And there's a new Bryant and May on the way, so this is a good book month.<br />
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And its spring. And that always works for me. Nothing like some daffodils in Green Park to brighten up any gloomy day so here are some for you. Happy spring!<br />
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Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-50296828714417095692017-01-02T16:05:00.000-08:002017-01-02T16:07:21.944-08:00Happy New Year! New York dates some videos and more....Its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life.....<br />
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Meanwhile how to Hide a Lion continues to sellout at Polka Theatre and runs till February. If you have small children I can't recommend it enough. Here's a taster....<br />
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Starring Clare Eales White and Phil Yarrow I'm so happy to have been a part of this wonderful production.<br />
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And the website has been revamped and has news and shows available for booking and more.<br />
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Here are some photos of the extraordinary puppets and set, made by two wonderful people, Sam Wyer and Laure McEwen, respectively. Fabulous lighting by Will Evans and great stage management by Nick Graham. And two beautiful performers in Phil Yarrow and Clare Eales-White.<br />
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And a great review for the show in The Guardian, here<br />
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And after my evening's rest I'm off to see someone else work tomorrow, Mike Lindup is on tour with Level 42 so Jamie Safiruddin and I head out to Watford to boogie with the best of them. I'm taking every breath I can as in 2 weeks I'm on tour with the fabulous John McDaniel doing our Beatles material which is now out on CD too. You can check it all out here<br />
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with lots of other links for buying it on download and hard copy and streaming and all that jazz.<br />
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Today we had a wonderful review in the esteemed USA magazine, Jazz Times, whose review of Shelter From The Storm reads. "What matters is the exquisite quality of the work...its immense value heightened by three Jungr/Hobgood originals, including an astute nod to Nina Simone." Read more here.....<br />
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So the tour of the Beatles material from the album and celebrating that gorgeous songwriting, goes all over the country, and some shows still have availability. We go to Berlin,<br />
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The Cinnamon Club in Bowden<br />
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and The Swan Dobcross for 2 nights<br />
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Deal's Astor Theatre<br />
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Shoreham Ropetackle<br />
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also Live at Zedel 2 shows<br />
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And here's a little promo of the Beatles collection filmed where we began the collaboration, in Connecticut at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.<br />
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Happy Winter and Hope to see you at one of these!Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-56464765020152910722016-08-01T07:23:00.001-07:002016-08-01T11:00:33.280-07:00New reviews and en route to ConnecticutHad a gorgeous review lately from AXS magazine which I want to share<br />
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Walking around New York in the steamy morning I got a beautiful view of the Empire State Building.....</div>
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Then to Minnesota where, although I was bitten by a thousand mosquitoes and deer flies, nothing could spoil the beauty of being at Lake Alexander with my Bentler family, brother in law and nephew.</div>
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Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-19478166427729981262016-06-15T22:27:00.002-07:002016-06-15T22:27:33.310-07:00Australia I love youSince the 1st June I've been touring in Australia with shows in Brisbane, Byron Bay, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Melbourne, from where I an writing on the sofa on this rainy afternoon.<br />
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My Melbourne high rise balcony is 32 floors up in the sky. I find heights a challenge, always have. Vertigo is a weird condition, and perhaps a lizard brain throwback. Certainly terra firma works well for me. I took a few flying lessons a few years ago to combat my fear of turbulence and heights and found myself rather enjoying the exercise. Circus professor John Paul Zaccarini and I went to a climbing wall, and that was fascinating and I managed to get much higher than I expected. So I'm pleased to say that I managed last night to walk to the edge of my balcony and look over the bar, and to make sure it wasn't a fluke I did it again this morning. That aside, the shows, 2 of them, are at Bird's Basement tonight and tomorrow in Melbourne with the astonishingly good Mark Fitzgibbon on piano. Then its back to the UK for shows in Greenham, Maidstone and a week at Crazy Coqs with the lovely John McDaniel. I won't let too much grass grow!<br />
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Starting from the beginning Brisbane was wonderful. I worked with acclaimed Australian arranger and accompanist John Thorn (we met at Adelaide Festival 3 years ago) and played at the Brisbane Festival at a beautiful venue in an old Powerhouse called, unsurprisingly, The PowerHouse which is right on the river in a lovely location and area. I met up with my old friend the painter and performance artist Luke Roberts and on a late night walk through the city saw his extraordinary sculpture, called PoinsettiaRiverFire, in the park, lighting the sky for all to see.<br />
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There was a rainbow over Brisbane and the city was in a state of growth and change. It was a joyous show, and there was a lovely review. And then the storm came!<br />
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The storm arrived Saturday morning and we drove our little trusty hire car through it all the way to Byron Bay with rain coming so thick and fast the wipers going on fast couldn't clear it away. By Byron it was clear that things were bad. Rivers were flooding and the wind was wild, with trees down across roads and fields filling with water all around us. The Byron Bay Theatre was warm and welcoming and fortified with their vegetarian gluten free sandwiches we did a terrific gig to the audience who were able to get there, brave souls! And the next morning dawned as though no storm had happened! With a blue sky and bright gorgeous sun, and only the broken branches strewn about gave any clue as to what had happened overnight, we walked to the Byron lighthouse in the warm sunshine and handsome surfers rode the huge waves that formed in that idyllic bay. Byron Bay gets my vote for paradise on earth. It is absolutely beautiful. It was wonderful to be back there and I very much hope I can play there again, soon. Here are a bunch of views from the walk.<br />
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Then it was off to Sydney. Played at The Basement there, rehearsing with Mark Fitzgibbon first. He's a jazz player of the great skill and talent, and well known in Australia. We had a terrific first show and I managed an 8 mile walk around the city spotting some beautiful birds in the harbour. Here are some....<br />
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From Sydney we hurtled to Canberra, which was gloomy and surpassingly cold, But it was lovely to be back at The Street Theatre there, and a great crowd and a lovely review (thank you Bill). And a rainbow over the airport as we left!<div>
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The Gala was a wonderful opportunity to meet some other performers, Robyn Archer, Amy G, Andrew Strano, Hugh Parhem, Eddie Perfect, Ali McGregor, Mothers Ruin, Astrid and Die Roten Punkte and more and of course Miss Behave from London was there with Harriet who can dance up a storm so we were a motley crew. It was a joy to be in such a supportive and terrific collection of people. The red carpet walk was a scream and Markus Hamence did a lovely interview for Scene TV on it all, the next day, which is here.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The 4 night May run at Joe's Pub to launch the new CD Shelter From the Storm were terrific. We had Laurence of course, on piano, Matt Clohesy on bass and Wilson Torres on percussion, and they blew it out of the water. So many friends and fans came down, and some people who's seen The Kate TV show, which has been airing all over the US. You can stream that if you haven't seen it yet, here</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I stayed in the East Village with my great friends Jane and Luka, and laughed a lot. Ate at Shanghai Joe's soup dumplings, cycled along the East River and generally had a fab time. I sang at Jim Gavin's celebration and caught up with a ton of old friends and rehearsed for the Connecticut show where Lennie Watts - my co-master teacher, and I are sharing a stage on the Sunday night in August with Tracy Stark on the keys, and hung out with lots of terrific performer friends, and saw Kiki and Herb on my last night give one of their incredible shows. All in all, had a blast.</span><br />
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There was a terrific review in the New York Times, here<br />
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And then it was back home for a week and a trip up north where I managed to catch the last of the bluebells in Lyme Park, with Mum and Mirek.<br />
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And now another run of dates begins. This time inn Australia, where I'll be - as well as the dates on this poster, in Canberra and at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Some press her come out already and its all here - hope to see you at a show somewhere, soon.<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-66081418621924250292016-04-19T09:48:00.001-07:002016-04-19T09:48:54.164-07:00Shelter tour, Liverpool, Soho Jazz Club, Videos, Laurence Hobgood, The Kate live show stream and Ernest Hecht celebrationWell its been a while and I'm behind for all kinds of reasons and I'm writing from Palm Springs about which there'll be another blog, pronto. But right now I want to put up sone great photos and videos of the Shelter tour from Liverpool St George's Hall and Dean Street, and also some photos of the fabulous celebration for Ernest Hecht's Souvenir Press 65th Anniversary concert at the Royal College of Music last week.<br />
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The St George's photos are gorgeous. Here are a few -St George's was the third night of the tour and we were so well cared for by the wonderful George Seaton, up there. It was a joy.<br />
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This is Corby - the last night of the tour, taken from up in the stalls, of the whole band working onstage.<br />
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The tour went so wonderfully, it was a joy to get to grips with those songs and arrangements and let them breathe at last and such a massive privilege to work with Oli Savill and Davide Mantovani on percussion and bass. I dearly wish I could afford to take out a trio everywhere, because the sound was just glorious. And we had some fun, too. I do less hanging out after gigs than the guys, because I have to look after the voice and because touring is so tiring. They of course are always out afterwards talking jazz and drinking wine. They are a fab team of lovely guys, and it was a total buzz to work with them. Of course Laurence and I are reunited in New York with Wilson Torres and Matt Clohesy in under a month - dates are below - we are at Joe's Pub for 4 nights and Strathmore AMP in Maryland. And you can see the whole of The Kate show we recorded together last year now online here</div>
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And then it was straight into Bear Hunt rehearsals, the show opens again at The Little Angel now, and is there for all to see. I am so proud of that piece of work, collaborating with such a terrific team of wonderful people brought out the best in us all, I think. There is a video of some of the show, here, and I recommend it for anyone with little kiddies.....</div>
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Then it was the concert with Simon Wallace and Davide Mantovani at The Royal College of Music and afterwards the glam gals got together for a photo, so here I am in the bar with Mari Wilson, Marilyn Lowndes, Ros, Ella and Amanda Denton, photographed by another glam gal, Carole Miles.<br />
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So last week was a quiet week because of all the learning, but in the middle of it I was invited to the opening night of Motown The Musical by Kathryn Kirton my radio agent, and she and I sat through the show and stood at the end clapping when the most extraordinary thing happened. Berry Gordy himself came on stage and as if that wasn't enough, he was followed by Smokey Robinson! Everyone cheered for quite a while before we all pulled our coats over our glad rags and traipsed to the party at 100 Wardour Street which was the usual first night affair with red carpet wilting in the rain and disgruntled bouncers standing about looking morose in the cold, Soho damp night air. Inside we went. Cocktails were clutched by TOWIE look likies and various other swish first night party lovers. "I wonder if Berry Gordy will come to this?" I mused. "If he does he'll be in the VIP area" said Kathryn, knowingly. "So will we" I said and off we marched, into said area, where I found myself standing next to an absolute Goddess of a woman whom I was pretty sure I recognised. "Do you know Jim Gavin?" I asked her. "Yes" she said. "You do his Lena Horne? I just did his Peggy Lee concert" I said, "Barb?" Yes. Hi. Its Mary, isn't it"? I said, and found myself hugging a Supreme! Honestly that could easily have been enough for me. Mary Wilson? You have to be kidding me. I got excited when my old mate from Stockport, Jelly, (now sadly in the great bar in the sky) saw Diana Ross go into McDonalds on the Kings Road with her kids. And here's me, not only standing beside, but chit chatting to, a Supreme! I remember hearing "Where Did Our Love Go" the first time Tony Blackburn played it on Radio 1 in the morning as I was preparing for school in sunny Stockport. You don't forget that intro, ever. Thats one of the great pop intros of all time.<br />
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<span id="goog_626863781"></span><span id="goog_626863782"></span>So when Berry Gordy appeared I knew I had to seize the carpe diem moment or regret it forever. Wiggling through the surrounding hordes and bouncers and protectors I managed to get in front of him and have a few minutes of conversation, and a photograph. And he couldn't have been nicer to this crazy woman politely pushing in front of him and besieging him with tales of his music in the Northwest when we were growing up in a little miserable mill town. He hugged me. I was on fire with joy.<br />
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For anyone who grew up when I did, and that includes my great mate Mari Wilson (the other one, the one from Neasden, I've got the full set now, Mari and Mary Wilson) and for all my school friends, and musician mates of my age, Tamla was something else. To have had it as a backdrop to your teenage life, to know why Psychedelic Shack and Ball of Confusion were important, why Marvin went political and the Supremes sang Love Child.....this man brought all those great vocalists and songs to the world, to say nothing of the musicians and the arrangements and the joy of it all. And I'm aware, of course, of course I am, that in order to do that, at that time when America was still segregated and Dr King was leading the Civil rights Movement, he maybe had some problems he maybe solved his own way. And all I say to the criticisms is this. Look what he achieved, look what he gave to this world. Look what he did for African American music across the globe. This man's a legend. And for a minute, we chatted. Because I get to meet a lot of people, some pretty damn famous. But every so often you get to meet one of life's game changers, and thats a privilege beyond compare.<br />
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So, off I go now to rehearsal, and how I hope to see you at one of the upcoming shows, because here I am working alongside some of the best musicians in the western world. Come fly with us. And have a great week.<br />
<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-12179911302624177592016-02-28T16:11:00.004-08:002016-02-28T16:11:42.114-08:00Shelter from the Storm, Nina reviews and Stars Lazy Video and flower obsessions.....Obsessed with flowers. Is that wrong? The beauty of the landscape. I'm about to write about it all and the connection of nature to music for a jazz website, and truthfully, if I don't see some trees and a horizon at least once a week, its a bad week. There's something about air and space, and the things that grow in air and space, that makes all of life a little bit lighter, no matter whats going on in the world. So here's the video for the song Laurence Hobgood, who's soon over to tour with me launching the new Shelter from the Storm album, and I, wrote; Stars Lazy But Shining. The lyric came to me when I was in Long Island at John Mcdaniel's lovely house on the Sound, and my window looked out onto a sky alive with stars. There are deer everywhere, there, and out of the window, dense forest growing. The wind was blowing and the night was alive. I sent the lyric to Laurence and he found the verse fast, and then we worked together on the chorus and middle section, bouncing it all back and forth.<br />
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The photos are from several continents, and places that I've loved and visited sometimes a lot - like the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park, where the annual spring azalea display is glorious. There's a glimpse of The Blue Mountains in Australia, which is an utterly extraordinary place. The eucalyptus covered mountains go on forever. Its a holy place to the ancients there, and you can feel it. I've seen Lyre birds on a morning walk on the forest floor, a rare sight.<br />
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These pelicans live in St James' Park down the road from me in London, the clock is the mediaeval Astronomer's Clock in Prague, as are the late summer rose gardens. There's some of Central Park and a great view of Manhattan from the Jersey City shore just by Hoboken. A lot of sea views from the Isle of Wight last summer and a couple of fine beaches, one near Chichester, West Wittering and one in Connecticut. There's a little bit of Devon and Dorset, and a little bit of the Nene Valley in Northamptonshire and a country lane near Corby. Some coastal paths and a lot of flowers, particularly bluebell woods - possibly one of the most beautiful things about the British spring.<br />
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The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond had a music season and booked the Nina collection, and it was the most wonderful gig. The music was a river and the audience were just beautiful. Couldn't have been a better night and Alex Ramon reviewed it, here -<br />
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Shelter from the Storm is getting great reviews, 4 stars in Jazzwise and a lovely Sunday Times review. They're all posted on the official Facebook page<br />
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And the tour starts soon. Tickets available still for some shows - we visit Liverpool, London 4 nights at Dean Street's Soho Jazz Club, Newbury (opening night), Corby, Bury St Edmunds, Portsmouth, Maidstone Pizza Express Jazz Club - its all here...<br />
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So, there you have it. Flowers, walking, and touring. Thats a spring, if ever I saw one! See you I hope at one of the shows, and the album is everywhere - iTunes, Amazon and Linn Records - all details here<br />
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<a href="http://www.barbjungr.co.uk/">http://www.barbjungr.co.uk</a><br />
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See you at one of these shows....US shows in May on the website soon and already booking at Joe's Pub now -<br />
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Happy Spring !<br />
<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-41082122128151778982016-02-17T05:46:00.001-08:002016-02-17T16:05:00.295-08:00Shelter From The Storm is born into the world! Its here! Its released on friday, 19th February. Shelter From the Storm, Songs of Hope for Troubled Times, comes into being and can be bought from Linn Records at high definition sound and all other levels of sound, by the way, here<br />
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Its a plea for Shelter, for us all. Where we find it, and how - how we can exist in these troubled times and find rays of sunshine, glimmers of hope. These things preoccupy me now. In my country I see the dangers of the glittering deceptions of greed and power and what damage they cause. I believe in community. The strength of the bonds that people create and hold together. In the possibility of achievement and hope for all. I believe in equality of opportunity across everything for everyone and in freedom of speech, where speech is used with responsibility for the general good. I believe in access to health care and care for all vulnerable and poor. Now more than ever, we need Shelter from the Storm. The songs are all on that theme. Bali Hai - "some people long for another island, one where they know they would like to be!". The dream of Woodstock shattered and the watchers, watching, All Along The Watchtower. There are three songs written with the beautiful composer and pianist Laurence Hobgood. Venus Rising, Stars Lazy But Shining and Hymn To Nina. I hope you'll enjoy it. There are sound clips on Linn above and I think on Amazon and iTunes.<br />
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Here's a clip from The Kate, of Life on Mars live in Connecticut for the upcoming TV PBS series<br />
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You can get it from Amazon<br />
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<a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shelter-from-storm-songs-hope/id1067476468?at=10lsGa&app=itunes">https://geo.itunes.apple.com/gb/album/shelter-from-storm-songs-hope/id1067476468?at=10lsGa&app=itunes</a><br />
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<a href="http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/shelter-from-the-storm-songs-of-hope-for-troubled%20http://ow.ly/XmBHf">http://store.hmv.com/music/cd/shelter-from-the-storm-songs-of-hope-for-troubled http://ow.ly/XmBHf</a><br />
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There's a 4 star review here in Jazzwise -<br />
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and Alex Ramon's trend setting blog, here<br />
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the tour is coming in March - booking now - some tickets still available<br />
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And on wednesday next in case you missed the Nina Simone we are doing it at The Orange Tree in Richmond, its selling fast.<br />
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So its all go. Hope to see you at one of these shows - all details for all are on the website<br />
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<a href="http://www.barbjungr.co.uk/">http://www.barbjungr.co.uk</a>Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93533832365103014.post-19391988177567223912016-01-27T05:05:00.001-08:002016-01-27T05:05:17.830-08:00Lincoln Centre Peggy Lee, new video clips and Shelter From the Storm reviews beginLast week saw the first performance of the Peggy Lee James Gavin show at the Lincoln Centre, featuring jazz legend Rebecca Parris, the glorious Nellie McKay, handsome crooner Spencer Day, lovely Jane Monheit and myself, accompanied by the extraordinary Mike Renzi on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass, Craig Haynes on drums and of course James Gavin who wrote the Peggy Lee definitive biography "Is That All There Is? The Strange Life of Peggy Lee". More about the book, here<br />
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We had rehearsals the night before the show with Mike, who had played with Peggy many times, and is widely regarded as one of the best jazz accompanists - currently he works with Tony Bennett, I rest my case. Then all day thursday was rehearsals and sound check at the marvellous Appel Room at Lincoln Centre in Manhattan. We were, I think, all quite nervous-in-a-good-way about the show, especially those of us who had new or tricky songs. It was a fabulous night though, and friends came and shared it with us, and we made new friends and gave Peggy our personal tributes - all of us in our own ways - no one did a copycat or even tried to do that. And James Gavin had done the most wonderful job of firstly conceiving the piece and then making it happen from his mind to the stage. His talk between the songs was splendid and managed the tricky job of being informative and also witty and smart. Here are a bunch of photos from the evening.<br />
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Behind the stage is Manhattan at night, the full length windows give onto the edge of Central Park. Its a buzz and a half having that behind you.<br />
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We had a lovely hang out after the show with friends and the band.<br />
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Managed to leave New York just before the storm hit and the flights started to be cancelled and got back to two lovely reviews for the new album, one in Kind of Jazz and one in Boycotting trends, both here. Thank you Matthew Ruddick for this<br />
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and Alex Ramon for this<br />
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The Kate released a very short promo video of the live recording they made which will go out nationally on PBS North America in a few weeks, here -<br />
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And there are more videos of 2 short clips of us playing live at the Yamaha showcase in Manhattan with Laurence Hobgood on piano, Wilson Torres on percussion and Matt Clohesy on bass, on the BarbJungrsings Youtube channel, here<br />
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You can pre-order the album from iTunes and Amazon UK, it comes out on feb 19 in the UK and in April in the States.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shelter-Storm-Songs-Troubled-Times/dp/B0196IPPAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453899449&sr=8-1&keywords=barb+jungr">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shelter-Storm-Songs-Troubled-Times/dp/B0196IPPAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453899449&sr=8-1&keywords=barb+jungr</a><br />
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The UK tour dates are all on the website here<br />
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US tour dates will start in May and will be on the website soon, there are 4 nights at Joe's Pub in NYC.<br />
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Meanwhile I'm at County Antrim, Northern Ireland on Friday 29th and Saturday 30th January performing Hard Rain with Simon Wallace on 7th February and 7th February I will be at Crazy Coqs with Davide Mantovani on bass and the wonderful Simon Wallace on piano. All details are at the website link above.<br />
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Hope to see you at one of these!<br />
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Meanwhile, have fun!<br />
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<br />Barb Jungrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16702413877896650308noreply@blogger.com0