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Christine Tobin's new CD 'A Thousand Kisses Deep' will be released on March 17 at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Soho, London
To book tickets go to: http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/scheduled ... 4/March/17
To listen to tracks go to: https://soundcloud.com/christine-tobin/sets

'Christine Tobin is inspiring on her own material. But she is in a class of her own singing Leonard Cohen.' The Guardian

"The spring 2014 release of A Thousand Kisses Deep, Tobin’s forthcoming album of all this Cohen material, is, on the evidence of this wholly absorbing, often downright ravishing concert, something to be keenly anticipated.' Chris Parker, LondonJazz review of her Southbank Show at the London Jazz Festival

This seems to be the track listing for Christine's new album:

1. Famous Blue Raincoat
2. Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye
3. Tower of Song
4. Take This Waltz
5. Suzanne
6. Anthem
7. You Know Who I Am
8. A Thousand Kisses Deep
9. Everybody Knows
10. Story of Isaac
11. Dance Me to the End of Love

Christine Tobin voice, Phil Robson guitar,
Dave Whitford double bass,
Adriano Adewale percussion, (all tracks except 4, 6, 8 & 11)
Huw Warren accordion(tracks 1, 4, 5, 9,)
Gwilym Simcock piano track 6) Nick Smart trumpet (track 11)

Recorded on August 6 & October 4 2013 at Curtis Schwartz Studio
Berry House, Ardingly, West Sussex, UK

Produced by Christine Tobin and Phil Robson

Trail Belle Records 2014

Christine Tobin covers 11 of Leonard's songs on a cd out later this month
Called. A Thousand Kisses Deep
London based jazz singer The mournful title track emerges defiant, the droll Tower of Song comes with a Miles Davis arrangement, and Suzanne with a deft soukous guitar.
Can pre order on Amazon £10. 99

Played it through a couple of times, don't like it. One, maybe two tracks are just OK. Don't think I will be playing it much.

Yes, I agree with lightasabreeze. I downloaded without listening as I read a great review in The Guardian. I was disappointed with the opening track, Famous Blue Raincoat, which was too upbeat for me, and didn't capture the painful sentiment of the song. John Fordham in the review says Christine is ideal as a Leonard Cohen interpreter, which I would disagree with. I really enjoy good covers of LC songs. I think perhaps Jennifer Warnes set the bar high. Christine Tobin does however, have a great voice and I will certainly listen to some of her other recordings.

I like Christine Tobin a lot but don't usually enjoy her Leonard Cohen stuff as much. She is really good at latin american style jazz but I'm sure new songs will sound great live.