Sat on the floor of the Royal Festival Hall Ballroom amidst a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings and some older jazz aficionados to see and hear a lovely girl with a fantastic voice, one of the first gigs of the London Jazz Festival. (The dimples are as hard to resist as the rich sound from her lips.) Somehow Beth Rowley reminds me of Amy Winehouse (must be the big hair and the old school sound) and Josh Groban (must be the hair again and that fresh unstudied way she moves).
White male musicians, black female backup vocals, white female lead. I'm not complaining, just describing her band. Rowley is blues-y soulful and can even do country. "Bristol's finest" is also one of Britain's most exciting young artists. I'm excited for her.
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