Decided to put my jazz playlist on shuffle today while revising "receptors and stimuli" and stumbled upon Cullum's jazz rendition of Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music". Despite being criticized by other jazz pianists for not being a proper flat-out jazz musician, i still find myself being attracted to his music; for not only does his music still contain elements of his jazz roots, Jamie's voice is, in itself, extremely enchanting.
Found a video of him performing a mash-up of Robbie William's "Bodies" and Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary". Starting off with his usual routine of playing percussion on his piano, common in many of his performances, he begins with such charisma that you'd feel as if you were at his own concert. But you're not. The following piano interlude linking to Hendrix's classic proves to be a showcase of lovely toe-tapping ingenuity, which is gorgeously complemented with the sound of Jamie's wise raspy voice that takes decades of chain-smoking to acquire, to which we most pleasantly find out that he does not even smoke at all. But going back to the track, it's the coruscating piano solo after and the wind screams Mary that has won me over.
A creative and absolutely talented young musician. Definitely someone who loves music, that's for sure.
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