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Though Jazz is now my first love I have had an amazing journey through different musical genres and my current style demonstrates this. I love the old Jazz standards but there are also many modern popular songwriters who turn me on such as the Beatles, James Taylor, Burt Bacharach, Sting (man I LOVE Sting), Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Curtis Mayfield and too many more to mention I am sure you get the picture. Being a 70s teenage girl in the means I have been influenced by some of the most amazing female songwriters including Janis Ian, Carly Simon, Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Carol Bayer Sager, Phoebe Snow and Maria Muldaur. I loved to sit in my room with my guitar and strum out angst-ridden ballads like "At Seventeen", "Jessie", "Killing Me Softly" and "You've Got a Friend". These are the kind of songs that started me singing and there spirit remains today with the songs I love to wallow in. As a result of my dive into the world of Jazz I have found my self increasingly drawn to the sounds and colours of Brazilian, African and Flamenco music. I am pulled to the plaintive sound of the guitar and the voice in these styles, under pegged with driving & sexy rhythms, the more subtle the better! I love it when the bass plays a melodic and rhythmic role in music, it's hard not to be effected by the innovative sound of Jaco Pastorus on the fretless bass, listen to "A Remark You Made" and weep! Airto Moreira is bliss when he sings with Panderia. Lately I have been listening to Richard Bona a bassist/singer, Spanish Diego Amadour a multi-instrumentalist/singer and the Flamenco/African styled group Ketama. It is these musicians who have influenced the material on my debut album, which I am trying to finish before the turn of the century!
Check out www.myspace.com/linehilton to hear me |
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