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23 Nov 2019	United Kingdom Cambridge Stapleford Granary Bury Road	Claire Martin and Liane Carroll Claire Martin and Liane Carroll in their duo show ‘Double Standards’. 07:30pm Admission: £20.00.	Get Tickets

24 Nov 2019	United Kingdom London Cadogan Hall 5 Sloane Terrace	Swingin’ with Strings EFG London Jazz Festival – Swinging with Strings. Claire Martin performs music from Billie Holiday’s 1958 album Lady in Satin alongside new orchestral arrangements of her favourite songs from her latest album. 07:00pm Admission: £20-30.	020 7730 4500 Get Tickets

08 Dec 2019	United Kingdom London The Purcell Room – Southbank Centre London	Claire Martin & Ian Shaw Early Christmas Cracker with Ian Shaw! Give humbug the heave-ho at a sparkling evening of seasonal classics from the jazz-singing duo, performing American standards, show tunes and new takes on the pop and soul canon. 07:45pm	Get Tickets

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Claire Martin has released more than 20 albums on the prestigious Glasgow based Linn Records label.

Believin' it
Bumpin'
We've Got A World That Swings
Time And Place
Say It Isn't So

Complete Discography

Claire Martin, OBE

Linn recording artist Claire Martin has to worldwide critical acclaim established herself as a tour de force on the UK jazz scene gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career which spans over three decades. In 2018 she was the proud recipient of the BASCA Gold Badge Award for her contribution to jazz.

Claire became a professional singer at 19 and two years later realised her dream of singing at Ronnie Scott’s legendary jazz club in London Soho. Signed to the prestigious Glasgow based Linn Records in 1990, Claire has since released 18 CDs with the label, collaborating with musical luminaries including Martin Taylor, John Martyn, Stephane Grappelli, Kenny Barron, Richard Rodney Bennett and Jim Mullen on many of these recordings.

Claire has performed worldwide with her trio and, until his death in 2012, worked extensively with the celebrated composer and pianist Sir Richard Rodney Bennett in a cabaret duo setting both in England and the US where they played to sell-out houses at venues including the prestigious Algonquin Hotel in New York City.

Claire appears as a featured soloist with the Halle Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the BBC Big Band and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Claire co-presented BBC Radio 3’s flagship jazz program ‘Jazz Line Up’ from 2000 to 2017 and interviewed many of her musical heroes such as Pat Metheny and the late Michael Brecker. Her 2009 CD A Modern Art prompted Jazz Times USA to claim: “She ranks among the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet”.

At the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2011 Claire was delighted to be awarded an OBE for her Services to Jazz.

Her 2019 recording Believin’ It will be with her brand new all-Swedish trio and her twentieth album release. The quartet will tour throughout the UK during May and June.

Easily the best British singer of her generation

The Times

Great Britain

There are few, if any, finer jazz singers than Claire Martin. She’s certainly the best the U.K. has produced, with her cunning mix of straight-ahead purity and interpretive legerdemain.

JazzTimes

USA

A wonderful example of the incredible talent we have here on our shores

The Arts Desk

Great Britain

videos

Claire Martin & Jim Mullen

Close Enough for Love - LIVE
This Can’t Be Love

With Seth MacFarlane, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London – August 2015
Here’s To Life

A Tribute to Shirley Horn at Ronnie Scott’s, London, January 2017
I Got Lost In His Arms

Claire Martin at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, NYC, 2014
Claire Martin - Believin' it

official album launch video
Return To Paradise

A Tribute to Shirley Horn at Ronnie Scott’s, London, January 2017
Close Enough For Love

Claire Martin and Jim Mullen in session at Jazz FM, March 2017
I Keep Going Back To Joe’s

Claire Martin at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, NYC, 2014
Claire Martin and Jim Mullen

Claire Martin créée une infusion de son magique de la musique jazz de chambre à partir d’un groupe éclectique d’auteurs-compositeurs.

Le BabillART

France

Ms. Martin’s many admirers will not be surprised by the impact she makes with her cool approach, and newcomers to her art will find a reason to believe.

Deep Roots Magazine

USA

Claire Martin is that rare vocal artist never afraid to push the lyrical envelope!

Bop-N-Jazz

USA

Jazz You Can Actually Like

Claire Martin and Pete Long’s Croydon Omelette podcast

Cooked up in Croydon. Friends for more years than either care to remember, Claire Martin and Pete Long whip up a frothy mix of musical gems and fascinating insights from their shared love of jazz music past and present. Served with sparkling repartee and a generous dollop of humour.

Claire Martin, OBE – Jazz vocalist & recording artist

New album

"She ranks among the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet"

"Few vocalists are as elegant and eloquent as Claire Martin... she's one of the crown jewels of the jazz world."