![]() LJN: You studied jazz at Berklee? Was that where you started doing some of your pop covers?ĪL: I think I was already wanting to expand, but Berklee was the place where I felt I got permission to do that. I still like really simple things, so my aim is to bring that together when I do a cover, and turn it into something jazzier. A simple, good hook is still important to me, even though I grew up in this cerebral, intellectual jazz environment as well. For example, when I did my Macklemore cover on YouTube- he raps really fast, so the connection that my mind went to immediately was, ‘This is kind of like be-bop.’ If I just swung it a little bit, we could add a melody and use the chords he already has. LJN: What do you look for in a pop song that makes you think a jazz treatment would work?ĪL: If I’m going to cover a pop song it has to lend itself to another style in my head. Join the mailing list for a weekly roundup of Jazz News. Not yet a subscriber of our Wednesday Breakfast Headlines? ( LINK TO PRE-ORDER /PLEDGEMUSIC CAMPAIGN) If people pre-order the album now, they’re the first to get the single and the album when it comes out, and they also get to see all the behind-the-scenes work that we put into it. We have a community of players on this album- it’s a collective really, and that makes it very fun for me. So I’m really excited about it, and I can’t wait. And then what’s really near to my heart: hip hop grooves, R&B jazz. And of course we’re going to swing, and do some Latin-feel things. All of us growing up through the internet age are not just influenced by one city, one era, one group of people, but everything’s at our fingertips. I have an affinity for taking pop songs and turning them into something jazzy. ![]() ![]() Most of it will be original music but there are some covers. I’m combining my influences together on one album. London Jazz News: When is the new album coming out?Īubrey Logan: We’re hoping for January 2017. She talked to Alison Bentley about studying at Berklee winning the Montreux Festival Jazz Voice Competition being on American Idol singing with the likes of Burt Bacharach and Pharrell Williams her jazz covers of pop songs, and her love of the London music scene. Aubrey Logan, US singer/trombonist with Postmodern Jukebox, has a new solo album coming out and a gig at the 606 on Wed. ![]()
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