Jazz Preview: Weaving her way through a tapestry of songs

Carole King's Tapestry is one of popular music's most revered albums and the prospect of Christine Tobin exploring its contents at the National Centre for Early Music in York tonight is intriguing.
By The Newsroom
Published 15th Oct 2010, 12:12 BST
Updated 15th Oct 2010, 12:12 BST

On the one hand, a pop masterpiece; on the other, a gifted jazz singer who prefers to go her own way, Tobin aims for a happy union based on a huge respect for the writer and performer of classics like Natural Woman, So Far Away and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Small changes in emphasis, perhaps. The odd shift in key. But basically the programme is an admiring tribute from a performer who knows a fine song when she hears one and backs off interfering with it too much.

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Tobin has an ideal companion in Liam Noble, a splendid pianist who shares the singer's urge to unravel Tapestry with taste and sensitivity. The outcome is a performance designed to salute an album which holds its place in public esteem almost 40 years after it was made. The concert launches an autumn season which continues with the Rosie Brown quartet on November 6, and NCEM's Jazz Weekend which features Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance (November 19), Julian Marc Stringle and the Dream Band (November 20), Claire Martin and Gareth Williams (November 21) and Farrago, drawn from the University of York Jazz Orchestra (November 21).

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