Carol Grimes (born Carol Ann Grimes, 7 April 1944, Lewisham, London) is a smooth jazz and world music singer. Events 529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in Jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Smooth jazz, also sometimes referred to as new adult contemporary music is generally described as a genre of music that utilizes instruments (and at times improvisation The term world music includes Traditional music (sometimes called Folk music or roots music of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians

Warm Blood LP showing Caroline label

Grimes came to prominence in 1969 as a member of Delivery, associated with the Canterbury Scene. Delivery was a British Blues / Progressive rock musical group formed in the late 1960s The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of Progressive rock, Avant-garde and jazz musicians many of whom During the 1970s she performed regularly on the London blues circuit with her band The London Boogie Band. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression At the same time she released her first solo album Warm Blood, the first release on the Virgin's Caroline label (CA2001), backed by session musicians in London and Nashville. Virgin Records is a British Record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell Caroline Records started out as a subsidiary of Richard Branson 's Virgin Records label during the early to mid 1970s The cover was taken in her Notting Hill flat. Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and The following year saw the release of a follow-up blues album recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and Goodyear Studios in Nashville which pictured her on the cover alongside her son Sam. Memphis is a City in the southwest corner of Tennessee, and the County seat of Shelby County.

By the end of the decade, Grimes had moved to a more jazz-inspired style, including a lot of scat singing. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States In Vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with random vocables and syllables or without words at all In 1984 she formed Eyes Wide Open. Now known mainly as a solo artist she also does theatrical work and teaches voice. In Music, a solo (from the Italian solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer A musician is a person who plays or writes Music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music An instrumentalist plays a

Discography

• Fools Meeting (with Delivery, 1970)
• Old Hat (with Uncle Dog, 1972)
• Warm Blood (Caroline 1974)
• Carol Grimes (aka Memphis Album) (Decca 1975)
• Sweet F.A. (with Tony Hicks, Peter Kirtley, Gary Twigg, Ollie Marland, 1979)
• Eyes Wide Open (Line 1987)
• Daydreams and Danger (Line 1988)
• Why Don't They Dance? (Line 1989)
• Lazy Blue Eyes (Carol Grimes and Ian Shaw, Ace Records, 1990)
• Into the Red
• Alive At Ronnie Scott's (Carol Grimes with Janette Mason, Jazz House 1994)
• Mother (Irregular Records 2003)
• Something Secret (duo formed with multi instrumentalist Giles Perring) (Triumphant Sound 2007)

External links

• CarolGrimes.com Official Site
• BBC radio 1: John Peel
• Carol Grimes on Myspace
• Something Secret on Myspace

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