Stormy Emotions Sarah Moule

• 1 Nothing is Mine Now 03:29
• 2 Are We Just Having Fun 04:04
• 3 Never That's When 05:02
• 4 Close to Tears 04:17
• 5 A Magician's Confession 04:48
• 6 Truly Unruly 03:23
• 7 After the Fall 03:44
• 8 On Hold / Living in Limbo 04:14
• 9 Time is the Beast 03:05
• 10 The Long Arm of Love 04:17
• 11 Fool's Gold 04:46
• 12 Stormy Emotions 03:02
• Total Runtime 48:11

Info for Stormy Emotions

Sarah Moule's 5th album, Stormy Emotions, explores themes of Time and Love in an uplifting collection of songs written by her husband Simon Wallace and the late great jazz lyricist Fran Landesman. In eighteen years spent working with Simon and Fran, Sarah developed a uniquely close relationship to their material.

Born in New York in 1927, Landesman’s lyrics have been sung by great artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Barbra Streisand and with this collection, including ten previously unrecorded songs, Sarah will have introduced forty-five Landesman/Wallace songs to the world.

"I got lucky meeting Simon. That he married Sarah Moule was a bonus. She's the jazz singer par excellence." (Fran Landesman)

Recorded in their studio in SE London amidst the challenges of 2020, the album features a group of Sarah and Simon's long-time musical collaborators: bassists Mick Hutton and Neville Malcolm, drummers Paul Robinson and Rod Youngs, guitarists Nigel Price and Charlie Cawood, and saxophonist Mark Lockheart.

The title track was written on the day Fran and Simon met. Eighteen years later, on the day Fran passed away, they finished Nothing Is Mine Now, the album's opening track.

Sarah spent six years as featured vocalist with The John Wilson Orchestra before becoming a solo recording artist and releasing her first two albums on Linn Records and two further highly acclaimed albums on Red Ram Records.

When Simon met Fran met in 1993 he had recently returned from 3 years touring worldwide with the Lindsay Kemp Company and was writing music for TV shows including Absolutely Fabulous and French and Saunders. For the next eighteen years the couple got together every week to write producing a catalogue of over 300 songs.

Sarah Moule, vocals
Simon Wallace, piano, musical director
Mick Hutton, double bass (tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Neville Malcolm, double bass (1, 2, 5, 6)
Paul Robinson, drums (3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Rod Youngs, drums (1, 2, 5, 6)
Nigel Price, guitar (1, 6, 7, 8)
Mark Lockheart, saxophone, bass clarinet (2, 4, 9)

Sarah Moule
has enjoyed a long and fruitful musical partnership with the American lyricist, the late Fran Landesman and British composer and pianist Simon Wallace, to whom Sarah is married. This unique repertoire which stretches back in a direct line to the Great American Songbook has been the well-spring for Sarah’s four critically acclaimed CDs. Her first two albums, It’s A Nice Thought (2002) and Something’s Gotta Give (2004) were for prestigious Scottish label Linn Records and these were followed by A Lazy Kind Of Love (2008) and Songs From The Floating World (2014) for Red Ram Records. Her new record, Stormy Emotions, out on CD 19th March 2021 and Download 3rd May 2021 brings to 45 the total of Landesman/Wallace songs Sarah has introduced on her records.

Sarah’s singing career began with six years as featured vocalist with the John Wilson Orchestra. She has broadcast with the BBC Concert Orchestra and performed extensively with ensembles ranging from symphony orchestra, big band to duo with pianist Simon Wallace. She made her Southbank Centre debut as a featured artist in 2010 and at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in 2011. In 2018 she recorded with big band in Abbey Road Studios legendary Studio 2.

Since her recording debut Sarah has performed with a trio featuring Wallace on piano, bassist Mick Hutton and drummer Paul Robinson. She has been joined on performances and recordings include luminaries from the British jazz scene such as Norma Winstone, Ian Shaw, Alan Barnes, Jim Mullen, Tim Garland, Rod Youngs, Mark Armstrong, Pete Wareham, Nigel Price and many more of the finest British jazz musicians.

Sarah toured the Mediterranean with John Critichinson’s Tribute To Ronnie Scott playing opposite legendary bebop duo Jackie & Roy. She also collaborated with Bob Dorough on his final two UK tours, alongside Simon Wallace and vocalist Trudy Kerr. She has made numerous appearances at the EFG London Jazz Festival and has performed the music of Duke Ellington at St David’s Hall for the Welsh Proms and at Brecon Jazz Festival.

In A NIGHT OUT WITH FRAN LANDESMAN, at the Southbank Centre, London, Sarah was a featured artist together with actors Imelda Staunton and Phil Daniels, Bob Dorough and singers Ian Shaw and Gwyneth Herbert, alongside Simon Wallace and Fran Landesman herself. The show was reprised with Sarah, Simon Wallace Gwyneth Herbert, Ian Shaw and Nicki Leighton Thomas for the Art Of Song Festival in 2011.

In addition to the thirty-five Landesman/Wallace songs she has so far introduced on record Sarah has toured sellout shows around the UK featuring the music of Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. She has also written and performed the hugely popular cabaret show Songs For Scarlet Women.

In 2014 Sarah’s fourth CD, Songs From The Floating World, garnered widespread critical acclaim, 5 star reviews in The Observer and AllAboutJazz.com, and 4 stars in Jazzwise Magazine and Jazz Journal Magazine. The launch at Pizza Express Jazz Club was accompanied by a 21 date UK Jazz Services supported tour and a performance at Scarborough International Jazz Festival.

This album contains no booklet.