I’ve been a professional jazz singer – and occasional pianist – for over 20 years.
Performing material mostly drawn from the Great American Songbook, I’ve played venues, festivals, private and corporate functions throughout the UK – including at The 606 Club, The Ritz, Kensington Palace, BAFTA, Pizza Express Jazz Club and Oxford University – working alongside some of the finest jazz instrumentalists in the country.
I have written an 80s jukebox musical feature spec script and have penned the lyrics of dozens of parody songs for live comedy shows, including for London’s long-running topical comedy stage show Newsrevue.
My self-produced album Photograph reached number two in HMV Japan’s jazz chart, charting alongside the latest albums from Diana Krall and Melody Gardot. It’s a mellow mixture of jazz standards, bossa novas, reworked pop songs (by Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Coldplay) and one original number. The instrumentalists include the acclaimed Nigel Price on guitar and Barry Green on piano. You can listen to and/or buy Photograph on Spotify, Bandcamp and Apple Music.
“The new jazz vocalist on the block’s debut set impresses – Andrea’s charming debut finds her relaxed and assured jazz vocals slide effortlessly above the smooth backing supplied by a crack team of London- and Oxford-based jazz musos. The choice of material certainly makes for an interesting menu, one which sees standards such as Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Love, Look Away sitting alongside cool interpretations of mainstream pop/rock gems, with Coldplay’s Sparks and Stevie Wonder’s All I Do being the prime examples. With its waterfall-like piano and exquisite nylon-strung acoustic guitar, Andrea’s self-penned Yosemite reflects her talent for delivering early hours reminiscences, too. Class.” – Musician magazine
“Photograph is a ballad set, and Andrea Mann’s straightforward, sometimes-minimalist approach is backed by a crackerjack quartet that can play midnight jazz and sunny bossa nova. Mann handles American standards such as Scotch And Soda, East Of The Sun and Travelin’ Light with ease, but she chooses her repertoire carefully. Macca’s Every Night should have been done in a jazz context decades ago, and the vocalist also brings out new elements in Coldplay’s Sparks. These are mostly covers, but – as with her fine original, Yosemite – Andrea Mann swings through an old profession in new and beguiling ways.” – Nick Dedina, Jazz editor, Rhapsody.com (‘Staff Pick’)
