Twentysomething

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a b "Jamie Cullum, Twentysomething". The Guardian. 10 October 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Pladebranchen.NU – Guld og platin i juli 2006" (in Danish). IFPI Danmark. 15 August 2006. Archived from the original on 3 October 2006 . Retrieved 24 August 2021. Momentum' | Jamie Cullum | Available 20 May 2013". Momentum.jamiecullum.com. 15 March 2013. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013 . Retrieved 20 May 2013. Twentysomething is the third studio album by English singer Jamie Cullum. It was released on 20 October 2003 in Europe, and in May 2004 in the United States. The album has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide, and achieved eleven platinum, eleven gold and two silver certifications. It is the fastest-selling jazz album in chart history and its sales led to Cullum ending 2003 as the UK's highest-selling jazz artist in history. [1]

I’ve begun to focus a little more heavily on my own songwriting and to write lyrics that resonate harder whether from the personal or imaginative perspective. Sitting at the piano and trying to write a song with music and lyrics that fit together like they’ve always been in cahoots, is the most pleasurable way I can spend my working day. Having said that, I realise I’m still chasing the feeling of that first jump into professional recording, of which Twentysomething was the start. A naive sense of adventure where you leave second guessing at the door. Live, to tape. Sam Wedgwood (guitarist, bassist and trumpeter) later joined Cullum on tour, for a little over a year. At the end of 2005 Cullum was joined by Tom Richards (saxophonist, occasional guitarist and percussion). Soon after that Sam Wedgwood left to pursue his own solo musical career. At the beginning of 2006 Rory Simmons (trumpeter and guitarist) joined the band as a replacement, bringing the total number of band members (including Cullum himself) to five. In 2022, Cullum was among the artists who celebrated 60 years of music from James Bond films in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. [34] Personal life [ edit ]

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a b McLean, Craig (14 October 2009). "Jamie Cullum interview". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 17 September 2018. Reviewers lined up to praise the album on its first release, with the revered jazz critic John Fordham writing in The Guardian: “Cullum’s virtues are a remarkable relaxation (which makes music-making, even in a sophisticated studio recording, sound like fun to him), a youthful bounce that makes his work engagingly airy and light, and a hipness of timing that marks him out from many of his competitors.” Jamie Cullum: Twentysomething" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 15 February 2016. Bonifer, Lisa (19 June 2013). "Interview: Jamie Cullum – 'Hurl yourself into it without thinking' ". NBHAP . Retrieved 22 June 2013.

Cullum has played at many large music festivals, including Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (in 2006, 2009 and 2015), Montreux Jazz Festival (2004, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2018), Glastonbury (2004, 2009 and 2017), New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (in 2005), Coachella (2005), South by Southwest (2004, 2006), North Sea Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl (performing with the Count Basie Orchestra), the 2006 Playboy Jazz Festival, the 2007 Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival and the 2008 Monterey Jazz Festival. On 30 April 2006 Cullum played his biggest-ever crowd on Queensday in the Netherlands. In 2021, alongside Sophie Ellis-Bextor and The Feeling, Cullum re-recorded the classic 1977 Fleetwood Mac song " Don't Stop" as part of the UK's National Thank You Day on 4 July, to celebrate the work of the National Health Service. The single was released on 25 June. [32] [33] The traditional twentieth anniversary gift is china – a few plates, maybe a cup and saucer or two. Modernists apparently prefer platinum, which seems like a far more appropriate way to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Jamie Cullum’s Twentysomething, first released in October 2003 and now extended and re-released in double LP format.

In 2011, a portrait of Cullum, painted by British artist Joe Simpson, was exhibited around the UK, including a solo exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall. [39] Ware, Joe (14 January 2010). "Hullavington's Jamie marries at forest hideaway". The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald . Retrieved 17 September 2018.