Tina May

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Tina May (born 30 March 1961) is English jazz vocalist.

She lived in Frampton-on-Severn when she was young and attended Stroud High School.^{[citation needed]} She has recorded several albums for 33 Jazz Records. She has also worked with Tony Coe, Nikki Iles, Stan Sulzmann, Ray Bryant, Enrico Pieranunzi and Patrick Villanueva.^[1] May married Clark Tracey in 1989 and recorded with him on several albums in the 1990s.^[2]

Discography[]

As leader[]

• Never Let Me Go (33 Records, 1992)
• Fun (33 Records, 1993)
• It Ain't Necessarily So (33 Records, 1994)
• Time Will Tell (33 Records, 1995)
• Jazz Piquant with Tony Coe (33 Records, 1998)
• Change of Sky with Nikki Iles (33 Records, 1998)
• One Fine Day (33 Records, 1999)
• Live in Paris (33 Records, 2000)
• The Ella Fitzgerald Songbook Revisted with Lee Gibson, Barbara Jay (Spotlite, 2000)
• I'll Take Romance (Linn, 2003)
• Early May (33 Records, 2004)
• More Than You Know with Tony Coe, Nikki Iles (33 Records, 2004)
• A Wing and a Prayer (33 Records, 2006)
• Sings the Ray Bryant Songbook (33 Records, 2006)^[3]
• Out of the Blue with Ray Guntrip (rayguntripmusic.com, 2008)
• I Never Told You (33 Records, 2009)
• Tina May Sings Piaf (33 Records, 2011)
• Where You Belong with Ray Guntrip (rayguntripmusic.com, 2011)
• No More Hanky Panky (33 Records, 2011)
• Troubadours with Dylan Fowler (33 Records, 2013)
• My Kinda Love (Hep, 2014)
• Home Is Where the Heart Is with Enrico Pieranunzi (33 Records, 2015)
• Telling Jokes with Steve Plews (ASC, 2016)
• Cafe Paranoia: Tina May Sings Mark Murphy with Andy Lutter (33 Records, 2017)
• 52nd Street: Tina May Sings the Songs of Duncan Lamont (33 Records, 2021)

As guest[]

• 1994 Transatlantic Airs with Michael Hashim (33 Jazz)
• 2000 Ellington's Sacred Music with Stan Tracey Jazz Orchestra & the Durham Cathedral Choir (33 Jazz)
• 2007 Cornucopia 2 with Humphrey Lyttelton (Caligraph)

References[]

Further reading[]

Articles[]

• Gelly, Dave. "More Music". The Observer. 29 April 1992
• Gelly, Dave. "Jazz Releases". The Observer. 31 July 1994.
• Lacey, Hester. "How We Met: Rory Bremner and Tina May". The Independent. 13 August 1995.
• May, Tina. "Jazz Essentials: Tina May on Carmen McCrae". The Guardian. 1 March 1996.
• Genay, Rosalie. "Tina May Talks to Rosalie Genay". ReVoice. 16 September 2013.
• Clarke, Colin. "Telling Jokes". Fanfare. March/April 2017.

Books[]

• The Penguin Jazz Guide. The History of 1001 Best Albums by Brian Morton and Richard Cook
• The Jazz Singers. The Ultimate Guide by Scott Yanow. Backbeat Books (Hal Leonard)
• Jazz Writings by Nathan Davis

External links[]

• Tina May's Web site

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