Jools holds the unique status of performing with musicians who have achieved success in every decade of the 20th Century. Jools provided a headstone for the grave of blues legend Jimmy Yancey in Chicago. I first learned boogie-woogie as a boy by nagging Uncle David to teach me. He was 17 years older and in a semi-professional band called the Planets. All my children are musical.
My daughter Rosie does backing vocals for my band and my other two children, Mabel and George, like playing music, although not professionally. One of my younger brothers, Christopher, also plays in my band, and my nephews are musical too. It's lovely to have the same sense of humour as a family as well; it's that shared consciousness, which I like.
The musician and broadcaster talks about his family. Squeeze had continued for two years after Holland 's departure before packing it in at the end of Holland accepted, and by the end of , a new Squeeze record called Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti was in the shops, featuring the keyboards of " Julian Holland " as he then billed himself.
For the next five years, TV personality Holland was again largely a sideman on Squeeze 's records, although his piano was unquestionably a vital component in the poppy, vaguely Beatles que mid-'80s Squeeze sound. It was during this phase of their career that Squeeze had their biggest U. His musical success in the U. It later became the blueprint for such popular music shows as Sessions at West 54th. However, by , Holland was still only being given the occasional album track in which to showcase his prodigious talents, so he once again left Squeeze on amicable terms to resume his solo career.
That year, he reclaimed the first name " Jools " and released World of His Own , which mixed up his boogie-woogie with more contemporary sounds and featured contributions from all of his Squeeze bandmates, as well as all of the ex- Millionaires and his celebrity pal Sting. These albums sold respectably, but generated no hit singles: from this point on, Holland increasingly became in the U. And while his recording career could hardly be called stagnant, his television career really took off starting in , when he began hosting Later with Jools Holland.
This long-running late-night music show featured a dazzling array of musical talent absolutely everyone from Tori Amos to David Bowie to Rickie Lee Jones to B. King to the Verve showed up at one point or another , and it was required viewing for any Brit with even the vaguest pretensions toward musical hipness. Perhaps to keep from spreading himself too thin, for the next little while Holland as a musician released albums that concentrated solely on his keyboard playing.
He also continued to work diligently as a session musician throughout the '90s, appearing on dozens of recordings by artists such as Dr. John , Eddi Reader , Marcella Detroit , and others. By the mid-'90s, however, Holland 's fame as a television presenter and his consequent list of celebrity contacts , coupled with his well-earned reputation for top-notch musicianship, meant that he had the clout to tour with and record big-budget albums with a full-scale '40s-style big band.
Closing the series is Ed Sheeran, who treats us to a performance of Leave Your Life, a song he wrote for his daughter, which is taken from his new album. Tune in on Saturday 6th November at Joined also by guest Joel Dommett, they chew over recent events in the contest, featuring unseen footage from Pastry Week and an interview with the week's eliminated baker. Tonight on C4 at 8. A loving tribute to the black and white keys, it celebrates the community and conviviality that the piano inspires and the spark of Jools' deep love for music.
The album showcases the vibrant versatility and virtuosity of Jools Holland and his lifelong friend, along with a truly unique line-up of some of the world's greatest artists: Lang Lang; David Gilmour; Ruby Turner; Herbie Hancock; Booker T.
John; Joe Bonamassa; Trombone Shorty Recorded through the lockdown period and from many corners of the world, the album has been produced by multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney and Jools' longtime producer Laurie Latham, with one track co-written and produced by Mousse T.
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