2008-06-04 21:53:57

New album

Hope to get the new album up on this site shortly....

 2008-06-04 21:45:51

‘ Tune Up Turn On Stretch Out ‘Tour

Deirdre Cartwright
embarks on a series of live dates to support the release of her latest album ‘Tune Up Turn On Stretch Out’ released to a sell out crowd at the Pizza Express Soho in February earlier this year.

‘If there is a more complete guitarist in contemporary music than Deirdre Cartwright I'd like to know who it is.’ Dave Gelly The Observer April 2008

‘Her sinewy guitar fronts a sparse trio - with beatnik spoken-word injections from Sarah P - who stretch out like a psychedelic 1960s blues band, but take the blind leaps of faith of improvisers. Highlights are the Nirvana grunge-fusion Smells Like Jazz and a sublime exploration of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights.’
Stewart Lee The Sunday Times May 2008
Look at the gigs page for more details

 2008-02-11 18:24:30

NEW ALBUM: 'Tune Up Turn On Stretch Out'

I've finally got my new website up and running and I have a new album released Feb 2008. 'Tune Up Turn On Stretch Out' was recorded live at the Vortex and features Deirdre Cartwright guitar Alison Rayner bass Buster Birch drums and Sarah P vocals.
The album has been played on Radio 2, thejazz digital, Radio Scotland and there's a launch party Monday 18 Feb at Pizza Express Soho. So why not 'Turn Up' (groan)
“ Cartwright is as adept at the funky shuffle somewhat reminiscent of Grant Green as harder-edged, multi-textured playing, and her compositions draw on everything from 1970s fusion to grunge music and the straightahead jazz of the likes of George Benson and Wes Montgomery, but it is the unpretentious zestfulness of her approach, her clear enjoyment of the sheer variety of sounds her guitar can be made to produce, that is so infectious and which makes her playing so listenable.” Chris Parker, reviewing for the Vortex
http://www.deirdrecartwright.com

 2006-10-07 19:33:40

DEIRDRE CARTWRIGHT GROUP UK TOUR

For this tour Cartwright and her long time collaborator Alison Rayner on bass are playing with new drummer and percussionist Buster Birch.
This imaginative and freewheeling trio are joined by jazz poet and vocalist Sarah P.

London born guitarist and composer, who became well known by presenting the BBC’s ground breaking series Rockschool (the original!).
She was described in The Guardian as “a melodic, funky and hard swinging guitarist” and the group in Musician magazine
as ‘Intensely hip, groovy, accessible and atmospheric. Get out and see them’

Her live set can include 70’s fusion, loose limbed funk, classic jazz takes on pop covers as well as more straight ahead jazz,
with the addition of spoken word and vocals on some numbers.

“She is a most remarkable musician, having an apparently effortless command of the instrument” The Observer