Кристин Тобин: Ирландская вокалистка и композитор в лондонском джазе.

Irish vocalist and composer from Dublin (born 1963)

Christine Tobin (born 7 January 1963, Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish vocalist and composer from Dublin who has been part of the London jazz and improvising scene since the second half of the 1980s. She has been influenced by a diverse range of singers and writers including Betty Carter, Bessie Smith, Leonard Cohen, Olivier Messiaen, Miles Davis and poets William Butler Yeats, Paul Muldoon and Eva Salzman.

In 2012 Tobin released Sailing to Byzantium, a critically acclaimed album of her settings of the poems of W. B. Yeats. Jazzwise magazine reviewed the album and said "Christine Tobin has created an unqualified masterpiece." BBC Music magazine gave it a five star review, and in a four star review MOJO wrote, "Christine Tobin really transcends glib genre fication. Her expressive range acknowledges finely acquired folk, jazz and 20th century classical influences, which already sets her apart. And everything is shot through with an unmistakable refinement, free spirited earthiness and giddy romanticism". In 2014 Tobin released A Thousand Kisses Deep, an album of Leonard Cohen songs. The Irish Times said, "A lesser singer might be over shadowed by the darkness of Cohen's words. But Tobin invests these songs with their full meaning, and even finds the odd glimmer of hope where none was formerly apparent."

Tobin is also a promoter. For just over a year in 2005 she ran a club at the Progress Bar in Tufnell Park. She is also a director of the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston. She promotes Jazz at the Westcoast in Margate, Kent.