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Rainy days are Jazz kind of days.. Jamie Cullum was a featured artist yesterday (raining) and Michael Bublé today in "The Groove" series.

Today's New Artist is Jamie Cullum, hailing from England and born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Jamie Cullum isn't a new artist to me; more or less rediscovered.

I first found out about him watching 60 minutes back in 2005. He came to fame by covering songs by artists such as Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Ol' Blue Eyes himself...Frank Sinatra. Jamie has a good voice but what really drew me to him was his skill as a pianist. He's phenomenal!

When I found out about him in 2005, he was releasing his forth studio album entitled Catching Tales . Songs off the album that immediately caught my eye (or ear if you will) at the time were "Photograph" and "Mind Trick".

Recently I decided to look him up again and I found He released a new album late last year (November 2009) entitled The Pursuit. This past week I've been listening to it and it is quite enjoyable. My favorite song off the album is probably "If I Ruled the World" (featured). He also covers Rhianna's 2007 hit single "Don't Stop the Music" on the album which is a nice piano version of the song.

Discography:

Heard It All before (1999)
Pointless nostalgic (2002)
Twenty Something (2003)
Catching Tales (2005)
The Pursuit (2009)