Pick Yourself Up

Single Release: Jazz Standard 'Pick Yourself Up' by Jerome Kern, featuring Nahla Solange is now available!

This track is an accompaniment to Tash James' picture book 'The Bird and The Tree' (available on Amazon here).

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Live Jazz Performances

Tash James started her singing career in London, fronting a seven-piece jazz-funk band, and with the London Youth Gospel Choir, who supported global star Mavis Staples for the TV recording of BBC’s Songs of Praise. More recently, she has performed with the Brisbane City Gospel Choir, the Little Red Company and The Con Artists Big Band.

A creative storyteller, Tash’s voice has been described as ‘captivating and magnetic’ (James Sandon, D’Addario artist). She has been mentored by some of contemporary jazz's finest, including BBC Jazz Award Winner Anita Wardell, and Grammy Nominated Jazzmeia Horn, and is holds a Bachelor of Music degree (Jazz Voice) from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

As a music educator, Tash mentors young musicians and vocalists of all ages at the Buttery Music School. Formerly a counsellor for children and young people, Tash brings her empathic and patient nature to her teaching.

A former nomad, Tash grew up in the Middle East, the UK and Hong Kong, and now calls Brisbane (Meanjin) home. Her mixed Afro-Caribbean/English/

French/Portuguese heritage informs her art, and she carries this sense of fusion into her musical choices and performances. When not working, she loves to travel to new places with her husband and their two young children.

Productions

A reimagining of Jane Austen’s celebrated novel Pride and Prejudice through the story-telling of well-loved jazz standards. Songs by noted jazz composers George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Antonio Carlos Jobim (among others) are included in the retelling of this classic story by Tash James.

Let’s Work Together

For gig bookings or singing lessons, get in touch so we can start working together.