Reviews

I just received the newest release, I'll Be Yours Tonight LIVE, from Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotionand it's quite good! Opening with a rocker, Your Sun Shines Rain, Schwarz reminds me a lot of early Yeah Yeah Yeahs but done in San Francisco in 1968. Interesting. Fine & Mellow is a perfect...

English translation:     This is already the 4th album released in as many years by British singer Zoe Schwarz with her band Blue Commotion.  It was not a 'planned' recording by chance, "I'll Be Yours Tonight', recorded November 2014 at a show at The Tuesday Night Music Club....

It is an honour and a thrill to be featured in this American website Arts Blog,  William Phoenix's '3 Questions' has become in huge demand for artists.   Read this comprehensive interview with overview, photos and clips here.  Thank you Lori Graboyes for clinching it.

The live album opens with verve with a distinctive and instantly recognisable sound and then Zoe’s vocals hit the airwaves and you can only be listening to the Blues Commotion’s jazz, funk and soul inspired blues that has hints of rocky fire as on the opening number Your Sun Shines Rain....

"Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion" is the fourth album by this up and coming quintet from the lively Blues English scene: "I'll Be Yours Tonight" is a fresh and original album, recorded live on November 8th 2014 without any alteration oat Richard Dunning's Tuesday Night Music Club; 11 original...

Hailing from 'across the pond', the band Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion somehow manages to meld together blues, jazz, R&B, and , dare I say, even a dash of punk to form their own unique sound.  Schwarz's voice has a quality that is somewhat of a hybrid of Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, and...

'We'll Find A Way' from the live album 'I'll Be Yours Tonight-Live'.

"Terrific musicians all 4 of them, I think that was very very nice indeed" Paul Jones, BBCRadio 2, 29th June 2015

Editor Ed Mitchell prints a full A4 colour photo by Richie Brown, and writes from recent correspondence: " WE'VE JUST RELEASED I'll Be Yours Tonight, our fourth album in three year, and in that time we've never had a rehearsal  We run through new songs at sound checks, and to warm up in...

De vorige drie studio albums werden bij Rootstime positief onthaald maar nu krijgen we de gelegenheid om ook eens te proeven hoe Zoë Schwarz Blue Commotion het er live van afbrengt. Dit...

Track 12:  Say It Isn't So - This song's riff will burrow its way into your head like a parasitic worm... but in a good way.  One of our favourite tracks from the band's new "accidental" live album, Say It Isn't So is fuelled by some incendiary vocal, guitar and organ work....

"Zoe Schwarz was sublime in the Charles Dickens and were, for many people, band of the festival!"

"What a singer! What a band! At their best Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion are right up there with the giants of jazz and blues. Smooth and mellow, raw and raunchy, they can seamlessly switch gear in the blink of an eye." 

Following three excellent studio albums in successive years, a live CD representing the best of these is undoubtedly the only way in which Zoe and her band could have exceeded expectations for 2015.  This is because all twelve tracks are extended  ersions recorded at an intimate...

What a fabulous band this is.  Over the last three or so years (as confidence builds) the band has got better and better.  The album before this, 2014's "Exposed" was a greeted with much enthusiasm, one reviewer saying, "Zoe and her band have reached the point where they cannot be...

After three studio albums a live Blue Commotion record was long overdue, although the wait has allowed the band to compile a sizeable and varied body of work to draw on.  Proceedings open with the choppy soul strut of 'Your Sun Shines Rain' with Rob Koral's beefy guitar and Pete Whittaker...