441 Records presents the new release by Ian Shaw, A World Still Turning.

Ian Shaw is a soul singer in the best sense of that term. There is truth and life in his voice, and he conveys the emotional resonance of a song every bit as well as he shapes and contours the original melodies with his personal brand of phrasing. He makes a standard or past hit his own. Shaw possesses the musicality, articulation, harmonic sophistication and supple sense of rhythm we associate with the most urbane icons of our jazz vocal tradition, but with a little something extra: an edgy, lived-in feeling that marks the work of singer-songwriters truly beyond category.

Debuting October 14, 2003, Shaw unleashes his soulful stylings on A World Still Turning, a unique collection newly available on 441 Records.

Even though jazz is a music that thrives on danger, jazz listeners can be notoriously unforgiving when they feel an artist is straying too far afield, but throughout A World Still Turning Shaw defines his own brand of truth, and it is compelling. Much as Sonny Rollins has made a career out of transforming the most arcane pop curiosities into jazz standards, Shaw has a keen and discerning eye for the fresh melodic and rhythmic possibilities inherent in the popular music of baby boomers and Generation X-ers alike, as well as those chestnuts that inspired his own archetypes such as Mel Torme, Sarah Vaughan and Shirley Horn. He makes them all cohere in the manner of the classic Tin Pan Alley/Jazz song-form idiom, draws them into his own aesthetic (not the other way around), imbues each one with a sense of something personal and emotional and lived-in, and more importantly, makes it all swing.

This music is both emotional and entertaining. It leaves virtually no one who hears it unaffected. From the very first track, a cover of Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again, Naturally," the listener is taken into a world of diverse and deeply moving sound expression. But there's more. One must sample "Peace," and "Soon As The Weather Breaks" for a cook's tour of what Ian has brought to the table.

Nominated two years running for Best Jazz Vocalist at the BBC Jazz Awards,     Ian Shaw has recorded 8 highly-acclaimed albums. This is Shaw's first recording for 441 Records.

441 Records Corporation is a new & innovative, independent record label that          features top quality recordings of quality jazz, blues, R&B and electronica          music. Our artists are real musicians playing real music.

441 Records is located within Avatar Studios in New York City. Over 400 Gold and Platinum albums have been recorded in the building that houses Avatar Studios, which was formerly known as The Power Station.

To purchase CDs, or for more information, log on to http://www.441records.com




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