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Eddie Roberts has been making jazz records of one sort or another for 20 years. Line-ups he has led include The Jazz Mailmen, The Eddie Roberts Organisation, Gaucho, Roughneck, The New Mastersounds and The Fantasy Funk Band. Though he hails originally from Swansea, Eddie has performed with many of the American Old Guard including Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, Melvin Sparks, Idris Muhammad and George Porter Jnr, as well as contemporaries such as Karl Denson, Stanton Moore and Robert Walter. Eddie currently lives in Oakland, California.
Vocalist and songwriter Rhianna Kenny - aka Freckles - had a brief-yet-successful solo pop career with Sony Records at the tender age of 19. When she performed her hit "Oh Baby" on Top of the Pops in 2002, Eddie Roberts was playing guitar with her on stage. Since then she has been around the world several times as a guest vocalist with Faithless, with her brother Leigh aka LSK, and more recently sung backup on tour with Molokos Roisin Murphy. Rhianna divides her time between Leeds (where she grew up) and New York, where she works as a songwriter and vocal arranger.
"Move" is the debut recorded collaboration between Eddie Roberts and Freckles, and came about as the result of an initially tentative experiment: Eddie was making the instrumental follow-up to his 2004 Nu-Jazz album "Roughneck" and approached the singer to see if she could add vocals to one of the tunes. He loved the result ("How Long") so he offered up another, and another, until the penny dropped that this was actually a vocal record!
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