Rumors are spreading around the UK jazz circuit that two of the hottest jazz vocalist have teamed up together and recorded a duet. Ian Shaw, signed to Milestone Records and already one of the most respected male vocalists to come out of the UK, is said to have been "delighted" to be asked to appear on a forthcoming release by Clare Teal, One of the UK's most talked about new voices. Details are sketchy at the moment, but the word is Clare has written a song especially for Ian and it will appear …

Hotly touted as one of the leading vocalists in the UK, Yorkshire born Clare Teal was hardly out of the press last year and now it seems she is back with a vengeance. A contact close to her record label Candid has confirmed that she will be releasing a second album for them in October. The album "Orsino's Songs" was originally scheduled to be released at the beginning of September, but has slipped back slightly while Teal has been in talks with Candid about the launch of her own Management and P …

Clare Teal has taken the UK jazz scene by surprise by being one of the very few artists to be honored by a triple track play on The Michael Parkinson Sunday Supplement radio show. The notoriously choosy presenter announced that he would be playing three tracks from her new album "Orsino's Songs" next week after raving about her version of "Mountain Greenery" that he had just aired. This amount of coverage is very rare and highly sought after by artists in the UK as Michael Parkinson and fellow B …