This Is A Voice: on authenticity

This Is A Voice: on authenticity

What does it mean to sing as yourself? Following a keynote on authenticity and artistry, Louise joined Dr Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher on their This Is A Voice podcast.“Helping students find personal authenticity.”Listen to the full conversation on...
Where to Listen

Where to Listen

Five albums as leader, 1998–2014. A quick map of the recordings — and where to hear them.Invitation (1998)Love You Madly (1999)More Questions Than Answers (2005)Everybody’s Song But Our Own (2008)7 Deadly Sings (2014)A taster — Invitation, on...
It Could Happen to You (with Organix)

It Could Happen to You (with Organix)

Live at Seven Jazz Leeds. Louise Gibbs sings the standard It Could Happen to You with her Organix group. Seven Jazz Leeds, 2012. On stage Louise Gibbs (voice) with Martin Longhawn (organ), Eirik Svela (guitar) and Tim Carter (drums) — the organ-trio setting giving the...
When We Were One (with Kirk Lightsey)

When We Were One (with Kirk Lightsey)

Voice and piano, nothing to hide behind. Filmed by Jazz in Leeds, When We Were One sets Louise Gibbs alongside the American jazz pianist Kirk Lightsey in the most exposed format the music offers – a duo. Louise Gibbs with Kirk Lightsey — filmed by Jazz in...
7 Deadly Sings

7 Deadly Sings

7 Deadly Sings (2014). A song-suite for voice and septet, taking the seven deadly sins as its subject – an hour of original words and music on the waywardness of human desire.7 Deadly Sings — listen in full on Spotify.The ideaEach movement is built around...