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Episode 34 with Fiona Ross – songwriter, singer & jazz journalist
“I get more creative and crazy as the day goes on.”
Episode 34 – Fiona Ross – Show Notes
- Go with the flow – music and lyrics go together
- A late night writer – daytime writing doesn’t feel right
- Piano, pencil, notebook and cup of tea
- Songwriting is always inspired by a personal experience.
- Journalism and interviews – the purpose is to reveal the person being interviewed
- Discovering journalism voice – it’s about the artist
- Interviewing legends, jazz history and research. Women in jazz and bringing jazz up to date
- To Kill a Mockingbird, F Scott Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair, Ricki Lee Jones, Billy Joel
- Family history of writers
- Didn’t set out to write a concept album but ‘Black, White and a Little Bit of Grey’ has an intertwining story
- Marketing and genre
“I won the reading cup when I was at primary school.”
“If I’m not jazz and I’m not pop, what am I?”
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