Allen Austin-Bishop is an appealing singer with a warm conversational jazz vocal style celebrated by critics. Allen has a powerful voice whose music crosses the artificial boundary lines between jazz, pop and groove music. His distinctive style and confident authority let listeners know that, like Gil Scott-Heron and Billie Holiday, he means every word that he sings. One certainly never doubts his sincerity or his determination to interpret music in his own unique way. Warm conversational jazz vocal style celebrated by critics
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Allen Austin-Bishop is based in London. He made a strong impression with his 2017 debut Sorry Grateful which featured him mostly singing standards for which he gave a new spin. He has also recorded 2018’s No One Is Alone. With the release of Why Go?, in 2022, the talented singer is fulfilling his potential, introducing listeners to a variety of superior contemporary material, and carving out his own musical path in the jazz and pop music worlds.
Allen’s latest release, Glory, invites listeners into a realm of late-night reverie Produced and engineered by Luke Aziz, this collection pays homage to modern classics – from Morcheeba’s “The Sea” and DJ Spiller’s “Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)” to Everything But the Girl’s “Before Today” and Radiohead’s “Creep” – each reimagined through an alt-jazz lens and brought to life by an all-star quintet featuring Dorian Ford’s expressive piano, Mao Yamada’s warm bass, James Edmunds’s inventive percussion, Daniel Farris’s nuanced guitar and Katie Edwards’s evocative saxophone.