The young jazz chanteuse Melanie De Biasio picked up an award last night in the jazz section of Belgium's Octave awards and did a sultry barefoot version of "Let me Love You".

Check it out here:

www.myspace.com/melaniedebiasio
www.last.fm/music/melanie+de+biasio

It's a plug not a tip as I work with the label.

That I like.

If you had made it easier for me to buy the CD you would have sold one.

Bless your heart!

A few things I learnt recently:

* It's not because you have an award-winning jazz label that distributors will get your records into shops, on- or off-line.
* Radio podcasts of one-off live events are cool, except when:
a) they cut off the beginning of your artist's stellar live performance
b) they cut off the end with a commercial break
c) they mispronounce her name three times out of three
* Never put anything temporary on a website (you know, "this little e-mail link will do until Joe does the button on Monday"). Which Monday was that exactly?

Sometimes you don't need an iceberg to spring a leak. It looks like constant hammering from enough little ice cubes will do the trick nicely too.

Incidentally, De Biasio is now on iTunes if anyone is interested in a dark, moody jazz chanteuse:

tinyurl.com/6rf2p5

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