At 10:01 PM 5/14/2004 EDT, ArthurBang2@aol.com wrote:
>
>Wow.. Just got done watching the re-broadcast of last night's Conan on
>Comedy Central and the musical guest was a 3 piece jazz combo led
>by Jamie Cullum.   I havent heard of him before but apparently he 
>currently has the number one CD on Itunes.
>
>It reminded me a lot of Ben Folds Five.  Not vocally, but just the way
>he played piano and the standup bass and drums.  

I actually just bought this album Friday morning in my weekly crawl through
Newbury Comics (the fact that it's only $7.99 there helped) -- although I
haven't had time to listen to it yet, the parts I heard on NPR the day
before reminded me VERY strongly of the UK's early-'80s jazz-pop scene:
Weekend, Carmel, early Everything But the Girl, that sort of thing.  

S