Although he started writing songs as a teenager, Ross Lorraine has spent most of his life doing other things. A classically trained composer, he became a music therapist before working alongside Harrison Birtwistle, exploring improvisational idioms, writing music for theatre, playing jazz piano and scoring modern tangos.
More recently he remembered he’s been a songwriter all along, and in 2022 delivered Heart of Mine, a critically acclaimed collection of jazz-centric numbers sung by half a dozen UK singers. More from the Heart repeats the same trick, with verve. Vocalist Claire Martin again produces, with lead duties shared between Joanna Eden, Iain Mackenzie, Charlie Wood, Irene Serra, Noemi Nuti and Christine Tobin, alongside a classy sextet led by pianist Nikki Iles.
