Press
“What a voice…just wonderful!”
–Craig Charles, BBC6
“Valentine is among the most dynamic singers, male or female, to hit town in a while.”
–The Boston Globe
“Valentine’s vocals are suitably brassy but also warm and emotive, a counterpart to the glamorous image she projects on stage.”
–Brett Milano, Boston Phoenix
“Valentine… is a veteran of the Bucket of Blood circuit, where five or six sets of hard entertainment is what keeps bikers and other bar beasts from peeling each others’ skins off, and a good singer needs to be able to hold and bend a note in a firestorm of sound–just like she does.”
–Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix
“Miss Valentine (sounds) like Otis Redding’s long lost daughter raised on a steady diet of Billie Holiday…”
–Brian Mosher, The Noise Magazine
“…Lead singer Jordan Valentine displayed powerful pipes and a radiant sweetness that just scream ’star!’”
–Now Wave! Zine
Swapping Sinners for Saints
by Michael Marrotta
The Boston Herald, Thursday August 21, 2008
Local soul diva Jordan Valentine has gone from singing with Sinners to singing with Saints.
With the World’s Greatest Sinners on permanent hiatus, Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Saints make their debut Saturday night with two sets of throwback soul at the Plough & Stars in Cambridge.
Valentine describes the new troupe as reawakening the sounds of New Orleans ’60s r & b as well as Southern soul and Delta grooves. Given Valentine’s previous four years with the Sinners, the new name aptly plays on the old adage “a sinner all week and a Saint on Sunday.”
Former Sinners Andrew Malone on keyboards and Dennis McCarthy on drums carry on with Valentine in the new band featuring two saxophones, trumpet, guitar and bass.
It could be a while before the World’s Greatest Sinners hit the stage again.
“There won’t be a ‘last show’ or anything silly like that,” Valentine wrote Wednesday in an e-mail blast. “But I’m sure someone will probably convince us to do some kind of reunion thing round about 2030, at which point hopefully some of you will be there to push me out on to the stage at the Cantab in my giant rolling throne a la Brother Solomon Burke.”