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“Your Heart Is Black As Night” from Signature Featured as Song of the Day on All About Jazz
1st song of Sylvia Brooks' new album Signature, "Your Heart Is Black As Night" featured on All About Jazz as Song of the Day. Listen to it and download it for free from below: Listen "Your Heart Is Black As Night"
What Michael Major from Broadway World has to say about Sylvia Brooks’ new Jazz Album “Signature”
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film- noir inspired femmes fatale. On this - Signature (Rhombus Records) - her fourth album, she embraces the most...
Sylvia Brooks Featured on Gail Boyd’s Podcast Alternative Venues For Jazz
Sylvia Brooks shares her life moments and how she started with Jazz music and eventually evolved as a Jazz Vocalist and Songwriter. Sylvia shared her experience working on her 4th Jazz album "Signature" which is coming out on May 30th 2022.
All About Jazz Feature Sylvia’s New Album “Signature”
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this - Signature (Rhombus Records) - her fourth album, she embraces the most...
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C. Michael Bailey – The Arrangement – All About JazZ
Vocalist Sylvia Brooks likes to provide her music a noir patina, that smoky and dark evening tone preferred by the likes of the fictional hard men: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Jeff Markham. On her third recording, The Arrangement, this patina is given a high buff...
Grigware Interview with Sylvia Brooks
Jazz artist Sylvia Brooks has quite a fascinating background to share with us. In her live concert at Feinstein's Upstairs at Vitello's on October 26 she will sing from her three albums with an eclectic and alluring mix of songs. Talk about your album The Arrangement...
BWW Review: The Sun Comes Out for Singer Sylvia Brooks
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The Arrangement is Named One of the Top 15 Jazz Vocal Albums of 2017 by the 39th Annual Jazz Radio Awards
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Sylvia Brooks – The Arrangement (SBM Music, 2017)
Pintando sus interpretaciones con una pátina oscura y un sonido exquisito de clásico talento vocal La atractiva y seductora voz de Sylvia Books cantando siempre en perfecta y armónica sintonía.
Interview with Sylvia Brooks: The Arrangement – to use the colors of my voice in different ways to tell different parts of the story
Jazz interview with jazz singer Sylvia Brooks. [vc_tta_accordion shape="square" gap="2" active_section="1" no_fill="true"][vc_tta_section title="JazzBluesNews.Space: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested in music?"...
The Arrangement: Woodrow Wilkins- The Jazzwriter
With music, sometimes it’s the songwriting that makes a difference. Other times, the voices and instruments and how they execute are key. But then there’s that time when a reworking of what’s written is the focal point. That’s where vocalist Sylvia Brooks comes in,...
The Arrangement – LA Jazz Scene – Chris J. Walker – Live Performance review at Catalina Bar & Grill
Sylvia Brooks showcased songs from her third record, The Arrangement, at Catalina Bar and Grill, with a solid group of players. Some featured tunes were: "Night and Day", a cool and deadly ballad, and "Guess Who I Saw Today". Jacob took the helm for "Midnight Sun"...