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Born into a musical family, jazz artist Sylvia Brooks started on her musical path at a young age. Releasing her first album in 2009, Brooks boasts a long and lucrative professional career, with highlights including a spot on Bob Parlocha’s Top 50 jazz albums list, a...

"Authority" is a word that comes to mind when hearing Sylvia Brooks' Signature. Over three recordings released since 2009, the singer has established herself as a master stylist capable of addressing the broad palette of songs used as vehicles for jazz vocals. Read...

El largo y sinuoso camino que llevó a Sylvia Brooks de regreso a sus raíces jazzísticas le proporcionó muchas historias dramáticas que contar. Con una voz suntuosa y aterciopelada, Brooks ganó una gran atención con sus dos primeros álbumes aclamados por la crítica,...

El largo y sinuoso camino que llevó a Sylvia Brooks de regreso a sus raíces jazzísticas le proporcionó muchas historias dramáticas que contar. Con una voz suntuosa y aterciopelada, Brooks ganó una gran atención con sus dos primeros álbumes aclamados por la crítica,...

SYLVIA BROOKS Signature: When last we met Brooks, she had our vote for femme fatale of the year (any year). This time around, she's toned down her look on the front cover, not disguising her maturity but not reveling in it either. Inside the jacket, you get the lady...

On her new album Signature, Sylvia Brooks voice is both lighter in weight and darker in color – a paradox, I know. There is more jazz and bluesy feeling early on with a deep searching for the meaning of the words. I'm intrigued by her lyrics. "The Boy That Lived...

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"

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 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.

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...

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...

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...