This heartfelt, and wholly organic new album opens on Melody Gardot’s sultry blues within Your Heart Is as Black as Night and the gentle finger-snapper, swingtown wit of Catch 22, and then they are followed by the searingly upbeat and joyous melodies within the cautionary tale Red Velvet Rope (which is set to a sensuous Latin groove by cuatro master Kiki Valera), and then come the quietly-imbued balladry of Over and Done and then an despairingly aching tale is brought forth within The Boy That Lived There.
Why Social Media is Helping Gen Z Rediscover Jazz
Jazz is over a century old, yet it feels astonishingly at home in one of the fastest moving cultural spaces today: social media. Swipe through TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts, and before long you are liable to run into a pianist improvising over the top of...
