Twenty-four-year-old Bronx native Samara Joy sings with a young persons passion and a more-experienced artists wisdom. Its spooky, the great bassist Christian McBride has said of the 24-year-old musician. She sounds and tells stories like an elder. Joys refined, distinctive style has been compared to Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgeraldall legendary singers who also recorded for Verve Recordsbut the perspective she shares on her Grammy-winning album Linger Awhile is all her own. She puts her spin on well-known standards like Misty and Round Midnight, but her deep curiosity takes her deeper into jazz history on Sweet Pumpkin and the Vaughan gem Cant Get Out of This Mood.
In 2024, she won a third Grammy Award, for her take on the Betty Carter classic Tight, and is currently preparing new music for a full-length follow-up. The New York Times praised the silky-voiced rising star for helping jazz take a youthful turn while NPR’s All Things Considered named her a classic jazz singer from a new generation. This is her Walt Disney Concert Hall debutand shes only going up from here.
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