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Buenos Aires Blues (& The Eleventh Hour)

I can't believe that you're in love with me

Monologues

Bitter

Can't Get Out Of This Mood

New Standards Vol. 1

Two Hearts (Lawns)

Sweet Pumpkin

Sweet Pumpkin (feat. Pasquale Grasso)

Linger Awhile

Linger Awhile (feat. Pasquale Grasso)

Misty

The Legacy Experience (Live)

'Round Midnight (Live)

Everything Happens to Me - Samara Joy

Written on a campsite on the Ile de Ré, near La Rochelle, France, in the summer of 2024. 
La France en été.
Lyrics by Phil Preston, performed by Night On The Moon (AI).

Strawberry Lady

Take Off

Victory Blues

Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings

Like Sonny

Big Band Bossa Nova

Samba De Una Nota So (One Note Samba)

Looking Walking Being

The Photograph (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

After The Storm

Lianne La Havas

Courage

A native of the Bronx, Samara Joy became entranced by classic R&B as a child and cut her teeth as a singer in her church’s gospel choir. And while her family history is deeply musical — her grandparents helmed the Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father, the musician and songwriter Antonio McLendon, has produced, composed and arranged his own astounding original work — she didn’t delve into the jazz tradition until college at SUNY Purchase. During her studies there she won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, which introduced her to the larger jazz scene as a rising star to watch.Joy released her self-titled debut on the Whirlwind label in 2021, followed a year later by Linger Awhile, her breakout Verve debut.  

 Portrait, is the proper follow-up to Linger Awhile, her 2022 breakthrough LP, and it represents the next phase in her continuing artistic evolution — unbound by expectations. It also spotlights her burgeoning gifts as a lyricist, in ingenious arrangements that meld her thoughtful words with music by Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and her late mentor Barry Harris. Co-produced with the veteran trumpeter/bandleader and multi-Grammy winner Brian Lynch, the album was tracked in streamlined sessions — just two or three takes of each tune — at one of jazz’s most hallowed sites, Van Gelder Studio. The vocalist offers an album that both honors jazz heritage while staking out bold, singular territory.

Misty

Samara Joy

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