New Jazz 2025

Stolen Fruit

Real Friends

Make It Easy

Between the Bars

Without Further Ado, Vol 1

Moanin' (feat. José James)

This Bitter Earth

Oh Snap

Anything but now

This song is for the dream chasers, the adventurers, people living out of a suitcase, like me… On a mission to love the world, and life, when you are always on the move, home becomes a feeling not a place!

Plane Jane

24 Hr Sports

Carry Me Away

Bloom

Weightless

Parks Lope

Separate Ways

Three Little Words

Don't Remind Me

This Christmas I'm Coming Home

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.

Three Little Words

Samara Joy

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