Samara Joy

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Consistently beguiling, this is an album that stays with you long after the last notes fade away. — Jazzwise, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 9th Jul 2021
Catalogue No: WR4776
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Length: 41 minutes

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Carmichael, H: Star Dust

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Dennis: Everything Happens to Me

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Sam Jones: If You Never Fall in Love with Me

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Matt Malneck: Let's Dream in the Moonlight

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Frankie Laine: It Only Happens Once

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Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels: Jim

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Harry Tobias, Pinky Tomlin: The Trouble with Me Is You

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Irene Kitchings, Jr., Arthur Herzog: If You'd Stay the Way I Dream

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Roger Ramirez, James Sherman, Jimmy Davis: Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)

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Milton Ager, Billy Rose: Only a Moment Ago

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Edgar DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills: Moonglow

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Heusen: But beautiful

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Samara Joy, Pasquale Grasso

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Interview, Samara Joy on Sarah Vaughn and the thrill of live performance

27th July 2021

We caught up with rising jazz vocal talent Samara Joy to discuss her new album, live performance and early influences.

Samara Joy is a singing star in the ascendancy: the young vocalist attracted attention in 2019 after winning the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Now, the 21-year-old announces her self-titled debut release, which puts her spin on jazz standards from the Great American Songbook.

Produced by Grammy-nominated veteran Matt Pierson, she's joined by jazz guitar virtuoso Pasquale Grasso and his trio (Ari Roland and Kenny Washington) for a release that furthers Joy's reputation as one of America's most promising young jazz vocalists.

Joy's interpretations balance the breezy-fresh feel of a relative newcomer with a reverence for a tradition she is now undoubtably part of. "But Beautiful", "Let's Dream in the Moonlight" and "Jim" pay homage to Billie Holiday's original versions, and she acknowledges the great Nat King Cole with versions of "It Only Happens Once" and "The Trouble with Me is You". "Stardust" is another nod to Cole, showcasing a talent for storytelling well beyond her years. As she says, "There's nothing like hearing someone who understands sing it to you." Moods range from the happy-go-lucky simplicity of "Everything Happens to Me" to the longing of "Lover Man".

Winning the Vaughan award was transformational for Joy. "I was suddenly on the jazz radar. It's still bizarre to think of how fast things have progressed." Since then, Joy has dug deep to discover her jazz roots, without losing sight of the innate simplicity that makes her sound shine. Her first album announces the arrival of a young artist destined for greatness.

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June 2021

Consistently beguiling, this is an album that stays with you long after the last notes fade away.

Samara Joy

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Interview, Samara Joy on Sarah Vaughn and the thrill of live performance