Out There With Betty Carter
Release Date: 1958
Country: US
Tracklist
- You're Driving Me Crazy (1:45)
- I Can't Help It (2:44)
- By The Bend Of The River (2:07)
- Bab's Blues (2:49)
- Foul Play (2:21)
- You're Getting To Be A Habit (3:30)
- On The Isle Of May (2:02)
- But Beautiful (3:58)
- All I've Got (2:15)
- Make It Last (4:30)
- Blue Bird Of Happiness (1:30)
- Something Wonderful (3:35)
Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones on May 16, 1929, in Flint, Michigan; died September 26, 1998, in New York) was an American jazz singer. She grew up in Detroit, where her father, James Jones, directed music at a local church. She entered the Detroit Conservatory of Music to study piano at 15 and began singing at 16. Because she was too young to enter bars, she even obtained a false birth certificate to get into performances.
In 1948, Carter joined Lionel Hampton’s big band on tour. Her enthusiasm for bebop earned her the nickname “Betty Bebop.” Hampton would not let her sing ballads, so the experience pushed her to develop scat singing into her own language. In the 1950s, she recorded for Peacock, Epic, and ABC-Paramount. Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant (1956), Out There with Betty Carter (1958), The Modern Sound of Betty Carter (1960), and the duet album Ray Charles and Betty Carter (1961) are among the highlights of that period.
Carter receded from the mainstream for a time in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she founded her own label, Bet-Car, and took charge of producing, releasing, and distributing her records. Now It’s My Turn (1976), the live double album The Audience with Betty Carter (1980), and Whatever Happened to Love? (1982) came from this independent path. Look What I Got (1988) won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
Carter’s live performances were known for uncompromising improvisation. She might hold a note, break it apart, and reassemble it into a new melody, requiring the band to follow her breath. She was also one of the most important mentors to young musicians. The Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program continues her teaching legacy. She was named an NEA Jazz Master in 1993.
Carter died of pancreatic cancer in New York in 1998. Carmen McRae once said of her: “There’s really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter.”
Carmen Sings Monk
Release Date: 1990
Country: US
Tracklist
- Get It Straight (Straight, No Chaser) (Live) (3:55)
- Dear Ruby (Ruby, My Dear) (5:55)
- It's Over Now (Well You Needn't) (5:24)
- Monkery's The Blues (Blue Monk) (4:51)
- You Know Who (I Mean You) (3:26)
- Little Butterfly (Pannonica) (5:12)
- Listen To Monk (Rhythm-A-Ning) (3:03)
- How I Wish... (Ask Me Now) (4:52)
- Man, That Was A Dream (Monk's Dream) (2:51)
- 'Round Midnight (6:27)
- Still We Dream (Ugly Beauty) (3:23)
- Suddenly (In Walked Bud) (Live) (3:36)
- Looking Back (Reflections) (5:31)
- Suddenly (In Walked Bud) (3:08)
- Get It Straight (Straight, No Chaser) (3:28)
Carmen McRae
Carmen Mercedes McRae (born April 8, 1920, in Harlem, New York; died November 10, 1994, in Beverly Hills, California) was an American jazz singer nicknamed “Miss Jazz.” Her parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae, were Jamaican immigrants, and the family regularly listened to records by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. She began piano lessons at eight. At 17, she met Billie Holiday, whom she regarded as her greatest influence throughout her life. Holiday recorded “Dream of Life,” a song McRae wrote as a teenager, in 1939 after it passed through pianist Teddy Wilson and composer Irene Kitchings.
Around age 20, McRae earned a living playing piano at Harlem’s Minton’s Playhouse, where jam sessions introduced her to Dizzy Gillespie, bassist Oscar Pettiford, and drummer Kenny Clarke. In 1944, she got her first major job as pianist in Benny Carter’s big band and worked with Count Basie’s orchestra that same year. In 1946–47, while married to Kenny Clarke, she recorded her earliest sides with Mercer Ellington’s band under the name Carmen Clarke. Later, while performing in Brooklyn, Decca’s Milt Gabler discovered her. Her five-year Decca contract produced twelve LPs.
In 1948, McRae moved to Chicago with comedian George Kirby and spent nearly four years singing and playing piano at venues such as the Archway Lounge. She later said those years “gave me everything I have today” and were the most important training she received. Her career took off after she returned to New York in 1952. DownBeat readers named her Best New Female Vocalist in 1954. Her debut LP, By Special Request (1955), followed by Torchy! (1956), After Glow (1957), and Mad About the Man (1958), established her cool, subtly ironic vocal style.
McRae later recorded for Verve, Atlantic, Columbia, Blue Note, Novus, and other labels. Her repertoire ranged from Broadway and Hollywood standards to Thelonious Monk’s music. The two-LP standard-song collection The Great American Songbook, released by Atlantic in 1972, and 1990’s Carmen Sings Monk, which earned a Grammy nomination, are among her notable albums. Her live 1987 duet recording with Betty Carter at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, The Carmen McRae–Betty Carter Duets, is a classic meeting between two generations of jazz singers.
McRae was known for phrasing behind the beat and diction that came close to spoken delivery, often giving lyrics an extra layer of irony. She died in Beverly Hills in 1994, aged 74.
Dóris Monteiro
Dóris Monteiro (born Adelina Dóris Monteiro in October 1934 in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro; died in Rio on July 24, 2023) was a Brazilian singer and actress. Raised in Copacabana by her adoptive parents, Lázaro and Ana, she learned French from her adoptive mother, who had lived in Lyon for nine years. The language later opened doors for her onstage.
In 1949, at 15, Monteiro sang a French song on Rádio Nacional’s amateur program Papel Carbono in Rio and was noticed. She gained a singing opportunity at Rádio Guanabara in 1951, then spent eight years at Rádio Tupi and performed in the nightclub of the Copacabana Palace. Her first record was the 78 rpm single “Se Você Se Importasse.” In 1952 she recorded José Maria de Abreu’s “Fecho Meus Olhos, Vejo Você.” In the mid-1950s, Continental released her first LPs, including songs such as “Vento Soprando,” “Graças a Deus,” and “Joga a Rede no Mar,” which were frequently played on radio.
At a time when samba-canção favored powerful voices and sorrowful songs, Monteiro’s gentle singing and smiling diction brought brighter lyrics into the mainstream. Critics consider her one of the artists who helped bridge samba-canção and bossa nova. Her records also introduced songs by a new group of writers, including “Se É Por Falta de Adeus” by Tom Jobim and Dolores Duran; “Dó-Ré-Mi” and “Graças a Deus” by Fernando César; “Mocinho Bonito” (1956) by Billy Blanco; “O Que Eu Gosto em Você” by Sílvio César; “Alô Fevereiro” by Sidney Miller; and “Mudando de Conversa” by Maurício Tapajós and Hermínio Bello de Carvalho.
Alongside her recording career, Monteiro won Best Actress at the first Brazilian Film Festival in 1953 for Alex Viany’s film Agulha no Palheiro, and went on to appear in eight films. In 1955 she hosted a television program named after her on Rio’s TV Tupi. She recorded the samba album Gostoso É Sambar for Philips in 1963 and songs by the Valle brothers in 1964. Her 1969 recording Mudando de Conversa spent about five months on the charts and became one of her best-known releases. In the 1970s, she recorded the Dóris, Miltinho e Charme series with Miltinho and Lúcio Alves, bringing old-style samba-canção into a duet tradition.
Monteiro left more than twenty LPs and over twenty 78 rpm records. In 2004, when she turned 70, Universal and EMI reissued twelve of her most representative albums. In 2020, she rerecorded her 1952 breakthrough, “Fecho Meus Olhos, Vejo Você,” for the compilation Copacabana – Um Mergulho nos Amores Fracassados, produced by Zuza Homem de Mello. She died in Rio on July 24, 2023, aged 88.
Laura Fygi
She followed with albums including Bewitched (1992), The Lady Wants to Know (1994), and Turn Out the Lamplight (1995), and worked with jazz figures such as trumpeter Clark Terry, guitarist Johnny Griffin, harmonica player Toots Thielemans, and composer Michel Legrand. In 1997, she recorded Watch What Happens with Legrand. Her singing combines the elegance of jazz standards with the lightness of Latin rhythms, and her performances have taken her across Europe, South America, and Asia. Her 2012 album Flower also includes Chinese songs sung in Mandarin. Through multilingual repertoire and cross-cultural collaborations, she continues to expand the expressive range of modern jazz singing.
Sarah Vaughan
Release Date: 1955-04-00
Country: US
Tracklist
- Lullaby Of Birdland
- April In Paris
- He's My Guy
- Jim
- You're Not The Kind
- Embraceable You
- I'm Glad There Is You
- September Song
- It's Crazy
Penthouse Serenade
Release Date: 1952-09-00
Country: US
Tracklist
- Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
- Somebody Loves Me
- Laura
- Once In A Blue Moon (Based On Rubinstein's Melody In F)
- Polka Dots And Moonbeams
- Down By The Old Mill Stream
- If I Should Lose You
- Rose Room
Love Is The Thing
Release Date: 1957-04-00
Country: US
Tracklist
- When I Fall In Love
- Stardust
- Stay As Sweet As You Are
- Where Can I Go Without You?
- Maybe It's Because I Love You Too Much
- Love Letters
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- I Thought About Marie
- At Last
- It's All In The Game
- When Sunny Gets Blue
- Love Is The Thing
Fats Waller
Thomas “Fats” Waller (born May 21, 1904, in Harlem, New York; died December 15, 1943, aboard a train near Kansas City) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, and singer, and one of the brightest representatives of stride piano. He was the youngest of four children. His father, Edward Martin Waller, was a Baptist minister; his mother, Adaline Locket Waller, played organ at church. Waller began piano at six, studied stride left-hand technique with master James P. Johnson as a teenager, and at fifteen became organist at Harlem’s Lincoln Theatre, accompanying silent films and vaudeville acts.
In the early 1920s, Waller began making piano-solo records for labels such as OKeh. In 1926, he was caught up in a sensational kidnapping in Chicago; a few days later, he turned up safe at a restaurant and completed a performance that had already been scheduled. In 1929, he wrote for the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates with lyricist Andy Razaf and composer Harry Brooks, including “Ain’t Misbehavin’.” Songs such as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Squeeze Me,” “Black and Blue,” and “Keeping Out of Mischief Now” soon became jazz standards. “Jitterbug Waltz” (1942) showed his openness to new harmonies and triple-meter waltz.
Beginning in 1934, Waller recorded hundreds of small-group sides for Victor (RCA) as Fats Waller and His Rhythm, blending piano solos, ensemble swing, and comic singing. “Your Feet’s Too Big” and “The Joint Is Jumpin’” made him a household entertainer across the United States. In 1938, he toured Europe and recorded a solo London Suite in London. He also appeared in films including Hooray for Love (1935), King of Burlesque (1936), and Stormy Weather (1943).
On December 15, 1943, Waller died at only 39 aboard the Santa Fe train while traveling from Los Angeles to New York. His influence continued to grow: his piano language passed through Art Tatum and Count Basie to later mainstream jazz pianists. The 1978 Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, built around his songs, won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and his recordings have entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 15, 1894, and died in a car crash near Clarksdale, Mississippi, on September 26, 1937. She was the third of seven children. Her father was a Baptist minister; her mother supported the family by taking in laundry and odd jobs. Both parents died when Smith was young, and her older sister raised her. From the age of eight or nine, she and her brother Andrew sang on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. She had no formal vocal training; the richness of her voice and clarity of her diction were honed in church, on the street, and with touring shows.
In 1912, Andrew, who had joined a vaudeville troupe as a guitarist, introduced her to Moses Stokes’s traveling show, whose star was Ma Rainey, later known as the “Mother of the Blues.” Smith sang in the chorus and danced, then spent several years building a reputation on the Black theater circuit known as TOBA, traveling through the American Southeast and performing in cities such as Atlanta, Memphis, and Philadelphia. Her stage presence was not delicate: nearly six feet tall and powerfully built, she wore her emotions openly and had a way of quieting an audience before she began to sing.
In February 1923, Smith recorded “Down Hearted Blues” and “Gulf Coast Blues” for Columbia in New York. The record sold about 780,000 copies in six months, rescuing Columbia’s struggling race-record series and making her the best-selling Black woman singer of the time. Pianist Fletcher Henderson accompanied and arranged many of her sessions; James P. Johnson, Charlie Green, and Joe Smith were frequent collaborators. Her 1925 recordings with Louis Armstrong—“St. Louis Blues,” “Reckless Blues,” and “Cold in Hand Blues”—are among jazz’s most important exchanges between voice and horn. Armstrong’s cornet answers the spaces between her phrases, turning the blues call into a two-way improvisation.
The late 1920s were Smith’s commercial peak. “Yellow Dog Blues,” “Empty Bed Blues,” and “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” became best-sellers. She was among the highest-paid Black performers of her era and traveled with an entire Pullman sleeper car. After the 1929 crash, audiences shifted toward swing and film, and Columbia dropped her in 1931. In 1933, young producer John Hammond secured her final sessions, with musicians including Buck Clayton, Benny Goodman, Chu Berry, and Jack Teagarden. “Gimme a Pigfoot” and “Take Me for a Buggy Ride” show that her voice was still in fine shape, though the records drew little attention at the time.
In the early hours of September 26, 1937, her car rear-ended a parked truck on Highway 61. Her right arm was nearly severed, and she died that day in a Clarksdale hospital at age 43. The often-repeated story that a white hospital refused to treat her is considered unreliable by later historians, but the story itself shows how her death became a metaphor for segregation. Her grave in Mount Lawn Cemetery, Pennsylvania, went unmarked for 33 years until Janis Joplin and a Philadelphia nurse paid for a headstone in 1970. Smith was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Early Influence category in 1989, and several recordings have entered the Grammy Hall of Fame. The title “Empress of the Blues” has never truly passed to anyone else.
Good Morning Kiss
Release Date: 1986
Country: US
Tracklist
- Time Is Love (2:41)
- Dindi (5:53)
- The Lamp Is Low (8:02)
- Perfect Stranger (3:26)
- Good Morning Kiss (5:39)
- Show Me That You Love Me (4:08)
- Love For Sale (6:43)
- Quiet Times (3:38)
Carmen Lundy
Carmen Lundy is an American jazz singer, composer, lyricist, arranger, pianist, and visual artist from Miami, Florida. Known for her distinctive voice, nuanced storytelling, and singular original work, she was named a 2026 NEA Jazz Master. Her artistry spans modern jazz, gospel, soul, theater, and visual art.
Lundy grew up in Miami, where her mother was lead singer of the gospel group Apostolic Singers. She earned a bachelor's degree in Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami, where she helped pioneer the university's formal jazz-vocal studies program. She led several bands in Miami before moving to New York in 1978. On her first visit to the Village Vanguard, she was invited to sit in with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, and she went on to perform throughout New York and the surrounding area.
In 1985, Lundy released her debut solo album, Good Morning Kiss, which spent 23 weeks on Billboard's jazz chart. She has continued to expand the expressive range of jazz vocals through her independent work. Albums including Self Portrait, Moment to Moment, Come Home, Changes, Soul to Soul, Code Noir, Modern Ancestors, and Fade to Black showcase her melodic writing, improvisational feel, and social perspective. Her work often places original songs alongside fresh interpretations of standards. She has written and released more than 180 songs, which have also been performed by Kenny Barron, Ernie Watts, Terri Lyne Carrington, Regina Carter, and others. Her seventeenth album, Notes From The Wine Cellar, released in August 2026, uses ten songs to explore love, faith, family, social awareness, and reflection on life.
As a collaborator, Lundy has recorded and performed with jazz greats including Curtis Lundy, Ray Barretto, Mulgrew Miller, Roy Hargrove, Jimmy Cobb, Ron Carter, Randy Brecker, Robert Glasper, and Patrice Rushen. Her albums Modern Ancestors and Fade to Black were each nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. She has also received Grammy recognition for her work on Terri Lyne Carrington's Mosaic Project.
Lundy has long been active in education and interdisciplinary art. She served as a lecturer in global jazz studies at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music and spent more than twenty years as a resident mentor for the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program. In 2023, she was appointed Harvard University's Jazz Master in Residence. Her paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works have been exhibited in several cities. She has also portrayed Billie Holiday and appeared in the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies. She sees composing, performing, teaching, and visual art as connected forms of expression.
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Linger Awhile
Release Date: 2022-09-16
Country: US
Tracklist
- Can't Get Out Of This Mood (3:42)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (4:09)
- Nostalgia (The Day I Knew) (3:31)
- Sweet Pumpkin (3:55)
- Misty (4:54)
- Social Call (4:30)
- I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) (5:04)
- Linger Awhile (1:47)
- 'Round Midnight (5:42)
- Someone To Watch Over Me (4:04)
Linger Awhile Longer
Release Date: 2023
Country: Europe
Tracklist
- Can't Get Out Of This Mood (Duo Version) (4:14)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (New Trio Version) (6:08)
- Sweet Pumpkin (Duo Version) (3:44)
- I Miss You So (3:43)
- I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) (3:33)
- Sometimes Today Seems Like Yesterday (3:03)
- I'm Afraid (Of Loving You Too Much) (4:57)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (Duo Version) (4:45)
Verve Vinyl Collection
Release Date: 2023
Country: US
Tracklist
- Can't Get Out Of This Mood (3:42)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (4:09)
- Nostalgia (The Way I Knew) (3:31)
- Sweet Pumpkin (3:55)
- Misty (4:54)
- Social Call (4:30)
- I'm Confussin' (That I Love You) (5:04)
- Linger Awhile (1:47)
- Round Midnight (5:42)
- Someone To Watch Over Me (Featuring Pasquale Grasso) (4:04)
- Can't Get Out Of This Mood (featuring Gerald Clayton) (Duo Version) (4:14)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (New Trio Version) (6:08)
- Sweet Pumpkin (Featuring Gerald Clayton) (Duo Version) (3:44)
- I Miss You So (3:43)
- I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away The Key) (4:14)
- Sometimes Today Seems Like Yesterday (3:03)
- I'm Afraid (Of Loving You Too Much) (Featuring Ben Paterson) (4:57)
- Guess Who I Saw Today (Featuring Gerald Clayton) (Duo Version)
- Warm In December (4:15)
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Me (Featuring Sullivan Fortner) (4:04)
- The Christmas Song (3:28)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (3:48)
- O Holy Night (5:09)
- The Christmas Song (Live Duet with Antonio McLendon) (3:52)
Portrait
Release Date: 2024-10-11
Country: US
Tracklist
- You Stepped Out Of A Dream (4:35)
- Reincarnation Of A Lovebird (6:28)
- Autumn Nocturne (3:47)
- Peace Of Mind/Dreams Come True (7:06)
- A Fool In Love (Is Called A Clown) (4:48)
- No More Blues (5:46)
- Now And Then (In Remembrance Of…) (6:28)
- Day By Day (4:58)
Why I'm Here (From The Netflix Film “Shirley”)
Release Date: 2024-03-01
Country: US
Tracklist
- Why I'm Here (From the Netflix film “Shirley”) (2:34)
Lazy Afternoon (A Place That's Quiet)
Release Date: 2021
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- Lazy Afternoon (5:42)
- Sometime Ago (6:16)
- Seascape (4:05)
- My Foolish Heart (6:34)
- Blue Gardenia (5:41)
- All Too Soon (4:59)
- I Should Care (6:42)
- Here's That Rainy Day (6:05)
- I Didn't Know What Time It Was (5:11)
- Scarlet Ribbons (2:48)
- Peace Piece (5:32)
Featuring
Release Date: 2022-11-04
Country: Canada
Tracklist
- I Feel Foolish (3:09)
- Cover Up (6:06)
- It Might As Well Be Spring (4:52)
- Start Again (5:04)
- A Moment (5:34)
- Look The Other Way (7:54)
- I Miss Missing You (4:20)
- 'Tis Autumn (4:35)
- My Cardiologist (4:07)
- Ideal (6:11)
- I Never Knew (4:57)
- The Feeling Is Mutual (4:14)
- It's Pronounced George (4:48)
You're Alike, You Two
Release Date: 2023
Country: Canada
Tracklist
- Nobody Else But Me (3:39)
- A Fine Romance (4:13)
- Yesterdays (2:47)
- I'll Be Hard To Handle (4:04)
- You Couldn't Be Cuter (3:30)
- Bill (4:23)
- I'm Old Fashioned (3:08)
- April Fooled Me (3:51)
- Pick Yourself Up (3:53)
- The Bartender (3:10)
Caity Gyorgy With Strings
Release Date: 2025-08-22
Country: Canada
Tracklist
- That Doesn't Matter (2:49)
- You'll Learn (3:47)
- Train Wrecked Dining Car (2:45)
- If I'd've Known (4:06)
- I've Been Kicking Myself (3:14)
- Sight To Behold (3:36)
- Memo 267 (2:58)
- Pour For The Hour (2:57)
- Next Time (5:18)
- There Goes (4:31)
Hello! How Are You?
Release Date: 2025-04-30
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- Hello! How Are You! (3:39)
- Just My Luck (5:41)
- They Say It's Spring (4:32)
- Familiar Face (4:34)
- Letter From The Office Of (5:06)
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads (4:39)
- I Regret To Infomr You (4:56)
- It Never Entered My Mind (4:13)
- Fly Baby (5:41)
- Coloquially (3:26)
- I Don't Mind (4:39)
Asking For Trouble : The Music Of Frank Loesser
Release Date: 2026-05-20
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- If I Were A Bell
- Love Me As I Am
- Paris Original
- Asking For Trouble
- My Darling, My Darling
- I Come A Runnin'
- I Said No
- Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
- Say It (Over And Over Again)
- Two Sleepy People
- I Believe In You
Tyreek McDole
McDole first studied trumpet and percussion, then discovered a passion for singing while performing in high-school musicals. He won an outstanding vocalist award at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and received encouragement from Wynton Marsalis. He later studied jazz vocals at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with LaTanya Hall, Gary Bartz, Gerald Cannon, Eddie Henderson, Billy Hart, Sullivan Fortner, and others, gradually building a career in New York.
In 2023, McDole won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, becoming the second male singer to take first prize in the competition’s history and drawing international attention. His singing is known for clear diction, steady time, and restrained emotional depth. His repertoire ranges from jazz standards to works by composers such as Pharoah Sanders, bringing his Haitian heritage and contemporary experience into traditional forms.
His 2025 debut album as a leader, Open Up Your Senses, introduces his musical direction through classic songs and personal interpretations, with close interplay among contemporary jazz musicians. McDole has performed with Kenny Barron, Theo Croker, and NEA Jazz Master Gary Bartz, and continues to appear in New York and on international stages. His voice combines the composure of an old-school baritone with a younger musician’s spirit of exploration: intimate in ballads and supple, energetic, and full of life in rhythm-driven pieces.
Official Website:https://www.tyreekmcdole.com/
Caity Gyorgy
Singer · Calgary, Canada
Caity Gyorgy (pronounced “George”) is a Canadian jazz singer born in Calgary on May 25, 1998. She graduated from Humber College’s music program and earned a master’s degree in jazz performance from McGill University. Known for singing bebop and swing, she draws on the Great American Songbook and writes original songs. Her work won the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Signed to Brooklyn’s La Reserve Records, she has won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year three times: for the EP Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy (2021), her debut LP Featuring (2022), and Hello! How Are You? (2024). With pianist Mark Limacher, she also recorded the duo albums You’re Alike, You Two (2023) and Asking For Trouble (2025), as well as the string album Caity Gyorgy with Strings (2025). She has toured Canada, the United States, Mexico, Finland, and Japan, and has more than 100,000 young followers on Instagram and TikTok.
https://www.caitygyorgy.com
Selected Releases: Featuring (2022) · Hello! How Are You? (2024) · Caity Gyorgy with Strings (2025)
Official Website
Samara Joy
Singer · The Bronx, New York
Samara Joy (born November 11, 1999, in the Bronx, New York) is an American jazz singer of the new generation and comes from a musical family. Her grandparents founded the Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and her father is a musician who worked with Andraé Crouch. She sang in church choirs as a child. While attending SUNY Purchase, she won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, bringing her to the attention of the jazz world. She released her self-titled debut on the independent Whirlwind label in 2021, then signed with Verve and released Linger Awhile in 2022. Her silken renditions of standards earned comparisons to Sarah Vaughan and Betty Carter. She won the 2023 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album and Best New Artist. Her holiday EP A Joyful Holiday brought two more Grammys in 2025. Her 2024 album Portrait, co-produced with Grammy-winning trumpeter Brian Lynch, won an NAACP Image Award and the 2026 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album, bringing her Grammy total to six. She first gained attention with TikTok cover videos and was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30. Her live album Live at the Blue Note, L.A. was released on October 23, 2026.
https://www.samarajoy.com/
Selected Releases: Linger Awhile (2022) · Portrait (2024) · Live at the Blue Note, L.A. (2026)
Official Website
Debut - 40th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: 2021
Country: Canada
Tracklist
- What A Difference A Day Makes (3:46)
- Everything Must Change (3:45)
- Dancing On The Ceiling (4:03)
- The Right To Love (Reflections) (4:37)
- Sugar On The Floor (4:24)
- 500 Miles High (5:14)
- You Belong To Me (3:09)
- My Mother's Eyes (5:29)
- When Sunny Gets Blue (4:45)
- Here's That Rainy Day (4:01)
- 'Round Midnight (5:26)
A GRP Christmas Collection
Release Date: 1989
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- Little Drummer Boy
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Carol Of The Bells
- The Christmas Song
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- O Tannenbaum
- This Christmas
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- White Christmas
- Sleigh Ride
- What Child Is This?
- Silent Night
- Silver Bells
- Some Children See Him
Beat Takeshi & Blue Note
Release Date: 2013-10-09
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- Night
- Announcement
- Split Kick
- Lover Man
- Stella By Starlight
- Broadway
- Misterioso
- Verne
- Tales (8 Whisps)
- Straight Up And Down
- Fuchsia Swing Song
- Recorda-me
- Recorda Me
- Harlem Nocturne
- Day
- Let The Music Take Your Mind
- Ceora
- Yes Or No
- Sweet Love Of Mine
- Brite Piece
- Dancing In The Dark
- Just Friends
- Just Friends
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh
- Sunrise
- The Weight
- Bonus Track
- Asakusa Kid
Christmas In New York
Release Date: 2014-10-14
Country: US
Tracklist
- Winter Wonderland (3:50)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (3:35)
- Silver Bells (3:06)
- Merry Christmas Darling (5:33)
- The Christmas Waltz (3:17)
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes (4:25)
- Sleigh Ride (5:16)
- Snowbound (6:25)
- In The Bleak Midwinter (3:44)
- Central Park Serenade (4:12)
- The Man With The Bag (2:39)
- Love And Hard TImes (4:45)
- Still, Still, Still (5:16)
Motherless Brooklyn
Release Date: 2019
Country: US
Tracklist
- Tyrannous (3:12)
- Sharp On The Line (3:46)
- Fire It Up (4:02)
- Emergency Room (2:49)
- Motherless Home (1:13)
- No Wisdom (4:01)
- The Woman In The Photo (1:12)
- Plaza Speech (4:08)
- Borough Authority (2:25)
- Woman In Blue (3:23)
- Brother (3:31)
- Red Rooster (1:29)
- Motherless Brooklyn (4:42)
- Something Not Telling (2:53)
- In Or Out (4:36)
- Penn Station (3:20)
- Across Harlem (5:50)
- Close, The Right Information (2:06)
- Motherless County (1:27)
- Woman In Blue (6:05)
- Daily Battles (2:55)
Motherless Brooklyn (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Release Date: 2019-10-25
Tracklist
- Woman In Blue (6:04)
- Daily Battles (2:53)
- Relaxing With Lee (2:48)
- 'Round About Midnight (3:38)
- Blues Walk (2:56)
- Daily Battles (3:24)
- Jump Monk (4:01)
- Delilah (5:06)
- On A Misty Night (5:35)
- Motherless Brooklyn Theme (3:45)
Amarcord Nino Rota
Release Date: 1981
Country: US
Tracklist
- Amarcord (7:47)
- Interlude From Juliet Of The Spirits (0:33)
- 8½ (11:33)
- Theme From "La Dolce Vita" And "Juliet Of The Spirits" (2:40)
- Juliet Of The Spirits (4:40)
- La Dolce Vita Suite (7:17)
- Satyricon (5:33)
- Roma (4:36)
- Medley: The White Sheik, I Vitelloni, Il Bidone, The Nights Of Cabiria (8:51)
- La Strada (3:07)
Mood Indigo
Release Date: 1989
Country: US
Tracklist
- Lullaby (1:29)
- This Love Of Mine (6:36)
- In The Sentimental Mood (4:18)
- Bessie's Blues (8:59)
- A Moment Alone (1:46)
- Mood Indigo (5:59)
- Up Jumped Spring (4:58)
- Polka Dots And Moonbeams (4:29)
- We Three Blues (6:55)
- 'Round Midnight (6:55)
- Lullaby (1:36)
- Gratitude (0:35)
Freddie Freeloader
Release Date: 1990-06-01
Country: Japan
Tracklist
- Jumpin' At The Woodside (3:26)
- In Summer (5:47)
- Freddie Freeloader (9:05)
- Stardust (3:51)
- Sugar (5:08)
- Take The "A" Train (2:59)
- Fas' Livin' Blues (5:32)
- High As A Mountain (Song No. 2) (1:28)
- Trinkle-Tinkle (4:42)
- Swing That Music (2:50)
- The Finer Things In Life (2:29)
- Listen To Monk (Rhythm-A-Ning) (6:31)
- Sing Sing Sing (3:51)