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“Your Heart Is Black As Night” from Signature Featured as Song of the Day on All About Jazz
1st song of Sylvia Brooks' new album Signature, "Your Heart Is Black As Night" featured on All About Jazz as Song of the Day. Listen to it and download it for free from below: Listen "Your Heart Is Black As Night"
What Michael Major from Broadway World has to say about Sylvia Brooks’ new Jazz Album “Signature”
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film- noir inspired femmes fatale. On this - Signature (Rhombus Records) - her fourth album, she embraces the most...
Sylvia Brooks Featured on Gail Boyd’s Podcast Alternative Venues For Jazz
Sylvia Brooks shares her life moments and how she started with Jazz music and eventually evolved as a Jazz Vocalist and Songwriter. Sylvia shared her experience working on her 4th Jazz album "Signature" which is coming out on May 30th 2022.
All About Jazz Feature Sylvia’s New Album “Signature”
Since her captivating debut in 2009, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On this - Signature (Rhombus Records) - her fourth album, she embraces the most...
Older Reviews
C. Michael Bailey – The Arrangement – All About JazZ
Vocalist Sylvia Brooks likes to provide her music a noir patina, that smoky and dark evening tone preferred by the likes of the fictional hard men: Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Jeff Markham. On her third recording, The Arrangement, this patina is given a high buff...
Grigware Interview with Sylvia Brooks
Jazz artist Sylvia Brooks has quite a fascinating background to share with us. In her live concert at Feinstein's Upstairs at Vitello's on October 26 she will sing from her three albums with an eclectic and alluring mix of songs. Talk about your album The Arrangement...
Sylvia Brooks – Performing at First and Hope Downtown
Sylvia Brooks will be performing on Saturday, September 17th, at the Fedora Room at First and Hope Downtown Super Club in downtown Los Angeles.
LA Weekly Reviews Sylvia Brooks
Sylvia Brooks, directed by Tom Garvin on piano, and backed by Chris Colangello on bass, Kendall Kay on drums, Kim Richmond on sax and flute, and Jamie Havorka on trumpet, performed not so much a concert as dramatic musical monologues of some tasteful 20th Century...
Los Angeles Times Critic’s Choice
Six Time Best Bet Critic's Pick - "The Guide" For Jazz And World Artists "The jazz singer is a respected performer of the Catalina/Jazz Bakery circuit and national theater, and plays a six-night stand with a cracking live band featuring arranger Tom Garvin."