On her fifth release, Sylvia Brooks Live With Christian Jacob, Sylvia Brooks kicks open the door and issues a robust reading of her recital book. Drawing from her four previous recordings: Dangerous Liaisons (CD Baby, 2009), Restless (CD Baby, 2012), The Arrangement (SBM Music, 2017), and Signature (Rhombus Records, 2022), Brooks reveals herself as a song stylist as opposed to a jazz singer, putting her more in the arena of Frank Sinatra than Betty Carter.
The Life Lessons Jazz Has Taught Me
Whatever jazz has taught me, if there is one thing I know, it is that life doesn’t follow a script. It shifts, it moves, it changes and it asks for us to adjust, to listen, and to make when we can. I’ve been a modern jazz singer, and spent years in this world, not...