"I don't like being bored while I'm singing," laughs René Marie. The Virginia-based vocalist and MAXJAZZ recording artist is explaining why she sings jazz. "You don't know what somebody's going to say ...

Stella Cole never expected this life. She craved it, of course, touring the country and singing jazz standards to audiences, but it never felt possible. Who would want to listen to her sing songs from ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 13: Vocalist Samara Joy performs onstage at the 2022 Jazz At Lincoln Center Gala, Body and Soul: America Rises Through the Arts, at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 13, 2022 ...

MacArthur fellow McLorin Salvant sings jazz standards as well as forgotten early songs. "In jazz, I felt I could sing these deep, husky lows," she told Terry Gross in this 2015 interview. This is ...

After decades as one of Minnesota’s top rock ‘n’ rollers, Tina Schlieske has gone all in on singing standards. The tuxedo jacket, the jazzy arrangements, material from the Sinatra songbook. “Singing ...

Five years ago, Laufey knew who she was. “Or at least I knew the many different people I was,” she says. “What I didn’t know was who I was as one person.” The daughter of an Icelandic father and a ...