Veronica Swift

Veronica Swift – Veronica Swift (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:03 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Vocal sensation Veronica Swift took the jazz world by storm with her critically acclaimed 2021 release This Bitter Earth, landing on the cover of DownBeat, topping the year end lists for vocal releases and wowing audiences with her eclectic stage show at the Hollywood Bowl and beyond. For her new album – aptly entitled Veronica Swift – the versatile artist stretches her wings and opens up her wide range of influences to share who she truly is: a once-in-a-generation vocalist with unabashed confidence.

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Veronica Swift – This Bitter Earth (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:13 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

At just 25 years old, Veronica Swift has built a résumé that even many late-career jazz singers would envy: tours as a featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; a guest collaboration with Michael Feinstein; engagements at A-list clubs like Birdland, Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s Club and Jazz Showcase; gigs at top festivals including Monterey, Montreal and Telluride, where she’s headlined. She began performing with her musician parents, the late pianist Hod O’Brien and the singer/educator/author Stephanie Nakasian, as a child, and in 2015 she earned second place in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, the most prestigious contest in the art form. In other words, her command of the vocal-jazz tradition is astounding.

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Veronica Swift – Confessions (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 51:32 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

At just 25 years old, Veronica Swift has built a résumé that even many late-career jazz singers would envy: tours as a featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; a guest collaboration with Michael Feinstein; engagements at A-list clubs like Birdland, Jazz Standard, Dizzy s Club and Jazz Showcase. The always hilarious I m Hip, written by Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough whom Swift says was like an uncle growing up takes Swift back to her early days on the New York City scene, when she was meeting all the heavy cats and doing her best just to hang on and find her wavelength. ‘Veronica Swift is the epitome of a modern female jazz singer …. Her songs are marvelously well-crafted performances rooted in tradition but up-to-the-minute in execution.’ – All About Jazz Swift is a 25-year-old vocalist of nimble grace and forceful disclosure, as if Annie Ross had gotten more of Sarah Vaughan s influence. The New York Times …[Veronica] can slide seamlessly from a difficult syncopated rhythm to a wistful love song to a fresh arrangement of an old standard. – JazzTimes

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