Limited Edition Translucent Blue Vinyl LP!
A New Gold Standard for Jazz Vocalists!

TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 4/5 Sonics in the February 2023 Issue ofThe Absolute Sound!

The New York TimesBest Jazz Albums of 2022 – Rated 6/10!
Fred Kaplan’s The Best Jazz Albums of 2022 – Rated 10/10!
JazzTimesThe Top 40 Jazz Albums of 2022 – Rated 15/40!
AnalogPlanet’s Top Jazz Albums of 2022!

2023 Grammy Award Winner:
Best New Artist: Samara Joy
Best Jazz Vocal Album:Linger Awhile

Samara Joy is a 2x Grammy winner for Best New Artist and Best Jazz Vocal Album for her Verve Records debut,Linger Awhile. At just 23 years old, her voice, tone and phrasing harken back to legendary jazz vocalists such as labelmates Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. She is poised to be a household name, synonymous with timeless jazz music.

Available on transparent blue vinyl. Limited Edition.

Samara Joy sings some of the best jazz music you can hear today.-Adam Sieff, LondonJazz News

A by-the-book, here’s-what-I-can-do major-label debut. Fortunately, Samara Joy’s harmonic ideas are riveting enough and her voice so infectious that it doesn’t feel like an exercise. On ‘Nostalgia,’ just try not to crack a smile at the lyrics she wrote to the melody of Fats Navarro’s 1947 trumpet solo while you simply shake your head at her command.-Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times, Best Jazz Albums of 2022

Her voice is smooth and gorgeous, she knows how to phrase a lyric for an effect, and she’s backed by a first-class rhythm section including spicy Kenny Washington on drums.-Fred Kaplan, Slate, The Best Jazz Albums of 2022

Her lush, unpretentious alto doesn’t require a great song to excel, but her warmth, sensitivity, and stalwart band accompaniment take command for well-known standards ‘Guess Who I Saw Today,’ ‘Misty,’ ‘I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)’ and ”Round Midnight.’-Chris J. Walker, JazzTimes, The Top 40 Jazz Albums of 2022

Technically Joy is flawless, but there’s something extra, something no musicologist will ever be able to explain, and that’s the sense that Samara Joy was meant to be a jazz singer. You can’t teach that, but you certainly can hear it. There’s a deep sense of history throughout the record, but the performances never sound stale or academic. Instead, you hear evidence that jazz is a living, breathing art form.-Jeff Wilson, The Absolute Sound, February 2023, Music 5/5, Sonics 4/5

Features

• Limited Edition
• Translucent Blue Vinyl LP

Musicians

Samara Joy	vocals
Pasquale Grasso	guitar
Ben Paterson	piano
David Wong	double bass
Kenny Washington	drums

Selections

Side A:

1. Can’t Get Out Of This Mood
2. Guess Who I Saw Today
3. Nostalgia (The Day I Knew)
4. Sweet Pumpkin
5. Misty

Side B:

1. Social Call
2. I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
3. Linger Awhile
4. ‘Round Midnight
5. Someone To Watch Over Me (feat. Pasquale Grasso)