As the daughter of a jazz pianist and his singer/educator wife, this jazz chanteuse recorded her debut album at age 9. Swift went on to place second in the 2015 Thelonious Monk jazz vocals competition, earn a degree in jazz voice from the University of Miami and tour with Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. This month, the 29-year-old vocalist dropped her third album for Mack Avenue Music, simply titled “Veronica Swift,” and it’s not exactly a jazz record. Eclectic and adventurous, she injects funk and scat into her reading of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer,” recasts Queen’s “The Show Must Go On” with some Afro-Cuban mystery and puts the punk into the standard “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” (STAR TRIBUNE)
SEP 22 • 6:30 + 8:30PM
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