Sublime vocalist Jazzmeia Horn has emerged as one of the brightest stars on the rise in the jazz scene, earning the adoration of audiences around the world. Since releasing her Grammy Award nominated album A Social Call in 2017, Jazzmeia has been busy on the road, honing her vocal skills to a finely tuned level, writing songs of personal relevance and social message, and perfecting a fearless approach to improvisation and performance. This drive and passion have resulted in what is sure to be called one of the most courageous recordings of 2019 – Love and Liberation – filled with songs of daring musicality, emotional power, and messages of immediate relevancy. Musically, Jazzmeia’s original compositions and covers both breathe and bend jazz tradition, with tasteful touches of R&B and hip-hop, revealing a marked inventiveness and a love for a good melodic line that hints at what Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, or Nina Simone would have evolved into today.
Blessed with a fitting name for her chosen path – it was Horn’s jazz-loving, piano-playing grandmother who chose “Jazzmeia” – the singer was born in Dallas in 1991, grew up in a tightly knit, church-going family filled with musical talent and began singing as a toddler. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts, known for launching such musical greats as Roy Hargrove, Norah Jones, and Erykah Badu, then later attended The New School in New York City. Her education included steering herself to the mentors who would guide her passion for jazz, like Bobby McFerrin, Abbey Lincoln, and Betty Carter. Winner of the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition and the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, Jazzmeia was signed to Concord Records and released her debut album A Social Call to great critical acclaim. Now, Jazzmeia shares more of her own original compositions on Love and Liberation, saying, “Boy, do I have something in store for you!”
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Posted May 1st, 2017
Jazzmeia Showcases Her Distinctive Acrobatic Vocal Chops
From San Diego County News Jazzmeia Horn’s ‘A Social Call’ Album Showcases her Distinctive Acrobatic Vocal Chops By: Danny R. Johnson NEW YORK, NY ‘” ‘Before Ella and Sarah you had to sing the melody straight. They opened it for others to follow individual styles of their own.’ ‘” Betty Carter (1929-1998). Betty Carter was one of the most celebrated...
Posted Apr 16th, 2017
JazzTimes Track Premiere
From JazzTimes JT Track Premiere: Jazzmeia Horn’s ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing/Moanin’‘ – From her debut album, “A Social Call,” to be released May 12 on Prestige/Concord On May 12, Prestige/Concord Music Group will release Jazzmeia Horn’s debut album, A Social Call. The 10-track set features Horn, the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition winner, backed by pianist Victor Gould,...
Posted Apr 13th, 2017
Jazzmeia Horn To Release Album With Prestige
From Muzilog Jazz vocalist Jazzmeia Horn releases debut album on historic Prestige label With an assured maturity and vocal confidence far beyond her years, the young singer Jazzmeia Horn arrives with her debut recording A Social Call, an album that reveals a talent ready to take its place alongside the best headlining jazz vocalists of today. Scheduled for release on...
Posted Apr 12th, 2017
WBGO: Jazzmeia Horn
From WBGO Take Five: New Music by Jazzmeia Horn, Jazz Passengers, Sexmob, Supersilent & Roxy Coss By: Nate Chinen Jazz singers rarely come more rigorously vetted than Jazzmeia Horn. A native of Dallas, Texas and a graduate of the New School in New York City, she has taken first prize in two prestigious events, the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition...
Posted Mar 27th, 2017
Jazzmeia Horn at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club
From DC Metro Theater Arts Review: Jazzmeia Horn at the Kennedy Center Jazz Club By: Robert Michael Oliver To understand the voice of Jazzmeia Horn ‘” whether it’s embodying her own ballad, the cleverly romantic, soft ‘Legs and Arms,’ or taking on the role of an instrumentalist ‘” is to understand what it means to listen. For that voice is...
Posted Feb 13th, 2017
Horn featured at 2016 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
From Jazz Police The 2016 Charlie Parker Jazz Festival By: Sheila Horne Mason The Artistry of Jazzmeia Horn: Winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition and the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Texas-born chanteuse Jazzmeia Horn has definitively earned the title of ‘Rising Star.’ Dressed in a striking African ensemble, Jazzmeia started scatting and soaring...
Posted Nov 6th, 2016
Jazzmeia Horn: A Rising Singing Star
From WNPR (CT) Jazzmeia Horn, a Rising Singing Star, Shinces at Dinner/Concert in West Hartford By: Owen McNally At this moment, one of the hottest, rapidly rising young jazz singers is the phenomenal, 24-year-old Jazzmeia Horn, a life force on stage. She sets down with her high-octane band to strut her passionate, freewheeling style on Saturday, April 16, at 8:00...
Posted Apr 13th, 2016
Jazzmeia Horn Wins Top Award at Monk Competition
From The New School News Jazz Graduate Jazzmeia Horn Wins Top Award at Monk Competition By: The New School News Jazzmeia Horn, a 2014 School of Jazz graduate, has once again shown that she was born to be a jazz musician when she walked away last Sunday as winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. The Monk...
Posted Nov 22nd, 2015
Jazzmeia Horn Wins Monk Institute Competition
From The Huffington Post Quincy Jones Receives Herbie Hancock Humanitarian Award By: Philip David Morton The evening was also when the Thelonious Jazz Institute could shine. Widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious jazz competition, each year this contest features a different musical instrument and major scholarships and prizes are awarded to talented young musicians. For 28 years the competition...
Posted Nov 22nd, 2015
The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing
From Vanity Fair The Jazz Youth-Quake: Others on the Upswing By: Michael Katsobashvili Sensational, young jazz players are emerging with each season, so much so that we were only able to feature a handful of them in our photo gallery ‘Jazz on the Loose.’ There are many other notable artists (beyond the 36 shown in the portfolio) who also deserve...
Posted Nov 10th, 2015
Without a doubt among the jazz world’s most exciting young vocalists…her sound is explosive and bright and rich, catnip for audiences looking for boldness that’s still traditional.
Billboard
Jazzmeia Horn harbors both astounding technique and an acute artistic vision…Horn has a thrilling presence with a musical sensibility that strikes a deft balance between mid-century jazz and contemporary neo-soul.
DownBeat
A singer who stands apart from many of her peers because she takes on every song she sings so naturally. Jazzmeia is a performer for whom every word, gesture, and ornament becomes an expression of her total conviction and she completely comes alive in the moment.
London Jazz News
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Jazzmeia Horn IS the future of Jazz!
Larry Rosen
Not only a vocalist, but a musician with big ears, and wisdom beyond her years.
Al Jarreau
Jazzmeia has one of the best voices I’ve heard in over 40 years.
Jon Hendricks
When the legendary Jon Hendricks says a vocalist ‘has one of the best voices I’ve heard in over 40 years,’ that in itself is enough to catch people’s attention. Add to that the fact that she won both the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and the 2015 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition, and it’s obvious Jazzmeia Horn is a singer to watch out for‘¦With the depth of feeling and personality of Billie Holiday and the virtuosity and playfulness of Sarah Vaughan, the opening few notes that introduce us to Horn’s voice speak volumes to the maturity and talent of the young singer.
Revive
Just 25, the Dallas-born Horn emerges as a fully realized stylist and a first-rate scatter whose vivacity, imagination, gutsiness and sociopolitical savvy echo the likes of Carter and Abbey Lincoln. Simply put, she is as exciting a discovery as Cécile McLorin Salvant or Gregory Porter.
JazzTimes
‘If nomenclature is destiny, Jazzmeia Horn was indeed born to swing. Maturing in what is proving to be a renaissance period for female jazz singers, Horn’“who has won in both the Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan vocal-jazz competitions’“holds her own as an assured and spunky interpreter of song.’
The New Yorker
The next big carrier of straight-ahead jazz’s vocal tradition.
The New York Times