Jazzmeia Horn - Where We Are
Information
- Artist : Jazzmeia Horn
- Label : Artistry of Jazz Horn
- Format : 1 x 12" (140g)
- Country : United States
- Genres : Contemporary JazzJazzVocal
- Pressing : 200 Copies
- Estimated shipping date : Delivery within 2 to 7 days
Description
Dear Friends and Fans,
Although the world has changed, art is still essential to our everyday lives as human beings. With my music, I strive to create art that inspires and uplifts people through traumatic experiences, especially during this era of adversity that we are all facing. Music feeds the soul and encourages healing. Nina Simone said it best, “It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.” Now more than ever it is important for patrons of the arts to offer financial support to artists, enabling us to continue to create through these challenging times.
During my time in quarantine, I've written a book and composed songs from the depths of my soul in which people of all races, identities, classes, and religions can relate. I desire to share my artistry with you.
In the tradition of jazz and to maintain it's legacy, the album was recorded live at the historic Minton's Playhouse, and Birdland Jazz Club in NYC.
Biography of Jazzmeia Horn
Multi Award Winning Artist, Composer, Arranger, Educator, and Founder of Artistry of Jazz Horn
In the two years since Jazzmeia Horn bowed with her first album, the GRAMMY Award®-Nominated A Social Call, she’s been very busy performing on international tours as well as teaching masterclasses and workshops globally, honing her vocal skills to a finely tuned level while writing songs of personal relevance and social message, and perfecting a fearless approach to improvisation and performance in general.
The convergence of this drive and development has resulted in what is sure to be hailed as one of the most courageous recordings of 2019—The Grammy Nominated and NAACP Image Award Winning Love and Liberation—filled with songs of daring musicality, emotional power, and messages of immediate relevance. Shortly after composing and arranging Love and Liberation, a book was in the making for Horn. Her first book Strive From Within: The Jazzmeia Horn Approach focuses on sharing Jazzmeia's knowledge on using her voice as a female vocalist and artist in the male dominated Jazz industry. The first of its kind, the book teaches singers how to serve Jazz music along with the many roles of a good vocalist.
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 started 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. Her education included steering herself to the mentors who would guide her passion for jazz, like Jon Hendricks, Abbey Lincoln, and Betty Carter.
In 2009, Horn moved to New York City to enroll in The New School’s Jazz and contemporary music program. In 2013, she entered and won a Newark-based contest named for an initial inspiration—the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition. In 2015, she won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, the most coveted award a young jazz musician can hope to attain. Part of her prize was a contract with Concord Records, which led to A Social Call, and Love and Liberation.
Horn’s latest project, Where We Are, is self released and consists of poems and original compositions written during the pandemic to reflect the times, and encourage people to strive through adversity. It was recorded live at Minton’s Playhouse, the historical landmark for the sake of the jazz tradition and legacy.