She has just turned 27, but New York resident Jazzmeia Horn is already being compared to illustrious predecessors like Sarah Vaughan and Betty Carter. It’s not for nothing that Horn has twice won top honors at the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition. In 2015 the singer also won the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Vocals Competition. Her mature singing and scatting are of an astoundingly high quality and include rich tones that add muscle to the music. Her debut A Social Call, received to high acclaim, serves up a varied musical menu where Horn goes from jazz to R&B and from gospel to world music. Her lyrics show Horn is shaking her fist at social injustice. According to The New York Times Horn is ‘the most talked-about jazz vocalist to emerge since Cécile McLorin Salvant and Gregory Porter both became stars.’
