Everything about Jazzmeia Horn speaks of jazz. She has a fantastic voice, and whether she’s interpreting a standard or her own song, or singing, scatting, or doing spoken word, she’s always convincing from the outset. It’s no wonder she has been compared to Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan. At the same time, with her socially engaged and combative attitude, Horn is also following in the footsteps of today’s soul icons like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. The singer-songwriter grew up in Dallas but moved to New York in 2009. In 2015, she won the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. A year later, she released her first album, A Social Call. In 2018, Horn made her debut at North Sea Jazz. Last year, her fourth album, Messages, came out. A super-personal record, on which she uses fragments from an ex’s mansplaining telephone tirade on a super swinging Herbie-esque jazz track, Flip‘D’Switch.
