Sylvia Brooks - Signature

Since the release of her captivating debut, 2009’s Dangerous Liaisons, jazz vocalist Sylvia Brooks has displayed a gift for inhabiting different personas, with a subspecialty in film-noir inspired femmes fatale. On her fourth album, Signature, she embraces the most challenging role of all, defining herself with a set of beautifully crafted original songs. Her evocative lyrics and emotionally direct delivery imbue the music with hard-won authenticity. Whether looking back with wry affection on her walk-on-the-wild-side youth or lamenting a lost love, Brooks brings bracing honesty and poise to the material.

Tracklist

1. 1. Your Heart Is As Black As Night
2. 2. Catch 22
3. 3. Red Velvet Rope
4. 4. Over and Done
5. 5. The Boy That Lived There
6. 6. Sixteen
7. 7. The Flea Markets of Paris
8. 8. Holding Back Tears
9. 9. Boogie Street