While Norah Jones may have gotten all the notoriety for helping to revive the tradition of female jazz-influenced vocalists in the early aughts, some credit should also be paid to Madeleine Peyroux, whose debut album Dreamland came out six years prior. Peyroux, whose vocal style has justly garnered comparisons to Billie Holiday, began singing professionally as a teenager, after she moved to Paris with her mother and discovered the street musicians in the city’s Latin Corner, spending several years touring throughout Europe singing jazz standards as a member of The Lost Wandering Blues & Jazz Band.
Last month, the sultry voiced vocalist released her sixth studio album, Standing On The Rooftop, and her first on famed jazz imprint Decca Records. The album which includes covers of Martha My Dear (The Beatles), I Threw It All Away (Bob Dylan) and Love In Vain (Robert Johnson), also features several songs co-written with Rolling Stones’ bassist Bill Wyman, whom the songstress met and struck up a conversation with while waiting for B.B. King to perform at Nice Jazz Festival. Let’s check out this live performance of The Things I’ve Seen Today…
Madeline Peyroux’s next scheduled show will be a performance as part of the Charlie Park Jazz Festival in New York’s Tompkins Square Park on Aug. 28.
