For those unaware, Shiri Zorn is an innovative jazz vocalist whose fresh and intercultural sound reinvents standard jazz repertoire as we know it.

She layers American Songbook tunes with Middle Eastern influences and unexpected time signatures, and reharmonizes Latin and Samba classics to evoke feelings of transcendence, temporarily rendering the listener lost to time and space.

Vocalist Shiri Zorn’s pure tone and insightful phrasing nurtured at Israel’s leading school for the arts, Thelma Yelin, where she was first drawn to the music of Gershwin, Cleo Laine, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, and Carmen Mc Rae and subsequently at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England, where she studied voice and piano.

During lockdown in 2022, Shiri brought out her debut album, Into Another Land, a recording that was vocally produced by Grammy nominated jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton, and now she brings forth her sophomore album, Looking for the Light.

1. Garota de Ipanema (5:25)
2. It’s Alright with Me (4:40)
3. So Nice (Summer Samba) (6:06)
4. Nothing at All (3:57> 5. Prayer (5:31)
6. Haunted People (3:53)
7. Shadow Soul (2:46)
8. Dancing in the Dark (4:07)

This simply divine new recording opens on the elegantly-hued hipsway of Garota de Ipanema and the smooth warmth of It’s Alright with Me and then we get a low slung, balladry ache that yearns throughout So Nice (Summer Samba) and the joyful Nothing at All.

Along next is the ambiently sculpted Prayer before a veritably ethereal stance is brought forth within Haunted People, and they are in turn backed by the rhythmically fervent Shadow Soul, the music closing all too soon on the melodically enraptured Dancing in the Dark.

www.shirizorn.com