Her album "I Saw The Sky" reflects her deep understanding of the American song tradition.

Blessed with an artistic imagination pointed toward the future and a reverence for the rich jazz tradition, Melissa Walker has the ability to consolidate the many aspects of jazz singing - blues sensibility, lyric interpretation, rhythmic phrasing and improvisation - into an artistic expression that is all her own. 'I think of my songs as stories,' she says. 'They are the vehicle by which we all become friends, for songs are stories that we all know. Standards represent our universal commonness of new love, joy, longing, loss, losing, regret, mistakes. Other stories reflect our spiritual life; still others are celebrations of life.' Including songs by such as Jerome Kern, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and Irving Berlin, Melissa's new album 'I Saw The Sky' reflects her deep understanding of the American song tradition.

Additional Details

Label: Enja Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 50 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/01/19

UPC: 063757940920