JOY: You can hear my own lyrics on "Nostalgia." SHAPIRO: There are also some of your own lyrics on this album. JOY: (Singing) And too much in - look at me. But I added kind of a little bit of a scale in the beginning and at the end to give it some mystery. JOY: (Singing) Walk my way, and a thousand violins begin to play.īut I know that when we came up with the arrangement, I wanted it to be, you know, simple and just give the song space to breathe. And she's like, (singing) walk my way.ĮLLA FITZGERALD: (Singing) Walk my way, and a thousand violins begin to play. JOY: Well, in "Misty," there's a live performance of Ella. SHAPIRO: Can you give us an example? Like, can you take a moment in one of these tracks and say, oh, well, so-and-so might have done it this way, but. I'm like, oh, I love the way Ella, you know, sings this phrase, but I can't copy, you know? I can't copy exactly. JOY: I think with songs like that, because - at least at this point - because I've listened to them already and I already have a version in my head that I love, I do a bit of both. SHAPIRO: When you approach a song like that, do you do a ton of research and listen to the way others have approached it, or do you try to come to it with a clean slate and bring your own interpretation? JOY: (Singing) A pale and lonely moon lights the sky in the dark before the dawn. SHAPIRO: So on this album, you do some really well-known standards, like "Misty" and "'Round Midnight." And my grandparents, you know, would preach. And he would play, and they would - you know, they would do praise and worship. And they would ride around Philly and just pick a corner and literally have church on any corner that they could. They, like, painted it really big on the car. Like, they had - they rented a van, and they called it the Godmobile. But he also used to tell stories about the fact that they had a Godmobile (ph).
And his parents - my grandparents - they had a choir called The Savettes of Philadelphia. But also, he was the one who mainly grew up in church and grew up playing in church. JOY: My dad - he's a bass player, so it was a lot of, like, funk and, like, soul and R&B. SHAPIRO: When Samara Joy came into NPR the morning after her Blues Alley show in D.C., she told me she only started singing jazz at age 18, but she comes from a musical family.
#RALEIGH PIANO TUNER TV#
I can't even believe - I've been watching y'all on TV for, like, so long (laughter), so to be here with you all - born and raised in the Bronx, N.Y.
(SOUNDBITE OF 2023 GRAMMY AWARDS BROADCAST) SHAPIRO: Last night, the 23-year-old won two Grammy awards - not only best jazz vocal album, but best new artist across all genres. On this September night, a newcomer graced the stage who is already on a path to follow in their footsteps - Samara Joy. SHAPIRO: Blues Alley, here in Washington, D.C., is a place where many greats have played - Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan. Of this mood, can't get over this feeling. Late on a Wednesday night last year, I went to a jazz club that's been around for over half a century.
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