SUSAN HINKSON
JAZZ VOCALIST
DEBUT RECORDING
Bruce Barth PIANO
Steve Wilson SAX
Vicente Archer BASS
Adam Cruz DRUMS
“The mellow sound of a sensitive balladeer.”
All About Jazz
“Accomplished with simplicity, grace and style.”
Cultural Attaché
“An album imbued with depth and beauty.”
VivaScene
Bio
Susan Hinkson began her creative life with the study of architecture at Pratt Institute in New York followed by law at New York Law School. Hinkson eventually became a prominent figure in New York City government, working in land use policy and regulation. After her stint in government, she enjoyed a successful career in the private sector.
With Hinkson’s lifelong love for jazz undiminished, she heeded the call to a new life honing her latent skills with Bruce Barth, a pianist and educator whose work with Stanley Turrentine, Terence Blanchard, and others, as well as his own highly regarded solo projects, has earned him acclaim as one of the leading jazz stylists of his generation. After she and Barth were confident that recording was the next step, he arranged the selected tunes and gathered a team of distinctive, supportive players. The result is an album that speaks of the delights and disappointments of lifelong experience, as expressed through a voice laden with charm yet balanced by hard-won knowledge.
With this debut album, Susan Hinkson has joined the ranks of committed jazz singers who have embraced the beauty of the Great American Song- book, extolling its enduring pleasures and wonders. Hinkson brings a life-time of immersion in the classic jazz repertoire. Growing up surrounded by the sounds of classic songs via her mother, Margaret Jones, a noted composer and arranger and bolstered by her passion for theater and jazz, regular vocal performances in church, Hinkson nonetheless took a round-about route to her recording debut and IT'S JUST IN TIME!
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Music
Reviews
"For lovers of mainstream jazz, the mellow sound of a sensitive balladeer like Susan Hinkson singing a gem like Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's "One for My Baby" still satisfies.
Katchie Cartwright - All About Jazz
"Her easeful phrasing and surefooted swing reveal a decades-long love of jazz singing..."
Steve Futterman
" A voice laden with charm yet balanced by hard-won knowledge.”
Exclusive Magazine
“…accomplished with simplicity, grace and style.”
Cultural Attaché
“Hinkson delivers a debut album of standards imbued with depth and beauty.
VivaScene
“Where has vocalist Susan Hinkson been all these years?”— this is a very assured album of standards, and it’s also the artist’s debut.... the results are spectacular.
Jim Motavalli- The New York City Jazz Record
“Hinkson has a confident tone, world wise on “One For My Baby” and “But Not For Me” as if she’s been there, done that while still laying out hope on the reclining “Besame Mucho.”
George W. Harris - Jazz Weekly
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