Best New Artist: April Varner
Best Jazz Vocal Album: April
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Dear April”- April Varner and Theo Bleckmann
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals: “Dear April”
Best Jazz Performance: “Joy of April”
April Blues
I’ll Remember April
Joy of April
April Come She Will
April Give Me One More Day
April Again
Sometimes It Snows In April
Dear April
April In Paris
Lost April
Who Let April Back Into My Dreams?
Just in time for the big bloom, award-winning jazz vocalist and composer April Varner’s intimate, imaginative debut album April is a cleverly curated and totally cohesive opening statement. The project offers a banquet of standards and rock-era classics — all with “April” in the title — bookended by two succulent originals: “April Blues” and “Who Let April Back Into My Dreams?”
The New York City Jazz Record has hailed the 26-year-old dynamo as a “direct, authentic singer…”, who demonstrates “vocal dynamism… authentic jazz phrasing… electrifying numbers” and possesses a “profound command of deep scat and vocalese.” Varner has amassed several viral videos of her challenging solo transcriptions, cleverly crafted vocalizes, and acapella renditions of the Great American Songbook. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music who has studied with jazz luminaries like Tierney Sutton, Russell Malone, Sachal Vasandani, Jane Monheit, Kurt Elling, and others, Varner garnered much attention last year as the winner of the 2023 International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition.
April is produced by famed drummer-producer Ulysses Owens Jr., who was first introduced to the singer via Theo Bleckmann. “She’s one of the most dynamic and studious musicians I have encountered in many years,” Owens Jr. reflects. “I have worked with a lot of talented artists, but not many that possess the work ethic and ambition that April encompasses, coupled with her incredible talent. She can sing anything and can morph into whatever the style is.” Working together was a natural step, and the two went to work in April.
The result is a vibrant and cohesive album guided by self-reflection. “I wanted it to be like a letter to myself, and how far I’ve grown as an artist,” the singer says. “I want the world to see who April is and what that name invokes. It’s a reflection of both my personality and the many feelings associated with the season of Spring. My goal was to showcase different emotional layers that people could resonate with.”
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