Maya Rae Quartet featuring Miles Black

Thank you Karen Oxorn for donating the piano tuning!

From Vancouver, 16 year old jazz singer Maya Rae, featuring special guest Miles Black (piano)

With, from Toronto: Morgan Childs - Drums, and Lauren Falls - Upright Bass.

From Vancouver, 16 year old jazz singer Maya Rae, featuring special guest Miles Black (piano) with Toronto musicians

Morgan Childs (drums), and Lauren Falls (bass).

Prodigious young talents performing jazz music and the American Songbook have gone back to the beginnings of the genre – artists like Ella Fitzgerald and even Judy Garland were blowing away listeners of all ages with their talent, incredible tone and sense of swing from their teenage years and beyond.

This phenomenon has led to an ongoing output of incredible female singers over the decades, that continues today with Vancouver-based, 16 year-old singer, musician and composer, Maya Rae. She is inspired by musicians like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and The Beatles, and modern-day artists like Jamie Cullum, Megan Trainor, and Ed Sheeran.

Maya is an artist who is proving that a jazz artist does not need to be confined by the past, but can use her influences, her own experiences as a young woman, and her view on the world to inform her diverse presentation of soulful music.

Pianist Mile Black - "Miles Black is one of the most emphatic and creative players I've ever had the pleasure of working with" - Cindy McLeod, Jazz Elements. Based in Vancouver, BC, Miles Black is a highly respected career musician bringing an enormous wealth of musical experience and expertise to most every facet of the music industry. Firstly known as one of Canada's most accomplished jazz pianists. http://www.milesblack.com/

Maya Rae video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEcw7nbQlUo