![]() You know, that’s normally what happens.”Īt every turn, it seems, Joy, as a young, celebrated virtuoso, has been able to avoid “what normally happens.” “I was, like, I don’t want to do a ‘Carmen Sings Monk’ tribute, as great as that album is. She found “Worry Now Later” when researching a Thelonious Monk project. She discovered “This Is the Moment” through classmates. She originally wrote her “Nostalgia” vocalese as an exercise for Faddis. Intense listening and intense study followed. ![]() At SUNY, she found “my classmates are so into this and they’re so passionate about it, and I’m from New York and I don’t even know anything about this music!” “I was never exposed to this style of singing,” she says over Zoom from a tour stop in Toulouse, France. ![]() But at SUNY she found herself in a hothouse of talent - fellow students who were deeply into jazz, and teachers such as drummer Kenny Washington and trumpeter John Faddis. The Bronx-born Joy did not pursue jazz seriously until she got to college. “She was very young, still a student at SUNY Purchase, but it was clear that she was a generational talent.” “I was immediately blown away by her talent,” says veteran producer Matt Pierson, a judge at the Vaughan competition and, now, Joy’s manager. In the standards and not-so-standards alike, Joy established not only her musical acumen - delivered with a warm, capacious vocal instrument, breathtaking technique, and unmannered charm - but also a singular point of view, informed by tradition but not bound by it.
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