Jacqui Naylor News

Humans have the most highly developed brains on the planet. Yet when it comes to sexual attraction and mate seeking, we're no different from our butt-sniffing animal cousins.

Humans have the most highly developed brains on the planet. Yet when it comes to sexual attraction and mate seeking, we're no different from our butt-sniffing animal cousins.

When Blossom Dearie passed at the age of 84 this February, the world of jazz and cabaret lost perhaps its lightest, sweetest, and wittiest voice, not to mention a pianist of subtle grace.

Singer Jacqui Naylor will perform a special show called, 'Remembering Blossom Dearie" at Yoshi's in San Francisco on Sunday, April 19th.

Sometimes an early career retrospective is a good thing. Jacqui Naylor released six albums prior to You Don't Know Jacq , a truly wonderful collection of new arrangements and recordings of her older material.

Jacqui Naylor is like a cross between Amy Winehouse and Carole King. On "You Don't Know Jacq" she rips out such songs as "My Funny Valentine" and "Ain't No Sunshine" with a Winehouse-like battered huskiness.

Don't look now, but San Francisco jazz-pop song stylist Jacqui Naylor is becoming the Guy Lombardo of New Brunswick.