Nikki Yanofsky: Nikki – review

(Decca)The Norahs, Dianas and Madeleines of the current jazz-diva business might well extend a warm welcome to the 16-year-old Canadian vocal phenomenon Nikki Yanofsky – but they could be forgiven for sticking pins in her effigy. With an awesome grasp of the technicalities of the past 80-odd years of western popular vocals, and a precocious confidence for anything and everything she sings, Yanofsky exhibits a potential that gives even the most curmudgeonly of jazzers pause, not least because h...

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