Confessions

At just 25 years old, Veronica Swift has built a résumé that even many late-career jazz singers would envy: tours as a featured vocalist with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chris Botti; a guest collaboration with Michael Feinstein; engagements at A-list clubs like Birdland, Jazz Standard, Dizzy s Club and Jazz Showcase. The always hilarious I m Hip, written by Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough whom Swift says was like an uncle growing up takes Swift back to her early days on the New York City scene, when she was meeting all the heavy cats and doing her best just to hang on and find her wavelength. 'Veronica Swift is the epitome of a modern female jazz singer .... Her songs are marvelously well-crafted performances rooted in tradition but up-to-the-minute in execution.' - All About Jazz Swift is a 25-year-old vocalist of nimble grace and forceful disclosure, as if Annie Ross had gotten more of Sarah Vaughan s influence. The New York Times ...[Veronica] can slide seamlessly from a difficult syncopated rhythm to a wistful love song to a fresh arrangement of an old standard. JazzTimes