In an age in which every chanteuse fresh out of music college thinks themselves to be Billie Holiday, a new recording by Carmen Lundy plugs you straight into jazz singing and composition of the very highest order. Featuring her core trio of Anthony Wonsey (piano), Kenny Davis (bass) and Jamison Ross (drums), plus special guest artists Oscar Castro-Neves (guitar), Nolan Shaheed (trumpet and flugelhorn), and George Bohanon (trombone), the singer’s twelfth album, Changes, features eight sparkling new originals plus a typically dramatic reimagining of ‘A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square’. Clothed in quite ravishing palettes of sound, the album offers artistic subtlety, an easy virtuosity, and an improvisatory freedom that few other singers can match. Whether it’s the liquid phrasing of ‘The Night Is Young’, the magisterial control of the melodic line in the chorus of ‘So Beautiful’, the gloriously feel-good ‘Dance The Dance’ or the beautifully evoked moods of ‘Where Love Surrounds Us’ (an intimate duet with Castro-Neves), this is a collection that will completely seduce your senses.