With her fluorescent blue wig, typewriter (on which she ‘solos’) and inspirations that include Samuel Beckett and Hindustani music, Portugueseborn Mila Dores is anything but your average young female jazz vocalist. She fronts Eh Joe, the moniker derived from a Beckett play for which the quartet of recent alumni from the Leeds College of Music composed an imaginary score in 2009. The Beckett connection extends to the surreal lyrics she has composed on a set of mostly originals, although a few are sung and spoken in her native Portuguese. Mixing togethe a left-field jazz cabaret, tango with Fado and folk song from her Portuguese background, Dores' alto vocal can sound like the missing link between Rikki Lee Jones and Sidsel Endresen. A hook up with that other sometime warped jazz cabaret vocalist Andrew Plummer for one of those playfully confrontational style male-female duets would be an interesting prospect. Surprisingly her reworks of the spiritual ‘Motherless Child’, Chaplin's ‘Smile’, and Paul Simon favourite, ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’ are more conservative than the originals, although they do demonstrate a flexibility in creating shades of meaning, the band supporting with discreetly sparse backdrops. As with her Leeds College mentor Matthew Bourne, and those other wayward souls that came out of the Leeds scene such as trioVD and Rian Vosloo, Dores is someone the jazz world certainly needs more of.