Mara Kaye is one of New York’s great gifts to the world... a new artist with deep roots. One with the emotional power and swing of Billie Holiday, the deep-blue sorrows and joys of Bessie Smith, and always leavened with Brooklyn spice. Her heart is in her music and there is no pretense, no distance as audiences from here to Moscow, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Brooklyn dives have found out.

Watch Mara Kaye perform.