Thu 5/7 @ 7-9PM

Many former patrons of the jazz shows at Nighttown have bemoaned their loss since Nighttown closed and EDWINS took over the space. In fact, former Nighttown music booker Jim Wadsworth has moved his concerts across town to Ohio City’s Irishtown Bend Taproom, and EDWINS has been booking music since it took over last year, more recently adding concerts by both local and touring jazz artists. So there’s even more to hear.

And this week, EDWINS is bringing in 31-year-old California-born jazz vocalist Gabrielle Cavasssa who is releasing her second album, and her first for Blue Note records, this week, titled Diavola. (She self-released a self-titled album in 2020.)

Cavassa moved to New Orleans in 2017, where she’s performed with some of the town’s many jazz artists, as well as with sax player Joshua Redman who coproduced Diavola with Don Was. The album shows off Cavassa’s range from Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head,” most famously covered by B.J. Thomas, to the 1931 pop tune “Prisoner of Love” referencing the 1945 hit version of Billy Eckstine, to her own composition that gave the album its title, contrasted with Luigi Tenco’s “Angelo,” the two pieces giving the album the “devil/angel” contrast Cavassa was going for.

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