Sept. 13 at Joe's Pub: Vocalist Nikolett Pankovits' CrossCultural Jazz CD Release Show

New York City isn't just an essential crucible for jazz talent. It's a creative hothouse where artists from around the globe come together and develop new hybrids evolving from the experience of transplanting their musical roots. For the Hungarian-born vocalist Nikolett Pankovits, the Gotham scene provided an ideal forum for melding the music of her youth with her love of jazz and kindred musical currents. Her impressive debut album Magia (self-released on September 9, 2016) is a startlingly beautiful project that centers on Hungarian songs set to various Latin American rhythms.

Pankovits possesses an arresting voice, pure, lithe and warm, and alive to countless shades of loss, longing, ache, regret. From the lamenting opening arrangement of 'Kis Kece Lányom,' a traditional Hungarian song immortalized by Bartok, to the bilingual English/Hungarian version of 'Gloomy Sunday,'Magia is a stunning fever dream of an album, marked by disorienting dislocations and surprising but inspired intuitive connections.

The show will take place at Joe's Pub, Tuesday, September 13, 2016
at 9:30pm. Ticket Price: $20.00. Learn more at http://www.nikolettpankovits.com/.

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