Jazzmeia Horn brings her voice to Myron's Cabaret Jazz, a room built for exactly this kind of close-up encounter with a singer who's been turning heads since she took top honors at the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and the Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. Her sound draws on the deep well of jazz vocal tradition—think phrasing that bends and snaps with the confidence of someone who's studied the greats but isn't interested in imitating them. After Concord Records signed her, she released her debut record, A Social Call, which picked up a Grammy nomination and put her name on the map for listeners well beyond the jazz world.

The setting at Myron's suits her style well. With round tables, a view out over Symphony Park, and a mezzanine balcony that keeps things intimate even when the room fills up, it's the kind of space where you can actually hear the breath between phrases and watch a vocalist work a room without a microphone doing all the heavy lifting. Horn's performances tend to move between standards and original material, often touching on themes of identity and social commentary, delivered with the kind of vocal agility that made her a competition favorite years before she had a record deal.