Los Angeles-based jazz vocalist Natalie Jacob is releasing her debut album, “Sooner or Later,” a collection of tunes from the Great American Songbook and three bossa nova standards by Jobim. Produced by Grammy Award-winning Scotty Barnhart, the director of the Count Basie Orchestra, the album features a Who’s Who of L.A.
’s top musicians, including Barnhart on trumpet, pianist Tamir Hendelman (Barbra Streisand, Clayton-Hamilton Big Band) — who also wrote all the arrangements — guitarist Anthony Wilson (Diana Krall, Madeleine Peyroux, Al Jarreau), bassist Carlitos del Puerto (Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Celia Cruz), drummer Clayton Cameron (Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr., Neil Young) and percussionist Kevin Winard (Steve Tyrell, Rosemary Clooney, Diane Schuur). Jacob has been on the Los Angeles jazz scene for many years as a member of various bands.
She was the lead singer for Bluenova, a jazz quintet that performed bossa nova, Latin jazz, and blues. She was also part of the Long Beach-based Latin jazz band, Along for the Ride, with whom she recorded the album “Jobim and Vinicius Across Languages” in 2016. The album featured world-renowned musicians Abraham Laboriel and Justo Almario.
Most recently, Jacob has been the featured vocalist for the Paul McDonald Big Band and the bossa nova group, Corcovado. Jacob began fronting her own band in 2010, when she teamed up with the late guitarist Larry Feldman, who was her accompanist and musical director. Since then.
