Andra Day Soars at Special Club Show at New York’s Legendary Blue Note: Concert Review
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It’s a strange sensation to see an artist who you last saw performing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before a global audience of 120 million-plus at the Super Bowl singing ten feet in front of you at the Blue Note jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village.
But that was the consolation prize for 400 lucky fans who may not have been invited to the Met Ball on Monday night but certainly had a more satisfying feast for the ears.
Over two sets at the intimate venue, Day and her stellar eight-piece band premiered many songs from her new album, “Cassandra (Cherith)” (named after her birth name and a Biblical allusion meaning “to cut away”), which drops on Friday and includes the first new music from her since the release of the soundtrack to “The United States vs.
Billie Holiday,” the 2021 biopic for which she scored a best-actress Oscar nomination for her performance as the legendary titular jazz singer. “I’m very nervous but so happy to be here in New York, back onstage,” she said at the top of the first set. “I have really wanted to bring that live-band energy onto this next record.
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