Sarah McKenzie

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A gifted Australian pianist, composer, and singer whose immense technical skill is enhanced by her impeccable sense of swing and style.

—AllMusic

Sarah McKenzie is an Australian jazz pianist, composer, singer, and bandleader whose breezy technical style, songwriting acumen, and lyrical sense of swing have drawn comparisons to Blossom Dearie and Diana Krall. Born in Melbourne, McKenzie studied jazz at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, Australia, and the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she studied with Joanne Brackeen. She has toured with Chris Botti and Michael Bublé and performed at Umbria Jazz’s summer and winter festivals, jazzahead! in Bremen, Germany, and the Luca Donna Jazz Festival in Italy.

Now based in London, McKenzie followed her successful 2017 disc Paris in the Rain with Secrets of My Heart in 2019. The record documents her brilliance interpreting 20^th-century jazz standards and her knack for writing sterling compositions sure to become jazz standards of the 21^st century.