Pucci Amanda Jhones

Pucci Amanda Jhones is a New York jazz vocalist known for an interpretive approach that stretches tempo and phrasing while keeping a song's underlying structure intact. She released her debut album Sweet Dreams on Cadence Jazz in 1997, backed by Kenny Barron on piano, Hilliard Greene on bass, and Dwayne Cook Broadnax on drums, and later recorded Wild Is the Wind for the CIMP label. A graduate of the New School with a degree in classical and contemporary music, she has performed at rooms including the Blue Note, Feinstein's, the Kitano, and Harlem's Lenox Lounge. In 2011 she toured fifteen cities across Russia as featured vocalist with the Daniel Kramer Trio, singing in Russian. She has led her own quartet on the New York club circuit, with engagements at Mezzrow.