Description
After midnight on Friday nights at The Mad Monkfish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, vocalist Mikayla Shirley joins pianist Yoko Miwa for an intimate duo set that has quietly become one of the Boston jazz scene's hidden treasures. If you've been fortunate enough to catch one of these late-night performances, you've witnessed two musicians exploring an eclectic repertoire that moves effortlessly between jazz standards, Broadway songs, Brazilian music, classic pop, and contemporary songwriting. What unites the material is not genre, but a shared belief in the power of a great song.
"Mikayla Shirley's voice is beautiful, controlled and technically assured...There is something undeniably appealing about hearing a singer and pianist this clearly [and] the recording itself offers the kind of intimate sound that rewards careful listening." PARIS-MOVE