‘It was like an open invitation from the world around me to do something, and I said yes.” Melody Gardot is talking about how music saved her life. It’s not unusual for musicians to offer that ...

While Melody Gardot writes quiet, jazzy ache-filled songs about loss and longing, there’s something exhilarating about listening to her ravishing debut album, “Worrisome Heart” (Universal/Verve).

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. FORGET about the obvious quality of the writing, the subtle charms of the smoky tunes and the intimacy of the hushed vocals on her ...

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When I first got a copy of Melody Gardot’s first cd, Worrisome Heart, released in 2008, I was first put off by the cover shot. Something about those fashion eyeglasses made me think she was some kind ...

Music for jazz singer/songwriter Melody Gardot is more than just a creative impulse. Music-writing, for her, has restorative qualities, particularly since she got into an accident that could have… By ...

'Jazz is a sideways glance at music," says Melody Gardot. "It's like being an architect, knowing the basis of design but understanding that the façade can be whatever you dream. I'm a free person. I ...

Popular songs are full of heartache, but the music of suffering feels a little different when Melody Gardot sings a line like "Come and join me in my pain," as she does on her new album, The Absence.

Sometimes life just has the overwhelming ability to throw some rough tests your way, and a person can find oneself dealing in silence with the aching certainty of an unfinished journey, where life ...

Melody Gardot, who is releasing her debut album at the age of 23, is no veteran, but she projects an air of knowingness vastly beyond her years. Where most performers in her position would be dashing ...

When we last heard from Melody Gardot, her globe-trotting travels had inflected her trademark sound with exotic new flavours. With her new album ‘Currency of Man’, Melody takes us on another musical ...