Samara Joy, Tight ( Betty Carter cover), live at SF Jazz, San Francisco, June 16, 2023 (4 K)
Samara Joy covers the Betty Carter song Tight live in concert before a soldout crowd at SFJazz in San Francisco, California on June 16, 2023. Tight appeared on The Betty Carter Album (1976) and on the live album The Audience With Betty Carter (1980), recorded at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Samara Joy McLendon is a 23yearold Grammy Award winning jazz singer from the Bronx, New York. She won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2019. As the winner of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2023, she became only the second jazz singer to ever do so (the first being Esperanza Spalding). Joining her onstage were Jason Charos (trumpet), David Mason (alto saxophone), Kendric McCallister (tenor saxophone), Donavan Austin (trombone), Cameron Campbell (piano), Michael Migliore (bass), and Evan Sherman (drums). To buy her music and merch, visit and click on Shop. Samara Joy live tour dates (202
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