Catherine Russell: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

NPR Music s Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month with Tiny Desk (home) concerts featuring legends in the world of R B, jazz, gospel, and hiphop. Each artist in this legacy lineup has helped to define Black music as we know it and will be performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. Suraya Mohamed, February 11, 2022 Look around the GB s Juke Joint studio in Long Island City, N. Y. and you will see adornments from jazz singer Catherine Russell s home: a vintage Royal typewriter, a black dial phone, a red tiny desk and a striking Malian Bògòlanfini cloth that drapes the piano. Black and white photos of Billie Holiday and oldtime big bands rest on the shelves and piano along with a copy of Russells soontobereleased album, Send For Me, out April 1. Twocolor paintings hang on the back wall. One was purchased by Russell from a local Panamanian artist while visiting Bocas Del Toro, her father s birthplace. The other is from the studio