Jazmine Sullivan: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bobby Carter, January 8, 2021 I don t recall any other artist at the Tiny Desk harmonizing their own introduction, but Philadelphia s own Jazmine Sullivan didn t waste a second, greeting us all by flexing those onceinageneration chops from the jump. The singersongwriter, draped in a trench coat while her band sports all black, are nestled in the corner of a dimly lit space resembling a cabaret. We don t see or hear much from Jazmine Sullivan until she has something to get off her chest. She drops a body of work every five years or so, shakes up the world of R B with each offering, then quietly goes back to minding her own business. Her latest project, Heaux Tales, is a bold and timely conversation