A set of original songs by Phoebe Katis. Billed as 'soul-pop and folk' it neatly summed up what Katis is about. Soulful pop with a folky edge. Eleven songs, opening with the title track of Katis' second studio album, It's Okay to Cry, Katis demonstrated she's as good as any singer-songwriter you'd care to name.
As a lyricist Katis is a cut above, as a vocalist she is in possession of an enviable range balancing delicacy with, for the most part, restrained power. Hope We're Happier from Katis' first album followed by Honesty, which will be on the next album, the lack of jazz content would usually be reason enough for BSH to respectfully give this live stream a miss. However, Katis' trio mates were none other than 2018 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year finalist, bassist Seth Tackaberry and drummer Luke Tomlinson who has been making a name for himself on the London jazz scene.
Katis thanked Newcastle University for extending the invitation to travel to Tyneside to perform a concert in the middle of a pandemic and, with that, went out on an uptempo number - Sweet Reunion - which had something of Roy Hargrove's Strasbourg St Denis about it. An enjoyable forty five minutes.
Russell.
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