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"She is a steady warm presence, and she handles adeptly the balance of grace and appeal to sensuousness that is an earmark of many jazz-vocal greats. That's quite an accomplishment for a young performer of unquestionable beauty, especially at a time when marketers, and critics, offer dubious rewards for looks as much as talent. That she has talent, plenty of jazz fans in Kobe, Japan, can now testify, as have Fortune's nearer-to-home fans here in Seattle and up in Bellingham...Courtney has developed a textured, sultry, arrestingly mature torchsinger's delivery to which experience may eventually lend depth and credence." -Peter Monaghan,...

Courtney Marie Andrews is an American songwriter born November 7, 1990. She is a founding member of the Southwest label that's being compared to Omaha's Saddle Creek, River Jones Music. Andrews gained popularity by gigging in her home town of Phoenix Arizona when she was just fifteen years old. Producer River Jones met Courtney at an art gallery party while he was there playing spur of the moment drums for a noise post punk riot girl band. He started recording her in his parents living room two weeks later. They made Urban Myths on a laptop, 1 microphone, and a...

Shaped by a life spent traveling and observing sounds and styles from all around the US, Nashville-based troubadour Courtney Jaye boasts a personality as massive as the hooks on her latest long player, Love and Forgiveness. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Atlanta, Jaye followed her restless heart to such rich cultural settings as Athens, GA, Flagstaff, AZ, Austin, Southern California, and the Hawaiian island of Kauai, before settling in Nashville. Along the way she’s collaborated with the likes of Thad Cockrell, Kristen Hall (Sugarland), Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), Matthew Sweet, comedian Stephen Lynch and members of Black Rebel...

Born in Annotto Bay, St Mary, Jamaica, Courtney Yogie John, is a confident and dynamic performer whose control and vocal range, at times seems larger than his size. At age 12, Courtney John penned his first song. In the nineties he co-founded FiWi Music, a record label known for producing quality reggae music. Known as one of todays best songwriters in reggae, Courtney John has written hits for Marcia Griffiths Shining Time and Beres Hammond Cant Stop A Man. In 2004 Courtney John was featured in the New York Times Magazine/ Jamaica special, as one of reggae musics artist to...