ANGELA VERBRUGGE QUARTET

Angela Verbrugge first caught listeners’ ears in 2019 with what JazzTimes described as her “captivating debut” album recorded in NYC, and she went on to win the 2020 JazzTimes Readers’ Poll for best female jazz vocalist. The magazine’s review describes that Angela, who takes inspiration from vintage musicals, the swing era, blues, and bebop, has “conspicuously good taste”. In 2022, she released her sophomore album, Love for Connoisseurs, a project consisting entirely of original lyrics for songs in the style of classic jazz and bebop standards. In the last three years, she has toured her music to Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, Turkey, the UK and across Canada. Her song-writing collaborations have been featured on major Spotify playlists, have received features in JAZZIZ Magazine, and been positively reviewed by major publications including JazzWise in England and Couleurs in France. JazzWeekly describes the former actress as “fun and quirky, hip and a hoot, wispy and romantic; she slithers and oozes, and cleverly swings.”