Jazzmeia Horn’s New Album Displays Rising Star and Black Womanist Resistance

Jazzmeia Horn Handles the Blues Lyric With Maturity and Verve. (Photo Credit: RAYCORNELIUS.COM)

By Kevin C. Peterson

Jazzmeia Horn sings exquisitely with a kind of effortless effervescence that features gospel roots and carefully curated meanings of black female agency.

Four short years ago Horn, at 24, won the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition. Two years later her…