Sessioins @ The Vinyl Society is a new weekly series in Detroit’s Paradise Valley, featuring metro-Detroit’s finest jazz musicians. Each Wednesday session features two showtimes, at 6 and 8 p.m. — and there’s never a cover!

The Heather Black Project is a collective of musicians who honor vintage jazz and blues and frequently incorporate modern soul and R&B grooves. The Project is led by vocalist Heather Schwartz and features a unique and rotating cast of highly-skilled artists from Southeast Michigan.

Black has a versatile performance career spanning over 20 years. She attended Interlochen Fine Arts Camp in Northern Michigan and continued her studies as a vocal performance major at the University of Michigan, School of Music. During her college years, she really started to expand outside of the classical realm and developed concepts for her own productions inspired by vintage jazz culture. She lists Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Erykah Badu as her chief influences.

Whether crooning of love, or belting the blues, Black soulfully sings, always conveying a deeper message and securing her audiences’ rapt attention. This performance will feature Kenji Lee, sax; Andy Peck, bass; Chuck Newsome, guitar; and Jesse Kramer, drums.ds for excellence in performing arts.