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Connie Lansberg

Many singers profess to be natural storytellers, but few can claim to be published authors too. Jazz singer Connie Lansberg showcases these two areas of her creative output with the release of the album Tsera’s Gift, alongside a novel of the same name. (BHC Press) The record is an infectious and lilting collection of songs, performed by some of Melbourne’s leading musicians.

A longstanding fixture on the Australian jazz scene, Connie’s songs - at various points evoking Blossom Dearie, Madeleine Peyroux, and Carol King - brim with elegantly expressive melodies, and poetic lyrics.

As an author, she loves the long-form, but as a songwriter, she finds it thrilling, to sum up, the difficult, the wonderful, the terrifying, and exhilarating feeling of falling in or out of love in 4-minute soliloquies accompanied by talented musicians