Possessing a fleet, light voice and a sly touch, jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson brings both the songs and the sensibility of the Great American Songbook into the 21st century. Her 2009 debut album, Take to the Sky, split the difference between Cole Porter and the Cure, and as she continued to record over the course of the 2010s, she started to incorporate more and more original material on her albums. In 2020, she tipped the balance back toward covers with Dreamers Do.
A native of Houston, Texas, Edmonson began to write songs as a child, and after attending South Carolina's Coll...