Yoko Miwa: The Midnight Hour

BOSTON: Last year, pianist Yoko Miwa and vocalist Mikayla Shirley began performing together during The Mad Monkfish’s Midnight Sessions in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and those evenings became the foundation of their musical collaboration. Their intimate duo sets have quietly become one of the Boston jazz scene’s hidden treasures. If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch one of these late-night performances, you’ve witnessed two musicians exploring an eclectic repertoire that moves effortlessly between jazz standards, Broadway songs, Brazilian music, classic pop, and contemporary songwriting. What unites the material is not genre, but a shared belief in the power of a great song.

There was never really a more fitting title for their debut recording than The Midnight Hour, since the album captures both the atmosphere and the spirit of those late-night performances.

Let’s discover the newest jazz!