At Jazz at Lincoln Center, vocalist Jazzmeia Horn appears with her ensemble, Her Noble Force, in a live set that treats the bandstand as a working laboratory. Horn moves between bebop language, blues inflection, and open rhythmic frames, using scatting and elastic phrasing as compositional tools. In a New York context shaped by the legacy of big-band and vocal lineages, the group’s emphasis on ensemble interplay reads as an argument for jazz as conversation, not display. One clear strength is how her voice functions like a horn inside the arrangement.