Performance

Never Say Never

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“Never Say Never” at Public Records is a live set that treats the jazz vocalist as a working bandleader, not just a front person. Melanie Charles moves between songbook material, originals, and open improvisation, leaning into groove and acid-jazz phrasing; Nikara Warren brings an R&B-informed approach that keeps the language contemporary without abandoning swing. There is no widely documented NYC premiere history attached to this title, but the night matters in a city where genre borders are constantly renegotiated. The most telling detail is the risk: ideas are tested in public, and not all of them resolve the same way twice.