Richard Cortez

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Join Richard Cortez and his all-star band for an evening of Sinatra. Richard Cortez’s timeless, golden baritone voice handles The Great American Songbook with a deep emotional intelligence, an unbridled passion for song, and an activist’s relationship to both his material and his audience. His debut jazz album Mood Swings hit 1 million streams just three months after its release and has now passed 2 million. With Amazon Music listing his recording of “You Don’t Know What Love Is” as one of the top jazz recordings of 2024, Richard Cortez has quickly become a leader in the new crop of vocal talents emerging from the contemporary straight ahead jazz scene. Known for his ambition and extensive knowledge of The Great American Songbook, Richard Cortez has shared the bandstand with some of the world’s most celebrated and respected jazz musicians: Sullivan Fortner, Peter Bernstein, Orange Julius, Kyle Poole, Yasushi Nakamura, Paul Sikivie, Adam Birnbaum, Paul Gill, Grant Stewart, Alexander Claffy, Joe Farnsworth, Jerry Weldon, Joe Strasser, Nicole Glover, Russell Hall, and Emmet Cohen, to name a few.

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