Laufey’s Instagram isn’t a jazz club. It’s soft lighting, vintage dresses, and carefully staged “candid” moments of her writing music at a grand piano. She’s selling a mood , not just a sound. We older listeners thought jazz was about the music alone. We were wrong. The genre is now an aesthetic.
She looked at me like I had just called Taylor Swift a “promising up-and-comer.” falling behind laufey genre
But I’m catching up. Slowly. One brushed snare drum at a time. Laufey’s Instagram isn’t a jazz club