With her debut album Worrisome Heart, Melody Gardot displayed her instinctive gift for transforming the traditions of jazz and blues with “her personal kiss of life.” But even her most ardent admirers ...

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Melody Gardot emerged from her own smoky shadows of the mid-2000s as if she were some femme fatale emanating from a film noir movie. The plot twist was that she was the good girl, but it was her body ...

Nearly killed in a bicycle accident at 19, Melody Gardot discovered her otherworldly voice while using music therapy to get through months in intensive care. Two years ago, she poured her newfound ...

Melody Gardot is increasingly hard to classify. Her music continues to evolve and expand as she embraces different styles and tries new things with each album. She now seems equally at home whether ...

Gardot captures the sensibility that guides, shapes and defines so much Brazilian music. Melody Gardot Aims For The Space Between Notes The other day, I had a conversation with Melody Gardot about ...

Jazz sensation Melody Gardot's grief-stricken, yet inspirational, journey to stardom is captured in this inspiring documentary. After being struck by a car in 2003, an accident that left her with life ...

This is Gardot’s fifth album in twelve years, a mix of standards and originals in which her voice is close-miked and properly out front in the mix. Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt and Diana Krall bubbling (as ...

The confidence and maturity that cascades from Melody Gardot’s second Verve album “My One and Only Thrill” is not as readily evident in her live show, a 90-minute affair that produced sparks only at ...