Jazz Vocalist. Song Stylist.Recording Artist.
A Voice Rooted in Legacy, and the Stories That Live Within
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Jazz Vocalist. Song Stylist. Recording Artist.
A Voice Rooted in Legacy
and the Stories That Live Within
Listen On Your Favorite Service
"To Oscar With Love" - Amber Weekes Celebrates the Songbook of Oscar Brown Jr.
FEATURING: Tony Campodonico – Piano Edwin Livingston – Bass Fritz Wise – Drums Tom Luer – Sax and Flute & special guest, Adam “Aejaye” Jackson, with EMCEE James Janisse KJMJ Radio
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To Oscar With Love
Amber Weekes Celebrates the Songbook of Oscar Brown Jr.
Produced by Mark Cargill
American jazz recording artist Amber Weekes celebrates the birth centenary of songwriter, poet, playwright, and Civil Rights activist Oscar Brown, Jr., with her deeply-felt fifth album, “To Oscar with Love.” It is the most unique and powerful album of her career.
On this new album, Amber Weekes brings her velvet voice and deep interpretive gift to his songbook, honoring a legacy that deserves to be heard by every generation.
- The Music
Critically Acclaimed Recordings
- 2024 Release
A Lady With A Song
Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson
Produced by Mark Cargill
Experience an album that traces Nancy Wilson’s full range — from sly swing and bossa nova warmth to the sharp edge of a social conscience — because that range was the point. More than a tribute, it’s a reckoning with an influence Amber had carried since childhood, finally given its proper name.
'Round Midnight / Re-Imagined
May 2021 Produced by Mark Cargill
Arranged as a single summer night in New York, moving through blues, romance, and spirituality – the way a great evening moves: unhurried, alive, and impossible to forget – this album honors a story Amber’s father would tell her as a child about her family’s hisotry. It’s a deeply personal record, and it plays like one.
The Gathering
October 2020 Produced by Mark Cargill
A genuinely inventive Christmas album that moves easily between swingers, ballads, and soulful surprises rather than settling into holiday formula. Backed by an exceptional cast of Los Angeles musicians, she brings the same interpretive care to Yuletide standards that she brings to everything else.
Pure Imagination
November 2019 Produced by Mark Cargill
This album is where Amber’s story and her artistry meet most openly — a wide-ranging set held together by her gift for making a lyric feel like a personal confession. It draws on the music her family carried from Harlem, the voices she absorbed growing up, and the stories that shaped her. It’s the record that shows you who she is.
PRESS FOR A Lady with a Song ~ Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson
“It is a testament to the talent of Amber Weekes that I didn’t think of Nancy Wilson’s vocals as she presented so many signature songs and invested each one with so much personality and style.”
“This is certainly her best album release to date…a tremendous joy to listen to the lovely, dedicated, jazzy voice of Amber Weekes.”
“If a singer is going to do someone else’s repertoire, this is surely the way to do it. Not just a different version, but in some cases, something altogether different. No, Amber Weekes does not exactly sound like Nancy Wilson. She sounds like herself, and that is more than good enough.”
EARLIER RECORDINGS
Round Midnight / Reimagined
“Amber Weekes knows what she is doing—so much so that the listener can just sit back and relax and be transported to a faraway time and place. It is a welcome escape that I will be visiting again and again.”
The Gathering
“…one of this year’s most imaginatively arranged and produced seasonal offerings, …Amber Weekes brings her mix of charming, playful wit and dreamy, inviting sensuality to a set featuring fresh twists on classics we love…”
Pure Imagination
“If a singer is going to do someone else’s repertoire, this is surely the way to do it. Not just a different version, but in some cases, something altogether different. No, Amber Weekes does not exactly sound like Nancy Wilson. She sounds like herself, and that is more than good enough.”
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Amber's Story
Shaped by music before she ever chose it. Her grandparents ran Weekes' Luncheonette, a gathering place in Harlem where Duke, Strayhorn, Lena, and Count Basie were regulars. Her home was alive with Ella, Billie, Frank, and more — voices her parents carried with them from Sugar Hill.
Music wasn’t background noise. It was the language of her household, the thread connecting the family to its roots. By her own account, she was born singing.
Trained by three-time Grammy nominee Sue Raney, Amber brings her full self to every interpretation: the history, the humanity beneath the lyric — songs that healed and told the truth when little else could. She is a song stylist and storyteller.
Fresh off her critically acclaimed 2024 release A Lady with a Song - Amber Weekes Celebrates Nancy Wilson, Amber is set to release a new album in 2026 - promising to be her most purposeful statement yet - as she turns her artistry to Oscar Brown Jr. - poet, playwright, truth-teller, and songwriter.
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An evening with Amber Weekes is an intimate conversation between a gifted storyteller, her musicians, and everyone in the room — a gift of love, healing, and music, told the only way Jazz can.
