Sarah Elizabeth Charles - Dawn (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Brooklyn-based vocalist, composer, and educator Sarah Elizabeth Charles has been steadily rising as a singular voice in contemporary jazz since her 2012 album debut. From that time to now, her approach to the genre — both sonically and as a source of scholarship, community building, and social consciousness — has rendered Charles a dynamic force as a performer, collaborator, and changemaker.

In addition to leading her ensemble, SCOPE, for over a decade (a notable achievement in an ever-changing industry), she has also emerged as a powerful advocate for gender justice, incarcerated individuals, and early childhood music education, developing original courses and co-leading programs that center each through organizations and institutions including The New School, Rise2Shine, and Carnegie Hall. Her musicianship, identified by her powerful songwriting, evocative and rich lyrics, and exceptional vocal execution, has been inextricably linked to meaningful themes that hold personal significance. With her fifth album, Dawn, Charles is at her most vulnerable yet — and also her most empowered.

Dawn (to be released October 3, 2025, Stretch Music/Ropeadope), is both an expansive and intimate reflection on birthing, loss, joy, grief, hope, and transformation. Written over the course of four years and recorded in 2024 while six months pregnant with her second child, Charles crafted the album in real time, processing the miscarriages she experienced before carrying each of her sons to term, mourning the loss of loved ones, and celebrating the births of her two sons. Across ten exquisite tracks, Dawn reveals the complexities of these experiences with stunning transparency and beauty.

TRACKLIST

1 Rainbow J
2 Ground
3 Discovery
4 Miracle
5 Kick
6 Plans
7 Rainbow T
8 Mother
9 Angel Spark
10 Questions



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