Ever since releasing his eponymous debut album in 2014, the Portland-based smokey voiced singer-songwriter and virtuoso pianist has been sending positive ripples around the globe with his powerful message music. Prestigious highlights extend from Rotterdam’s North Sea Jazz and the UK’s Love Supreme festivals to Java Jazz festival in Indonesia, with performances in Beijing, Melbourne and at Tokyo’s Billboard Live. His very first overseas performance was at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s Club in London. Described by the London Evening Standard as “the blue eyed soul boy of jazz”, Lawson followed his debut album with a limited edition EP “Jarrod Lawson At The BBC”, recorded at London’s historic BBC Maida Vale studios for tastemaker DJ Gilles Peterson. Lawson won Soul Artist Of The Year at the Jazz FM Awards and has been dubbed “the hottest talent to hit soul music in at least ten years” by Echoes magazine. In the US he has performed on the Capital Jazz Cruise and has appeared in leading jazz clubs across the country from New York to Seattle. His second album “Be The Change” with a band which benefits from the presence of legendary Grammy-nominated percussionist Sammy Figueroa, also features a guest performance from vocalist Amber Navran and her fellow members of the Los Angeles alternative soul trio Moonchild.