British jazz vocalist/songwriter Jo Harrop grew up with a jazz-loving father who introduced her to Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin and other iconic singers. She heard Tony Bennett in concert when she was a teenager, a life-changing experience that made her know she wanted to touch people with her singing in the same deep way that Bennett touched her.

After years as a session singer, Jo Harrop pursued a career singing jazz standards, and while she always wrote her own music, it wasn’t until the pandemic that she gathered the courage to record these originals, which she celebrates on her CD, The Heart Wants with Jason Robello, Christian McBride and Troy Miller.