"She is a steady warm presence, and she handles adeptly the balance of grace and appeal to sensuousness that is an earmark of many jazz-vocal greats. That's quite an accomplishment for a young performer of unquestionable beauty, especially at a time when marketers, and critics, offer dubious rewards for looks as much as talent. That she has talent, plenty of jazz fans in Kobe, Japan, can now testify, as have Fortune's nearer-to-home fans here in Seattle and up in Bellingham.