Music

Laura’s latest album, Dreaming Life (released on the 29th April), adds five new songs to five reprised and sometimes rearranged compositions from Minor Moments. Zakian also covers Coming Home by American folk artist Patty Griffin, displaying her ease in imprinting her style on a wide range of musical idioms. Click here to listen to the pre-release single.


Laura released some new original material in May 2019 as a five song EP, ‘Minor Moments,‘ which is available to download via Amazon, Jazz Views, Bandcamp and iTunes. A limited edition hard copy of the EP can be purchased from Bandcamp too. You can read reviews of Minor Moments here.

A photo of Laura sitting on a hard chair with a glass of red wine staring into the distance off camera. It is dark outside and the blinds are open.

“She sings like a swallow, her voice soaring and diving, covering a number of standards in her own inimitable style – and what style, grace, sophistication and application”

EuroclubdeJazz, 2004

“Melancholic, moving music performed with sensitivity”

Derek Ansell, Jazz Journal 2019

Laura’s release Songs for Modern Lovers showcases her interpretive confidence, bringing together fresh treatments of seven numbers from Frank Sinatra’s iconic 1956 album with a sprinkling of beguiling twists on some carefully chosen pop. The band features some of the best of British: Steve Lodder on piano, Simon Thorpe on bass and Nic France on drums. The well-received album garnered 4 stars from Jazz Review and formed the basis for many of Laura’s recent performances. BBC Radio 3’s Sarah Walker chose one of its tracks to illustrate her journey into jazz. 

Laura’s 2001 debut Nobody Else But Me was The Observer’s CD of the Week. Its 2004 follow-up Just One of Those Things was popular on Michael Parkinson’s BBC Radio Two show.

2009 release About Love was the first to introduce jazz-inflected readings of pop songs among the standards, including an exquisitely wistful Disney Girls (Beach Boys).

You can listen to and purchase Laura’s music here.

A photograph of Laura Zakian singing into the mic with her eyes closed. The background is lit in moody blues.

“Rather like those old style, quality torch singers, Laura Zakian sings in intimate, measured tones and puts across each song she tackles with warmth and conviction”

Jazz Journal, 2009

“Somewhere between the atmosphere of an Anthony Newley or Fran Landesman song, thoughtful and melancholic and above all full of a certain regret. Well worth your time.”

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