We Could Be Lovers  is the Australian singer-pianist Sarah McKenzie’s Impulse debut and McKenzie can be seen in the video above talking about her pathway into jazz, enabled partly by discovering the music of Oscar Peterson and Gene Harris.

McKenzie, who plays two nights at Pizza Express Jazz Club in London on 23-24 June, is an ex-student of Berklee in Boston, and was signed to Impulse, the reactivated historic jazz label synonymous with the music of John Coltrane, by Jean-Philippe Allard.

Her new album recorded in New York, already released in Australia, was produced by Brian Bacchus, the creative powerhouse behind the success of a raft of Gregory Porter albums including the Grammy-winning Liquid Spirit. Songs on We Could Be Lovers include Cole Porter, Gershwin, Mancini, Ellington and Jerome Kern numbers plus originals of the singer’s including the title track.