Blue Note Recording Artist
Jackie Allen
Live - 2008

"There's an intangible quality that she's able to transmit in performance that transcends her recordings. It's the ability to command a room's attention with quiet musical authority and relay emotions through good music. That's a gift and it doesn't happen everywhere."
-- Kirk Silsbee Los Angeles CityBeat

She's a jazz singing delight. Allen has traces of Joni Mitchell in her music and an occasional tinge of folk, but her most endearing attribute is a capacity to invest everything she sings -- including offbeat pop items -- with a lyrical depth and an inherent sense of rhythm.
-- Don Heckman Los Angeles Times