Gabrielle Cavassa finds her jazz calling in New Orleans
The sound of Gabrielle Cavassa’s voice has broken through the jazz scene of New Orleans. Four years after her arrival in the city, she has formed a following of fans who eagerly anticipate her performances.
She tried her best to grow up on jazz, but claims she didn’t know what the word meant at all while growing up in Southern California. “San Diego is certainly not a jazz capital I didn’t know what it was, no one knew what it was,” she said.
On a trip to New York City at age thirteen, Cavassa’s grandfather brought her to the iconic Blue Note nightclub. He declared to the employees, much to Cavassa’s embarrassment, that his granddaughter would play there one day.