:::Spring couldn't have lasted for another day. Dark, cold, gray, dreary and rainy. So, went looking for something to liven things up a bit on YouTube. Ended up listening to Montreal Jazz sensation, Nikki Yanofsky. Nicki, turning 18 in February 2012, is no longer the pure Jazz vocalist she was at age 12 and 13 when she sensationalized the music world with her outstandingly mature renditions of Ella Fitzgerald classics. Young Nikki has matured beautifully, yet her success seems not to have changed her sweetness. I suppose it was inevitable that she would expand her repertoire to including a crossover into popular music. When she sings the Sarah Vaughan song "You've Changed" - I couldn't help but thinking to myself, "Right about that." Jazz, and scat in particular, has a much smaller niche in the business than does Pop. She still sings Jazz but I wonder for how long before she succumbs into becoming yet just another popular singer, with albeit a great voice. And the Jazz world will have lost a major talent. There aren't many, so more's the pity. Hope I'll be wrong. I truly do. :::