You won’t want to miss this event at the Community Bookstore on July 8th at 7 p.m.

Fresh from their sold-out engagement at Joe’s Pub, vocalist Capathia Jenkins, songwriter/performer Louis Rosen and writer Nikki Giovanni will make a special appearance at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn to celebrate their acclaimed new PS Classics CD, “One Ounce of Truth: The Nikki Giovanni Songs.”
One Ounce of Truth was hailed by The New York Times as “earthy, tuneful songs…a continually shifting musical patchwork of blues, folk, jazz and pop…sly, playful observations that take an off-center, positive view of life and love.”
The CD combines the sultry and soaring voice of Capathia Jenkins with the inspired melodies and arrangements of composer Louis Rosen into a fresh and enthralling thirteen-song mix of jazz, blues, soul, classic pop and American roots music. Jenkins’ powerful and sensitive performances blend with Rosen’s music – alternately delicate and exultant, and always highly melodic – in exploring those most universal of human experiences: friendship, lust, love and loss. It’s a lush and memorable collection based on the vivid words of Nikki Giovanni, the renowned American writer and poet recently chosen as one of Oprah Winfrey’s “Living Legends.”

Bloomberg News wrote, “In the poet Nikki Giovanni…the blissful collaboration of composer Louis Rosen and singer Capathia Jenkins has found a kindred spirit, and the combination has charm and beauty to spare….The performers are as good company as you could wish for.”

“Giovanni writes in a style that is both direct and sophisticated, with a point of view that is thoughtful, soulful and always surprising,” says Rosen. “Equally important, her words sound right sung in a popular style with a strong rhythmic groove as the foundation. My goal while writing and arranging the songs was to make the music and words play so naturally together that the listener assumes they were written together as music and lyrics.”