There is something intensely alluring, almost addictive, about Kansas City-based artist Jackie Myers. Known for her innovation and fluidity on the keys and her sultry, bluesy vocals that could spark warmth in even the iciest of souls, she has a way of leaving all your flabbers ghasted and with a voracious appetite for more. Now, 577 Records is ecstatic to present her latest work of art, What About the Butterfly, a technical masterpiece born from the depths of this vocalist/pianist/composer’s beautiful soul and enviable mind.

Every sound and beat in these arrangements projects Jackie’s meticulous approach to composition, technique, and innovation. Her use of spectral composition and microtonality pays homage to the French spectral composition movement’s Gérard Grisey and Tristan Murial, who she says has shown us “how to embrace the perspective that the physics of sound should inform the compositional process”.