For those unaware, it’s been seven years since her last release, but multi-faceted artist Jennifer Lee has been busy manifesting the prophesy of track #2 from her new album Glimpse (out June 6th, 2025).

Farewell to Comfort, a lively samba that Lee penned in 2017, turned out to be a premonition, foretelling a cascade of monumental changes in her life that began in 2019. These changes include meeting and marrying her husband George Visger; moving from her beloved Oakland home of 21 years to a tiny, rural town in southwestern Idaho; as well as authoring and illustrating her first children’s book Relativity. (Books number two and three are currently in the works!) Now settled into her new home (and her expanded professional identity), Lee has at last freed up the bandwidth to release recordings she’s had in the can for a while.

The resulting album – a glittering collection of nine originals, one standard and one song written by her close friends – is the fourth by the esteemed Bay Area jazz vocalist/guitarist/pianist turned composer/lyricist.

Showcasing her songwriting skills across a wide spectrum of musical styles, similarly to her 2018 release. Glimpse is sure to catch the attention of vocalists in search of beautifully crafted songs to add to their repertoires.

As on her previous, critically-hailed albums – 2003’s Jaywalkin’, 2009’s Quiet Joy, and 2018’s My Shining Hour (all on the label SBE Records) – Lee draws on two deep pools of talent from San Diego and the Bay Area, with the addition of one East Coast jazz virtuoso, trumpeter Randy Brecker.

1. I Caught A Glimpse Of Your Soul
2. Farewell to Comfort
3. Dave Don’t Mind the Rain
4. Vivid Technicolor Love
5. If I Only Had a Brain
6. Serendipity
7. Warrior, Drop Your Sword
8. Hold On
9. Superhero
10. Here You Are
11. Strange and Beautiful

Lee, who honed her jazz technique on a succession of regular gigs around the Bay Area, opens her new album on the sumptuously enraptured I Caught A Glimpse Of Your Soul and the joyfully soulful Farewell to Comfort and then we get the low slung, moody and yearnful Dave Don’t Mind the Rain, the majestically sculptured Vivid Technicolor Love, and then comes the soft and sultry If I Only Had a Brain.

Along next is the furtively melodious Serendipity and that is itself backed smoothly by the engaging Warrior, Drop Your Sword, the beautiful balladry of Hold On, with the Latin-flavored hipsway of Superhero and the all-embracing Here You Are next brought forth, the music closing all-too-soon on the exquisitely crafted decadence of Strange and Beautiful.

Lee changed her artist name (the name under which she officially releases her recordings) to “Jennifer Lee and the Ever-Expanding Universe” in 2018 when she realized that, on the streaming platforms, her profile had been interwoven with that of another vocalist named Jennifer Lee.

While she continues to perform as Jennifer Lee or as Jennifer Lee and the Ever-Expanding Universe, depending on the gig, the artist’s full name is Jennifer Lee Sevison, which is how she publishes (via Muitapaz Music, her publishing company established in 2003) and copyrights her songs.

With each album, Lee’s music has become more finely wrought and fully formed. Since teaming up with Peter Sprague on her debut release, Spragueland Studios in Encinitas has turned into a creative refuge and laboratory for Jennifer Lee – a renewable chrysalis from which this gifted artist emerges again and again, each time taking flight as a more brilliantly-hued and expansive musician.

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