Whirimako Black is a woman who can sing the blues and proves it on new album The Late Night Plays.
She covers jazz standards made famous by the likes of Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington and Etta James. Black does a really good job of Billie Holiday's Lover Man and particularly Etta James' At Last.
Newer songs are pretty good, too: U2's Love is Blindness and Erykah Badu's On and On.
Black's voice is stunning.
Her control and delivery is incomparable in Aotearoa popular music terms.