Anaïs Reno – Lady of the Lavender Mist Tour

Anaïs Reno is a New York City-based jazz singer and composer who studied jazz performance at SUNY Purchase. Having been a YoungArts winner for four years, she has received several accolades including the Ben Tucker jazz award in the American Traditions Competition, the Mabel Mercer competition and the Julie Wilson award.

Anaïs has performed in venues such as Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy’s Club, Madison Square Garden, the Caramoor Jazz Festival, PizzaExpress as part of the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and others. In 2021, her debut album, “Lovesome Thing”, celebrating Ellington and Strayhorn, rose to number 6 on the jazz chart; in the same year, she took part in a video with NYCNext celebrating the reopening of New York after Covid-19 singing Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” alongside a variety of stars including Idina Menzel and Stephen Colbert, and sang “America the Beautiful” for the Mets/Yankees 9/11 game on national television.

Anaïs released a live record with London’s PizzaExpress in February of 2024 and released another in May of 2025 titled “Lady of the Lavender Mist”, under Club44 with Peter Bernstein, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth.

“Reno delivers with rare maturity throughout and delivers with uncanny depth on the melancholy torch song “I’m Never Happy Any More.” And she swings with ferocity and sass of an Anita O’Day on the up-tempo closer, “Never Been In Love.” – Bill Milkowski, Downbeat

“…This is a once in a lifetime voice..” – Stephen Mosher, Broadway World

“Not only an impressive debut recording by Anaïs Reno but deserves to be on any list of best vocal albums of the year.” – Joe Lang, Jersey Jazz

“…you’ll know you’re in the presence of pure young vocal genius when you hear her sing Strayhorn’s ‘Lush Life’…” – Dick Metcalf, Contempory Fusion Reviews