JAZMINE SULLIVAN x 'ROUND MIDNIGHT - orig. vs. Adam Blackstone Feature / Voice Teacher Compares 

Whew!! Her voice is like a warm summer night with a beautiful breeze on the most beautiful island you can imagine!!

I swear it’s giving the music Claire and Cliff would dance too at the end of a Cosby Episode

I see Jazmine and I click. That’s all I need.

2022 is far more clean with an EXCELLENT usage of her vocal runs as opposed to running the song into the ground. She’s definitely developed her own lush sound and just didn’t rest on being a vocal doppelgänger of the great Kim Burrell. Jazmine is has become a GOAT in her right.

This woman just doesn't play fair. She never ceases to amaze us. There's so much comfort, love, passion, and dedication in her voice and the way she sings. Simply beautiful 💓

Jasmine's older version was great, but the new version displays her growth and maturity, the richness in her voice. She sounds amazing!

Jazmine is just amazing!!!!! The vocals never miss. Oh and your vocals are crazy as well!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hear voice is just so AMAZING

I’m so glad that Jazzy is getting the recognition she deserves! As a fellow Philadelphian she makes me so proud!!

Jazmine is not of this wooooorld!!!! She is ya Mama's home cooking that always makes things better.

I didn’t even know there was a 2022 version. Thank you!!!

She reminds me of lalah Hathaway. Her improvisation is epic

I enjoy watching your vocal analyses. I knew you were going to do an analysis of this song when I heard it. Jazmine’s voice is classic and new at the same time. I played her original cover so much. That one was more neo-soul. I really enjoyed this new version because it’s more straight up jazz. I keep replaying it. With all the amazing vocal embellishments she does I still get a story and the emotion of the lyrics. Jazmine makes me see pictures when she sings. I see her in a smoky supper club, a drink in her hand, with a jazz band. She and Mr. Adam Blackstone did their thing.

It’s wild how advanced she was back then (and even younger) and how she has just continued to grow and come into her own. She is absolutely breathtaking and some of her choices are insane!!!

Ok YOU betta SANG!! I love hearing you do what the singers do!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Now to my GUHLLL Jaz...her voice..I have no words..just pure emotion in the depths of my soul EVERY SINGLE TIME I hear her sing...the acrobats she does with those notes...the depth and range (deepness)...I never tire hearing her and for this version of Ella's song...man..Ella's wonderful exquisite voice...OUCH! YESSS..but Jazmine version...makes me wish it was raining right now..nighttime rain and stare out my window and listen to it all nite..and wonder

I just LOVE Jazmine! Her voice, musicianship, creative interpretations are off the charts! I'm a vocalist and I really really HEAR her!

I would love for Jazmine to record a studio version of Seal's "Kiss From a Rose." there used to be a video on YT from a specific performance of hers in London that was incredible--I'm glad I ripped it before it got taken down. love these comparison videos!

Thanks for bringing this one back around she’s got this Kim Burrell n Mahalia thing that brings tears 😭

Shes always giving Kim burrell and Stevie Wonders Golden vocal child but I def like her more evolved version because of the nuances and the maturity of her interpretation. The older version gave limited range but more gospel (kim burrell) this version gives more jazz inflected interpretation. She was a prodigy now that has really mastered her instrument

Jazmine's voice just grab's your spirit....sooo captivating!!

I ABSOLUTELY love you...and your expression..your views...your critique...keep it going

The 2022 recording is crisper, maturity in her voice & cleaner. I love me some Jazmine Sullivan. Thank you Jaron you have a wonderful voice yourself.

I love that she’s heavily influenced by Kim Burrell. I think her creativity with her voice is out of this world. I can go to sleep to this, I can hangout at a lounge spot listening to this, I just LOVE this song man… wow! Also Jaron I love the comparison idea!

Love the comparison/evolution concept! Loved the original and you've given a wonderful analysis of this"full circle moment". Thank you!

I'm here for anything Jazmine wants to sing. And if it pleases, check out Snoh Aalegra's Do 4 Love. A nice rendition of Bobby Caldwell.

Thank you for doing this one! This really makes me want to hear an entire jazz arranged album from Jazmine. I bet she could so some beautiful things with a Cassandra Wilson song

Love both versions, glad to see her singing 'Round Midnight' and getting mainstream recognition and a Grammy nomination. Would love to see a reaction to Cecile Mclorin Salvant.

MAN OH MAN!!!! This brought soooo much joy to me. Hearing both versions was a very special treat. I have never heard the 2006 version. I like both but the 2nd version definitely displays a maturity and growth within her voice as well as the total song is definitely jazz. Her voice is always butter. The second version with the musical arrangement is fire.. 😍 the scatting of the 1st version. Mr. Legrair your voice is🔥!!!

Wow! I remember watching the older video on repeat back in 2008! I found myself singing it with the video even after all these years. Thank you for taking us into this 🤓. The jazziness ✨💫✨💪🏾.. I love that you’re comparing them. ☺️ ♥️ thank you for this video.

You can’t comprehend how excited I was to come across this video-- and how shocked I am that I hadn’t seen it before! I’ve been following your content for a little under a year now, but this particular video I hadn’t seen. I’ve literally been FORCING everybody that’ll listen to hear both versions of these as I give an analysis to the difference in both stylistic choices and growth in technical ability. Talking folks’ ears off. This made my day.

That vamp is giving "Try Me" on Kim Burrell's live album!!

My fav is the original. So Raw🌹 The second version is more mapped out and showy. Still 💎

Never heard either of these versions. Thank you🎶

This 2022 version is actually giving me Billie Holiday rasp and undertones, how Billie is behind the groove... the way she sings, "Lately I find..." then catches the rhythm again. She's tapped, fully, into her genuis.

The Nuances you were talking about, in the first part of the 2022 version remind me of what Sarah Vaughn does as well

Sir.... we hear you!!!! Lol..... those highs are ridiculous!!!!!.... keep up the great work.... and Ms.Sullivan is a beast!

i still have that version of round midnight on my phone til this very day!!!

The Adam Blackstone version stretched her out, put her more in that pocket, and allowed the song to BREATHE... with less overkill riffing. It flowed with a more lush full vibration. Man I can get enough it! This was the perfect match...Adam Blackstone's genius musical acumen with Jazzmine's timeless voice. This version was so unified and perfect!

TELL ME WHY THIS MORNING I WAS LIKE I CANT WAIT TILL HE DISCUSS THIS SONG!!! 💗 you’re so on top of it!

It’s amazing how someone already so skilled can improve even more. Way cleaner, even handled those high notes better. Her voice has always been fire, I’ve loved her since I first heard her 2005ish. Just got to see her in concert this year. Forever a fan!

OMG!! I was hoping you would feature this!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Philly In the house. Both Adam Blackstone and Jazmine are from Philly!

I get excited everytime you talk about Jazmine. Can you please review the single she did with John Legend as well?

Jaron, you gon’ make me throw a shoe! You actin up! Lol 🙌🏾🔥❤️

I Love what you do 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💖 Keep 🎶🎶 Artistry Alive

Her voice control and registers are chilling!!!!

Yesss I haven’t heard the MySpace version in YEARS!!!! Omg…. I’m a fan for REAL

As she reached vocal maturity, she’s taken a more nuanced less airy approach. I love here continuing vial and stylistic evolution 🎉

You’re so great!

I'm glad to be here listening 🎧😌❤

I remember hearing the original for the first time years ago and was blown away, been a huge fan since !

Omg!! Super awesome vocals!! I have chills . Side note, I can totally hear Faith Evans singing this as well. Sir, thanks so much for sharing this with us #JaronTones

First things first, sir, you betta siiiiiiiing! Yesssss. You always give us a little taste but you showed out! Anyway, love both versions. Love how acoustic and raspy the older version is. Love how free she sounds in the new version.

I remember my first time hearing her version of round midnight (it was in 2004, I was at Troy U & it was a live recording from a concert she did in UK) & I recall thinking it was Kim B. But was so surprised to find that it was the “little big girl” from kindred family soul…. I was a fan & self proclaimed promoter of hers since. Thank U for doing this video…. Took me back to the dorm days with my poetry core

Ledisi has a great version from her her album "Feeling Orange But Sometimes Blue", which was released almost 20 years ago. The entire album is incredible.

Jasmine Sullivan’s version is stunning….everything she touches….she spins into gold. I have listened to Sarah Vaughan’s Round Midnight and Bobby McFerrin’s Grammy award winning version of Round Midnight for over 30 years….just so sublime, inspiring, tantalizing and incredibly beautiful. He was inspired by Keith Jarret’s The Kohl Concerts and wanted to improvise like that vocally. Wonderful inspired film about the crème of the crop of black jazz musicians the 1986, Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male, "Round Midnight" from the soundtrack album Round Midnight. Round Midnight is a 1986 musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet and Herbie Hancock, the latter of whom also composed the film's soundtrack. Martin Scorsese, Philippe Noiret and Wayne Shorter appear in cameos. The protagonist jazzman, Dale Turner, was based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor sax) and Bud Powell (piano). While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir/biography Dance of the Infidels written by French author Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character Francis was based. The film is a wistful and tragic portrait that captures the Paris jazz scene of the 1950s. Gordon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Grammy for the film's soundtrack entitled The Other Side of Round Midnight in the category for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist. Hancock won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack was released in two parts: Round Midnight and The Other Side of Round Midnight.

Yessss!!! I requested this 🤎🤎 I love your ear for music!

She's the GOAT! HANDS DOWN!

The older one seems to lean towards Soul and R&B, where the new version leans toward jazz and blues. Tons to appreciate in both versions. Thanks for the video!

The first version STAYS in rotation for me. The second version ahhhhhhhh! Insane! I love both.

Happy to enjoy jazmine with all of you x

I really like the comparison video!!

Sullivan you betta sang my lord Jesus bless this woman’s throat

This was so good!

Jaron you betta SANG!!! That "Comes around" you knew you were killing that!

I loveeee your analysis and all your videosnnn ✨✨

The growth and maturity in her, always amazing, voice & tone, and her approach to phrasing and movement. Thanks for this one Jaron. Keep sharing, educating, inspiring, and encouraging us. #Jaritones

I remember listening to this over and over again in my 2007 Toyota Camry. I downloaded all of her music that I could find

So if i recall, she covered this song prior to her debut album. Somehow I managed to find roughly 18 songs she recorded prior to her debut album. I think they were for a mixtape or something. the things she does with this song moves my bone marrow! its that GOOD!

I love your channel ❤

Wow, just beautiful. I actually like the Adam Blackstone version more because it smoother but still raspy.

I LOVED THIS!!!!!! Thank you Jason for putting me on. This song is now one of my faves

Please analyze: SAMARA JOY and thank you!!!🥰

Thank you for this🙌🏾🥰

wow what an inspired idea for a reaction. both amazing. I feel like in first, you hear a lot more Stevie wonder influence. later version feels like Jazmine has really come into her own, unmistakably her voice, her style, her brilliance, her creativity. wow. what a gift. thank you so much, Jaron, for your reaction.

I was waiting for this!!

Such an EXQUISITE VOICE. I hope to see her star in a biopic of Phyllis Hyman.

You have to check out the live one she did when she was in high school as well!!!! Amazing

I was WAITING for this :)

Really great video and great song Jaron. We luv the comparisons..we luv Jazmine....and again...congrats on ur progression. Im the fake singer so i been singing this song on repeat...might even butcher it at a karaoke night.. lol...or maybe i need some jaron lessons.😁🤗💯🙏🏿💪🏿🎶🎶🎶🎶

Jaron you seem like thee sweetest person ever!!

I. Mean. She. Can. SANG!!!!! ...and So. Can. YOU!! Love it!!! God's blessings shower down on you, your family, and your brand continually in abundance 💜☦🕊🥰💖

Your runs Jaron 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I know vocalist may not agree but my favorite version of this song is the Amy Winehouse version. She’s so loose yet free with her vocals and that just adds so much beauty and color to her performance. Personally I feel like Jazmines overruns the song so you don’t actually feel the meaningfulness of the lyrics. As Whitney criticized the young girls - they can sing - but they forget that songs are stories. The acrobatics she does are for herself. You can tell she’s enjoying it - but is it best for the song? ❤️✌🏾

You are excellent Jaron.

This is Some of the best singing she’s ever done ..

Jaron you betta sang!

It's the "original heaux HAHA" for me. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I lived for this video and your thoughts on this!!

Jazmine Sullivan is amazing. She has gained a life long fan. I used to listen to her music, but now I really consider her to be an amazing artists. I'm so glad she is getting her flowers now. I love hearing the maturity and growth she has had. Please keep reviewing this great vocalist of today's generation.

Jasmine Sullivan did a great job on this track, but my girl Ledisi's version is my favorite!

One of the very very few vocalists of today who can hang with the greats.🎤🙏🏿

Hear this around 2009 or 2010 while hanging out with a friend in a condo in Atlanta she slayed it then when i first heard it and its beautiful now, jaz a soul lady

12:14..Jazmine snatched your glasses, friend. .mine too and I don't wear any!

🔥Just Jaxxy sassy, soulful, Vocal instrumental Jazmine! When I listen to this I feel like I'm in a dim club with a live band and her jazzy whimsical soul tones floating in the air🔥

16:18 jaron why you have to eat this moment up like this????👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

When will my head voice 🥲

I would love to hear you analyze Dinah Washington's " this bitter Earth" the remastered version, not the original one. BTW words can't express how Much I love Jazmine

Your vocal range is amazing