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The 27-year-old Massachusetts native who picked up a saxophone at 10 and started playing professionally at 12 mixes a little funk, classic rock and EDM in her jazz.

Hit play on her Spotify and you鈥檒l get everything from Miles Davis to EDM producer Marshmello with a little Stan Getz 鈥� her mom鈥檚 fave 鈥� for good measure.

鈥淢y love of music is quite a wide range,鈥� said Kelly, who co-headlines a 蜜柚直播 Jazz Festival concert at Rialto Theatre on Sunday, Jan. 12, with jazz trombonist and vocalist Aubrey Logan.

At her concert Sunday, don鈥檛 be surprised if she covers classic jazz hits interspersed with her original songs including the pop song 鈥淔eels Like Home,鈥� which earned her $20,000 in the 2019 John Lennon Songwriting contest鈥檚 Song of the Year Award.

Songwriting has become such a big part of her musical career that she is often described as a jazz saxophonist/singer-songwriter.

鈥淚t鈥檚 been really cool to watch this thing that I enjoy so much 鈥� take a front seat in my career,鈥� she said during a phone call from California on Tuesday.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 really think in genres. Whatever song I鈥檓 writing, I try to see how can I best serve the music and the performance.鈥�

Her show at the Rialto is her first in 蜜柚直播, she thinks. She criss-crosses the country so often that she sometimes forgets where she has been. But if past live shows and her tenure with 鈥淭he Late Show with Stephen Colbert鈥� house band Stay Human are any proof, her performance will go down as one of the 2020 蜜柚直播 Jazz Festival highlights.

Folks at the Rialto will no doubt be talking about her energy 鈥� she rarely stands in the same spot on stage for very long 鈥� and the way her saxophone sounds like a human voice, full of emotion and range, from soaring heights that will have you holding your breath to see where she takes it to sublime, tender lows that will tug at your heart and settle in your soul. When you add in her sizable vocal talents, you begin to understand the praise being lavished on her by music critics and fans including San Francisco鈥檚 The Bay Bridge music blog, which said she had 鈥渂eautiful vocals, both tender and powerful.鈥�

Her show Sunday will draw a bit from the standard jazz sax repertoire, but will focus mostly on her recordings 鈥� nearly two dozen albums released on her own PAZZ Productions label including her latest, 2018鈥檚 鈥淕o Time.鈥�

She also tosses in a few covers that criss-cross genres from a sax-vocal turn at Van Morrison鈥檚 bluesy 鈥淐razy Love鈥� to a jazzy take on 鈥淢iss You鈥� by the Rolling Stones.

鈥淚 want this to be an experience for me and for the audience,鈥� Kelly said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a connection 鈥� Let鈥檚 just have folks in the audience feel something so deeply and that鈥檚 up to them whether it鈥檚 (crying or laughing). We鈥檙e just going through a whole experience together.鈥�