Jade to Black

Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses, the new work by sui generis vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu, is a collection of songs devoted to the marginalized voices of women around the world, and a profound elegy to personal loss. It follows Song of Silver Geese (Pi 2017), which The New York Times named one of the best albums of the year, and Downbeat called “spellbinding” and “rapturous.”

Jade were an R&B vocal group from the 1990's who had a number of hit songs on the charts, with their biggest and most well known song on the pop charts being "Don't Walk Away". They also received success through their songs "I Wanna Love You", "One Woman", "Looking For Mr. Do Right", "5-4-3-2 (Yo! Time Is Up)" and "Every Day Of The Week". In between their studio albums, their record label worked with Black Entertainment Television (BET) for a TV special, which turned into a live album. They found themselves working with the jazz/rock band Chicago for their 22nd album, Night & Day (Big Band), after releasing album #2 but that also seemed to curse them. When they were about to begin working on their third album, that is when Giant/Reprise dropped them, which would lead to their break-up.