Halie Loren - A Kind of Wilderness (2026)

Halie Loren's eleventh album release, A Kind of Wilderness, finds the artist traversing unexplored landscapes and ushering in a panoramic expansion of her musical universe. While still rooted in jazz, Halie leans into genre-bending inclinations, incorporating soul, funk, and pop energy – showcasing not only a phenomenal jazz vocalist, but a singer-songwriter capable of the kind of emotional depth that feels timeless.
Themes that have preoccupied Loren throughout the entirety of her career—lightness and darkness, love and longing, becoming and loss, slouching toward freedom—here resolve themselves into an almost singular statement of fragile hope. This is Loren’s most assured, accomplished, and yet daring work to date, marked by a sense of transcendence against all odds.

Halie Loren - Vocals, Background Vocals*, Percussion (track 8), Piano (track 10)
Taurey Butler - Piano & Organ (tracks 1 - 9, 11)
Morgan Moore - Bass
Robbie Kuster - Drums & Percussion (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11)
Jim Doxas - Drums (tracks 3, 7)
Joe Grass - Pedal Steel Guitar

* Background vocals on track 11 include all listed band members & Lisa Iwanycki.