FRANK MCCOMB

IRIDIUM / JULY 31

Singer, pianist, and composer working the intersection of jazz, soul, and R&B — not as a genre exercise but as a native language. McComb has spent decades building a devoted following largely outside the mainstream music press, through relentless touring and a catalog that draws from the Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers tradition without leaning on it as a crutch. The voice is the thing: warm, elastic, capable of going from a whisper to a full gospel cry inside a single phrase.