"Alexa Barchini...a revelatory new presence in the jazz world who has a lot to say and a lot to give." - Michael J. West (JazzTimes, Downbeat, Washington Post)
Alexa Barchini is a jazz vocalist and songwriter based in New York City. Raised in a culturally diverse family and the daughter of an opera singer, Alexa began singing as a young girl, fusing her voice with the cultural tapestry that surrounded her at home, savoring the folk, americana and rock that was circulating the hard drives of her friends at school, and soaking in the jazz tradition from any Ella Fitzgerald records she could get from her band teacher. Somewhere along the line she caught the proverbial ‘bug,’ and has since gone on to study and perform in various settings. Her work as a bandleader and sideman has taken her on tours both within the U.S. and in Europe, where she has had the opportunity to perform on stages such as Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, the Blue Note, National Sawdust, The Owl Music Parlor, Smalls, Smoke Jazz Club, The Kimmel Center of Philadelphia, the Regatta Bar in Boston, and others. She can be found regularly performing as a sideman around NYC as well as with her own projects. She currently holds a monthly residency at the iconic Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Her current project/labor of love features her own original material, played on 37 strings. Inspired by the solitary music-making necessitated by the early stages of the pandemic, Alexa began writing songs on the guitar in 2021, and that dalliance has since blossomed into a full album of lonesome songs, played by Jackson FitzGerald on baritone guitar, Bobby Hawk on fiddle, Luke Bergman on pedal steel, and Alexa on guitar and vocals.