Polly Gibbons: Is It Me …? review – a class act gets classier

(Resonance)When a teenage Polly Gibbons surfaced in UK clubs in the mid-00s, she sounded promising but liable to be lost in the throng of cool young female singers who had heard of Ella Fitzgerald. Ten years on, and Gibbons has proven herself a versatile artist who can switch from an emotionally subtle Cleo Laine-like purr to a soul-gospel wail in a blink, and she has a growing authority as a co-composer with Ronnie Scott’s jazz club pianist James Pearson. Originals like the smart and ligh