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Songs We Love: Sarah Elizabeth Charles, 'Change To Come'

Inspired by the death of Eric Garner, the jazz singer asks an essential question in the spacious track, featuring trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: "What is needed for the change to come?"
Sarah Elizabeth Charles' new album, <em>Free Of Form</em>, comes out Oct. 6.

Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a teaching artist. That means she's an artist who happens to teach — at Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections program within the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, and at Rise2shine, an early childhood education nonprofit in Haiti. But it also means that her work as a teacher has become more and more inextricable from her work as

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