Jessie Baylin at Exit/In

If most singer-songwriters are denim and late-night coffeehouses, Jessie Baylin is sheer silk and a dusk-lit beachfront manor. The smoky-voiced singer brings an air of sophistication to her lyrical songs, intoning about relationships and self-evaluation with jazz-chord melodies and gentle yet persistent rhythms. She’s drawn comparisons to Norah Jones, but Baylin is West Coast breezy where Jones is East Coast elegance. That works to her advantage on her second album, Firesight, her first since moving to Nashville, where she recorded her new tunes with producer Roger Moutenot. This show, part of a three-month tour opening for Matt Nathanson, is her first since she added to the growing list of pop artists residing here.
Sat., Oct. 18, 9 p.m., 2008