Flutist and singer Elena Pinderhughes conjures deep, soulful jazz textures on her debut album, 2026’s I Hope You Can Feel It Too. A Bay Area native, Pinderhughes is best known for her contributions to trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah’s albums, having been introduced on 2015’s Stretch Music. She has also worked with a cross-genre mix of artists, from jazz legend Herbie Hancock to rappers Future and Metro Boomin to contemporary luminaries like Esperanza Spalding and Robert Glasper. She brings all of this experience to bear here, embracing a harmonically nuanced crossover sound that touches upon electronic fusion, global rhythms, and alt-R&B. Throughout, her flute is often dipped in a sonic effects shimmer, and on cuts like…

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