Earla Porch: 'Satin & Smoke,' 2003

A rare album from an accomplished sculptor and jazz vocalist

Earla Porch is an organic abstract sculptor. On her site, she writes that her pieces consist “almost entirely of curved areas that suggest natural growth as opposed to straight lines, angular or rectangular forms.” While creating her work, she says, she doesn’t borrow from nature but thinks about shadow, light and balance only once she’s comfortable wit…