Once back in New York City, she began merging - or rather morphing - musical theater, pop and jazz songs. Exposed to rising talents as well as established legends on the jazz scene and listening more and more to her favorites (Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Scott, Shirley Horn), she started focusing on her own interpretations of jazz standards. Profiting from the city’s wealth of musical treasures: vocal studies with soprano and composer Catherine Aks, and jazz singer and professor Amy London, piano with jazz musician Tardo Hammer, and attending the renowned Barry Harris jazz workshops, DeeAnne has also checked out the numerous jam sessions held nightly around town. At Arturo's, Cleopatra's Needle, Lenox Lounge, the Local 802 Musicians' Union, Robin's Nest and St. Nick's Pub, she's been thrilled to sit in with and experience musicians both known and new to the scene.

In the recording studio, in addition to working with composers and DJs on various projects, DeeAnne's own first demo of standards, which she arranged, co-edited, mixed and mastered, and her most recent recording of select favorites – given a special jazz/Latin/MidEast touch by her current rhythm section – have drawn attention and praise, as well as airplay on Israeli radio. Onstage, her live performances have varied from blending her own poetry with jazz song, cabaret productions she co-wrote and in which she starred, to more recently, regular jazz gigs. Within instrumental duos, trios and quartets she has sung venues in Europe and the U.S., including New York's Jolly Hotel Madison Towers' Whaler Bar, Nightingale Lounge, Orbit-East Harlem, The American Theatre of Actors, Shutters, Prudence Designs, Swig Bar & Grill, the former Chez Suzette, Danny's, Kavehaz and Upstairs at Rose's Turn. Most recently she has been featured with her upright bassist in film projects, at private parties and events, and Stage Left Studio on Manhattan's West Side.

Her fascination with and journey to jazz through the sacred, classical and cabaret genres continues to be inspired by the historical richness of the music and the freedom for which it calls. On her way, DeeAnne partners with some of the most talented musicians on the scene, and with beauty, honesty and creativity of sound and style, brings us along into her unique world of music.