EXCLUSIVE: Listen to "Melinda," Jason Robert Brown's Ode to 1970s New York

As recently announced, three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown is set to release a his new album How We React and How We Recover through Ghostlight Records. The album will be available in digital and streaming formats on June 29, with a physical CD planned for later this year.

The album, says Brown, "has a specific emotional palette and musical aesthetic that rests between rock 'n' roll, jazz, folk, gospel, and Broadway." Get a taste of the record's tribute to big band Latin rhythm and the melting pot of 1970s New York City with this first listen of "Melinda."

How We React and How We Recover is produced by Jeffrey Lesser and Jason Robert Brown. Stacey Mindich and Kurt Deutsch serve as executive producers. Brown's first solo recording in over a decade, it is a politically charged, far-reaching rumination on love, family, and music.

The release coincides with New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center production of Brown's New York debut show Songs for a New World (Concert Production), which runs June 27-30.