When you count the noughts at the end of a few major-label record deals these days, and then look at the jazz-inspired vocalists on the receiving end, it's not surprising everybody wants to be a jazz singer. The Dekkor Records label presented three of the youngest - the National Youth Jazz Orchestra's Atila Huseyin, singer/songwriter Nina Clark and blues and R&B vocalist David Migden - on a showcase gig. It all went to prove that jazz singing is harder than it sounds but all three performers showed a fitful spark that good breaks and wise choices could ignite.

Atila Huseyin, a glossy and dapper young crooner of a Songs For Swinging Lovers persuasion, caught a sassily sonorous Frank Sinatra/ Bobby Darin feel at times, and some of his songs eased into a leisurely cruise through the punchy horn arrangements of pianist Sam Beste and a brisk rhythm. Perhaps inevitably, Huseyin sounded as if he was imposing a routine rehearsed to his bedroom mirror on top of the looser feel of the supporting band, where Jamie Cullum (the big UK stimulus for all this nouveau-crooning), like the original guru Frank Sinatra, is instrumentally minded enough to urge the smoothness into a few unexpected skids and swerves. But Huseyin has an elegant sound and clearly loves the songs, though where he'll find his own musical voice isn't apparent yet.

Singer Nina Clark has already found hers, and it was on a selection of lyrical and sharply written originals (despite being her least jazzy pieces) that she sounded most at ease. Clark almost stayed afloat with the labyrinthine Annie Ross fast-bop vehicle Twisted, but on her Latin ballad Sing to Me (against Adrian Revell's smoky tenor sax) and a samba sung in Portuguese, she sounded at her most musical; cool without affectation. Much more rugged music came from blues singer David Migden, the most relaxed, assertive and experienced of the three. Migden's Joe Williams-like deep tones, contrasted with a Howlin' Wolf falsetto, asserted pretty clearly that we'll be hearing a lot from him.