Jazz dreams finds its pocket in these rich moments before the future starts to happen. “I could come up to your place,” she purrs on “I Could” before a chainsaw of an oscillating tele chord slices through the tension, flirting with the implications of what’s next better than a pan to curtains ever has. On the rockabilly strummer “Get in,” we catch her in Sheryl Crow mode just before she drives off into L.A. traffic, or maybe hops the plane home; that’s for her to know and us to wonder. The lighters-up love song “ Everything in the shade ,” which would’ve fit right in on Honeymoon , carries the thread from the other end of a romance, noting: “After all that we’ve been through, I’m looking forward to see you.”

Jensen has the vocal equivalent of a familiar face, which for another performer could become a disadvantage. She fashions it into a strength by flexing into unexplored territory that never reveals its stretch.…