Carol Jarvis has spent her career in the wings of superstardom. If you’ve seen Sting live, if you’ve caught a late-night set with Muse, or if you’ve heard Amy Winehouse at her most bruised and brass-soaked, chances are Jarvis’s trombone was somewhere in the mix. With her new single “I Want You To Stay”, she isn’t content with simply being the supporting cast—she’s the main event, diving headfirst into electronic dance music with the kind of audacity only a world-class session musician can afford.
On the surface, “I Want You To Stay” is built for summer playlists: shimmering house rhythms, chopped-up vocal hooks, and a euphoria that feels engineered for open-air festivals and road trip speakers alike. But listen closer, and you’ll hear what separates Jarvis from the endless churn of faceless EDM drops—her brass. Instead of settling for the saxophone gloss or trumpet stabs that usually decorate house tracks, Jarvis layers her own flugabone harmonies into the mix. The result is warmer, more textured, and strangely intimate, as though a piece of the jazz club has been smuggled into the rave.
That sense of risk pays off. Where many crossover attempts stumble into gimmickry, Jarvis leans into the trombone’s lower register, coaxing depth from a genre that often mistakes volume for intensity. The track’s best moments arrive when the brassy undertones collide with the euphoric synth highs, creating a tension that feels both fresh and necessary in a dance landscape prone to safe, copy-paste templates.
“I Want You To Stay”, as a debut statement from an artist long overdue for her own spotlight, is a bold opening salvo. Carol Jarvis is not just inserting the trombone into EDM; she’s insisting that it belongs there.
