I Regret to Inform You is an original composition by Caity Gyorgy, the two-time Juno Award-winning Canadian jazz vocalist and songwriter based in Toronto and Montreal. The tune appears on Gyorgy's 2024 album Hello! How Are You?, her fourth album and first U.S. release, which showcases eight of her originals alongside a selection of standards. Gyorgy's songwriting is recognized for its catchy yet harmonically rich melodies rooted in bebop and swing vocabularies, paired with inventive lyrics that bring a modern sensibility to forms reminiscent of 1950s jazz vocal standards. The title, with its formal, bureaucratic phrasing, is characteristic of Gyorgy's playful and narrative-driven approach to lyric writing, a quality also reflected in other titles from her catalog such as Memo 267 and Letter From the Office Of on the same album. On Hello! How Are You?, the tune is performed with Anthony D'Alessandro on piano, Thomas Hainbuch on bass, and Jacob Wutzke on drums, a compact rhythm section that supports Gyorgy's vocal delivery across the album's range of moods and tempos. As a recent original by a contemporary artist, I Regret to Inform You has not yet been recorded by other performers, but it contributes to a distinctive body of work that has drawn critical recognition for its blend of classic jazz tradition and fresh compositional voice.
