Yes, even a song by The Boss himself. Milman is one of a new wave of vocalists reinventing the jazz musical canon by exploring the work of some of rock and pop's heaviest hitters - such as Bruce Springsteen ("I'm On Fire"), Paul Simon ("Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover") and Randy Bachman of The Guess Who ("Undun").

"Who said the jazz canon died with Gershwin or Ellington?" she said from her home in Toronto. "That's not anything I subscribe to. These songs are standards. They're not fleeting. They are deep and heavy and here to stay."

You can hear Milman perform her new, growing songbook Saturday. She'll be backed by the Boise Philharmonic to mark the 25th anniversary of the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts.

The night should be a wowser as Milman - a vocalist with a rich, honeyed voice that ranges from smooth to smokey - makes her symphonic debut with the Boise Philharmonic.

When the center's director, Jan Zarr, began planning the anniversary celebration a year ago, he ran into a roadblock. The philharmonic, Ballet Idaho and Opera Idaho were without artistic directors at the time, so there was no way to plan a collaborative effort to mark the anniversary.

So he turned to Milman, who performed in 2007 at the center's "Behind the Curtain" series which consists of intimate concerts with the open house as a backdrop for the stage.

She had just released her second album and was emerging on the international jazz scene.

Milman has come a long way from her childhood in Russia, where she grew up listening to contraband European and American jazz records her dad managed to acquire.

The family immigrated to Israel and then eventually to Canada when she was 16. That's when her talents became noticed, and she began performing in Toronto clubs. By the time she was 24, her second album, "Make Someone Happy," landed in the Top 5 on Billboard's jazz chart.

Today, with her third album, "Take Love Easy," due out in June, her career is really taking off.

"There's just craziness. The career has exploded since I was in Boise last, and I'm very happy," she said.

She is balancing her international touring schedule and planning her wedding to entertainment lawyer Casey Chisick.

But she wanted to make time for Boise, she said.

"When we got the offer, I couldn't believe it. We had such a wonderful time when we were in Boise last time," she said.

Milman and her arrangers created orchestrations for her versions of the songs and sent the charts to Boise, which the orchestra players have been working with.

"It's very exciting, and it will be a different kind of performance for me and for the audience. I can't wait to hear that power behind me," she said.