Jazz Articles about James Love

James Love: Invitations

by J. Robert Bragonier
July 21, 2004

Compared to the number of new female jazz singers recording today, males are definitely underrepresented. For that reason, I tend to keep my ears peeled for new male talent. James Love clearly qualifies: although he has sung for twenty years informally in his hometown of St. Louis and in Boston, where he used to jam with students from the Berklee College of Music and open for artists like Jon Hendricks, Marlena Shaw, Lonnie Liston Smith, and Freddie Hubbard, music has ...