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Boz Scaggs: Maybe Not Jazz, But Beautiful
R.J. DeLuke
R.J. DeLuke is an indefatigable jazz fan and arbiter elegantiarum who aspires to ultimate hipness; also an upstate NY freelance writer for various media.But his recent love affair with the music so often associated with jazz is going to continue, he says.
There are extra songs already in the can from the recording session, and on tour in Japan in order to beef up the band's repertoire, "we took some more up-tempo things and some Latin things to expand the book quite a bit. So there's quite a bit of material we have in hand that would naturally be the next volume," says Scaggs.
"But I think the reason I called it that came out of a notion in my head, once Paul and I started, that this is something I'm going to do for myself whether this is ever released or not. I will continue to record this stuff. I like to go into the book and find these songs, and if it's just Paul Nagel and myself doing it, we will continue to do this. Was it Art Tatum who just kept adding to the volumes, seven or eight or nine? The material is there and if you have the time and place to do it, which I have, I will continue to add to it."
