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Judy Bady: Blackbird
by Andrew Rowan
A generation ago, there were widespread lamentations that jazz singing was dying. Even legends like Betty Carter and Carmen McRae concurred. However sparse the field may have been then, it has rebounded today. In this current bumper crop of singers, how does one stand out? Enter Judy Bady, who applies her smoky alto to an eclectic repertoire with varied results. Mixing Monk with Ellington and other standards, as well as the offbeat, she occasionally makes an individual ...
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by Craig W. Hurst
Judy Bady’s first CD as a leader, Blackbird, is an eleven song collection that expresses a range of emotion from plaintive and serious, spiritual and soulful, to teasing and joyful. Bady, whose voice brings to mind the wonderfully rich tones of Carmen McRae, Betty Carter, Shirley Horn and Abbey Lincoln, adds playful touches to tunes by Monk, Ellington, Jobim and others. Bady also inoculates the listener with an injection of gospel soul, particularly in her rendition of “The Battle Hymn ...
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