Jazz Articles about Jazz Menagerie

Jazz Menagerie: Just Hold Me

by Dave Nathan
June 7, 2002

This San Francisco based Jazz Menagerie should not be confused with a group of the same name which plays out of Austin, Texas. Like so many of their contemporaries, this inaugural album offers a blend of many musical genre and sub-genres. There's funk, blues, pop and jazz all wrapped in a contemporary cover. Mainstream jazz is ably represented by “In the Morning" with a very sincere vocal by Raya Yarbrough, and “Now and Then" featuring Yarbrough singing and humming over ...