Jazz Articles about Ellyn Rucker

Ellyn Rucker: Live in New Orleans

by Samuel Chell
May 28, 2005

Ellyn Rucker Live in New Orleans Leisure Jazz Video 2005

If you're unfamiliar with Denver-based Ellyn Rucker, prepare yourself for a revelation. Line up the best of the current crop of female jazz vocalists, and Ellyn has to be among them. Do the same with pianists. The line thins out, but Ellyn is still there. Now do the same with singer-pianists. She has few if any peers.

You would think that the ...